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Here are the winners from the 2025 World Athletics Awards that were just held today in Monaco 🏆 Women’s World Athlete of the Year: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 🇺🇸 Men’s World Athlete of the Year: Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 Women's Track Athlete Of The Year: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 🇺🇸
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Running out of words to describe the 🐐 In addition to winning his fifth straight global pole vault title and breaking his own world record four times, Mondo Duplantis is now the World Athletics Athlete of the Year for the fourth time in six years. Duplantis competed 16 times
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ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 👏 For the first time since 2022, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is your World Athletics Athlete of the Year. The 26-year-old won her first World title over 400m and ninth global gold overall with a stunning 47.78 run in the final in Tokyo, the fastest time in
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Olympic champ, World champ, and now Athlete of the Year 🌍 Emmanuel Wanyonyi continues to rack up accolades, as the Kenyan 800m star is named World Athletics Track Athlete of the Year. In addition to the World title, Wanyonyi was once again the fastest man in the world this year
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Another honor for the sport’s biggest star 😎 Even in a year where she barely raced her primary event, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone still picked up her second World Athletics Athlete of the Year award in recognition of her historic 400m campaign, which included two American records
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Capping off a season worth smiling about 😁 In a year where Nicola Olyslagers won five Diamond League competitions, set an Oceania record of 2.04m, and claimed World gold indoors and out, the Australian high jumper adds World Athletics Field Athlete of the Year to her long list
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We’re gonna need a bigger shelf 🏆 Mondo Duplantis adds a fourth World Athletics Award to his already-absurd trophy collection, claiming Field Athlete of the Year honors in a season that saw him win his fifth straight global title in the pole vault and break his own world record
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There’s a new sheriff in town 🤠 The top marathoner of 2025 is now also World Athletics’s Out-of-Stadium Athlete of the Year, as Kenyan Sabastian Sawe claims another superlative this season. Sawe is the fastest man in the world this year at 2:02:16, and he’s the only runner,
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Making a splash 🌊 17-year-old Kenyan steeplechaser Edmund Serem is this year’s World Athletics male Rising Star winner. Serem hurdled his way into prominence this year with an early-season victory at the Kip Keino Classic and a World bronze in Tokyo, running the fourth-fastest
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🗣️ “I’ve really worked on being confident and having fun again. I can get caught up in results, but training is one of my favorite things to do. I love running and working out with my team. I just want to enjoy every moment of my senior year.” Addy Ritzenhein has had one of the
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🗣️ “I think this cross country season has extended my love for the sport. I’ve learned how much I love running, the relationships it brings, and working hard each day. It has been awesome!” Lawrenceville junior Blair Bartlett is racing her first season of competitive cross
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♻️ Keeping that cross country fitness going before the winter break… Here are your notable entries for the women’s 3000m and 5000m in Saturday’s Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener at Boston University. 3000m Women • Salma Elbadra — South Carolina • Vera Sjoberg — UNC •
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Here are your notable entries for the men’s 5000m in Saturday’s Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener at Boston University. The field is going to be paced for 12:55. • Habtom Samuel — New Mexico • Brian Masau — Oklahoma State • Marco Langon — Villanova • Dennis Kipngetich
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Indoor season incoming… World Indoor 800m champion Josh Hoey 🇺🇸 will go after the indoor 600m world record at Boston University’s Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday. The record is 1:13.77 set by Donavan Brazier back in 2019. 🇺🇸
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Checking In With Blair Bartlett, High School XC’s Fastest Rising Star 💫 Blair Bartlett, a junior from the Lawrence School outside of Trenton, New Jersey, is racing her first season of competitive cross country ever. But her results look more like what you’d expect from a
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Let’s Hear It For The Ladies 👏 “The difference-maker here is that the top three women’s teams are all led by women. In a sport where head coach and director roles remain overwhelmingly male, this unique podium speaks volumes. NC State’s Laurie Henes, BYU’s Diljeet Taylor, and
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NCAA XC’s Perfectly Imperfect Balancing Act ⚖️ “Few, if any, winning NCAA teams are all one thing… That’s what makes cross country, especially on the NCAA level, so fun. Because each of the 32 teams is assembling a seven-piece puzzle, there are near-infinite ways to build a
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Fight ON ⚔️ @USC_Track_Field sophomore Brianna Selby has signed an NIL deal with @on, joining the brand’s growing list of sprint talent. Selby was an All-American last season for the Trojans, finishing 8th in the 100m final at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Her PB of 11.01
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NCAA cross country is not for the rule-followers ✂️ All new episode of OFF THE RAILS WITH ERIC AND AISHA out now! 🎧 SPOTIFY: https://t.co/eG4JFv6Oa1 🎧 APPLE PODCASTS: https://t.co/OLpx9x23kk
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Can he go four for four… AGAIN?! 🤯 After an injury-plagued 2025 track season, Jakob Ingebrigtsen will return to racing on the grass at the European Cross Country Championships on December 14th in Portugal. Ingegbrigtsen was the four-time U20 champ from 2016 to 2019 and is the
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