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European Athlete Of The Year
The European Athlete of the Year award is an annual prize for sportspeople from Europe participating in athletics, including track and field, road running, and cross country running competitions. The election has been organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the European governing body for the sport of athletics, since 1993. Each year, a shortlist is created by selecting the top European athlete in each event, based upon performances at the year's major championships. Only in exceptional circumstances will more than one athlete be shortlisted per event. Athletes who have served a doping ban of two years or more are ineligible. Via the EAA website, fans, media, and members of the EAA federations are allowed to vote for five male and five female athletes on the list, with athletes receiving one to five points based on their ranking. A panel of experts also cast their votes. The votes of each of the four groups comprises 25% of the athletes' total scores, and the mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, duc d'Aiguillon (1750–1800), French noble *Armand of Kersaint (1742–1793), French sailor and politician Places *Saint-Armand, Quebec, Canada *Armand, Iran, a village in Khanmirza County *Armand-e Sofla, Iran *Armand Rural District, Iran *St. Armand, New York *St. Armand's Key in Florida *Armand-Jude River, a river in Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada See also *Arman (other) *Armand (film), ''Armand'' (film), 2024 film *Armand Commission, first commission of the European Atomic Energy Community *Armand de Brignac, champagne brand produced by Champagne Cattier *Armand's Legion, Continental Army military unit *St Armand (other) {{Disambiguation, geo, hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Železný
Jan Železný (; born 16 June 1966) is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a IAAF World Championships in Athletics, World and Olympic Games, Olympic champion and holds the Javelin throw#Men, world record with a throw of . Widely considered the greatest javelin thrower of the modern era, he also has the fourth, fifth and sixth best performances of all time. He broke the world record a total of four times. Biography Železný was born in Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia. He won the silver medal in the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 Olympics and the gold medal at the Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992, Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 and Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympic Games. He won World Championship titles in 1993, 1995 and 2001. Železný holds the world record of , set in 1996, and the World Championships record of , set in 2001 World Championships in Athletics, 2001. On 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Yaroslava Oleksiivna Mahuchikh (, ; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper and women's high jump world record holder. She won the gold medal at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump, 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's high jump, 2023 World Championships and 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump, 2022 World Indoor Championships. Mahuchikh is also the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump, 2020 Summer Olympics and 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump, 2025 World Indoor Championships bronze medalist, 2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's high jump, 2019 and 2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's high jump, 2022 World Championships silver medalist and 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump, 2024 World Indoor Championships silver medalist. She is a three-time Diamond League title holder. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill (née Ennis; born 28 January 1986) is a British retired athlete who specialised in the heptathlon and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), and the 2010 European champion. She is also the 2010 World Indoor pentathlon champion. A member of the City of Sheffield & Dearne athletic club, she is a former British national record holder for the heptathlon. She is also a former British record holder in the 100 metres hurdles, the high jump and the indoor pentathlon. Since retiring from athletic competition, Ennis-Hill has appeared as an athletics commentator and studio pundit for the BBC. She has also worked as an entrepreneur and created several fitness apps specialising in women's health and training. Early life and family Born in Sheffield on 28 January 1986, Ennis-Hill is one of two daughters of Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell. She has a younger sister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Lemaitre
Christophe Lemaitre (; born 11 June 1990) is a former French people, French Sprint (running), sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres, 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. Lemaitre has run a sub-10 second 100 m on seven occasions: three times in 2010 and four times in 2011. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2012 London Olympic Games and in the 200 metres at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. At the age of 20, Lemaitre won the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 × 100 metres relay, 4 × 100 m relay titles at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, 2010 European Championships, the first French sprinter ever to achieve that triple. He was the fastest European 100 m and 200 m sprinter in 2010. He won a bronze medal in the 200 m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, 2011 World Championships. As of August 2013, Lemaitre was one of the three Frenchmen (the ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femke Bol
