Armand Duplantis in the male category and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in the women’s have been proclaimed by World Athletics Athletes del Ao 2022, after revealing the result of the voting carried out among the finalists of each category. Duplantis has earned his merits of indoor and outdoor pole vault world champion, Europe and the Diamond League. bati three times the world record he already held with jumps of 6.19 and 6.20 (indoors) and 6.21 (outdoors). In the vote he surpassed the specialist in 3,000 obstacles Soufiane El Bakkali; to the middle distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen; a Eliud Kipchogewho with his 2.01:09 broke the marathon world record and sprinter Noah Lyles.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levroneto one twice the 400 hurdles world record, with (51.41 and 50.68) and won two golds in the Eugene World Championships, in the 400 hurdles and the 4×400 m relay. He defeated the Venezuelan Yulimar in the vote Rojas (outdoor and indoor champion -with a world record of 15.74- in triple jump), to the Peruvian Kimberly heron (world champion of 20 and 35 km walk), the Nigerian Tobi Addiction (world champion and 100m hurdles world record holder), and Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser Prycewho at the Eugene World Championships won his fifth world title in the 100-meter dash.
Duplantis was already athlete of the year 2020. They succeed respectively in the award to the Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm and the Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Erah.
The awards for emerging athletes went to the American Erriyon Knighton (bronze in 200 in the World Cups) and the Serbian javelinist Adriana VillagosEuropean silver.
