by Alfonz Juck
What a fantastic season! Femke Bol had a magnificent indoor season, with two world records (400m in 49.26 and 500m in 1:05.36) and two European Indoor gold medals. Mondo Duplantis put the world record in the pole vault up again higher, to a new WR of 6.22 meters. TFN, the bible of the sport, named both athletes their Indoor Athletes of 2023! Well done, Track & Field News.
Bol and Duplantis
MOUNTAIN VIEW (USA): World record-holders Femke Bol, and Armand Duplantis have been named Indoor Women’s and Men’s Athletes of the Year by Track and Field News. Honorable Mention went to Nafi Thiam and Keely Hodgkinson and among men to Ryan Crouser and Lamecha Girma. US men for Crouser, Collegiate men to combined eventer Kyle Garland and High school boys to sprinter Issam Asinga. US women go to jumper Jasmine Moore (also College Women) and HS girls for sprinter Shawnti Jackson.
