Vote for your athletes of 2024

Pick your top performers of the year in multiple categories in our annual AW readers’ poll

Near the end of the year it’s time for you to pick your athletes of 2024. The choices are below with the voting form at the end of this article. All of the contenders with photographs are in the November issue of AW magazine, too, which you can buy here. Deadline for votes is midnight Monday November 11 with the results published in the December issue of AW magazine.

International male athlete

Mondo Duplantis
Still only 24, he is just getting better and better. Duplantis broke his men’s pole vault world record three times in 2024 (taking his overall tally to 10), as well as retaining his world indoor, European and Olympic titles. His final leap in Paris will live long in the memory and he finished off his season by winning another Diamond League title, too.

Cole Hocker
The American had been an outside bet going into the Olympic 1500m final, though by that time he had won world indoor silver, his national title and had run a sub-13min 5000m. As the world watched Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen duking it out at Paris, Hocker delivered the knockout blow with an Olympic record of 3:27.65.

Grant Holloway
The American won the world indoor title and in eight races indoors ran the seven fastest times of the year, breaking his own world record with 7.27. Outdoors he went under 13 seconds six times and landed what had previously been an elusive Olympic title.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen
He took 1500m and 5000m European gold (for the third time) in Rome, then ran 3:26.73 to become the first athlete since Asbel Kiprop to break 3:27 for 1500m. He bounced back from Olympic metric mile disappointment to win 5000m gold in Paris then broke the long-standing 3000m world record with 7:17.55.

Noah Lyles
He took world indoor silver in the 60m before winning the 100m and 200m US titles. Lyles edged an enthralling men’s Olympic 100m final before Covid and the prowess of Letsile Tebogo meant he had to settle for 200m bronze and sit out the 4x100m.

Letsile Tebogo
He broke the 300m world record with a run of 30.69, then rose to the occasion at the Olympics, where he took 200m gold and clocked the second-fastest 4x400m split in history of 43.03 as his country took silver. There was also a 100m PB of 9.86 in the Olympic final, where he was sixth.

Miltiadis Tentoglou
The Greek became the only man other than Carl Lewis to successfully defend the men’s Olympic long jump title. He also won…