The Ukrainian world record holder deserves the European track and field athlete of the year award

Mahuchiha, on the other hand, added the world record in high jump of 2.10 meters to the European and Olympic champion titles, correcting by a centimeter the performance of Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova achieved in 1987, and won also the Diamond League.

In the last two years, Bola has won the award.

For men, Duplantis, Norwegian middle distance runner Jákobs Ingebrigcen and Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglu are the final three for the award.

In the pole vault, Duplantis won the European championships and the Olympic Games this season, broke the world record three times, overcoming the bar set at a height of 6.24, 6.25 and 6.26 meters, and he also became the indoor world champion and won the Diamond. League.

Ingebrigcens won 1500 and 5000 meters at the European Championships, became the Olympic champion in 5000 meters, won the Diamond League in 1500 meters, and also achieved the world record in 3000 meters (7:17.55) and the European record in 1500 meters in three. minutes and 26.73 seconds, which was also the season’s best in the world.

In the long jump, Tentoglou added to the European and Olympic long jump world champion laurels in the indoor long jump and finished the summer season with a world best result of 8.65 meters.

Ingebrigcens was recognized as the best last year, but in 2022 he shared the laurels of the winner with Duplanti.

The European track and field athletes of the year will be announced at the “Golden Tracks” awards ceremony, which will be held on October 26 in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.