Statistician Peter Matthews' assessment of form and achievements during the past year

These merit rankings of British athletes by Peter Matthews from Athletics International (of which this is the 50th successive year!) are an assessment of form and achievements during 2017.

The major factors by which the rankings are determined are win-loss record, performances in major meetings and sequence of marks, with both indoor and outdoor results considered.

This year the major targets for top athletes were the World Championships and for younger athletes the European Under-20 and Under-23 Championships.

Below you will find the top three in each men's event. The top three in the women’s rankings can be found here. The full British top-12 list for every event (except in those events where there were insufficient British athletes producing adequate performances), including the details of athletes' seasons, are featured in our December 21 end-of-year stats special, which is available to buy and read digitally here or order here.

100m
1 Chijindu Ujah
2 Reece Prescod
3 James Dasaolu

200m
1 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake
2 Danny Talbot
3 Zharnel Hughes

400m

1 Matthew Hudson-Smith
2 Dwayne Cowan
3 Rabah Yousif

800m
1 Kyle Langford
2 Elliot Giles
3 Guy Learmonth

1500m - 1 mile
1 Chris O'Hare
2 Jake Wightman
3 Charlie Grice

5000m
1 Mohamed Farah
2 Andrew Butchart
3 Marc Scott

10,000m
1 Mohamed Farah
2 Andrew Vernon
3 Dewi Griffiths

10 miles - half-marathon
1 Mohamed Farah
2 Callum Hawkins
3 Dewi Griffiths

Marathon
1 Callum Hawkins
2 Dewi Griffiths
3 Jonathan Mellor

3000m steeplechase
1 Rob Mullett
2 Zak Seddon
3 Ieuan Thomas

110m hurdles

1 Andrew Pozzi
2 David Omoregie
3 David King

400m hurdles

1 Jack Green
2 Jacob Paul
3 Sebastian Rodger

High jump

1 Robbie Grabarz
2 Tom Gale
3 Chris Baker

Pole vault

1 Luke Cutts
2 Adam Hague
3 Joel Leon Benitez

Long jump
1 Daniel Bramble
2 Greg Rutherford
3 Jacob Fincham-Dukes

Triple jump
1 Ben Williams
2 Nathan Fox
3 Nathan Douglas

Shot
1 Scott Lincoln
2 Youcef Zatat
3 Gareth Winter

Discus

1 Nicholas Percy
2 Zane Duquemin
3 Brett Morse

Hammer

1 Nick Miller
2 Chris Bennett
3 Taylor Campbell

Javelin
1 Matti Mortimore
2 Harry Hughes
3 Joe Dunderdale

Decathlon
1 Ashley Bryant
2 Ben Gregory
3 John Lane

20km walk

1 Tom Bosworth
2 Callum Wilkinson
3 Cameron Corbishley

50km walk
1 Dominic King

» For the full top-12 list for every event (except in those events where there were insufficient British athletes producing adequate performances), including the details of athletes' seasons, see the December 21 end-of-year stats special edition of AW, which is available to buy and read digitally here or order here.

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