St. Lucia’s dash sensation, Julien Alfred, has been named a finalist for the extremely esteemed Girls’s Observe Athlete of the 12 months award, the place she’s going to compete in opposition to American Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone for the title.
Alfred, 23, made historical past on the Paris Olympics earlier this yr by securing gold within the girls’s 100 meters and silver within the 200 meters, marking her as the primary athlete from St. Lucia to succeed in the Olympic podium. Now, she faces a formidable rival in McLaughlin-Levrone, the US’ Olympic 400-meter hurdles gold medalist, as they each vie for the highest honor in girls’s observe.
On the lads’s facet, Norwegian distance star Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Botswana’s dash champion Letsile Tebogo have emerged because the finalists for Males’s Observe Athlete of the 12 months. Ingebrigtsen clinched gold within the 5000 meters in Paris, whereas Tebogo captured headlines by profitable gold within the 200 meters, defeating a extremely aggressive subject.
Different classes
Different classes embody Girls’s Discipline Athlete of the 12 months, the place Ukraine’s excessive soar champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Belgium’s heptathlon star Nafissatou Thiam will contend for the respect. The boys’s subject class sees Sweden’s Olympic pole vault champion, Mondo Duplantis, up in opposition to Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou, who earned gold within the lengthy soar.
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Within the out-of-stadium classes, Ecuador’s Brian Pintado, who took gold within the Olympic 20km race stroll, and Ethiopia’s marathon champion Tamirat Tola are nominated for Males’s Out-of-Stadium Athlete of the 12 months. In the meantime, Kenyan marathoner Ruth Chepngetich and the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan will compete for the ladies’s equal.
The voting course of, which is able to conclude on November 10, will decide the winners, who shall be introduced on the World Athletics Awards 2024 ceremony in Monaco on December 1.
