Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and high jumper Jaroslava Mahutshih were awarded as the best of the athletics season.
Swedish Armand Duplantis24, and Ukrainian Jaroslava Mahutshih23, has been chosen as European track and field athlete of the year. The selections were made at the European Athletics Federation’s Golden Tracks award gala in North Macedonia.
Both athletics stars celebrated the European championship in Rome and Olympic gold in Paris.
Swedish Duplantis achieved three ME results in the pole vault this season. The current world record of 626 was set in Chorzów, Poland on August 25.
Mahutsih, on the other hand, jumped the ME score of 210 in Paris on July 7.
Both are also strong candidates for the world’s best track and field athletes.