Kenyan athletes Peres Jepchirchir, Agnes Ngetich, and Sebastian Sawe have been nominated for the prestigious 2025 World Athletics Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year awards.
Peres Jepchirchir is nominated after a stellar year that saw her claim the Gold medal in the Marathon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. She is also a two-time World Half Marathon Champion.
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Agnes Ngetich earned her nomination by shattering the world record in the 10km road race.
She broke the women-only 10km world record, clocking an astonishing 29:27 at the Adizero Road To Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, in April.
She followed this up by winning the Valencia Half Marathon in October with a world-leading time of 1:03:08.
Completing the Kenyan trio is Sebastian Sawe, who had a phenomenal year in road running. He secured two major victories in the World Marathon Majors series by claiming his first major win in April at the London Marathon with a time of 2:02:27.
He then won the Berlin Marathon in September, clocking a world leading time for the year of 2:02:16 despite warm weather conditions.
Jepchirchir and Ngetich will compete in the women’s category against Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia), María Pérez (Spain), and Sifan Hassan (Netherlands).
Sawe is up against Alphonce Simbu (Tanzania), Caio Bonfim (Brazil), Evan Dunfee (Canada), and Yomif Kejelcha (Ethiopia).
How to vote for Jepchirchir, Ngetich, and Sawe for World Athletics Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year
Fans can support the Kenyan nominees by participating in the public vote.
To vote, simply like their individual posts on Instagram and Facebook or repost their posts on X (formerly Twitter) on the World Athletics pages.
Each ‘like’ on Facebook or Instagram and each repost on X/Twitter counts as one vote.
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Social media fan voting will determine 25 per cent of the final result. The World Athletics Council (50 per cent) and the World Athletics Family (25 per cent) will also cast their ballots over the next week, from 27 October to 2 November.
The top two in each category from this round will become finalists.
The Field Athlete voting will run from 20 to 26 October, and the Out-of-Stadium Athlete voting from 27 October to 2 November.