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Noah Lyles Excluded from Male Track Athlete of the Year Finalists

Posted : 05 November 2024

Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles was notably absent from the finalists for the male track athlete of the year, as announced by World Athletics on Monday. Lyles achieved a thrilling victory in one of the closest Olympic 100m finals in history, clinching gold in Paris this August by a mere five-thousandths of a second over Jamaica's Kishane Thompson.

 

Despite his remarkable achievement, he did not make the final cut, with the two finalists being Letsile Tebogo from Namibia, the Olympic 200m champion, and Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who won gold in the 5,000m.

 

While Lyles initially aimed for an Olympic sprint double, he ultimately secured a bronze medal in the 200m behind Tebogo and his fellow American, Kenny Bednarek. The American sprinter later disclosed that he raced in the 200m final despite testing positive for COVID-19, which added to the intrigue surrounding his performances this season.

 

In the women's category, Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred of St. Lucia is among the finalists, contending for the title against Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who notably broke her own world record to claim the Olympic title in the 400m hurdles for the second consecutive time. The selection process for the finalists involved a combination of votes from the World Athletics Council and public voting on social media, narrowing the candidates down to the top two in each category—track, field, and out of stadium.

 

For the men's field events, the favorite for the award is Mondo Duplantis, the Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder, who is up against Greece's Miltiadis Tentoglou, the men's long jump gold medalist from Paris. In the women's field category, Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who set a new women's world record before winning gold, faces off against three-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam from Belgium.

 

 The out-of-stadium awards feature Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich, the world marathon record holder, competing against Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands, the Olympic marathon champion, while in the men's category, Ecuador's Brian Pintado, who won gold in the 20km race walk, goes against Olympic marathon champion Tamirat Tola from Ethiopia.

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