The five Finalists for Male World Athlete of Year 2020

 

On last Monday World Athletics announced name of five finalists for Male World Athlete of Year 2020. The five finalists represents five different countries and three area associations. Though having many challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they performed very well on various athletics disciplines in 2020. 

The World Athletics Awards 2020 will be held live on December 5 as a virtual event where The Male World Athletes of the Year will be announced live. The show will be telecast live on the World Athletics YouTube channel, Facebook page and also in their Twitter handle.

 The five finalists of The Male World Athletes of the Year nominated on voting. The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family cast their votes by email, while fans voted online via social media platforms. The Council's vote counted for 50 per cent of the result, while the Athletics Family's votes and the public votes each counted for 25 per cent of the final result. Voting process for the Male World Athlete of the Year closed on November 15.

Now see who are the five Finalists for Male World Athlete of Year 2020

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Karsten Warholm, Norway

- ran a world-leading 46.87 in the 400m hurdles, the second fastest performance in history

-undefeated in nine 400m/400m hurdles races and set world best of 33.78 in 300m hurdles

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Johannes Vetter, Germany

- won eight of his nine javelin competitions

- threw a world-leading 97.76m, the second farthest throw in history

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Ryan Crouser, USA

- undefeated in 10 shot put competitions

- his 22.91m world-leading performance moved him to equal third on the world all-time list

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Mondo Duplantis, Sweden

- broke the world record in the pole vault twice (6.17m and 6.18m) and produced the highest outdoor vault of all time (6.15m)

- undefeated in 16 competitions

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Joshua Cheptegei, Uganda

- broke world records at 5000m (12:35.36), 10,000m (26:11.00) and 5km on the roads (12:51)

- was fourth at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships on his debut over the distance

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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) November 25, 2020