Tokyo Olympics javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra used to be nominated for the Males’s Global Athlete of the Yr 2023 award through the Global Athletics on Thursday.
Chopra made historical past through changing into the primary Indian to win the gold medal on the Global Athletics Championships in Budapest previous this 12 months. Later, the 25-year-old completed 2nd within the Diamond League 2023 sooner than protecting his name on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou.
Even though identified for reaching many historic firsts for India, Neeraj Chopra will face stiff pageant for the Males’s Global Athlete of the Yr 2023 award from each and every of the opposite 10 athletes shortlisted.
Sprinter Noah Lyles of america is the 100m and 200m global champion and the arena chief in 200m. He additionally bagged the gold medal for america within the males’s 4×100m relay at Budapest 2023.
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali, who specialises within the 3000m steeplechase, is undefeated in six finals. The Olympic champion defended his global name previous this 12 months.
The athletes shortlisted for the Males’s Global Athlete of the Yr 2023 award have been decided on through a world panel of athletics professionals, comprising representatives from all six continental spaces of Global Athletics.
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, the reigning global champion within the males’s pole vault, and Spanish race walker Alvaro Martin, global champion within the 20km and 35km occasions, also are at the shortlist for the arena athlete of the 12 months 2023 award.
A 3-way vote casting procedure will resolve the general 5 finallists to be introduced through Global Athletics on November 13 or 14.
The Global Athletics Council and the Global Athletics Circle of relatives will forged their votes through e-mail. In the meantime, lovers will have the ability to vote on-line by means of the Global Athletics social media platforms. Balloting for the Global Athletes of the Yr will shut on October 28.
The Global Athletics Council’s vote will rely for fifty% of the end result whilst the Global Athletics Circle of relatives’s votes and the general public votes will each and every rely for 25% of the general consequence.
The winners might be published on Global Athletics’ social media platforms on December 11.
