European athletics athletes continue to impress. EA’s top men are some of the best athletes in the world in their respective events. They are followed not only on the European continent, but all over the world.
Olympic gold medalists, European champions and all-time defining athletes in their events, the three finalists for the 2024 Men’s European Sportsman of the Year award represent the top athletes currently representing European countries on the international stage.
The winners of the men’s and women’s European Athletes of the Year and Rising Star awards will be announced live at the Golden Tracks awards night on October 26 in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. European Athletics YouTube channel.
From a longlist of 10 athletes, the three finalists were decided based on a four-part vote: public vote, member federation vote, media vote and the European Athletics Expert Group vote, each accounting for a quarter of the vote. general vote.
In alphabetical order, the best athletes in Europe in 2024 are three men.
Armand Duplantis (SWE)
- Pole vault European champion
- World record for distances of 6.24m, 6.25m and 6.26m
- Olympic pole vault champion
- Pole vault world champion
- Diamond League Champion
It’s been another mesmerizing year for the Swede, who continues to raise the bar figuratively and literally in the pole vault. Seemingly invincible by her own standards, Duplantis suddenly looked vulnerable in the indoor season before a successful final attempt of 6.05m salvaged a second gold medal at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow in March.
But as the outdoor season began, Duplantis sent a fresh statement of intent, clearing a world record of 6.24m at the Diamond League in Xiamen in April. He went on to break his record twice more, most famously at the Paris 2024 Olympics (6.25m) and then finally at the Diamond League in Silesia in August at 6.26m.
It all added up to an unbeaten year of 15 events, which also included a third gold medal at the European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. He even found time to race Carsten Warholm over 100m at the Diamond League meet in Zurich, which he also won.
Duplantis has yet to win the European Sportsman of the Year award, sharing the honor with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 2022. The duo also shared the Rising Star award in 2018.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
- European champion in 1500m and 5000m
- 5000m Olympic champion
- 3000m world record: 7:17.55
- European 1500m record and world leader: 3:26.73
- Diamond League 1500m champion
Injury threatened to derail the prolific Norwegian’s year and kept him sidelined in transition and close seasons. But when he returned to action in May, it was with characteristic gusto and an all-out assault on glory.
In just his third competition of the year, he completed a brilliant 1500m/5000m double at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, becoming the most successful male athlete in the history of the championships with six gold medals.
He then competed in one of the most talked-about races of recent years in the Olympic 1500m final in Paris, where his rivalry with Britain’s Josh Kerr attracted global attention. He bravely took the pace but finished fourth in the home straight as Kerr took silver with surprise winner Cole Hawker.
But he showed incredible resilience to make a comeback in the 5000m, his second Olympic gold after winning the 1500m in Tokyo. And after Paris, Ingebrigtsen created another magical moment for fans of the sport as he cut more than three seconds off Daniel Komen’s race. Close to a 28-year-old men’s 3000m world record of a stunning 7:17.55 at the Silesian Diamond League.
Ingebrigtsen, who also improved her European 1500m record in Monaco to 3:26.73, is in contention for her third consecutive European Sportsman of the Year award, having shared it with Duplantis in 2022 before winning it last year.
Miltiadis Tentoglu (GRE)
- European long jump champion
- Olympic long jump champion
- Long jump world champion
- World leader 8.65 m
Year after year, Tentoglu builds his reputation as one of the most prolific gold medalists in the history of the sport, and 2024 was no different. Still only 26 years old, the long jumper began the year as Olympic, World, European, Indoor and European Indoor Champion.
He retained every title available to him this year, from the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow, to the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome and finally the Paris Olympics.
In Mattia Furlani, Tentoglu has seen the emergence of a genuine contender for his long jump throne, but the Greek superstar is not yet ready to relinquish his place at the top of the discipline, which he highlighted on his way to a world-leading and championship record of 8.65m. third gold medal at Rome 2024.
Will it be Tentoglu’s time to win the Men’s European Athlete of the Year at the Golden Tracks awards night?
The last 10 winners of Europe’s best athletes.
- 2023 – Jacob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
- 2022 – Armand Duplantis (SWE)/Jacob Ingebrigtsen (Noritsia)
- 2021 – Karsten Warholm (NOR)
- 2020 – not held
- 2019 – Karsten Warholm (NOR)
- 2018 – Kevin Mayer (FRA)
- 2017 – Johannes Vetter (GEH)
- 2016 – Mo Farah (GBR)
- 2015 – Greg Rutherford (GBR)
- 2014 – Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2013 – Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
