Two of the world’s most dominant marathoners, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands and newly-minted world document holder Ruth Chepngetich, are among the many nominees for the World Athletics Feminine Athlete of the Yr (Out of Stadium) award.
Hassan’s distance working triple on the Paris Olympic Video games made her a assured candidate, the place she gained two bronze medals on the observe (5,000m/10,000m) and capped off her historic run with a gold medal within the ladies’s marathon, setting a brand new Olympic document. Chepngetich made historical past of her personal, changing into the primary girl to interrupt 2:10 within the marathon along with her gorgeous 2:09:56 efficiency on the 2024 Chicago Marathon earlier this month.
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The opposite nominees for the ladies’s out-of-stadium award embody Kenyan distance star Agnes Jebet Ngetich, who set world information within the 5K and 10K on the roads, and who ran the second-fastest half-marathon in historical past on the Valencia Half Marathon on Sunday (63:04, a Kenyan nationwide document); Ethiopian Sutume Kebede, the Tokyo Marathon champion, and second-place in Chicago; and Tigist Ketema of Ethiopia, who took wins on the 2024 Berlin Marathon and in Dubai.
Males’s nominees
On the boys’s aspect, the nominees function a equally aggressive subject. Olympic champion Tamirat Tola, who set a brand new Video games document on the robust Paris course, and his compatriot Yomif Kejelcha, who simply broke the boys’s world document within the half-marathon by one second on the 2024 Valencia Half. Different nominees for the award embody Kenya’s Benson Kipruto, the Tokyo Marathon champion and Olympic bronze medallist; Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo, the world cross-country champion; and Ecuador’s Brian Daniel Pintado, who gained Olympic gold within the males’s 20km race stroll.
A World Athletics panel compiled the checklist of nominees. The 2 finalists for every award can be decided by a three-way voting course of that runs till Nov. 3. The World Athletics Council vote accounts for 50 per cent of the choice, whereas the World Athletics Household (together with athletes, coaches and officers) vote accounts for 25 per cent, and the remaining 25 per cent comes from a public vote on Fb, X (previously Twitter), and Instagram. Followers can forged their votes by liking posts on Fb and Instagram or by retweeting on X.
In 2023, the out-of-stadium award went to Kenyan marathoner Kelvin Kiptum on the boys’s aspect, following his exceptional 2:00:35 efficiency on the 2023 Chicago Marathon. Ethiopian marathoner Tigist Assefa gained the ladies’s award along with her marathon record-breaking run in Berlin.
World Athletics revamped the awards system for 2024, introducing total World Athlete of the Yr titles for each ladies and men, alongside three specialised awards for observe occasions, subject occasions, and out-of-stadium occasions. This new method permits for a extra recognition of the varied athletic accomplishments all year long.