Have your say on who should be crowned women's Rising Star in 2025!
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 2026, posters signed by an athlete attending the Golden Tracks awards and European Athletics 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 the week beginning 6 October.
- Public vote (25%)
- Member Federation vote (25%)
- Media vote (25%)
- European Athletics expert panel vote (25%)
The winners will be announced and presented with their trophies at the Golden Tracks award ceremony which takes place in Batumi, Georgia on 25 October.
Last year's women’s Rising Star was Serbia’s Netherland’s Adriana Vilagoš. Here are the 10 nominees for this year's women’s Rising Star in alphabetical order along with their principal achievements in 2025.
Kelly Doualla (ITA)
- European U20 100m champion
- European U20 4x100m champion
- European Youth Olympic Festival 100m champion
- European U18 100m best of 11.21
Innes FitzGerald (GBR)
- European U20 3000m champion
- European U20 5000m champion
- European U20 5000m record of 14:39.56
Henriette Jæger (NOR)
- European U23 400m champion
- European U23 200m silver
- European indoor 400m silver
- World indoor 400m bronze
- World 400m finalist
- Diamond League 400m winner
Jana Koščak (CRO)
- European U20 heptathlon champion
- World U20 heptathlon leader with 6293 points
Allika Inkeri Moser (EST)
- European Youth Olympic Festival pole vault champion
- World U18 best and World U20 lead of 4.52m
Sofia Santacreu (ESP)
- European U20 10,000m race walk champion
- European Race Walking Team Championships U20 10km winner
- World leader in 10,000m (43:47.89) and 10km race walk (43:57)
Jil Sanchez (SUI)
- European U20 100m hurdles champion
- World U20 leader at 13.01
Erika Saraceni (ITA)
- European U20 triple jump champion,
- European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division third
Alexandra Ștefania Uță (ROM)
- European U20 400m hurdles champion
Audrey Werro (SUI)
- European U23 800m champion
- Diamond League 800m winner
- World indoor and outdoor 800m finalist
Last 10 women's Rising Star winners
- 2024 – Adriana Vilagoš (SRB)
- 2023 - Angelina Topic (SRB)
- 2022 - Elina Tzengko (GRE)
- 2021 - Femke Bol (NED)
- 2020 - not held
- 2019 - Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
- 2018 - Elvira Herman (BLR)
- 2017 - Yuliia Levchenko (UKR)
- 2016 - Nafissatou Thiam (BEL)
- 2015 - Noemi Zbaren (SUI)
- 2014 - Mariya Kuchina (RUS)