MONACO, CMC – Caribbean superstars Julien Alfred and Marileidy Paulino are amongst six nominees vying for the distinguished 2024 World Athletics Ladies’s Observe Athlete of the 12 months award.
St Lucia’s Alfred and the Dominican Republic’s Paulino will go up towards Kenya’s duo of Beatrice Chebet, the Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion, and Religion Kipyegon, who gained Olympic gold within the 1500m, and the USA pair of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone who copped Olympic gold within the 400m hurdles and Gabby Thomas, the 200m Olympic champion.
Alfred, the 23-year-old St Lucian, had a exceptional yr wherein she gained gold within the girls’s 100m and silver within the 200m on the Paris Olympics and the World Indoor 60m title.
She then capped off the yr by crowning the 100m champion on the Wanda Diamond League. Paulino, 27, was unbeaten in 2024 within the girls’s 400 meters, successful gold on the Paris Olympics and the Wanda Diamond League.
In the meantime, Individuals Rai Benjamin, Grant Holloway, and Noah Lyles, together with Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, have been nominated for the Males’s Observe Athlete of the 12 months.
The finalists for the Observe Athlete of the 12 months will probably be decided via public voting on World Athletics’ social media platforms, with voting set to shut on October 27.
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