The list of candidates was submitted on Thursday. Nominations are selected by an international panel of athletic experts. This includes representatives from all six continental confederations in athletics.

The WC in Eugene, USA will be a major international athletics highlight in 2022.

WC gold at 5,000 metres, WC silver at 1500 metres (both indoors and outdoors) and EC gold at both distances went to Jakob Ingebrigtsen who turned out to be a brilliant year for the Lura boy.

He also won the Diamond League series in 1500 metres. In the final in Zurich, he set the best record of the year in world long-distance with 3,29.02.

Duplantis Phenomenon

The list of nominees also includes Slovenian disco star Kristjan Ceh. He took WC gold and EC silver, in addition to winning the Diamond League final.

Brazil’s Alison dos Santos, one of Karsten Warholm’s main rivals in the 400 meters hurdles, took the opportunity and became world champion when the Norwegian was not at her best during the WC in Eugene. He also won the Diamond League final in Switzerland.

Ingebrigtsen’s formidable challenger will also be the Swedish stem phenomenon Mondo Duplantis. He won WC gold both indoors and outdoors this season, in addition to picking up EC gold. There are also three world records. The latter is a formidable 6.21.

Kenyan marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge also recently set a world record. He clocked 2.01.09 in Berlin in September.

Winner will be announced in December

The last five nominees are Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco (3000 meters hurdles), America’s Grant Holloway (110 meters hurdles), America’s Noah Lyles (100 and 200 meters), Anderson Peters of Grenada (javelin) and Pedro Pichardo of Portugal (three). fold).

In the future, both athletic fans and the board of the International Athletics Federation can vote for their favourites. The results of the two rounds of voting will each count for 50 percent in the selection of the five finalists.

The final winner will be announced in early December.