TRIPLE Olympic Games gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah has been nominated for World Athletics Female Athlete-of-the-Year for the second-straight season after she was named among 10 nominees.

Thompson-Herah is coming off one of the greatest seasons ever by a sprinter, male or female, successfully defending her Olympics sprint double title at the Games in Tokyo, Japan, and adding a 4x100m relay gold, all three in new national records.

Her 10.54 seconds in the 100m and 21.53 seconds in the 200m are also the second-fastest ever, only behind the late Florence Griffiths-Joyner, set 33 years ago in 1988.

The full list of women includes three who set world records – Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela, who added the outdoors triple-jump record when she won the Olympic gold, to the Indoor record she had set earlier; American Sydney McLaughlin, who broke the world record in the 400m hurdles, the second time in the Olympic finals; and Holland’s Sifan Hassan who won two gold medals in the Olympics in the 5 000m and 10 000m and was third in the 1500m.

Also American Valarie Allman who won the Olympic discus throw title and later broke the American record; Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico who won the Olympics 100m hurdles; Faith Kipyegon of Kenya who won the Olympics and Diamond League 1500m titles; Mariya Lasitskene, an authorised neutral athlete who won the Olympics and Diamond League high jump; Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas who retained her Olympics 400m title and teenaged American Athing Mu who won the Olympics 800m title.

The men’s list was released a day earlier and is headed by Norway’s Karsten Warholm, who broke the world record in the 400m hurdles, while retaining his Olympic title and American Ryan Crouser, who broke both the indoor and outdoor world records and was undefeated the entire year.

Also Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, the Olympics 5 000m champion and 10 000m silver medallist; Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, the Olympics pole-vault champion; Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, the Olympics and European indoor 1,500m champion; Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya, who won the Olympics marathon; Portugal’s Pablo Pedro Pichardo, the Olympic Games, Diamond League, and European indoor triple jump champion; Daniel Stahl of Sweden who won the Olympics discus throw, Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece who won the Olympic Games long jump and Damion Warner of Canada who won the Olympics decathlon gold medal. (Jamaica Observer)