Three Wanda Diamond League champions were crowned among the 2025 World Athletes of the Year on Sunday, with pole vault world record breaker Mondo Duplantis winning the top prize.
Duplantis was named Men’s World Athlete of the Year after another record-breaking season which saw him claim a fifth straight Diamond League title and break the world record on home soil for the first time in Stockholm.
The Swedish superstar also defended his world title in Tokyo in September, rewriting the history books yet again with an astonishing world record of 6.30m.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was crowned Women’s World Athlete of the Year after setting a championship record in the women’s 400m final in Tokyo.
That win, the second-fastest time ever, crowned another season of dominance for the American, which included victory at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene in July.
Duplantis and McLaughlin-Levrone were also named Men’s Field Athlete of the Year and Women’s Track Athlete of the Year respectively.
They were joined by Wanda Diamond League champions Nicola Olyslagers and Emmanuel Wanyonyi, who won Women’s Field Athlete of the Year and Men’s Track Athlete of the Year.
Olyslagers claimed her first ever Diamond League title in 2025, beating three-time champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh with an Oceania record of 2.04m at the series final in Zurich.
She went on to win the world title in Tokyo, completing a season which saw her take no fewer than four Diamond League victories.
Wanyonyi won his third straight title in the men’s 800m, once again coming out as top dog in a fiercely competitive discipline.
The Kenyan superstar claimed five Diamond League wins in the course of 2025, including a world-leading 1:41.44 in Monaco.
