World Athletics Announces Nominees for 2022 World Men’s Athlete of the Year

On Thursday, World Athletics (WA) announced the nominees for Men’s World Athlete of the Year. These candidates were selected by an international panel of athletics journalists and representatives of the World Athletics Council.

Six track and field athletes and four track and field athletes were nominated for the award, including the Norwegian long distance champion Jacob Ingebristenthe world’s greatest marathoner, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchogeand the American Sprint Dynamo Noah Lyles.

Track Athlete Candidates

Alison Dos Santos (BRA) 400m hurdles world champion, diamond league 400m hurdles champion. set a world-leading South American record of 46.29

sufian el bakkali (March) 3000m Steeplechase World Champion, Diamond League 3000m Steeplechase Champion. Undefeated in 2022, he leads the world in Rabat with a 7:58.28.

Grant Holloway (united states of america) 110m Hurdles World Champion, Indoor 60m Hurdles World Champion, Diamond League 110m Hurdles Champion.

Jacob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) World 5,000m champion, world 1,500m silver medalist, indoor and outdoor. Ingebrigsten is world-leading he is 3:29.02, European he is the 1,500m champion and he is the 5,000m champion and Diamond he is the league he is the 1,500m champion.

Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) Broke marathon world record to 2:01:09. Kipchoge was a Berlin Marathon champion and a Tokyo Marathon champion.

Noah Lyles (USA) 200m World Champion, Diamond League 200m Champion. A world leader, he ran a national record of 19.31, placing him third on the world all-time list.

field athlete candidate

Christian Che (SLO) Discus Throw World Champion. Diamond He is the league’s discus throwing champion, at the circuit in Birmingham he threw a national record of 71.27 m and is the European discus silver medalist.

Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) Indoor and outdoor pole vault world champion. Diamond He is the league and European pole vault champion. Duplantis broke the world record indoors with his 6.19m and his 6.20m, and outdoors with his 6.21m.

Anderson Peters (GRN) World Javelin Throw Champion, Commonwealth Javelin Silver Medalist. Peters beat his world-leading NACAC record of 93.07m, making him fifth all-time in the world.

Pedro Picciardo (POR) World champion in the triple jump with a jump of 17.95m, the highest in the world. World indoor triple jump silver medalist, European triple jump champion.

A three-way vote will determine the finalists. The WA Council and WA Family vote via email and fans can vote online through his WA social media platform on Facebook. Instagram When twitterEach nominee’s individual graphic will be posted this week, and each Facebook and Instagram like or Twitter retweet will count as one vote.

WA Council votes account for 50% of the results, while WA Family votes and Public votes each account for 25% of the final results. Voting closes at midnight on Monday, October 31, 2022. His five men’s and women’s finalists will be announced in November, and the winner will be announced in December.Norwegian Kirsten Warholm Awarded in 2021. Both Duplantis and Kipchoge have won in the past, with Kipchoge winning twice in 2018 and 2019, and Duplantis winning in 2020.

The winner will be announced on World Athletics’ social media platforms in early December.