The finalists for European Athlete of the Yr and Rising Star have been introduced following a four-part voting course of that narrowed down an preliminary record of 10 athletes
Keely Hodgkinson has been listed as a finalist for the distinguished European Athletics Girls’s Athlete of the Yr award, marking a standout season for the 22-year-old.
Her crowning achievement got here in Paris, the place she delivered a dominant efficiency to safe the Olympic gold medal within the 800m, clocking 1:56.72 while in full management on the Stade de France.
Nevertheless, her success wasn’t confined to the Olympics. In Rome, she efficiently defended her European Championship title, profitable in 1:58.65, regardless of battling sickness.
Including to her exceptional season, Hodgkinson set a brand new British document with a blistering 1:54.62 on the London Diamond League, ending forward of Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell. Her time is the quickest by a European since Jarmila Kratochvílová set the world document of 1:53.28 in 1983.
Keely Hodgkinson (Dan Vernon)
Hodgkinson is nominated alongside two different Paris gold medallists: Femke Bol and Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
Bol is aiming for her third consecutive European Athlete of the Yr title, having gained in each 2022 and 2023.
This yr, she has set a world indoor document within the 400m with a time of 49.17 while additionally anchoring the Dutch group to victory within the 4x400m relay.
Bol’s achievements continued with gold in each the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay on the European Championships, in addition to a brand new European document of fifty.95 within the 400m hurdles. On the Paris Olympics, she earned her first Olympic gold within the blended 4x400m, alongside bronze within the 400m hurdles and silver within the girls’s 4x400m relay.
In the meantime, Ukrainian excessive jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh made historical past by breaking Stefka Kostadinova’s long-standing world document of two.09m with a 2.10m clearance on the Diamond League in Paris.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Getty)
The 23-year-old went on to say gold at each the European Championships and the Paris Olympics.
The finalists for the boys’s European Athlete of the Yr award embrace Mondo Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Miltiadis Tentoglou, all of whom gained gold medals on the World Indoor Championships, European Championships, and the Paris Olympics.
Duplantis continued to push the pole vault boundaries, setting a brand new world document of 6.24m on the Xiamen Diamond League. He went on to interrupt his personal document twice extra, in Paris with a shocking vault of 6.25m, and later reaching 6.26m on the Silesia Diamond League.
Mondo Duplantis (Getty)
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, in the meantime, secured the 1500m and 5000m double on the European Championships, making him essentially the most profitable male athlete in championship historical past with six gold medals.
After narrowly lacking the rostrum with a fourth-place end within the 1500m in Paris, he rebounded by profitable gold within the 5000m. Later within the season, the Norwegian shattered the 3000m world document in Silesia, clocking 7:17.55 and breaking Daniel Komen’s long-standing document by three seconds.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Getty)
Miltiadis Tentoglou added to his rising record of lengthy leap titles, bringing his complete to 11 main championships. His season was highlighted by a world-leading leap of 8.65m on the European Championships, the place he additionally set a brand new championship document on his technique to securing his third gold medal within the occasion.
Within the girls’s Rising Star class, Britain’s Phoebe Gill has emerged as a finalist after an impressive season. The 17-year-old made headlines along with her spectacular 800m run on the Belfast Irish Milers Meet, clocking 1:57.86 to shatter the European U18 document by almost two seconds.
Her victory on the British Championships in Manchester earned her a spot on Crew GB’s Olympic squad for Paris. Because the youngest member of the group, Gill reached the semi-finals of the 800m, a major milestone in her early profession.
Phoebe Gill (Getty)
Becoming a member of Gill as a finalist is Serbia’s Adriana Vilagos, who secured her second consecutive European silver medal within the javelin at simply 20-years-old. She set a brand new Serbian nationwide document with a throw of 64.42m.
Croatia’s Jana Koscak rounds out the trio of feminine finalists. Regardless of withdrawing from the 2023 European U20 Championships attributable to damage, she made a triumphant comeback by profitable the World U20 heptathlon gold in Lima.
On the boys’s facet, the finalists embrace Czech’s Tomas Jarvinen, who claimed the World U20 decathlon title. His complete of 8425 factors propelled him to second on the world U20 all-time record.
Additionally in competition is Cyprus’ Iosif Kesidis, who made historical past in Lima by profitable the hammer throw title with a private greatest and nationwide U20 document of 82.80m. His victory, which was gained by greater than seven metres, marked Cyprus’ first-ever gold medal within the 38-year historical past of the occasion.
Niels Laros (Getty)
Rounding out the finalists is Niels Laros from the Netherlands, shortlisted for the third consecutive yr. The 19-year-old completed sixth within the Olympic 1500m remaining with a time of three:29.54, breaking Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s European U20 document of three:30.16.
With awards season in full swing, AW will likely be internet hosting our personal awards, giving readers the chance to vote to your favorite athletes from the 2024 season.
The official shortlists will likely be revealed in our November subject, accessible on October 31.
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