With four Sportsman of the Year awards, Novak Djokovic is one behind the record held by his former rival Roger Federer. The Serbian is on a shortlist of six alongside the likes of Armand Duplantis, Lionel Messi and Max Verstappen, while fellow tennis player Faith Kipyegon and Aitana Bonmati head the women's nominations.

fire Manchester City to the English Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, and American sprinter Noah

Lyles after his three golds at last year's World Athletics Championships.

Germany will be sporting an unfamiliar look to the world's football fans come 2027, when the national team is due to switch kits from local and long-tenured Adidas to US-based Nike. An "inexplicable" deal, according to Bjorn Gulden, CEO of the brand whose iconic three stripes became a global fashion trend.

Jamaican record-breaker Usain Bolt reigned supreme in Track&Field.Oddly enough, it’s American sprinter Noah

Lyles, a 100-meter gold-medal hopeful in Paris this summer, who is set to be one of Adidas’ main aces

The 20-year-old athlete is aiming to become the first African to win Olympic gold in the top speed events. After winning gold and bronze medals at the World Championships in Budapest, Tebogo is determined to emulate his idol, Usain Bolt, "the person I admire most," the African pointed out.

of Oregon athlete on the west coast of the United States.Tebogo in Budapest alongside world champion Noah

Lyles.

clocked 9.88 seconds (0.30 seconds faster than Bolt's 2009 world record) to finish second behind USA's Noah

Lyles, who also won the 200 metres in Hungary, followed by fellow American Erriyon Knighton, with Tebogo

opportunities to see the stars of the Games in action, including Léon Marchand, Teddy Riner, Simone Biles, Noah

Lyles, Sha'Carri Richardson and Lebron James.

It was a thrilling battle between Coleman and Lyles.

Christian Coleman sprinted ahead of his eagerly awaited American rival, Noah Lyles, to secure his second

athlete, who previously won gold in Birmingham, England, in 2018, now clocked 6.41seconds to leave Lyles

Noah Lyles, Karsten Warholm, Mondo Duplantis and Femke Bol are among the 651 athletes competing for the

Some of the current stars will be in Glasgow, including newly crowned US 60m champion Lyles, a three-time

"World leader, meeting record," said Lyles after winning in 6.44 in Boston, according to AFP.

But Lyles and Coleman will have to perform well if they don't want Jamaica's Ackeem Blake and Kenya's

Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, Noah Lyles, Simone Biles and Aitana Bonmatí are among the nominees.

-Noah Lyles (USA), Athletics.-Lionel Messi (Argentina), Football.

With just over six months to go until the start of the 33rd Olympic Games of the modern era, in which more than 10,000 athletes will take part, the Olympic year has begun and the focus is on the stars who will be shining in the French capital.

delivering and bringing home the most beautiful medal," he said after being selected for Paris 2024.NOAH

LYLES (USA, athletics)Noah Lyles reacts after winning gold in the men's 4x100m at the 2023 World Athletics

have been awarded by World Athletics: Tigist Assefa, Mondo Duplantis, Kelvin Kiptum, Faith Kipyegon, Noah

Lyles, and Yulimar Rojas were announced as World Athletes of the Year for 2023 during the ceremony in

field: Yulimar Rojas, VEN, triple jumpWomen’s out of stadia: Tigist Assefa, ETH, marathonMen’s track: Noah

Lyles, USA, 100m/200mMen’s field: Mondo Duplantis, SWE, pole vaultMen’s out of stadia: Kelvin Kiptum

In 2023, it wasn't very difficult to predict, given that Noah Lyles has shattered records and has been

Lyles has been the best and the fastest, and his appointment was well-deserved.

This marks Lyles' third award in this category, matching the legendary Michael Johnson, who remains one

Lyles added this prestigious award to the impressive medal haul he collected this year, winning the Jesse

Lyles joined Michael Johnson as the only men to win the honor three times.

And it doesn't stop there; Lyles is also a finalist for the World Athletics Athlete of the Year Award.In

Kelvin Kiptum, who broke the world marathon record in Chicago last Sunday at only his third attempt at the distance, is one of ten nominees for the 2023 Men's World Athlete of the Year.

contender for the award in a list issued by World Athletics that also includes United States sprinter Noah

Lyles and Sweden’s pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis.Lyles became the first athlete to complete a 100 and

Italy's Marcell Jacobs and Fred Kerley of the United States, respective Tokyo 2020 100 metres gold and silver medallists, have both announced a change of coach as they head towards the Paris 2024 Olympics.

world 100m title in Eugene last year failed to live up to his pre-championship hype as his compatriot Noah

Lyles won both the 100 and 200m titles.The 28-year-old Texan, previously a 400m specialist, announced

Day two of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene produced two world records as Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay took almost five seconds off the women's 5,000 metres mark with a time of 14min 00.21sec and Sweden's Mondo Duplantis raised his men’s pole vault mark to 6.23 metres.

Diamond League trophy through a better second-best effort.In the absence of the three-time world champion Noah

Lyles, the men’s 200m appeared wide open - and, surprisingly, Canada’s Olympic champion Andre De Grasse

Jakob Ingebrigtsen rounded off the opening night of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene by winning the Bowerman Mile in 3min 43.73sec, the third fastest time ever run and just 0.60sec shy of Hicham El Guerrouj's 1999 world record.

Americans who arrived at Hayward Field as world 100m champions, however, there were surprise defeats.Noah Lyles

48.64, with 18-year-old Niels Laros ninth in a Dutch record of 3:48.93.Now only El Guerrouj and Kenya's Noah

this year’s world final before dropping back to fifth place,  equalled the 2023 best time set by Lyles

Newly established world champions enjoyed mixed fortunes as the Chinese city of Xiamen’s 10-lane Egret Stadium hosted its first Wanda Diamond League meeting, with 2023 world-leading performances coming from Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Christian Coleman and Beatrice Chebet.

9.83sec, equalling the time already recorded this season by Britain’s Zharnel Hughes and world champion Noah

Lyles of the United States, with his compatriot Fred Kerley, the 2022 world champion, third in 9.96.