Have your say on who should be crowned women's European Athlete of the Year 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 on 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 European Athlete of the Year was Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Here are the 10 nominees for this year's European Athlete of the Year trophy in alphabetical order along with their principal achievements in 2025:
Nadia Battocletti (ITA)
- World 10,000m silver
- World 5000m bronze
- European 10km champion
- European Athletics Team Championships 5000m winner
- European 5km record of 14:32
Femke Bol (NED)
- World 400m hurdles gold
- World mixed 4x400m silver
- World 4x400m bronze
- European indoor mixed 4x400m and 4x400m gold
- European Athletics Team Championships 400m winner
Georgia Hunter-Bell (GBR)
- World 800m silver
- World indoor 1500m bronze
Ditaji Kambundji (SUI)
- World 100m hurdles champion
- European indoor 60m hurdles champion
- World indoor 60m hurdles silver
- European indoor 60m hurdles record of 7.67
- European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division winner
Kate O’Connor (IRL)
- World heptathlon silver
- World indoor pentathlon silver
- European indoor pentathlon bronze
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
- European indoor high jump champion
- World indoor high jump silver medallist
- World high jump bronze medallist
- European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division winner
María Pérez (ESP)
- World 35km and 20km race walk gold
- European Race Walking Team Championships 35km gold
Jessica Schilder (NED)
- World shot put gold
- European indoor shot put gold
- World indoor shot put silver
- European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division winner
Tina Sutej (SLO)
- World pole vault bronze
- World indoor pole vault silver
- European indoor pole vault silver
- European Athletics Team Championships 2nd Division winner
Jorinde Van Klinken (NED)
- World discus silver
- European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division winner
The last 10 women's European Athletes of the Year
- 2024 – Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
- 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)