Duplantis surpasses El Bakkali, Ingebrigtsen, Lyles and Kipchoge and McLaughlin was ahead of Rojas, García, Amusan and Fraser-Pryce
The double logic triumphed within the multiple and recognized excellence. World Athletics, the International Federation, the former IAAF, chose Athletes of the Year Armand Duplantis y Sydney McLaughlin.
The merits of both have been overwhelming, incontestable. The Swede broke the pole vault world record three times: 6.19 and 6.20 indoors, and 6.21 outdoors. He also won gold at the World (Eugene) and European (Mnich) Championships. And in the “indoor” World Cup in Belgrade. He also prevailed in the Diamond League. He made full.
The American twice broke the world record for the 400 meter hurdles (51.41 and 50.68) and won gold at the Eugene World Championships in the 400 meter hurdles and the 4×400 relay.
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Duplantis outvoted other top season achievers, world champions and Diamond winners. al moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali (3,000 meter hurdles), to the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen (1,500 and 5,000) and the American sprinter Noah Lyles. even to the kenyan Eliud Kipchoge and his world marathon record in Berlin (2:01:09).
Mc Laughlin, now McLaughlin-Levrone after her marriage to a former NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers, Baltimore Ravens and Virginia Cavaliers) Andre Levronerose above a superb cast headed by Yulimar Rojas (world record triple jump with 15.74 and world champion outdoors and indoors).
After the Venezuelan, the Peruvian Kimberley Garca (20 and 35 km world champion walk), the Nigerian Tobi Amusan (champion and world record holder, with 12.12, 100 meter hurdles) and the Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Prycewho in Eugene obtained his fifth world title in the 100 meters, in an incomparable display of maximum quality and inexhaustible validity.
Athletics, impatient, already awaits everyone in 2023.
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