Kipchoge nominated for World Athlete of the Year award

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge is among 10 nominees for the Male Athlete of the Year award, World Athletic has announced.

Kipchoge who bagged the award in 2018 and 2019 missed out last year after a disappointing outing in the London Marathon where he finished eighth.

He however reclaimed his supremacy after retaining his title in the Tokyo Olympic Games and NN mission marathon.

Kipchoge will face nine other athletes for the award who include Uganadan Joshua Cheptegei and Sweden's pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis who won the award in 2020.

According to World Athletics, the nominees were selected by an international panel of athletics experts, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of the IAAF.

“As always, the World Athletics Awards will recognise athletes who have performed at the highest level across the year, taking into account not only the Olympic Games but the one-day meeting circuits. We do recognise that athletes in some parts of the world faced greater challenges than others in accessing international competition this year, which complicated the nomination process. However, we saw some impressive breakthroughs at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and we look forward to those athletes having more opportunities to shine next year, with five World Athletics Series events and a full schedule of one-day meetings on the calendar,' World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said.

The nominees for this years Male World Athlete awards 

Joshua Cheptegei,Uganda
- Olympic 5000m champion
- Olympic 10,000m silver medallist
- World-leading 8:09.55 for two miles

Ryan Crouser, USA
- Olympic and Diamond League shot put champion
- Undefeated all year
- World shot put records indoors and outdoors

Mondo Duplantis, Sweden 
- Olympic pole vault champion
- Diamond League pole vault champion
- European indoor pole vault champion

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Norway 
- Olympic 1500m champion
- European indoor 1500m champion
- European 1500m and 5000m records

Eliud Kipchoge, Kenya 
- Olympic marathon champion
- Largest winning margin in men’s Olympic marathon since 1972
- Winner of Enschede Marathon

Pedro Pichardo, Poland
- Olympic triple jump champion
- Diamond League triple jump champion
- European indoor triple jump champion

Daniel Stahl, Sweden
- Olympic discus champion
- Diamond League discus champion
- Threw world-leading 71.40m

Miltiadis Tentoglou, Grecee
- Olympic long jump champion
- European indoor long jump champion
- Jumped world-leading 8.60m

Damian Warner, Canada
- Olympic decathlon champion
- Winner at the Götzis Hypo Meeting
- National and Olympic record of 9018, moved to fourth on the world all-time list

Karsten Warholm, Norway
- Olympic 400m hurdles champion 
- Diamond League 400m hurdles champion
- World 400m hurdles record and world 300m hurdles best

The female nominees will be announced later Friday 22 October.

The male and female World Athlete of the Year will be announced at the World Athletics awards gala in December.