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European Athlete of the Year

Athletics award in Europe

Athletics award in Europe

The European Athlete of the Year award is an annual prize for sportspeople from Europe participating in athletics, including track and field, road running, and cross country running competitions. The election has been organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the European governing body for the sport of athletics, since 1993.

Each year, a shortlist is created by selecting the top European athlete in each event, based upon performances at the year's major championships. Only in exceptional circumstances will more than one athlete be shortlisted per event. Athletes who have served a doping ban of two years or more are ineligible. Via the EAA website, fans, media, and members of the EAA federations are allowed to vote for five male and five female athletes on the list, with athletes receiving one to five points based on their ranking. A panel of experts also cast their votes. The votes of each of the four groups comprises 25% of the athletes' total scores, and the male and female athletes with the highest combined points totals win.

In 2007, a separate European Athletics Rising Star of the Year award was established for athletes under 23 years of age as a way of acknowledging young competitors' achievements on their way to becoming senior athletes.

Both awards are presented during the annual Golden Tracks gala of the EEA. Waterford Crystal sponsored the event from 2002–2008 and Mondo, a manufacturer of track and field equipment and facilities, sponsored the 2009 presentation.

Winner statistics

British long-distance runner Mo Farah won the men's award three times and was the first to do so. He was followed by Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis. Dutch sprinter/hurdler Femke Bol was the first to win the women's award three times. British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards with his Swedish rival Christian Olsson, Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm, Norwegian middle/long-distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen have won the men's award twice, while Sweden's heptathlete Carolina Klüft, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić, and Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers have won the women's award twice each.

Warholm, Ingebrigtsen, Duplantis and Bol have each won a Rising Star award followed by multiple senior awards. Three athletes have won the Rising Star trophy followed by one senior award: sprinter Christophe Lemaitre of France, Great Britain's heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill and Ukrainian's high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh.

For the first time in award history, the men’s European Athlete of the Year trophy in 2022 was awarded jointly to Duplantis and Ingebrigtsen who both won three major gold medals and revised the record books in 2022. Duplantis and Ingebrigtsen were also jointly named men’s Rising Star in 2018, a first in the award history too.

Carolina Klüft and Christophe Lemaitre were the youngest European Athletes of the Year so far. They were only 20 when winning this accolade in 2003 and 2010 respectively.

Athlete of the Year winners

YearMenWomenRef.199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Rising Star of the Year winners

YearMenWomenRef.2007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Notes

References

References

  1. link. (25 September 2009. [[European Athletics]] (14 September 2009). Retrieved on 2 October 2009.)
  2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210412190428/https://european-athletics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5561&Itemid=2 European Athletics Rising Star Awards nominations for 2009]. [[European Athletics]] (2009). Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
  3. [http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=54539.html Idowu and Domínguez win European Athlete of the Year Awards]. [[IAAF]] (2 October 2009). Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
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  7. (20 October 2022). "From Arron to Zelezny {{!}} The A-Z of the Golden Tracks".
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  17. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/mayer-and-asher-smith-crowned-european-athletes-the-year-lausanne Mayer and Asher-Smith crowned European Athletes of the Year in Lausanne]", ''[[European Athletic Association]]'', 26 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  18. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/warholm-and-lasitskene-are-crowned-2019-european-athletes-the-year Warholm and Lasitskene crowned 2019 European Athletes of the Year]", ''[[European Athletic Association]]'', 26 October 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  19. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/hassan-and-warholm-crowned-2021-european-athletes-of-the-year Hassan and Warholm crowned 2021 European Athletes of the Year]", ''[[European Athletic Association]]'', 16 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  20. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/bol-duplantis-ingebrigtsen-crowned-2022-european-athletes-of-the-year Bol, Duplantis, Ingebrigtsen crowned 2022 European Athletes of the Year]", ''[[European Athletic Association]]'', 22 October 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  21. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/bol-and-ingebrigtsen-crowned-2023-european-athletes-of-the-year-in-vilnius Bol and Ingebrigtsen crowned 2023 European Athletes of the Year in Vilnius]", ''[[European Athletics]]'', 21 October 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  22. (26 October 2024). "Mahuchikh and Duplantis crowned 2024 European Athletes of the Year in Skopje".
  23. (25 October 2025). "Bol and Duplantis crowned 2025 European Athletes of the Year".
  24. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/from-ennis-hill-warholm-look-back-past-rising-stars-winners From Ennis-Hill to Warholm: a look back at past Rising Stars winners]", ''[[European Athletic Association]]'', 24 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  25. "[https://www.european-athletics.com/news/in-focus-a-closer-look-at-rising-stars-tzengko-and-alekna In focus. A closer look at Rising Stars Tzengko and Alekna]", ''[[European Athletic Association]]'', 25 October 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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