Eliud Kipchoge Nominated for IAAF Male Athlete of the Year award

Kenyan running champion Eliud Kipchoge recently broke world record for completing full 42 km marathon in less than two hours. As a result, new record holder has been minated for IAAF Male Athlete of Year award. Alongside Kipchoge, his Kenyan counterpart Timothy Cheruiyot ( 1500m world champion) is also in contention. two will battle with nine or minees for winning prestigious award, which is to happen on vember 23, 2019, in Monaco.

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Kipchoge h won same award last year after his heroics in Berlin and is considered to be favourite to win it once again following his stint of breaking two-hour marathon barrier on Saturday in Vienna, Austria. He completed marathon with an impressive timing of 1:59:40. Kipchoge h also triumphed in London marathon with timing of 2:02:37. While Timothy Cheruiyot has emerged victorious in 10 of 11 races he featured in this season as well at  World Championships in Doha last month.

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List of or 9 minees 

Potential Contenders

Donavan Brazier: World 800m champion
Christian Coleman: World 100m champion
ah Lyles: World 200m champion

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Or Contenders

• Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda)
• Sam Kendricks (USA)
• Steven Gardiner (Bahamas)
• Daniel Stahl (Sweden), 
• Christian Taylor (USA)
• Karsten Warholm (rway)

All minees were selected by an exclusive international panel of athletics experts, which included representatives from all six continental areas of IAAF. Out of 11 minated athletes, only five will make final shortlist on basis of votes. A three-way voting process will finalize top five. Fans can cast ir vote online via IAAF's social media sites while IAAF Council and IAAF council will vote through emails. Individual graphics for each athlete will be posted on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter this week; a 'like' on Facebook and Instagram or a retweet on Twitter will count as one vote.

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