Eugene. Sydney McLaughlin set a stunning new world record in the 400 hurdles with an unrivaled 50.68.
He’s about half a second better than Moa Hjelmer’s Swedish record for the 400m – no hurdles.
But not as valuable as the Mondo Duplantis 6.20 per stick.
I’m sitting here looking at the tables after McLaughlin’s performance at Hayward Field last night Swedish time.
Mostly because I was curious about how the great time would be evaluated against the current world records.
The WA does not have a points table only for disciplines included in the Women’s Heptathlon or the Men’s Decathlon.
They have a contested table of all disciplines, which is the basis of the entire world ranking.
It has been updated for the 2022 season and is now crucial for anyone reaching the major tournaments.
Sebastian Coe and officials in Australia have decided they want half of the World Cup and Olympic participants to get there through strict qualification limits and the other half wherever they have it in the world rankings.
This was how many Swedes earned their late succession places to Eugene.
It’s a new era, in which increasing importance is being placed on an arrangement that few understand, and as a Swedish expert like A Lennart Julin disagrees very much with that.
But there is still an official table by which you can find out the value of different world records, no matter how impossible it is to compare me and others.
So what is the best world record today?
Well, Czech Jan Zelezny is still 98.48 in javelin throwing since 1996.
That’s a very good record, even though German Johannes Vetter came close to 97.76 just two years ago.
But then there’s a nearly four-meter jump to third on the list.
Zelezny’s giant throw still scores 1,365 points, making it the world record-breaking hit.
Do I agree?
Not hardly.
Shown almost in class McLaughlin
It put Usain Bolt’s 9.58 from the World Cup in Berlin at number one, despite scoring “only” 1,356 points according to the same list.
Mundus 6.20?
She is worth 1,322 points and gives a clear top-ten finish which is slightly ahead of Javier Sotomayor’s world high jump record of 2.45 (1,314 points).
50.68 gives Sidney McLaughlin just a modest 1,312 points by the same official account and touches little in the athletics spirit on the day she broke the world record and became the first in history under 51s.
So what does it take for Mondo to reach the top of this bizarre and controversial list?
Yes, so he has to jump 6.36.
Oddly enough, it actually looks possible in the future, with his father Greg Duplantis saying he has the capacity for 6.30 already and 6.40 if development continues.
Who would dare object after a qualifying performance here in Eugene.
The bar was 5.75 when all competitors except for the American Chris Nielsen had to fight for the World Cup final.
Mundo jumped six meters.
The bar was still at 5.75, but there was so much air that some cherished Ospreys above Hayward Field could pass between Mundo and the bar.
It was almost a McLaughlin show.
Yes, there are only two days left for this restroom and this last Sunday will be the biggest for Sweden.
Mundo Duplantis in the pole final where I was expecting a world record if he got the wind in his back.
Take Sania into the long-distance final if she survives Saturday’s playoffs in her borrowed clothes. But I expect it will.
In addition, Perseus Karlström in the 35-kilometer dawn race, in which the Swedish Walking and Walking Association can take home a second medal in the water cycle.
Well, that ends well.
Top ten world records:
1. Jan Zelezny, spjout
Result: 98.48
Grade: 1365
2. Usain Bolt, 100m
Score: 9.58
Grade: 1356
3. Usain Bolt 200m
Result: 19.19
Grade: 1351
4. Mike Powell, Long Jump
Result: 8.95
Grade: 1346
5. Karsten Warholm, 400 hurdles
Result: 45.94
Grade: 1341
6. Ryan Crozier, Cola
Result: 23.37
Grade: 1323
7. Mundo Duplantis, applicator
Result: 6.20
Grade: 1322
Footnote: On the women’s side, Old Eastern state results from the 1980s dominate overall. One is Gabriel Rensch of the German Democratic Republic and has 76.80 points in the discus with 1,382 points. Not worth taking seriously. None of the subsequent records make the list.