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Elaine Thompson-Herah nominated for World Athletics ‘Female Athlete of the Year’ award

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After completing a historic ‘double-double’, Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica celebrates winning gold in the women’s 200m final at the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. (Photo: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is among ten women nominated for the 2021 World Athletics ‘Female Athlete of the Year’ award.

Thompson-Herah is the lone Jamaican nominated and—alongside The Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn—one of three top-flight Caribbean women vying for the coveted award, to be further reduced to five finalists during a three-way voting process.

Thompson-Herah copped three gold medals in the women’s 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan earlier this summer. The Jamaican cemented herself as the fastest woman alive immediately following the Games, with a blistering 10.54 seconds run at the Nike Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon in August.

The five male and female finalists will be announced on November 22-23.

For the first time in over a decade, there are no Caribbean men shortlisted for the ‘Male Athlete of the Year’ award.

The nominees, announced on Friday (October 22), include a stellar track and field cast of world record holders Sydney McLaughlin, Athing Mu, Yulimar Rojas as well as Sifan Hassan, Faith Kipyegon, Valerie Allman and Mariya Lasitskene.

World Athletics, in a statement today, said that the voting process for the Athlete of the Year awards will open this week.

“Further information about the World Athletics Awards 2021, which will be held at the start of December, will be announced in the weeks leading up to the event,” the sporting body indicated.

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