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Sweden’s world pole vault champion Armand Duplantis poses on stage prior to deliver the Women and Men’s rising star awards during the World Athletics Awards 2025 in Monaco, on November 30, 2025. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The Ballon d’Or of global track and field, World Athletics’ annual World Athlete of the Year recognitions, was announced on Sunday at the Athletics Awards in Monaco as Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis and American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone earned top honors for men and women. The recognition was Duplantis’ third overall World Athlete of the Year win, following top honors in 2020 and 2022, while the top prize went to McLaughlin-Levrone for the second time since 2022. Both athletes also won athlete of the year honors in the men’s field and women’s track categories. Previously, they also won Rising Star honors in 2018, well before their emergence on the global stage. Elsewhere, Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi, the world champion at 800 meters, won Athlete of the Year in men’s track, while Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers won Athlete of the Year in the women’s field category after her gold in the high jump in Tokyo. McLaughlin-Levrone was up against her rival, the Netherlands’ Femke Bol, in the final voting for best year on the track. That ultimately left American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who won the triple crown at worlds (claiming wins in the 100m, 200m and 4×100), out of the conversation, along with Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet, who set a world record in the 5,000 meters in July and won the distance double at worlds. How Mondo Duplantis Won His Third World Athlete Of The Year Honor The 26-year-old Duplantis, the world’s greatest pole vaulter and the winner of the last two Olympic titles in the event, was the overwhelming favorite to take…

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