Ethiopian Athletics: IAAF to announce award finalists tomorrow

Monte-Carlo – The online vote for the 2010 Athlete of the Year Award has now been closed, and Ethiopia’s star athlete Meseret Defar and millions of Ethiopian fans will have to wait until tomorrow when the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) will announce the names of the finalists for the Male and Female Athletes of the Year.

The world-wide Athletics family will gather to celebrate the 2010 World Athletes of the Year when the 2010 World Athletics Gala is held at the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d’Eté on Sunday 21 November.

The finalists will be determined following the combination of an online public poll and the IAAF Family vote.

When the online vote closed yesterday, Milcah Chemos Cheywa of Kenya was ahead of Meseret and Fabiana Muere of Brazil.