He was included in a list of 23 sportsmen, including nine times in the first and four times in the second place.

Duplantis accumulated 184 points, 41 points ahead of the runner-up at the Paris 2024 Olympics and winner of this year’s French Open and US Open Grand Slam tournaments, Carlos Alcaraz, and 50 points ahead of Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, who won his fourth Tour de France in 2025.

Duplantis is the absolute world champion in the pole vault. He has set a world record of 6.30 meters. He also holds the all-time best indoor result of 6.27 meters.

62 athletes (20 women and 42 men) from 22 disciplines, coming from 24 countries, participated in the 68th poll. Most – 9 – come from Norway, six from Spain, five from France and four each from Netherlands, Italy and Great Britain.

The most represented on the lists were representatives of football – 10, athletics and basketball 8 each and tennis and swimming five each.

Twenty-three agencies:  AFP (France), AGERPRES (Romania), ANADOLU AJANSI (Türkiye), APA (Austria), ATA (Albania), BELGA (Belgium), BNS (Baltic News Service-Lithuania), BTA (Bulgaria), CTK (Czech Republic), DPA (Germany), EFE (Spain), ELTA (Lithuania), FENA (Bosnia and Hercegovina), HINA (Croatia), LUSA (Portugal), MTI (Hungary), NTB (Norway), SID (Germany), STA (Slovenia), TANJUG (Serbia), TASR (Slovakia), UKRINFORM (Ukraine) and PAP S.A.(Poland) took part in the 68th poll.

The top 10 athletes according to Polish Press Agency pool:

1. Armand Duplantis (Sweden) – athletics 184 points
2. Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) – tennis 143
3. Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia) – cycling 134
4. Femke Bol (Netherlands) – athletics 76
5. Ousmane Dembele (France) – football 70
6. Lando Norris (Great Britain) – Formula 1 68
7. Jannik Sinner (Italy) – tennis 57
8. Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) – tennis 56
9. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland) – alpine skiing 45

10.Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (Norway) – Nordic skiing      29

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In their message sent to ATA, the Director General of the Croatian news agency HINA, Branka-Gabriela Vojvodic, Director of the Bulgarian news agency BTA, Kiril Valchev, General Manager of Bosnia’s Federal News Agency (FENA), Elmir Huremovic, and the Director General of the Romanian news agency AGERPRES, Klaudia Nicolae, underline that cooperation with Krasniqi has been extremely successful.

“The collaboration with Mrs. Krasniqi has been extremely successful, and, during her tenure, the importance and influence of ATA has positioned itself in a significant place within the family of European agencies,” HINA’s Director General Branka-Gabriela Vojvodic noted.

Vojvodic went on saying that “with her professionalism, dedication, and personal freshness, Armela Krasniqi has made ATA recognizable, achieved an extremely high level of visibility, and left a strong mark both in ATA and internationally.”

AGERPRES Director Nicolae underlines that “seeing a woman being elected in a position of such importance makes visible the pro-European values, which stand at the basis of the decision and I know for sure that your professionalism and moral compass will continue to lead you throughout your career.”

“It is with a great pleasure that I learnt the news about you being appointed to the prestigious post of Chairwoman of the Audiovisual Media Authority by the Albanian Parliament,” BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said in his letter.

In his congratulations message, General Manager of Bosnia’s Federal News Agency (FENA), Elmir Huremovic voices confidence that in this new position, Krasniqi will be equally successful as you have been as head of the Albanian Telegraphic Agency.

“Under your leadership over the past four years ATA has additionally strengthened its leading position in the Albanian media space but also imposed itself as a respectable source of media content in the region and beyond,” he said.

Huremovic said: “I am proud of the cooperation we have had over the past years and strengthening of professional relations between FENA and ATA.

Highlighting Krasniqi’s role through EANA, AMAN and ABNA, Huremovic underlines: “You significantly contributed to strengthening of these associations and thereby strengthening the position of news agencies and their role in democratic Europe.”

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