Athletics: Bolt, Bondarenko, Farah battle for IAAF award
Usain Bolt, Mohamed Farah of and Bohdan Bondarenko are in run for IAAF award.
PARIS (AFP) - World and Olympic champions Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Mohamed Farah of Britain have been named along with Ukrainian high jumper Bohdan Bondarenko as the three men s finalists for the IAAF 2013 World Athlete of the Year Award.
All three starred at this year s World Athletics Championships in Moscow where the Jamaican won gold in the 100 and 200 metres, Farah clinched a rare 5,000-10,000 metres double and Bondarenko took gold in the high jump.
Bolt will be bidding for a fifth IAAF Athlete of the Year Award after 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012.
The three women s finalists will be named on Tuesday with top Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as well as Ethiopian long-distance stars Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba in the running.
The winners will be announced by the IAAF at a ceremony on November 16.
