Have your say on who should be crowned women's European Athlete of the Year in 2024!
Sign up to cast your vote on the dedicated European Athlete of the Year voting platform here and you will also be in with a chance of winning prizes* including tickets to a European Athletics event in 2025, posters signed by an athlete attending the Golden Tracks awards and EA merchandise!
The voting process is made up of four parts and the three finalists in all four categories, men's and women's European Athlete of the Year and men's and women's Rising Star, will be announced on 8-9 October.
- Public vote (25 percent)
- Member Federation vote (25 percent)
- Media vote (25 percent)
- European Athletics expert panel vote (25 percent)
The winners will be announced and presented with their trophies at the Golden Tracks award ceremony which takes place in Skopje, North Macedonia on 26 October and will be streamed live through the European Athletics YouTube channel.
Last year's European Athletes of the Year were Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Femke Bol from the Netherlands, both of whom were also crowned European Athletes of the Year in 2022.
Here are the 10 nominees for this year's European Athlete of the Year trophy in alphabetical order along with their principal achievements in 2024.
Nadia Battocletti (ITA)
- European 5000m and 10,000m champion
- Olympic 10,000m silver medallist
Femke Bol (NED)
- European 400m hurdles and 4x400m champion
- Olympic mixed 4x400m champion
- Olympic 4x400m silver and 400m hurdles bronze medallist
- World indoor 400m record-holder at 49.17
- World indoor 400m and 4x400m champion
- European 400m hurdles record-holder at 50.95
- Diamond League 400m hurdles champion
Sifan Hassan (NED)
- Olympic marathon champion
- Olympic 5000m and 10,000m bronze medallist
Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)
- European 800m champion
- Olympic 800m champion
- World leader with 1:54.61
Natalia Kaczmarek (POL)
- European 400m champion
- Olympic 400m bronze medallist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
- European high jump champion
- Olympic high jump champion
- World high jump record-holder with 2.10m
- Diamond League champion
Malaika Mihambo (GER)
- European long jump champion
- Olympic long jump silver medallist
- World leader with 7.22m
Yemisi Ogunleye (GER)
- Olympic shot put champion
- World indoor silver medallist
- European bronze medallist
Cyrena Samba-Mayela (FRA)
- European 100m hurdles champion
- Olympic 100m hurdles silver medallist
- World indoor 60m hurdles silver medallist
Nafissatou Thiam (BEL)
- Olympic heptathlon champion
- European heptathlon champion
- World leader with 6880 points
The last 10 women's European Athletes of the Year
- 2023 - Femke Bol (NED)
- 2022 - Femke Bol (NED)
- 2021 - Sifan Hassan (NED)
- 2020 - not awarded
- 2019 - Mariya Lasitskene (ANA)
- 2018 - Dina Asher-Smith (GBR)
- 2017 - Ekaterini Stefanidi (GRE)
- 2016 - Ruth Beitia (ESP)
- 2015 - Dafne Schippers (NED)
- 2014 - Dafne Schippers (NED)
- 2013 - Zuzana Hejnova (CZE)