World Championships 2023: Usain Bolt's long-standing 200m mark among records under threat

Noah Lyles is among the planetary stars who could rewrite the past books astatine the World Championships

When it comes to large championships, medals are the sanction of the crippled for the world's champion athletes.

Several existent satellite grounds holders volition beryllium successful enactment crossed the disciplines, portion others person acceptable their sights connected attaining historical marks.

So, who mightiness we spot making history?

Noah Lyles - men's 200m

American Noah Lyles, who volition people 3 satellite titles, believes helium volition interruption Usain Bolt's long-standing 200m grounds successful Budapest.

The satellite champion shared his prediction connected societal media that helium volition tally 19.10 seconds to shatter the Jamaican sprinting legend's 14-year mark. He besides thinks he'll get wrong 0.07secs of Bolt's 100m champion by moving 9.65.

Eight-time Olympic champion Bolt's clip of 19.19 has stood since the 2009 World Championships, arsenic has his celebrated 100m people of 9.58.

Lyles achieved his idiosyncratic champion 19.31 to instrumentality the satellite rubric past twelvemonth and triumph successful 19.47 astatine the London Diamond League successful July - the fastest clip successful the satellite this twelvemonth - means helium heads to Budapest afloat of confidence.

Faith Kipyegon - women's 1500m/5,000m

Faith Kipyegon is having a singular season, mounting 3 satellite records crossed arsenic galore distances successful less than 50 days.

Two of those performances arrived 1 week apart, the fashionable Kenyan breaking the 1500m people successful a clip of 3 minutes 49.11 seconds astatine the Florence Diamond League earlier winning the 5,000m successful Paris successful an astonishing 14 minutes 5.20 seconds connected 9 June.

The two-time Olympic and satellite 1500m champion added a 3rd grounds to her sanction erstwhile she bushed Sifan Hassan's mile clip by astir 5 seconds, clocking 4 minutes 7.64 seconds successful July.

Kipyegon volition people a 1500m and 5,000m treble arsenic she heads to the World Championships successful seemingly unstoppable form.

Karsten Warholm - men's 400m hurdles

Following an injury-disrupted 2022, Karsten Warholm appears backmost to his frightening best.

The Norwegian has held the men's 400m hurdles satellite grounds since moving 45.94 seconds to triumph Olympic golden successful Tokyo 2 years ago.

He proved beyond immoderate uncertainty this play that helium has completed a afloat betterment from his hamstring wounded by producing 2 of the 5 fastest performances of each time, improving to 46.51 successful Monaco successful July aft clocking 46.52 successful Oslo.

Expect the 27-year-old, who was lacking fittingness arsenic helium finished seventh astatine past year's World Championships, to enactment connected a amusement arsenic helium aims for a 4th planetary title.

Femke Bol - women's 400m hurdles

Olympic and satellite champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is the satellite grounds holder successful the women's 400m hurdles - an lawsuit successful which she boasts six of the 8 fastest times successful past and has looked unstoppable.

The 24-year-old American improved her people to 50.68 seconds successful clinching satellite golden past twelvemonth but had been acceptable to people the 400m level successful Budapest earlier withdrawing due to the fact that of a genu injury.

In her absence, each eyes volition beryllium connected Femke Bol.

The Dutch athlete, 23, recorded the third-fastest show of each clip erstwhile she ran 51.45 astatine the London Diamond League - down lone McLaughlin-Levrone's champion 2 times, some acceptable past season.

Armand Duplantis - men's rod vault

For respective years now, the men's rod vault has pitted Swedish prima Armand Duplantis against his ain satellite record.

On six abstracted occasions during his young career, the 23-year-old has risen - rather virtually - to that challenge.

Duplantis improved his champion vault by 1 centimetre with a clearance astatine 6.22m astatine the indoor All Star Perche gathering successful France successful February, beating the people helium acceptable successful winning satellite golden past year.

Having spoken of his tendency to 1 time leap 6.30m, determination volition again beryllium sky-high expectations erstwhile Duplantis takes to the runway.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen - men's 1500m

Norwegian superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen already has 1 satellite grounds to his sanction successful 2023 - albeit implicit the seldom contested two-mile distance.

The versatile 22-year-old is the 1500m Olympic champion and satellite 5,000m golden medallist but helium had to settee for metallic down Britain's Jake Wightman implicit the shorter region successful Eugene past year.

In July helium became the fourth-fastest 1500m runner successful history, improving his European grounds to 3 minutes 27.14 seconds astatine the Silesia Diamond League.

It brought Ingebrigtsen wrong 1.14 seconds of Hicham El Guerrouj's arsenic yet untouchable 3:26, acceptable 25 years ago, arsenic helium bids to upgrade his 1500m medal successful Wightman's absence.

Ryan Crouser - men's changeable put

Ryan Crouser's caller changeable enactment technique, known arsenic the 'Crouser Slide', has already helped the American to amended his satellite grounds this year.

The reigning Olympic and satellite champion added much than 20cm to his champion with a propulsion of 23.56m successful May utilizing his caller step-across method - an accommodation astatine the opening of his regular which allows him to make much force.

The 30-year-old, liable for 10 of the 14 furthest throws successful history, has had clip to further cleanable the movement.

That was proven astatine the London Diamond League, erstwhile the mean region of his six-throw bid was higher than immoderate of his competitors' azygous champion attempt.

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Other records to watch

Where other could we spot record-breaking performances?

Three-time satellite outdoor champion Yulimar Rojas acceptable a caller triple leap satellite grounds of 15.74m astatine past year's World Indoor Championships, having antecedently acceptable the modular astatine 15.67m successful winning golden astatine the Tokyo Olympics.

The Venezuelan has recorded 7 of the 9 biggest jumps successful past and has been wide that her people is to go the archetypal pistillate to leap 16m successful the triple jump.

Rojas, who whitethorn besides determine to people a agelong leap medal, has a triple leap champion of 15.18m this play - making her the wide favourite for different gold.

Elsewhere, American Grant Holloway is attempting to triumph a 3rd successive men's 110m hurdles satellite rubric successful Budapest.

His idiosyncratic champion of 12.81 seconds is the 2nd fastest clip successful history, 1 hundredth of a 2nd down compatriot Aries Merritt's grounds of 12.80, which helium could people to implicit his treble successful style.

Elsewhere, Ethiopian Lamecha Girma has displayed record-setting signifier successful 2023, having rewritten the men's 3,000m steeplechase people successful June with 7 minutes 52.11 seconds.