{"id":606,"date":"2013-10-03T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/?p=606"},"modified":"2013-11-04T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T21:27:15","slug":"farah-shortlisted-for-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/news\/farah-shortlisted-for-athlete-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Farah shortlisted for Athlete of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/moscow.track_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-607\" title=\"Moscow Track\" alt=\"moscow track\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/moscow.track_.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/moscow.track_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/moscow.track_-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mo Farah has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2013 World Athlete of the Year award.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 30 year old, who won double gold over 5,000m and 10,000m at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in August, has been named on a ten man shortlist for the men\u2019s prize that includes the likes of eight time world champion Usain Bolt and Kenyan Wilson Kipsang, who recently lowered the marathon world to a staggering 2:03:23.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates were selected by an IAAF panel of athletics experts and the World Athletics Family will now vote for three male and female finalists between now and Sunday 27 October.<\/p>\n<p>The male and female winners will then be selected from the three finalists by the Council of the International Athletic Foundation and the winners will be announced at the 2013 World Athletics Gala on Saturday 16 November.<\/p>\n<p>The full lists of athletes shortlisted for the World Athlete of the Year award are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Men<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Aman (ETH)<br \/>\nUsain Bolt (JAM)<br \/>\nBohdan Bondarenko (UKR)<br \/>\nAshton Eaton (USA)<br \/>\nMohamed Farah (GBR)<br \/>\nRobert Harting (GER)<br \/>\nWilson Kipsang (KEN)<br \/>\nAleksandr Menkov (RUS)<br \/>\nLaShawn Merritt (USA)<br \/>\nTeddy Tamgho (FRA)<\/p>\n<p>Women<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Adams (NZL)<br \/>\nAbeba Aregawi (SWE)<br \/>\nMeseret Defar (ETH)<br \/>\nTirunesh Dibaba (ETH)<br \/>\nShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)<br \/>\nZuzana Hejnova (CZE)<br \/>\nCaterine Ibarguen (COL)<br \/>\nSandra Perkovic (CRO)<br \/>\nBrianna Rollins (USA)<br \/>\nSvetlana Shkolina (RUS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Farah has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2013 World Athlete of the Year award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,43],"tags":[11,579,540],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-uk","tag-11","tag-listed","tag-mo-farah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}