Top 10 male stand-out performances from the outdoor season in 2022 (10-6)

We have been looking for Deji Ogeyingbo’s Top 10 Male stand out performances, and here you go! 

Top 10 male stand-out performances from the outdoor season in 2022 (10-6)

Over the course of the last two weeks, we started a series in which we ranked some of the top performances by female athletes in the outgoing Track and field season, taking into account varying degrees of factors like the competition ranking, ranking points of the athletes in the race/event and how much influence it had on the athletics world.

Having done that of the female, we would start our two-series countdown on the top men’s performance in the 2022 season.

10. Devon Allen (Beat Grant Holloway in the men’s 110mH at the New York Grand Prix) 

How do you beat a supremely talented sprint hurdler like Grant Holloway? Prior to the New York Grand Prix in May, the World Champion had cantered to all his races in the indoor track season, and it would take a huge fall for him to get usurped. Maybe Olympic Champion Hansle Parchment could have posed a threat, but he was still trying to find his rhythm at that point.

Enter Devon Allen. The 27-year-old had missed out on an Olympic podium in Tokyo and was in to prove a point before he switched to a National Football League career with the Philadelphia Eagles.

However, Allen’s performance at the Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island gave a lot of track followers reasons to make him stick to the sport. Making the most of a helpful tailwind of 1.6 m/s, Allen finished well clear of the Holloway, moving up to third place on the all-time 110m hurdles list as he clocked 12.84s.

Holloway, second on the all-time list with 12.81, just 0.01 off the world record set by Aries Merritt of the United States in 2012, could only clock 13.06, with Daniel Roberts third on 13.17. Allen’s performance was made all the more remarkable given that he has been juggling track-and-field commitments with off-season training with his Philadelphia Eagles teammates.

Allen said he had thought a fast time was on the cards after recent results in training. Only two men; Holloway (12.81) and world record holder Aries Merritt (12.80) — have finished faster over the distance.

9. Ferdinand Omanyala (Beat Akani Simbine by three thousand of a second at the African Championships in Mauritius)

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