sportsman 2025 – Albanian  Telegraphic  Agency. https://en.ata.gov.al News Agency Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:20:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 News agencies, including ATA, name Duplantis European Sportsman of the Year https://en.ata.gov.al/2025/12/26/news-agencies-including-ata-name-duplantis-european-sportsman-of-the-year/ https://en.ata.gov.al/2025/12/26/news-agencies-including-ata-name-duplantis-european-sportsman-of-the-year/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:20:50 +0000 https://en.ata.gov.al/?p=283385 WARSAW, Dec 26 /ATA-PAP/ – Armand Duplantis, the 26-year-old Olympic pole vault champion, has been named European Sportsman of the Year, winning the 68th edition of the annual poll organized by Poland’s PAP news agency in cooperation with partner press agencies, including the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), selecting the top 10 athletes in Europe for 2025.

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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