The athletes in European Athletics proceed to impress. The EA prime males are among the many best athletes of their occasions world wide. Not solely are they adopted on the European continent, however, world wide!
Olympic gold medallists, European champions and all era-defining athletes of their occasions, the three finalists for the lads’s 2024 European Athlete of the Yr trophy are consultant of the prime quality athletes at present representing European nations on the worldwide stage.
The winners of the lads’s and girls’s European Athletes of the Yr and Rising Star awards can be introduced on the Golden Tracks award night time which can be held in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia on 26 October and streamed dwell on the European Athletics YouTube channel.
From a long-list of 10 athletes, the three finalists have been determined primarily based on a four-part voting course of with a public vote, a Member Federation vote, a media vote and a European Athletics professional panel vote every accounting for one-quarter of the general vote.
In alphabetical order, the three males’s European Athlete of the Yr finalists for 2024 are:
Armand Duplantis (SWE)
- European pole vault champion
- World file clearances of 6.24m, 6.25m and 6.26m
- Olympic pole vault champion
- World indoor pole vault champion
- Diamond League champion
It has been one more spellbinding 12 months for the Swede who continues to boost the bar metaphorically and actually within the pole vault. By his personal lofty requirements, the seemingly unbeatable Duplantis all of a sudden appeared prone within the indoor season earlier than a profitable last try at 6.05m salvaged a second gold medal on the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March.
However because the outside season bought underway, Duplantis despatched out a recent assertion of intent, setting a world file of 6.24m on the Diamond League in Xiamen in April. He went on to interrupt his file twice extra, most gloriously on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games (6.25m) after which lastly on the Diamond League in Silesia in August with 6.26m.
All of it added as much as an unbeaten 12 months of 15 competitions that additionally included gold a 3rd gold medal on the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships in June. He even discovered time to tackle Karsten Warholm over 100m on the Diamond League assembly in Zurich which he additionally received.
Duplantis has but to win the European Athlete of the Yr accolade outright, having shared the honour with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 2022. The duo additionally shared the Rising Star award in 2018.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
- European 1500m and 5000m champion
- Olympic 5000m champion
- World 3000m file of seven:17.55
- European 1500m file and world lead with 3:26.73
- Diamond League 1500m champion
Harm threatened to derail the prolific Norwegian’s 12 months and saved him on the sidelines by way of the cross nation and indoor seasons. However when he returned to motion in Could, it was with typical gusto and an all-out assault on glory.
In solely his third competitors of the 12 months, he took a superb 1500m/5000m double on the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships to turn out to be probably the most profitable male athlete in championship historical past with six gold medals.
Then, within the Olympic 1500m last in Paris, he took half in one of the talked about races in years the place his rivalry with Nice Britain’s Josh Kerr attracted world consideration. He boldly took on the tempo, however pale to fourth within the residence straight as Kerr took silver behind shock winner Cole Hocker.
However he confirmed unbelievable resilience, bouncing again to win the 5000m, his second Olympic gold following his 1500m triumph in Tokyo 2020. And after Paris, Ingebrigtsen produced yet another magical second for the game’s followers, as he slashed greater than three seconds from Daniel Komen’s close to 28-year-old world file for the lads’s 3000m with a staggering 7:17.55 within the Silesia Diamond League.
Ingebrigtsen, who additionally improved his European 1500m file to three:26.73 in Monaco, is in competition for his third successive European Athlete of the Yr award, having shared it with Duplantis in 2022 earlier than successful it outright final 12 months.
Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
- European lengthy leap champion
- Olympic lengthy leap champion
- World indoor lengthy leap champion
- World chief with 8.65m
Yr-on-year, Tentoglou is constructing his status as one of the prolific gold medallists within the sport’s historical past and 2024 was no completely different. Nonetheless solely 26, the lengthy jumper started the 12 months because the defending Olympic, world, European, world indoor and European indoor champion.
He retained all of the titles out there to him this 12 months, beginning on the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, onto the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships and at last the Olympic Video games in Paris.
In Mattia Furlani, Tentoglou has seen the emergence of an actual contender to his lengthy leap throne however the Greek famous person is much from able to concede his place atop the self-discipline, which he underlined with a world lead and championship file of 8.65m on his strategy to a 3rd gold medal at Roma 2024.
Is that this Tentoglou’s time to be topped males’s European Athlete of the Yr on the Golden Tracks award night time?
Final 10 males’s European Athlete of the Yr winners:
- 2023 – Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
- 2022 – Armand Duplantis (SWE)/Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
- 2021 – Karsten Warholm (NOR)
- 2020 – not held
- 2019 – Karsten Warholm (NOR)
- 2018 – Kevin Mayer (FRA)
- 2017 – Johannes Vetter (GER)
- 2016 – Mo Farah (GBR)
- 2015 – Greg Rutherford (GBR)
- 2014 – Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2013 – Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
