Sprints and Jumps Earn This Week's Performance of the Week Awards

Track and field fans voiced their choices in this week's DyeStat's Performance of the Week poll, while DyeStat's editors made their own selection.

Readers’ Choice: Sydney McLaughlin

With 37.08 percent of the vote, Sydney McLaughlin won our Readers’ Choice vote, beating Mondo Duplantis with his second-place tally of 25.06 percent.

McLaughlin made her collegiate outdoor debut at the Florida Relays. She started her weekend in the 200 meters, running 22.39. That is the fastest American U20 low-altitude time ever.

However, McLaughlin's weekend was not done. The following day she ran 50.07 for 400 meters. That is a current world-leading mark and it makes her the No. 2 all-time collegiate performer in the 400. Only former Texas star Courtney Okolo ran faster as a collegian (49.71 in 2016 and 50.03 in 2014).

Additionally, McLaughlin's 400 time is No. 5 on the all-time U20 list and the fastest run in 14 years.

As a reminder, both the 200 and the 400 are not McLaughlin's historically primary events. She spent the last four years tearing up the high school ranks in the 400-meter hurdles. Thus far in her young Kentucky career, the freshman has yet to compete over hurdles.

With McLaughlin's two individual events won, she still had the 4x400 relay to go. Running on the third leg, McLaughlin split 49.45 to help propel the Wildcats to victory in a collegiate-leading 3:26.92.

Editors’ Choice: Mondo Duplantis

After the fans made a great choice in selecting McLaughlin, this week's Editors' Choice award came down to two jumpers: Tori Franklin and Mondo Duplantis.

Franklin won the triple jump at the Texas Relays with a mark of 47-6.25 (14.48m), improving by more than a foot to become the second-best American triple jumper of all-time. It has been a strong past 12 months for Franklin as she has now entering the realm of elite jumpers.

However, this week's award goes to Duplantis. Also competing at the Texas Relays, Duplantis cleared 19-5 (5.92m) to break his own high school and world U20 records.

Unlike his performance at the 2017 Texas Relays, where Duplantis won going away at 19-4.5 (5.91m), this time he had company. Duplantis finished third to Renaud Lavillenie of France and Shawn Barber of Canada.

However, more impressive was the fact all three men cleared a best of 19-5 on the day. It is the first time since Duplantis, 18, was born that three people have cleared 19-5 in a single pole vault competition.

And Duplantis, competing against world champions in Lavillenie and Barber, held his own, strategically passing to keep himself in the hunt for the win. But while it only took one attempt for Lavillenie and Barber to clear 19-5, it took Duplantis three attempts.

When the bar went up to 19-9 (6.02m), no one was able to clear. That meant Lavillenie won, Barber took second and Duplantis third, all clearing 19-5.

Duplantis, who will attend LSU next year, once again tested himself against the world's best vaulters and once again showed he belongs in such elite company. Having been granted a waiver to compete at the Texas Relays, Duplantis will return home to Lafayette LA and continue with his high school season. But he is only eight weeks out from once again taking on the world's best pole vaulters at the Prefontaine Classic.