Femke Bol (; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and Sprint (running), sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles, 2023 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres, 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, she is the 2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2023 World Champion and the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2024 World Indoor Champion with the Dutch women's team and the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, 2024 Olympic Champion with the Dutch Mixed-sex sports, mixed team. Bol holds the List of world records in athletics, world record in the 400 metres short track with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting and the combined events. She holds the European record in the 200 metres with a time of 21.63 seconds, making her the sixth-fastest woman of all time at this distance. She also holds the Dutch records in the 100 metres and long jump, and shares the Dutch records in the 60 metres indoor and 4 × 100 metres relay. Schippers was the 200 m world champion at both the 2015 and the 2017 World Athletics Championships, the silver medalist in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 200 m champion in the 2016 Diamond League. Additionally, she won two silver and two bronze medals at world championships—heptathlon bronze in 2013; 100 m silver in 2015; indoor 60 m silver in 2016, and 100 m bronze in 2017—and five ( outdoor and indoor) European titles. She won twenty-two Dutch titles ( outdoor and indoor). She was European Athlete of the Year in 2014 and 2015. In 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanka Vlašić
Blanka Vlašić (; born 8 November 1983) is a Croatian former track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump. She is a double world champion, an indoor world champion and twice Olympic medallist. Vlašić's personal best of is a Croatian record and joint third best mark of all time. The daughter of Croatian decathlon record holder Joško Vlašić, she was a talented junior athlete and attended her first Olympic Games in 2000 Sydney at the age of sixteen. She won the World Junior Championships in Athletics in both 2000 and 2002. Vlašić broke the Croatia national record in 2004 and also won her first world senior medal at the World Indoor Championships that year. A hyperthyroid condition hindered her second Olympic appearance in Athens and she spent the 2005 season recuperating from surgery. She returned in 2006, taking the silver at the World Indoor Championships. The 2007 season signalled a strong run of form: she won at the 2007 World Championships, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva ( rus, Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə gɐˈdʐɨjɪvnə ɪsʲɪnˈbajɪvə; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is twice an Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), three-times a World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics after revelations of an extensive state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016 after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC's Athletes' Commission. Isinbayeva has been a major champion on nine occasions (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the jackpot winner of the IAAF Golden League series in 2007 and 2009. After poor performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft (; born 2 February 1983) is a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon, pentathlon, long jump and triple jump. She was an Olympic Champion, having won the heptathlon title in 2004. She was also a three-time World heptathlon champion, World Indoor pentathlon champion, a two-time European heptathlon champion and a two-time European Indoor pentathlon champion. Klüft is the only athlete ever to win three consecutive world titles in the heptathlon (2003, 2005, 2007). She was unbeaten in 22 heptathlon and pentathlon competitions from 2002 to 2007, her entire combined events career as a senior athlete, winning nine consecutive gold medals in major championships. Klüft first rose to prominence by winning the heptathlon at the 2002 European Championships and setting a new world junior record of 6,542 points. She then won the 2003 World Championships, becoming the third athlete ever to score over 7,000 points. She is the Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Duplantis
Armand "Mondo" Gustav Duplantis (born 10 November 1999), is a Swedish and American pole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time, Duplantis is the current List of world records in athletics, world record holder at and the winner of seven senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic (Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault, 2020 and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault, 2024) champion, a two-time World outdoor (2022 World Athletics Championships, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships, 2023) champion and a three-time World indoor (2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships, 2022, 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, 2024 and 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, 2025) champion. Duplantis is also the current 2022 European Athletics Championships, European champion. Duplantis won titles as a 15-year-old at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics, 2015 World Youth Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Jakob Asserson Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) is a Norwegian Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner who is the world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, short track Mile run, mile, 2000 metres, 3000 metres, and two miles. He won gold medals in the 1500 metres at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and in the 5000 metres at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics. Ingebrigtsen is also a two-time World Athletics Championships, World champion, winning gold medals in the 5000 metres in 2022 World Athletics Championships, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships, 2023, and a two-time World Athletics Indoor Championships, World Indoor champion, winning gold medals in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres in 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, 2025. He is a six-time European Athletics Championships, European champion, a seven-time European Athletics Indoor Championships, Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
