When an athlete makes history by achieving something that has never been done before, you’d think they’d struggle for motivation in the aftermath.

Olympic champions Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica and Karsten Warholm of Norway have been named the World Athletes of the Year

We take a closer look at the achievements of the five women and five men who have been confirmed as finalists for Athlete of the Year.

World Athletics is pleased to confirm the five finalists for Female World Athlete of the Year.

World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list of 10 nominees for Female World Athlete of the Year.

There was a time when the ultimate goal for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah was to make it on to the winner’s podium at Champs.

Three Olympic champions beaten in Thursday’s meeting at Lausanne – Mondo Duplantis, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment – re-asserted themselves with emphatic victories.

Hansle Parchment has arrived in Paris ready for the season’s next Wanda Diamond League meeting confident he will get back on track.

Sweden’s Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis, who suffered a rare defeat in the blustery conditions at Thursday's meeting in Lausanne, will hope to return to business-as-usual on Saturday (28) when the Wanda Diamond League moves on to the Stade Charlety in Paris.

There could hardly be a more suitable setting for the Wanda Diamond League’s first European stop after the Tokyo Olympics than the Swiss city that happens to be home to the Olympic Museum.

Olympic champions Karsten Warholm, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Sifan Hassan are among the stars from the Tokyo Games who are set to compete.

Fresh from her triple Olympic triumph in Tokyo, Jamaican superstar Elaine Thompson-Herah will take on Olympic silver medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 26 August.