Excessive jumper and pole vaulter take high awards at European Athletics occasion in Skopje
Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Mondo Duplantis had been introduced by European Athletics as their athletes of 2024 on Saturday (Oct 26).
Each athletes received European and Olympic titles and set world information this 12 months. They’re additionally each winners of the continental governing physique’s ‘rising stars’ awards, too.
Duplantis, who has taken the world pole vault document to six.26m this summer time, was shortlisted alongside fellow Olympic and European champions Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Miltiadis Tentoglou whereas Mahuchikh, who improved the world excessive leap document to 2.10m, was shortlisted alongside 2022 and 2023 European athlete of the 12 months Femke Bol and European and Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson.
Mahuchikh, who was topped ladies’s rising star in 2019, obtained her European athlete of the 12 months trophy from European Athletics president Dobromir Karamarinov.
European Athletics additionally named this 12 months’s rising star winners as Serbia’s European javelin silver medallist Adriana Vilagos and Olympic 1500m sixth-placer Niels Laros from the Netherlands who set a European under-20 document of three:29.54 in that closing.
A particular Staff Spirit award was received by the Italian group which topped the medal desk on the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships with 11 gold medals. The award was obtained by Antonella Palmisano and Leonardo Fabbri, the 20km race stroll and shot put champions respectively, and introduced by European Athletics CEO Christian Milz.
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