MONACO, CMC – St Lucia’s dash queen Julien Alfred will go head-to-head with American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone for the celebrated Girls’s Observe Athlete of the Yr award.
Alfred, 23, made historical past earlier this yr when she received gold within the girls’s 100 meters and silver within the 200 meters on the Paris Olympics, turning into the primary athlete from St Lucia to medal on the prestigious Video games.
She is going to come up towards a formidable opponent in McLaughlin-Levrone, the USA’s Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion.
Among the many males, Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo are the 2 finalists for the Males’s Observe Athlete of the Yr.
Ingebrigtsen received gold within the 5000 meters on the Paris Olympics, whereas Tebogo upset a stacked 200-meter discipline to seize gold in Paris.
Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Olympic excessive leap champion, and Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium’s Olympic heptathlon champion, have been nominated for Girls’s Discipline Athlete of the Yr.
In the meantime, Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis of Sweden and Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou, who copped gold within the lengthy leap on the Olympics, will vie for the boys’s equal.
Brian Pintado of Ecuador, the Olympic 20km race stroll champion, and Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, the Olympic marathon champion, have been nominated for the Males’s Out of Stadium Athlete of the Yr. On the similar time, Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya and the Netherlands’s Sifan Hassan will contest the ladies’s equal.
Voting closes on November 10, and the Athletes of the Yr in every class and the general winner will likely be revealed at a ceremony in Monaco on December 1 as a part of the World Athletics Awards 2024.
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