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TIME has launched its first-ever TIME100 Sports list to recognize the 100 of the most influential people in sports. Mondo Duplantis, Sabastian Sawe, Faith Kipyegon and Nikki Hiltz are the four track and field athletes who made the cut.

• 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe became the first person in history to break two hours in an official marathon by running his 1:59:30 world record at the 2026 London Marathon.

• 🇸🇪 Mondo Duplantis has broken his own pole vault world record 15 consecutive times, most recently clearing 6.31m, while building a celebrity and music profile that extends well beyond the runway.

• 🇰🇪 Faith Kipyegon is a three-time Olympic 1500m champion and inspired many when she chased the four-minute mile barrier. She also went on to break her own 1500m world record at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic.

• 🇺🇸 Nikki Hiltz is an Olympian and recognized on the list for being the first out trans, nonbinary athlete to win a U.S. track national title and serving as one of the most prominent LGBTQ+ voices in sport.

[Preet Majithia @preet_athletics]

Sadly Burgin has now gone from the entry list in Oslo

[Preet Majithia @preet_athletics]

The 800m in Oslo on Weds has so many storylines
- Can Burgin beat Wanyonyi again
- Can Lutkenhaus beat an even more stacked field than Stockholm
- Can Wanyonyi get back to his best with newfound Dad strength
- Lutkenhaus said he was excited to meet Burgin so how will that go

[Preet Majithia @preet_athletics]

Still trying to process this. What a race from Werro who had the perfect pacemaker in Keely for the second half.
- 3rd all time
- Fastest in 43 Years
- 1:53.98!!!

Keely 1:54.33
- breaking the British Record
- getting a PB
- fastest 2nd place time in history
- 6th all time

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Full interview with Audrey Werro --> https://t.co/wbjXJuwc3c

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🗣️ “I think it’s possible to run faster.”

🇨🇭 Audrey Werro stunned the field with a 1:53.98 to shatter the Diamond League record, the Swiss national record and become just the third woman in history to break 1:54.

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Full interview --> https://t.co/I3P4Bry0fP

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🗣️ “It’s good to have that challenge. It’s not just me who thinks that’s possible…This is what’s great about track. You don’t actually know what’s going to happen.”

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson speaks after lowering her own national record to 1:54.33 at the Stockholm Diamond League, but finished second to Audrey Werro in 1:53.98.

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Watching this on repeat 🔁

🇨🇭 Audrey Werro and 🇬🇧 Keely Hodgkinson battle at the Stockholm Diamond League women’s 800m.

1 – 🇨🇭 Audrey Werro, 1:53.98 DLR, MR, WL, NR
2 – 🇬🇧 Keely Hodgkinson, 1:54.33 NR

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Twice as nice 🏆🏆

Yared Nuguse 🇺🇸 wins his second Diamond League 1500m of the season with a 3:30.11 in Stockholm. In Rabat last week, Nuguse took the win from the front, but this time he overhauls Cam Myers 🇦🇺 on the homestretch and shows off some serious closing speed.

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WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED. 🤯

Audrey Werro 🇨🇭 turns the tables on World Indoor champ Keely Hodgkinson 🇬🇧 in the #StockholmDL 800m… and their battle to the line produces a HUGE time as Werro runs 1:53.98 to become only the third woman in history under 1:54.

Werro, only 22 years old, is now #3 all time as Hodgkinson is #6 all-time with a 1:54.33 PB.

American Roisin Willis gets a PB of her own in third with a 1:57.56 run.

[David M @davidmellyruns]

Sorry… 1:53??????

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

(ツ)_/¯

AUDREY WERRO 1:53.98!!

NO. 3 ON THE ALL-TIME LIST!

Only Jarmila Kratochvílová and Nadezhda Olizarenko are now ahead of her on the all-time list.

Takes down Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, who finished second in a personal best of 1:54.33.

Wow. What a race.

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They’re gonna have to start calling it the BENDnarek 😅

Kenny Bednarek 🇺🇸 gets another fantastic start and takes another fantastic win in the #StockholmDL 200m, running 19.87 for his second DL win of the week.

Sinesipho Dambile 🇿🇦 takes second in 20.10 as Bednarek’s training partner Courtney Lindsey 🇺🇸 takes third in 20.24.

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BRAZIL ON TOP 🇧🇷🇧🇷

Alison dos Santos and countryman Matheus Lima take the top two spots in the #StockholmDL 400m hurdles, with dos Santos cruising to a 47.11 and Lima getting a big PB of 47.37, the first sub-48 of his career.

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

The last time Mondo Duplantis lost a pole vault competition was July 21, 2023.

Back then:
• We were still using the iPhone 14
• Twitter had been "X" for exactly 2 days
• Barbie and Oppenheimer were opening that exact weekend
• Taylor Swift's Eras Tour was still in its first U.S. leg
• Victor Wembanyama had not played an NBA game
• Lionel Messi had just been introduced by Inter Miami CF
• Shohei Ohtani was still an Angel

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Winning any which way 🤷‍♂️

After a blistering 7:57 in Rabat, Soufiane El Bakkali 🇲🇦 picks up his second DL win of the year in a tactical race at #StockholmDL, using a strong final 600m to drop the field and cross the line in 8:10.40.

World champ George Beamish 🇳🇿 improves both his finish place and time from Rabat, running 8:13.11 for fifth.

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DETHRONED IN STOCKHOLM 😱

Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 loses his first pole vault competition in nearly three years, as he’s unable to clear 6.00m and 6.05m after passing 5.90m, leaving the door open for Kurtis Marschall 🇦🇺 to claim the #StockholmDL victory.

Marschall improves to 6-45 against Duplantis head-to-head. The Australian was also ahead of Mondo in his last loss before this, finishing third to Mondo’s fourth in Monaco 2023.

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World champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 🇺🇸 opens up over 100m in 10.84s (0.8 m/s wind) to win at the Stockholm Diamond League! 💎

Her fastest season opener!

#StockholmDL

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NEVER IN DOUBT 😤

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 🇺🇸 shows why she’s the reigning World champ with a flawlessly-executed race to win the #StockholmDL 100m in 10.84 (+0.8).

Amy Hunt 🇬🇧 takes second in a lifetime best 10.97 as World Indoor 60m champ Zaynab Dosso 🇮🇹 gets out strong but fades to fifth in 11.22.