Carsten Warholm and Elaine Thompson-Hara are the top track and field athletes of the year, as announced at the WA Gala on Wednesday.
The “gold” Olympian in the 400m hurdles in Tokyo became the second Scandinavian after Monto Duplandis last year and the second in the low hurdles after Kevin Young who won this award, after prevailing in the final duo of Ryan Krauser, “gold of shot put.
The Jamaican sprinter won three gold medals in Tokyo in the 100, 200 meters and 4×100 and continued with a fora from Rio. Thus, she became the third athlete after Merlin Otti and Shelley-Ann Fraser from the “land of reggae” and the first sprinter after 2013 to know this distinction. In fact, Thompson threatened the Florence-Griffith Joiner world record in the “one-breath race”.
The top young athlete was Eriot Knighton, a world record holder in the 200 meters, and the top young athlete was Athena Mou, “gold” Olympian in the 800 meters at 19 meters.
The top coach was the “golden” Olympian and world record holder in the 400 meters hurdles, Sidney McLaughlin.
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