In recent days, several sources have produced their versions of Athletes of the Year.
Spikes, Athletics Weekly, IAAF, USATF, and Track and Field News.
The latter is the most popular, and the most debated.
They have 3 criteria for choosing their AOY's: Honors Won, Win-Loss, and Marks.
Mine are different.
As a blogger most enthralled by records, I give marks the highest value.
In fact, if I'm honest, the ONLY value!!
However, winning in Moscow (or the BIG meet in your category) WAS important, and it helped if you didn't lose every meet.
It's just that I feel a fast time, high height, or long throw should be given more points than a win--even a WC, etc win--with an "average" mark.
I will now present my AOY's!
They will be in 4 categories: World, USA, Collegiate, and HS.
I will of course choose separate awards for men and women.
Also, as is my custom for inclusion on my lists (DDD's), I will give separate awards in each category for indoors and outdoors.
Thus, 16 awards in all.
I will NOT choose a Top Ten, as others do.
But I will list "Honorable Mentions".
These are determined not by my own opinion or judgment, but by whether an athlete's mark from 2013 put them on one of my DDD's.
Or, if already on a DDD from a previous year's mark, whether their 2013 mark improved their spot on the All-Time list.
That is my ONLY criteria for being an HM!!
Now you know HOW I've determined my AOY's and HM's.
Because this is going to be so lengthy, I will divide it into a few posts, to be determined as I go along!
World Indoor, Men
AOY: GALEN RUPP
Had fastest mile and 3000 times. With no WIC, marks were everything.
HM (by event):
60: Dasaolu & Vicaut (both tied in 20th with 5 others)
200: Webb (15th)
400: Lendore (10th)
800: Aman (15th)
1000: Souleiman (12th), Lewandowski (tied with 1 other at 21st)
1500: Rupp (22nd)
1 Mile:Rupp (5th), Lomong (8th), Centrowitz (9th), O'Lionaird (11th), O'Hare (20th)
3000: Rupp (7th), Ndiku (10th), Gebrhiwet (16th)
2 Mile: Lagat (10th), Bumbalough (16th), Levins (20th), Jager (23rd)
5000: Lomong (11th), Derrick (24th)
HJ: Barshim (tied at 15th with 7 others), Dmitrik (tied at 22nd with 7 others)
LJ: Menkov (tied at 23rd with 2 others)
TJ: Greco (tied at 10th with 1 other)
SP: Whiting (8th)
WT: Ziegler (14th)
USA Indoor, Men
AOY: GALEN RUPP
Since Rupp won the World AOY, he also wins the USA prize, since he's an American.
HM (by event)
60: Cherry (tied at 16th with 2 others), Patton (tied at 19th with 2 others)
200: Webb (10th)
800: Momoh (8th), Loxsom (21st)
1000: Andrews (2nd), Gagnum (5th), Rutt (6th), Centrowitz (13th), Boylan-Pett (15th), Leslie (20th), Guarino (24th)
1500: Rupp (2nd), Lomong (4th), Centrowitz (5th), Heath (13th), Hill (18th)
1 Mile: Rupp (2nd), Lomong (3rd), Centrowitz (4th), Hill (13th)
3000: Rupp (AR, 1st), Jager (5th), Bumbalough (8th)
2 Mile: Lagat (AR, 1st), Bumbalough (3rd), Jager (4th), Leer (7th)
5000: Lomong (AR, 1st), Derrick (4th), Bumbalough (7th), Heath (12th), Jager (13th), Tegenkamp (18th)
60H: Lovett (tied at 19th with 2 others)
HJ: Jonas (tied at 7th with 3 others), Kynard (tied at 11th with 3 others)
LJ: Dendy (tied at 13th with 2 others)
TJ: Lamb (tied at 23rd with 1 other)
SP: Whiting (5th)
Collegiate Indoor, Men
AOY: CHRIS O'HARE
He broke 2 CR's. No one else broke any (in the events I cover in my book!).
HM (by event)
60: Cherry (4th), Bracy (tied at 14th with 7 others), Rowland (tied at 22nd with 6 others)
200: Webb (8th), Jobodwana (20th), Hadnot (21st)
400: Lendore (5th), Berry (tied at 19th with 1 other), Graham (22nd)
800: Momoh (7th), Squalla (14th), Loxsom (tied at 20th with 1 other), Greer (23rd)
1500: O'Hare (CR, 1st), Lalang (5th), Hill (8th), Jenkins (14th), Matthews (16th)
NOTE: My Collegiate Men's Indoor 1500 DDD is only 16 long!
1 Mile: O'Hare (CR, 1st), Lalang (3rd), Hill (4th), Casey (15th)
3000: Lalang (2nd), Campbell (9th), Erassa (15th), Estrada (16th), Lelei (19th)
5000: Kithuka (10th)
60H: Lovett (3rd), Adams & Davis (both tied at 16th with 1 other)
HJ: Drouin (2nd), Kynard (tied at 4th with 3 others)
LJ: Dendy (tied at 5th with 1 other), Forbes (tied at 12th with 1 other)
TJ: Lamb (tied at 19th with 1 other), Craddock (tied at 24th with 1 other)
PV: Irwin (tied at 9th with 1 other)
WT: Ziegler (7th), Pounds (23rd)
High School Indoor, Men
AOY: :EDWARD CHESEREK
Broke 2 Gerry Lindgren records, both 49 years old!
HM (by event)
60: Burrell (2nd), Taylor (tied at 4th with 2 others), Whitfield & Brandt-Sims (both tied at 7th with 3 others), Brazil & Friday (both tied at 18th with 3 others), Williams (tied at 23rd with 3 others)
200: Smith (tied at 15th with 1 other), Ways (tied at 19th with 1 other)
400: Cherry (5th), Clemes (13th), Smith (24th)
800: Kiley (10th), Ibarra (11th), Kinniard (12th), J Clark (13th), I Clark (16th), Markertz (21st)
1500: Wynne (12th), Gilley (15th), Baker (16th), Mora (19th), Randon (20th)
1 Mile: Wynne (tied at 16th with 1 other), Gilley (19th)
3000: Cheserek (HSR, 1st), Randon (10th), Norris (13th), O'Toole (14th), Templeton (15th), O'Neill (17th), McGorty (19th), Abushouk (20th)
2 Mile: Cheserek (HSR, 1st), Templeton (21st), Abushouk (23rd)
5000: Armstrong (16th), Norris (18th), DeLaRosa (19th), Sleight (22nd), Sheryak (24th)
60H: Crittenden (tied at 10th with 2 others), Humphrey & Brown (both tied at 20th with 1 other)
LJ: White (tied at 11th with 1 other), Jefferson (tied at 16th with 2 others)
TJ: Green (12th)
PV: Murphree & King (both tied at 18th with 3 others)
WT: Winkler (4th), Ionata (11th), Zedela (12th), Whitener (15th), Kelly & Mangan (both tied at 18th )
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