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2022 international merit rankings – women

2022 international merit rankings - women

Here are the leading female athletes from last year based on their marks during the year, positions in major events and win-loss records against fellow competitors

The international selection panel for our annual world merit rankings comprised Mirko Jalava (FIN), Alfons Juck (SVK), A Lennart Julin (SWE), Peter Matthews & Stuart Mazdon (UK) and Ed Gordon (USA) joined by Elliott Denman for the walks, writes Peter Matthews.

This was an extraordinary year with so many major championships as well as most of the Diamond League fixtures. China was still greatly affected by Covid and their athletes were mostly restricted to the World Championships with only limited events at home. We have not included BLR and RUS athletes in the top tens, and as they cannot compete in international competition it is very dfficult to rate them, but when have very strong series of marks we have included them in footnotes (with possible rankings in brackets).

READ MORE: Men’s world merit rankings

Following each athlete’s name in these event-by-event rankings are: date of birth (day.month.year), and in brackets: number of years ranked and 2021 top-ten rankings. Then their five/six best marks in 2022 and details of placings and performances in significant competitions. In these results marks in brackets were in qualifying, marks after w/ are best ‘wind legal’ marks in that competition.

100 METRES

1. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM
27.12.86 (12y, 2)
10.62, 10.65, 10.66, 10.67, 10.67, 10.67
1 Nairobi 10.67A
1 Paris 10.67
1h2 JAM Ch 10.70
1 Worlds 10.67 (10.87, 10.93)
1 Skol-Chorzów 10.66
1 Székesfehérvár 10.67
1 Monaco 10.62
2 Brussels 10.74
1 DLF-Zürich 10.65
2. Shericka Jackson JAM
16.7.94 (2y, 3)
10.71, 10.73, 10.73, 10.77, 10.81, 10.83
1 Kingston 7/5 11.00
2 Birmingham 11.12
3 Pre 10.92
1 JAM Ch 10.77 (10.98, 10.99)
2 Worlds 10.73 (10.84, 11.02
1 Lignano 11.13
2 Monaco 10.71
1 NACAC 10.83 (10.98)
2 Lausanne 10.88
1 Brussels 10.73
2 DLF-Zürich 10.81
5 Bellinzona 11.19
3. Elaine Thompson-Herah JAM 28.6.92 (8y, 1)
10.79, 10.81, 10.82, 10.83, 10.89, 10.89
1h1 Walnut 10.89
1 Ponce 10.93
1 Kingston 21/5 10.94
1 Pre 10.79
1 Rabat 10.83
3 JAM Ch 10.89 (10.91, 11.06)
3 Worlds 10.81 (10.82)
1 Comm G 10.95 (10.99, 11.05)
dq Lausanne
2 Luzern 11.30
4. Aleia Hobbs USA
24.2.96 (4y, -)
10.81, 10.81, 10.83, 10.87, 10.88, 10.91; 10.72w, 10.80w
1/4 Baton Rouge 11.06/11.08
2 Walnut 10.80w (10.95)
1/2 Baton Rouge 10.84w/11.11
1B Jacksonville 11.28
1 New York 10.83
2 US Ch 10.72w (10.81, 10.88)
6 Worlds 10.92 (10.95, 11.04)
2 Skol-Chorzów…

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