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With several record-breaking performances already registered in the indoor 2023 season, here is a list of all the World Records (WR) broken.
Track and Field athletes globally have been in fantastic forms since the indoor season began, with many smashing their lifetime bests and a few writing their names in the history books.
These athletes have shown that the indoor season is just the tip of the iceberg on what to expect this year, as athletics enthusiasts look forward to the outdoor season, especially the World Championships in Budapest by August.
With several record-breaking performances already registered, here is a list of all the World Records (WR) broken so far in the indoor 2023 season.
Women's 500m
Femke Bol stormed to a new indoor 500m WR in her season's debut on February 4, at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix earlier this month in Boston.
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The Dutch 400m Hurdles and 400m star athlete clocked 1:05.63, which smashed the previous best of 1:06.31 that stood for seventeen years, giving a glimpse of her impeccable form this season.
Men's shot put
Ryan Crouser threw a distance of 23.38m (subject to ratification) for an outright men’s shot put WR at the Simplot Games in Pocatello, Idaho, on February, 18.
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By doing this, the American added a centimetre to his previous best of 23.37m he recorded outdoors at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene in June 2021, while his indoor best was the 22.82m he threw in Fayetteville in January of that year.
Crouser has now surpassed the 23m mark in a total of seven competitions during his career so far. It is a barrier that only three other athletes in history have ever bettered.
Men's 3000m
Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma had a golden moment at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais on February 15, breaking the indoor 3000m WR with a stunning 7:23.81 (subject to ratification) run at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold event in Lievin.
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Girma had a strong challenge from Spain's Mohamad Katir as both athletes dipped under the previous world record of 7:24.90 set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in Budapest on February 6, 1998 with Katir finishing second in a European Record of 7:24.68.
Women's 400m
Bol broke her second WR in just twenty days, running a jaw-dropping 49.26s (subject to ratification), to win the women's 400m final at the Dutch indoor championships in Apeldoorn.
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The time broke track and field's longest-standing record in history, by obliterating Jarmila Kratochvilova's previous indoor record of 49.59s set in 1982, eighteen years before Bol was born.
It means the Dutch track star has broken two WRs in the indoor season so far.
Women's Weight Throw
DeAnna Price broke the indoor weight throw WR, becoming the first woman to surpass the 26m mark in the event and adding 42cm to the previous world best at the US Indoor Championships on February 17.
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She first recorded 25.77m in the third round, then improved to 26.02m in the fifth round to twice improve the previous best of 25.60m that had been set by Gwen Berry in 2017 and then equalled by Janeah Stewart last month.
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