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Duplantis named World Athletics’ male athlete of year
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins top female award
Armand Duplantis has capped a remarkable 2025, in which he broke four world records and won another world title, by being named World Athletics’ male athlete of the year.
Immediately after picking up the award, the Swedish pole vaulter took aim at Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track, which collapsed in the summer and is still yet to pay athletes their full prize money.
Written by Sean Ingle in Monaco
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/30/armand-duplantis-wins-top-world-athletics-award-takes-aim-grand-slam-track-sydney-mclaughlin-levrone under the title “Duplantis wins top award and takes aim at Grand Slam Track’s exclusion of field events”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
