Ingebrigtsen, Kipchoge headline nominees for 2022 World Male Athlete of the Year

On Thursday, World Athletics (WA) announced the Male World Athlete of the Year nominees. These nominees were selected by an international panel of athletics journalists and council representatives from World Athletics. Six track athletes and four field athletes are nominated for the award, including Norway’s distance champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen; the greatest marathoner in the world, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge; and American sprint dynamo Noah Lyles.

Track athlete nominees

Alison dos Santos (BRA) World 400m hurdles champion, Diamond League 400m hurdles champion.Ran a world-leading South American record of 46.29

Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR) World 3,000m steeplechase champion, Diamond League 3000m steeplechase champion. Unbeaten in 2022, running a world-leading 7:58.28 in Rabat.

Grant Holloway (USA) World 110m hurdles champion, world indoor 60m hurdles champion, Diamond League 110m hurdles champion.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) World 5,000m champion, world 1,500m silver medallist indoors and outdoors. Ingebrigsten was the European 1,500m and 5,000m champion and the Diamond League 1,500m champion in a world-leading 3:29.02

Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)  Improved his world marathon record to 2:01:09. Kipchoge was both the Berlin Marathon champion and the Tokyo Marathon champion.

Noah Lyles (USA) World 200m champion, Diamond League 200m champion. Lyles ran a world-leading national record of 19.31 to move to third on the world all-time list.

Field athlete nominees

Kristjan Ceh (SLO) World discus champion.Diamond League discus champion, throwing a national record 71.27m on the circuit in Birmingham, European discus silver medallist.

Mondo Duplantis (SWE) World pole vault champion indoors and outdoors. Diamond League and European pole vault champion; Duplantis improved his world record to 6.19m and 6.20m indoors, and then 6.21m outdoors.

Anderson Peters (GRN) World javelin champion, Commonwealth javelin silver medallist. Peters threw a world-leading NACAC record of 93.07m, moving to fifth on the world all-time list.

Pedro Pichardo (POR) World triple jump champion with a world-leading leap of 17.95m. World indoor triple jump silver medallist, and European triple jump champion.

A three-way voting process will determine the finalists. The WA Council and WA Family will cast their votes via email, while fans can vote online via the WA social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Individual graphics for each nominee will be posted this week, and a ‘like’ on Facebook and Instagram or a retweet on Twitter will count as one vote.

The WA Council’s votes will make up 50 per cent of the result, with the WA Family’s votes and the public votes will each count for 25 per cent of the final result. Voting will conclude at midnight on Monday, Oct. 31 2022. Five women and men finalists will be announced in November before the winner is announced in December. Norway’s Karsten Warholm won the award in 2021; both Duplantis and Kipchoge have been winners in previous years, with Kipchoge winning twice in 2018 and 2019, and Duplantis taking home the award in 2020.

The winners will be revealed on World Athletics’ social media platforms in early December. You can see the ten finalists for World Women’s Athlete of the Year here.