After breaking three track world record this year, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon in among 11 finalist nominated to the 2023 Women’s World Athlete of the year 2023.
Kipyegon is bidding to become the first Kenyan woman to win the award. The last female distance runner to win was Ethiopian Almaz Ayana in 2016.
The finalists will be chosen by a three-way vote.
Fans can vote online via the World Athletics social media channels, while the World Athletics Council and World Athletics Family will cast their ballots by email.
Each nominee will have a unique graphic shared this week on Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube; a “like” on any of those platforms or a retweet on X will count as one vote.
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The World Athletics Council’s vote will determine 50% of the outcome, while the votes of the World Athletics Family and the general public will each determine 25% of the outcome.
The World Athletes of the Year voting ends on Saturday, October 28 at midnight. After the voting was completed, five ladies and five.
Other contenders from Ethiopia are Gudaf Tsegay, who on September 17 broke Kipyegon’s 5000m world record, and Tigst Assefa, who on September 24 decreased Kipyegon’s women’s marathon world record by two minutes and eleven seconds to 2:11:53.
