Category
page 1IAAF World Athlete of the Year
Usain Bolt
Jamaican sprinter
Yelena Isinbayeva
Russian female Olympic pole-vaulter
Carl Lewis
US track & field athlete
Haile Gebrselassie
Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman (born 1973)
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Jamaican track and field sprinter
Eliud Kipchoge
Kenyan long-distance runner
Florence Griffith Joyner
American track and field athlete (1959-1998)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
American track and field athlete
Allyson Felix
American track and field athlete
Kelvin Kiptum
Kenyan long-distance runner (1999–2024)
Asafa Powell
Jamaican sprinter
Kenenisa Bekele
Ethiopian long-distance runner (track and field)
Jan Železný
Czech javelin thrower and sports official
Elaine Thompson-Herah
Jamaican athletics competitor
Marion Jones
American athlete
Armand Duplantis
Armand Gustav "Mondo" Duplantis is a Swedish and American pole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Duplantis holds the pole vaulting world record and is the winner of nine senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic champion, a three-time World outdoor champion and a four-time World indoor champion.
Sifan Hassan
Ethiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner
Blanka Vlašić
Croatian high jumper
Tyson Gay
American sprinter
Hicham El Guerrouj
Moroccan middle and long distance runner
Michael Johnson
American sprinter (born 1967)
Noah Lyles
American sprinter
David Rudisha
Kenyan middle distance runner
Yulimar Rojas
Venezuelan athletics competitor
Nafissatou Thiam
Belgian athletics competitor
Meseret Defar
Ethiopian female Olympic long-distance runner
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Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
Sally Pearson
Australian short-distance runner and hurdler
Mutaz Essa Barshim
Qatari track and field athlete (1991-)
Renaud Lavillenie
French pole vaulter
Karsten Warholm
Norwegian athletics competitor
Genzebe Dibaba
Ethiopian distance runner
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
American hurdler and sprinter
Almaz Ayana
Ethiopian distance runner
Caterine Ibargüen
Colombian athlete competing in high jump, long jump and triple jump
Valerie Adams
New Zealand shot putter (1984-)
Jonathan Edwards
British triple jumper (born 1966)
Paula Radcliffe
English long-distance runner
Letsile Tebogo
Botswana sprinter
Gabriela Szabo
Romanian athletics (sport) competitor
Noureddine Morceli
retired athlete, winner of the 1500 m run at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sanya Richards-Ross
Jamaican-American sprinter
Ashton Eaton
American decathlete
Merlene Ottey
Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete
Dalilah Muhammad
American hurdler
Wilson Kipketer
Kenyan and Danish middle distance runner
Colin Jackson
Welsh athlete and sports commentator
Svetlana Masterkova
Russian middle-distance runner
Kevin Young
American athlete, hurdler
Heike Henkel
German high jumper
Gwen Torrence
American sprinter
Tigst Assefa
Ethiopian middle-distance runner
Sally Gunnell
British former track and field athlete
Hestrie Cloete
South African high jumper
Stacy Dragila
American pole vaulter
Katrin Krabbe
German sprinter
Ana Fidelia Quirot
Cuban middle distance runner and sprinter
Roger Kingdom
American hurdler
World Athlete of the Year
award
Steve Backley
British javelin thrower