World 200 meters champion Shericka Jackson is considered one of 11 nominees for the World Athletics Feminine Athlete-of-the-12 months award.
In response to a announcement on the web site of World Athletics, the game’s world governing physique, the voting course of for the award opened on Wednesday, and the athletes had been chosen by a world panel of athletics consultants, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of the group.
“In what has been one other memorable yr for the game, the nominations mirror among the stand-out performances achieved on the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, one-day assembly circuits, highway races, and different occasions world wide,” the announcement acknowledged.
Jackson had set her sights in the course of the worldwide observe & discipline season on breaking the 200 world file of 21.34 seconds set by deceased American dash queen Florence Griffith-Joyner on the Olympic Video games 35 years in the past in Seoul, South Korea.
The 29-year-old Jamaican dash darling received to inside seven hundredths-of-a-second when she retained her world title in August within the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Jackson ended the season strongly, when she accomplished the dash double on the Prefontaine Basic on the season-ending World Athletics Diamond League Finals within the American metropolis of Eugene within the state of Oregon.
She clocked a brand new meet file of 21.57 secs within the 200, and he or she beat world champion Sha’Carri Richardson of america to win the ladies’s 100 sprint.
Aside from her run on the World Championships and Diamond League Finals, Jackson additionally ran 21.48 on the Diamond League meet in Brussels, and he or she now has three of the 4 quickest occasions within the ladies’s 200.
One other robust contender for the Feminine Athlete-of-the-12 months award will likely be Kenyan Religion Kipyegon, who broke world information within the 1 500, mile, and 5 000, and have become the primary lady to win titles within the 1 500 and 5 000 at a single World Championships.
Different nominee embody Tigst Assefa, who lowered the ladies’s marathon world file on September 24 by two minutes, 11 seconds to 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds, and fellow Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay, who broke Kipyegon’s 5 000 world file on September 17.
Richardson, who gained gold on the World Championships within the 100 and with america within the 4 x 100 relay, in addition to a bronze within the 200, can also be among the many nominees.
The opposite nominees are all world champions: Femke Bol of the Netherlands (400 hurdles), Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan (javelin), Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine (excessive bounce), Maria Perez of Spain (race stroll), Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela (triple bounce), and Winfred Yavi of Bahrain (3 000 steeplechase).
From right here, a three-way voting course of determines 5 finalists: The World Athletics Council’s vote will rely for 50 per cent of the consequence, whereas the World Athletics Household’s votes and the general public votes will every rely for 25 per cent of the ultimate consequence.
Voting closes at midnight on Saturday, October 28.
World Athletics plans to announce ladies’s and males’s finalists on November 13 and 14.
The boys’s nominees have but to be introduced.
Winners will likely be introduced December 11.