Have your say on who should be crowned men'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 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%)
- 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 men’s Rising Star was the Netherland’s Niels Laros. Here are the 10 nominees for this year's men’s Rising Star in alphabetical order along with their principal achievements in 2025.
Owe Fischer-Breiholz (GER)
- European U23 400m hurdles champion
Hakon Moe Berg (NOR)
- European U20 1500m champion
- European U20 3000m champion
- Third on European all-time U20 1500m list with 3:30.28
Elijah Pasquier (FRA)
- European U20 high jump champion
- World U20 leader with 2.25m
Joan Querol (ESP)
- European U20 10,000m race walk champion
- European Race Walking Team Championships 10km 2nd
Michal Rada (CZE)
- European U20 400m hurdles and 4x400m champion
- World U20 leader with 48.78
Bozhidar Saraboyukov (BUL)
- European indoor long jump champion
- European U23 long jump silver medallist
- World Athletics Championships long jump 5th
Matteo Sioli (ITA)
- European U23 high jump champion
- European indoor high jump bronze
- European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division 2nd
- World Athletics Championships 8th
Armin Szabados (HUN)
- European U20 hammer champion
- World Athletics Championships 8th
- World leader in U20 hammer (6kg)
Hubert Troscianka (POL)
- European U20 decathlon champion
- World U20 record-holder at 8514 points
Jarno Van Daalen (NED)
- European U20 shot put champion
- European U20 discus champion
- World leader in U20 discus (1.75km) with 66.31m
Last 10 men's European Athletes of the Year
- 2024 – Niels Laros (NED)
- 2023 - Mattia Furlani (ITA)
- 2022 - Mykolas Alekna (LTU)
- 2021 - Sasha Zhoya (FRA)
- 2020 - not held
- 2019 - Niklas Kaul (GER)
- 2018 - Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) and Armand Duplantis (SWE)
- 2017 - Karsten Warholm (NOR)
- 2016 - Max Hess (GER)
- 2015 - Konrad Bukowiecki (POL)
- 2014 - Adam Gemili (GBR)