The “European Athletics Golden Tracks” is the award given annually to the men’s and women’s European Athletes of the Year and Rising Stars.
The Golden Tracks trophy will be awarded to the men’s and women’s European Athletes of the Year at a televised gala evening in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday 17 October. Smaller versions of the trophy will be presented to the men's and women's Rising Stars.
Our panel of experts have selected 10 men and women to be the nominees in both award categories.
For the men's and women's European athletes of the year, the most important criteria were honours won at the IAAF World Championships and during European Athletics events.
Nominees for the Rising Stars cover various age groups and include athletes from the continent that not only won gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships, European Athletics Junior Championships and IAAF World Youth Championships, but also those prodigious athletes who performed well on the senior stage this summer in Beijing.
Click here to cast your individual media vote for the European Athletes of the Year and here for the Rising Stars.
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The winning athletes will be decided by counting votes from the fans, media, European Athletics Member Federations as well as an expert European Athletics panel, with the results from each group of voters counting for one quarter of the athlete's final score.
Fan voting is already underway through our Facebook and Twitter pages while Member Federations can cast their vote on our website.
The voting will close on Monday 28 September at noon CET.
No athlete who has previously served a two-year doping ban can be nominated for the Golden Tracks.
Please contact European Athletics Head of Communications James Mulligan at james.mulligan@european-athletics.org for more information and to request images of the Golden Tracks logo and trophy.