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World Champion and Record holder, Tobi Amusan has been selected in the five finalists for the World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year.
The sprint hurdler is amongst a five-woman list that includes Jamaica’s Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce (100m World Champion), Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas (Triple Jump World Champion), Peru’s Kimberly Garcia (20km and 35km Race Walk World Champion, and USA’s Sydney McLaughlin (400mH World Champion).
These athletes were chosen from five countries from three different associations, based on their outstanding achievements across all athletics competitions in 2022, especially at the World Championships in Oregon, and World Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
Amusan is the first Nigerian athlete in history to be nominated for the prestigious award, and her chances of winning are on a very high side, considering she’s the first Nigerian to win a World outdoor title and set a World Record (WR).
She also retained her Africa, Commonwealth and Diamond League titles to end the year as the best 100m hurdler in the world.
Here’s a summary of the nominated athletes' performances this year:
Tobi Amusan
- Set a new World 100mH Record (12.12s), first Nigerian to own an athletics WR
- World 100mH Champion, first Nigerian to become a World Champion
- Diamond League 100mH Champion, first Nigerian to achieve this feat
- Diamond League 100mH Champion, first Nigerian to achieve this feat
- Set a new Commonwealth Games 100mH record (12.30s)
- African 100mH Champion
Sydney McLaughlin
- World 400mH and 4x400m Champion
- Broke the World 400mH record with 51.41s at the US Championships
- Further improved the World Record to 50.68s to win the world title
Yulimar Rojas
- World Indoor and Outdoor Triple Jump Champion
- Diamond League Triple Jump Champion
- Improved her World Record to 15.74m in Belgrade
Kimberly Garcia
- World 20km Race Walk Champion, winning Peru’s first ever World Athletics Championships medal
- World 35km Race Walk Champion in a South American record to complete a race walk double
- World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 20km Bronze medallist
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
- World 100m Champion, claiming a fifth Gold medal in the event
- Diamond League 100m Champion
- Ran a world-leading 10.62s among her record seven sub-10.70s 100m races of the season
Voting procedure for 2022 World Athletes of the Year
The voting procedure was via a three-way voting process to determine the finalists.The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family cast their votes by email, while fans logged their decisions online via the World Athletics social media platforms where a record 1.3 million votes were registered.
The World Athletics Council’s vote counted for 50% of the result, while the World Athletics Family’s votes and the public votes each counted for 25% of the final result.
The World Athletes of the Year will be announced on World Athletics’ social media platforms on December 5th, as part of the 2022 World Athletics Awards.
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