As every year, this year also European Athletics will award the top European male and female track and field athlete and chose ten people from each category as candidates for the award.
Last year, the award was won by Angelina Topic and Mattia Furlani.
The winners will be announced and awarded their trophies at the ‘Golden Tracks’ award ceremony to be held in North Macedonia on 26 October.
In the voting, 25% of the votes come from the public, 25% from the EAA member federations, 25% from the media and the last 25% from the European Federation panel.
In detail, the candidates:
Women
Vita Barbic (Croatia) – javelin, discus
Laura Frlokova (Slovakia) – 100m hurdles
Phoebe Gill (Great Britain) – 800m
Clara Hegemann (Germany) – hammer throw
Jana Kozak (Croatia) – heptathlon
Lourdes-Gloria Manuel (Czech Republic) – 400m
Plamena Mitkova (Bulgaria) – length
Meta Touba (France) – 400m hurdles
Elisa Valencini (Italy) – 200m, 400m
Adriana Vilagos (Serbia) – javelin
Men
Roko Farkas (Croatia) – length, 200m
Andreas Field-Halvorsen (Norway) – 3,000m
Iosif Kesidis (Cyprus) – hammer throw
Tomas Jarvinen (Czech Republic) – decathlon
Nils Laros (Netherlands) – 1,000m, 1,500m
Hendrick Muller (Germany) – pole vault
Michal Rada (Czech Republic) – 400m hurdles
Stanislav Streleski (Poland) – 400m
Tom Tercek (Slovenia) – javelin
Jarno Van Daalen (Netherlands) – shot put, discus
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