A dream year for him Milto Tedoglouwho not only won three gold medals in three top events (Olympic Games, European Championships and World Indoor), but also set a personal record by jumping in 8.65 meters.
Achievements that place him for another year among the elite of world athletics. Something we of course already knew, but it is also confirmed by his presence among the candidates for the title of the best in athletics in Europe for the year 2024.
The result of the vote will be decided in four parts, with a percentage given equally (25%) by the vote of the public (the voting process, for the world ends on September 29 and you can vote here), the member federations, the media information and the European Athletics committee, with the winners announced at the Golden Tracks award ceremony, which will take place in Skopje on 26 October.
The men’s candidates:
Miltos Tedoglou (Greece length)
Modo Duplantis (Sweden pole vault)
Leonardo Fabbri (Italy shot put)
Matthew Hudson-Smith (Great Britain 400m)
Jakob Ingebritsen (Norway 1,500m, 5,000m)
Markus Roth (Norway decathlon)
Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy height)
Carsten Varholm (Norway 400m hurdles)
Mikolas Alekna (Lithuania, discus)
Jordan Diaz (Spain, triple jump)
Men’s European Athlete of the Year nominees! ?
Cast your vote now on the European Athletics website. ???
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— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) September 20, 2024
Women’s candidates:
Nadia Batocleti (Italy 5,000m, 10,000m)
Femke Boll (Netherlands 400m, 400m hurdles)
Sifan Hassan (Netherlands 5,000m, 10,000m, marathon)
Kelly Hodginson (Great Britain, 880m.)
Natalia Kaczmarek (Poland, 400m.)
Yaroslava Makuchik (Ukraine, height)
Malaika Michambo (Germany, long)
Yemisi Ogunlegye (Germany, shot put)
Samba Maiella (France, 60m hurdles, 100m hurdles)
Nafisatou Thiam (Belgium, heptathlon)
Women’s European Athlete of the Year nominees! ?
Cast your vote now on the European Athletics website. ???
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— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) September 20, 2024
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