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May 2026

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April 2026

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March 2026

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Track

Two national records inside 27 minutes at The TEN; Shelby Houlihan debuts in 30:50

Mohamed Abdilaahi's German record 26:56.58 beat Ky Robinson's Australian record 26:57.07 by half a second; Houlihan ran the year's fastest women's 10,000 m.

March 28, 2026
Track

Hodgkinson runs 1:55.30 and a 17-year-old wins the men's 800 m on Toruń's last day

Keely Hodgkinson set a championship record, Cooper Lutkenhaus became the youngest world indoor champion, and Hunter Bell and García won the 1500 m titles.

March 22, 2026
Track

Kerr and Battocletti take the 3000 m titles in Toruń; Ehammer breaks a 14-year-old record

Kerr ran 7:35.56 to beat Cole Hocker by 0.14, Battocletti won Italy's first women's 3000 m gold, and Simon Ehammer scored 6,670 for a heptathlon world record.

March 21, 2026
Track

World Indoors open in Toruń: Jordan Anthony wins the 60 m, the distance heats shake out

Anthony ran a world-leading 6.41 on day one in Poland, Thompson and Bromell split silver and bronze by a thousandth, and the 800 m and 1500 m heats were run.

March 20, 2026
Track

Hedengren doubles with a 3000 m record; Arkansas and Georgia win NCAA team titles

The BYU freshman ran 8:36.61 to win by seven seconds, Colin Sahlman got the men's 3000 m after a disqualification, and the hosts won a 22nd title.

March 14, 2026
Track

Jane Hedengren wins the NCAA indoor 5000 m as a freshman; NAU takes its first DMR

BYU's Hedengren ran 15:00.12 in Fayetteville, Habtom Samuel took the men's 5000 m, and Northern Arizona won the distance medley on day one of NCAA Indoors.

March 13, 2026
Track

Mondo Duplantis clears 6.31 m in Uppsala, his fifteenth pole vault world record

At his own indoor meeting in Sweden he took four jumps, raised the bar 23 cm after 6.08 and went over first time, one centimetre above his Tokyo mark.

March 12, 2026

February 2026

7 stories
Track

Hocker, Nuguse and Young finish within 0.04 in the USATF Indoor 3000 m

Cole Hocker won in 7:39.25 at Ocean Breeze; Emily Mackay beat Elle St. Pierre with a meet record 8:30.01 and Chase Jackson set an American shot put record.

February 28, 2026
Track

Eliott Crestan wins the Copernicus Cup 800 m and the Indoor Tour title in Toruń

The Gold series ended in the World Indoors hall: Crestan ran 1:44.07, Zaynab Dosso an Italian 60 m record of 6.99, and eleven tour winners took wild cards.

February 22, 2026
Track

Keely Hodgkinson runs 1:54.87 in Liévin, the 800 m world indoor record by nearly a second

Jolanda Ceplak's 1:55.82 had stood since March 2002; Hodgkinson passed 400 m in 56.00 and finished 0.26 outside her outdoor best.

February 19, 2026
Track

Keely Hodgkinson runs 1:56.33 in a heat in Birmingham, a British indoor record

The Olympic champion led from the gun at the UK Indoor Championships, moved to third on the world indoor all-time list, and skipped the final to aim at Liévin.

February 14, 2026
Track

Cole Hocker runs 3:45.94, the second fastest indoor mile ever, in Winston-Salem

At the first ASICS Sound Running Invite, Hocker took the American indoor mile and 1500 m records; Cooper Lutkenhaus ran a world under-20 800 m record.

February 14, 2026
Track

Khaleb McRae runs 44.52 in Fayetteville, a world indoor 400 m record if ratified

At the Tyson Invitational the American took 0.05 off Kerron Clement's 2005 mark on the same track; Jordan Anthony ran 6.43 and Julien Alfred 6.99.

February 13, 2026
Track

Georgia Hunter Bell runs 4:00.04 in Karlsruhe as the Indoor Tour Gold reaches Europe

At the Europahalle, Hunter Bell took the 1500 m from Birke Haylom, Azeddine Habz won the men's race in 3:33.36 and Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared 2.01 m.

February 8, 2026