Record-Breaking Leap Earns Mondo Duplantis Top Honour

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By trackalerts.com 2 Min Read

Mondo Duplantis has been named the Performance of the Year award winner, receiving the highest number of votes from track and field news panel of judges. 

His record-breaking leap of 20-4 1/2 (6.21) earned him 15 of the 18 No. 1 votes, leaving the competition far behind. Duplantis’s previous World Record, a 20-4 (6.20) jump at the World Indoor, came in sixth place in the voting. 

The top 12 performances, as determined by our 5-4-3-2-1 scoring system, are listed below:

  1. Mondo Duplantis’s 6.21 WR, 86 points (15 No. 1 votes)
  2. Noah Lyles’s 19.31 AR, 41 points (1 No. 1 vote)
  3. Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:01:09 WR, 39 points
  4. Joe Kovacs’s 23.23 DL Final win, 33 points (1 No. 1 vote)
  5. Alison dos Santos’s 46.29 Worlds win, 27 points
  6. Duplantis’s 6.20i WR, 19 points
  7. Jake Wightman’s 3:29.23 Worlds win, 10 points (1 No. 1 vote)
  8. Devon Allen’s 12.84 and Ryan Crouser’s 75-10 1/4 (23.12) USATF win, 4 points
  9. Anderson Peters’s 93.07 and Darlan Romani’s 22.53 World Indoor win, 3 points
  10. Kelvin Kiptum’s 2:01:53 debut, 1 point
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