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The Track & Field News Athlete of the Year award is given to track and field athletes by Track & Field News magazine, an American sports magazine. A panel of international track and field experts organized by the magazine selects the winners. The award has been given to men since 1959 and women since 1974.
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 to win the World Athlete of the Year Awards six times.
Pages in category "Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was held in 1976 for the men's 50 kilometres race walk only, as the International Olympic Committee excluded that event for the Olympic athletics programme that year.
Some of the world’s best track and field athletes competed for lucrative ... the 200m title. - Patrick Smith/Athlos/Getty Images. The American, though, was edged out by compatriot Brittany Brown ...
Saturday, the state's best boys track and field athletes competed for IHSAA titles at Indiana University.. While Mother Nature required some adjustments (some field events were moved indoors), the ...
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
French track and field athlete Alice Finot celebrated breaking a record at the 2024 Paris Olympics in an unexpected way — with a proposal!. On Aug. 6, Finot competed in the women’s 3,000-meter ...