World Athletics has introduced the winners for the 2021 Athlete of the Yr award. Olympic champions Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica and Karsten Warholm of Norway had been named the Athletes of the Yr on the 2021 World Athletics Awards ceremony, held nearly on Wednesday.
Olympic champions @FastElaine 🇯🇲 and @kwarholm 🇳🇴 topped World Athletes of the Yr.
This manner 👇 for the complete checklist of winners at this 12 months’s #WorldAthleticsAwards
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 1, 2021
The winners had been chosen by a world panel of athletics journalists and council representatives from World Athletics, and followers on social media.
Each Thompson-Herah and Warholm have had a season of exceptional performances in observe and discipline on the Olympic Video games and one-day meets on the World Athletics circuit.
Thompson-Herah ran the second-fastest 100m in historical past this 12 months, working 10.54 on the Diamond League’s Prefontaine Traditional in Eugene, Ore. She additionally defended her Olympic 100m and 200m titles in Tokyo, including a 3rd gold medal within the 4x100m relay for Jamaica.
Athing Mu wins the ladies’s 800m in her Olympic debut, Thompson-Herah will get the double-double
In an interview with World Athletics, Thompson-Herah stated, “I simply take it 12 months by 12 months. I used to be very near the world file, so something is feasible.” She famous that she isn’t planning on hanging up the spikes anytime quickly, and hopes to compete on the World Championships subsequent summer season in Eugene.
Warholm ran one of many most exceptional performances in current Olympic historical past, when he stormed down the ultimate stretch for gold within the 400m hurdles. When he first noticed his time, he was in whole disbelief. His preliminary response was, “This have to be a mistake!” he stated to World Athletics.
He additionally broke the world file at a Diamond League meet in Oslo within the lead-up to the Olympics (46.70). However his race to recollect was when Warholm shocked the world to assert gold in beautiful vogue, setting a brand new 400m hurdles world file of 45.94, in what was an Olympic ultimate, the place the highest three athletes all completed contained in the pre-2021 world file of 46.78.
“This award exhibits all younger ladies that goals can certainly come true.”
800m and 4x400m Olympic champion @athiiing is that this 12 months’s Feminine Rising Star of the Yr #WorldAthleticsAwards pic.twitter.com/541GVUlIpL
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 1, 2021
The opposite awards offered had been the Rising Star Award, to up-and-coming U.S. observe stars Athing Mu and Erriyon Knighton, and the Inspiration Award, to co-high-jumper gold medallists Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Mutaz Barshim of Qatar.
