World Archery releases nominee shortlist for 2019 athlete of the year awards

The nominees for World Archery’s 2019 Athlete of the Year awards were announced on 31 December 2019. A public vote will be open throughout January 2020 and the winners of the awards will be announced during the Indoor Archery World Series Finals on 8 February.

Nominees include five-time Hyundai Archery World Cup Champions Brady Ellison and Sara Lopez, World Archery Champions James Lutz and Lei Chien-Ying, and impressive newcomers Alexis Ruiz and An San.

Mete Gazoz, Yasemin Anagoz, Mike Schloesser, Sara Lopez, Kevin Mather, Merve Nur Eroglu and Goktug Ergin won the awards in 2018.

The 2019 Athlete of the Year awards for recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, para men and para women will be decided by a combination of a public vote and expert panels. Awards for the coach, breakthrough archer and the new judge of the year will be chosen by expert panels.

The public vote will open on 1 January and close at midnight CET on 31 January 2020.

Nominees

The following awards will be decided by a combination of public and expert panel votes.

Recurve men

• Brady Ellison, USA 
• Lee Woo Seok, Korea 
• Khairul Anuar Mohamad, Malaysia 
• Mauro Nespoli, Italy 
• Ruman Shana, Bangladesh 

Recurve women

• Kang Chae Young, Korea 
• Lei Chien-Ying, Chinese Taipei 
• An San, Korea 
• Zheng Yichai, China 
• Tan Ya-Ting, Chinese Taipei 

Compound man

• James Lutz, USA 
• Anders Faugstad, Norway 
• Mike Schloesser, Netherlands 
• Braden Gellenthien, USA 
• Anton Bulaev, Russia 
• Roberto Hernandez, El Salvador 

Compound woman

• Sara Lopez, Colombia 
• Natalia Avdeeva, Russia 
• Alexis Ruiz, USA 
• Paige Pearce, USA 
• Sophie Dodemont, France 

Para man

• Ben Thompson, USA 
• Bahattin Hekimoglu, Turkey 
• Ruben Vanhollebeke, Belgium 
• Steve Prowse, Great Britain 
• Suresh Selvathamby, Malaysia 

Para woman

• Elena Krutova, Russia 
• Wu Chunyan, China 
• Nur Syahidah Alim, Singapore 
• Jess Stretton, Great Britain 
• Milena Olszewska, Poland 

The following awards will be decided by expert panel votes.

Coach

• Kisik Lee, USA 
• Martin Frederick, Bangladesh 
• Sally Park, Bhutan 

Breakthrough

• James Lutz, USA 
• Ruman Shana, Bangladesh 
• An San, Korea 
• Valentina Acosta, Colombia 
• Anders Faugstad, Norway 
• Alexis Ruiz, USA 

Judge

• Karla Cabrera, Philippines 
• Martino Miani, Italy 
• Robert Pian, USA 
• Indranil Datta​, India 

Online voting for World Archery’s 2019 Athlete of the Year awards will open on 1 January and close on 31 January 2020.