World_Athletics_Awards

World Athletics Awards

World Athletics Awards

Annual award administered by World Athletics

The World Athletics Awards is a prize that can be won by athletes participating in events within the sport of athletics organised by World Athletics (formerly named IAAF), including track and field, cross country running, road running, and racewalking.

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Sprinter Usain Bolt, here holding the 2011 trophy, was World Athlete of the Year in 2008, 2009, 2011–2013, and 2016, more times than any other athlete.

The first athletes awarded World Athlete of the Year in 1988 were Americans, namely sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner and track and field athlete Carl Lewis.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is the only athlete, male or female, to win the World Athlete of the Year Awards six times. Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and Morocco's middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj have won the main award three times. American track and field athlete Marion Jones, sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross representing the USA, Carl Lewis and other American sprinter Michael Johnson, Ethiopia's long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, Kenya's long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge, and Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis have won the award twice each.

The Rising Star of the Year award was inaugurated in 2005, when Great Britain's sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey was awarded. The first woman to be voted was steeplechase specialist, Ruth Bosibori of Kenya, in 2007.

Belgian heptathlete Nafissatou Thiam was the first to receive Rising Star award followed by Athlete of the Year trophy. The other athletes to achieve the feat were Venezuela's triple jumper Yulimar Rojas, Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, and Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm. In 2022, American sprinter Erriyon Knighton became the first athlete to be crowned Rising Star twice.

Athlete of the Year winners

Middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj has won the World Athlete of the Year award three times in 2001–2003.
Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva was World Athlete of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2008, the most wins in the female category, because Marion Jones's third award was annulled.
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Won per country

Country Won
 United States 20
 Jamaica 10
 Ethiopia 7
 Kenya 5
 United Kingdom 5
 Russia 4
 Morocco 3
 Sweden 3
 Germany 2
 Venezuela 2
 Algeria 1
 Australia 1
 Belgium 1
 Colombia 1
 Croatia 1
 Cuba 1
 Czech Republic 1
 Denmark 1
 France 1
 New Zealand 1
 Norway 1
 Qatar 1
 Romania 1
 South Africa 1

Rising Star winners

Sprinter Erriyon Knighton is the only athlete that won the Rising Star of the Year award twice, in 2021 and 2022.
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Won per country

Country Won
 United States 6
 Kenya 4
 Germany 2
 Sweden 2
 United Kingdom 2
 Bahamas 1
 Belgium 1
 Canada 1
 Estonia 1
 Ethiopia 1
 France 1
 Grenada 1
 Japan 1
 Norway 1
 Serbia 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 1
 Ukraine 1
 Venezuela 1

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    In 2007, Marion Jones's award was annulled by the IAAF after she had pleaded guilty to the use of steroids in 2000 and 2001.[14]
  2. [N 2]
    As Revelation of the Year award
  3. [N 3]
    Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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