{"id":123187,"date":"2024-03-14T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/?page_id=123187"},"modified":"2025-01-12T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:53:52","slug":"tfns-world-womens-indoor-athletes-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/tfns-world-womens-indoor-athletes-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"T&FN’s World Women’s Indoor Athletes Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Track & Field News<\/em> has been formally choosing a Women\u2019s Indoor Athlete Of The Year since 1976.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here are the all-time women\u2019s No. 1s, with the event(s) in which they earned the honor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2020s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>\nFemke Bol<\/td>\n(Netherlands)<\/td>\n400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>\nFemke Bol<\/td>\n(Netherlands)<\/td>\n400\/500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nYulimar Rojas<\/td>\n(Venezuela)<\/td>\ntriple jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nGudaf Tsegay<\/td>\n(Ethiopia)<\/td>\n800\/1500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nYulimar Rojas<\/td>\n(Venezuela)<\/td>\ntriple jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2010s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nMariya Lasitskene<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nMariya Lasitskene<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nLaura Muir<\/td>\n(Great Britain).<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nGenzebe Dibaba<\/td>\n(Ethiopia)<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson<\/td>\n(Great Britain)<\/td>\njumps\/pentathlon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nGenzebe Dibaba<\/td>\n(Ethiopia)<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nJenn Suhr<\/td>\n(USA)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nYelena Isinbaeva<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nAntonietta Di Martino<\/td>\n(Italy)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nBlanka Vla\u0161i\u0107<\/td>\n(Croatia)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2000s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nYelena Isinbaeva<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nMeseret Defar<\/td>\n(Ethiopia)<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nMeseret Defar<\/td>\n(Ethiopia)<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nMeseret Defar<\/td>\n(Ethiopia)<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nYelena Isinbaeva<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nTatyana Lebedeva<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\nlong\/triple jumps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nSvetlana Feofanova<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nSvetlana Feofanova<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nStacy Dragila<\/td>\n(USA)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nStacy Dragila<\/td>\n(USA)<\/td>\npole vault<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1990s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nGabi Szabo<\/td>\n(Romania)<\/td>\ndistances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nMaria Mutola<\/td>\n(Mozambique)<\/td>\n800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nInna Lasovskaya<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\ntriple jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nMaria Mutola<\/td>\n(Mozambique)<\/td>\n800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nIrina Privalova<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\nsprints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nInna Lasovskaya<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\ntriple jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nIrina Privalova<\/td>\n(Russia)<\/td>\nsprints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nHeike Henkel<\/td>\n(Germany)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nMerlene Ottey<\/td>\n(Jamaica)<\/td>\nsprints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nDoina Melinte<\/td>\n(Romania)<\/td>\nmile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1980s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nElly van Hulst<\/td>\n(Holland)<\/td>\ndistance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nStefka Kostadinova<\/td>\n(Bulgaria)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\nHeike Drechsler<\/td>\n(East Germany)<\/td>\nlong jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\nHeike Drechsler<\/td>\n(East Germany)<\/td>\nlong jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nGalina Chistyakova<\/td>\n(Soviet Union)<\/td>\nlong jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nHeike Drechsler<\/td>\n(East Germany)<\/td>\nlong jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nTamara Bykova<\/td>\n(Soviet Union)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/td>\nMary Sslaney<\/td>\n(USA)<\/td>\nmile\/3000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nJarmila Kratochv\u00edlov\u00e1<\/td>\n(Czechoslovakia)<\/td>\n200\/400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>\nMary Slaney<\/td>\n(USA)<\/td>\nmiddle distance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1970s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\nAndrea M\u00e1tay<\/td>\n(Hungary)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1978<\/td>\nSara Simeoni<\/td>\n(Italy)<\/td>\nhigh jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\nHelena Fibingerov\u00e1<\/td>\n(Czechoslovakia)<\/td>\nshot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nNikolina Shtereva<\/td>\n(Bulgaria)<\/td>\nmiddle distance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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