Highlighting the new additions to the World Athletics Heritage Collection are recent donations from three world record-holders.
Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia has gifted the collection the pair of spikes she wore when taking more than two seconds off the world indoor 1500m record of 3:55.17 in Lievin, France, on 9 February 2021.
Sweden’s high-flying Mondo Duplantis has donated the pair of pastel-yellow spikes which he wore when soaring to the current 6.18m world pole vault record indoors in Glasgow, UK, on 15 February 2020.
Kenya’s Mary Keitany, the world marathon record-holder (women-only race), who retired this year, has provided the singlet, shorts and shoes in which she ran 2:22:48 to win her fourth New York City Marathon title on 4 November 2018.
In total, new artifacts from 28 global champions and/or world record-breakers, representing 17 countries from across all six continental areas, are entering MOWA today.