TOP 10 - 40 Greatest World Athletics Championships Moments | 10 - 1

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[alberto]

Bolt GOAT how can you smash 2WR in that way. Absolutely brutal. Top 3 left me shocked but I give big love to MoFa too❤

[allosangellos]

Usain is a phenom. How it appears as if he's jogging while at full speed!

[chantellolyn]

Wayde Van Niekerk should've been among the top 10 A true champ..

[tomo_]

Still annoyed how people like Powell and Edwards didn't make the top 10, but regardless, track and field is a wonderful sport and all of these moments have a place in history.

[melvillefletcher]

#7 Yulimar Rojas Oregon 2022 is undeserved IMO. It was the *FIFTH* all time best triple jump in woman's history, she had dismantled the competition by her second jump that day, and (outside avid women's triple jump fans) the event was simply not nearly as anticipated as other moments in the WC. Lewis vs Powell 1991, on the other hand, was everything one can ask for: WR, competitive, highly anticipated. This poll somehow placed it at #11.

[darrensmith]

Powell V Lewis long jump 1991 is still my ultimate athletics highlight

[Parkourflipper]

first place is absolutely ICONIC! I was 14 at that time and that Bolt photo that I cut out of the newspaper the next day is still hanging in my old room at my father's place!

[Motty]

This is such a sweet compilation.. For those of us who have grown up watching beautiful athletics, it's so nice to see this all again in the same place. Whoever you are, thank you.

[ognenstefanovski]

Sydney McLauglin should have taken the #2 spot she obliterated the WR, we all knew Mondo would add +1cm and he could have jumped way more that day

[ed.wilson]

can’t lie them performances make me emotional man 😅

[dado]

12:00 The way Fraser run is just unbelievable, she looks like fully wound toy.

[stacyb]

No one is topping Usain's 2009 WCs. No one. It was just too perfect.

IAAF didn't need to spend a penny for marketing to have that stadium packed, such was the hype.

Meanwhile, Bolt was still partying hard & missed a month of training from foot surgery, yet Tyson hadn't missed a beat. It provided room for doubt. Could there be an upset?

It was one of the few times in sporting history when an athlete and an event actually lived up to the hype

Carl Lewis had to eat crow. Germany commissioned a mural on part of the Berlin wall in honor of Bolt, and the world once again remembered that sprinting existed outside Olympic years. It was the year Bolt transcended athletics and became an icon, and in so doing, singlehandedly dragged T&F back from the brink of obscurity.

Short of a woman breaking all of FloJo's records in a single World Championships, Bolt in Berlin will never be topped.

[JasonRobinsonArtDesign]

Wonderful performances and memories! That said, Jonathan Edwards should be top 10; I mean two world records in two attempts??? That WR has lasted nearly 30yrs??? C'mon. And then the GREATEST LONG JUMP COMPETITION IN HISTORY not making the the top 10. You gotta be kidding me??? That was so EPIC and they broke a mythical record (Beamon's) at that. Powell's WR has lasted 32 years. Wowzers.

[samirahenilaulainen]

Damn Bolt had insane acceleration as well back in the day, if he had better wind on the 200m / a little more endurance we could have a much lower 200m record

[XP]

Shelly Ann Fraser Price is the Queen 👑

[barriehobbs]

I can't believe Tiina Lilak's javelin throw from Helsinki 1983 isn't in the top 40. Final afternoon of the games she was Finland's only real hope of a medal in the games and javelin is pretty much national sport. Some pressure. She was in second place and with the penultimate throw of the competition stepped up and threw it miles. The moment, the reaction of the Finnish fans and her reaction are what sport is all about.

[JanetOdunayoAkinjole]

It's the way ⚡ ran the bend for me 🔥

[robertonavarro]

It would have liked to see ‘91 Powell/Lewis and ‘95 Edwards ranked in the top 10 based on being unbelievable performances. Since this was a fan vote, though, I think lots of other factors were considered.

[minischanssemaadventurers]

Mate and I have spent hours putting a list together and watching these as they were released. Our honorable mentions not even in the top 40. Zelezny for Jav, Allen Johnson 110H 4 x gold and Fajdek 5 x hammer throw champ. How do none of these make it in the 40.

To say we were disgusted by Powell and Edwards being at 12 and 15 is an understatement.

Mate cheesed by the Isinvayeva omission too. 5.01m PV

[kissoonjohn]

I don’t know if it’s just me but since Usain Bolt retired sprinting has not been the same and I don’t know if it will ever be!!
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