Jamaican super-sprinter Usain Bolt leads the list of six finalists announced for the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award.
Bolt won a third straight Olympic 100, 200 and 4x100-metre treble at the Rio Games in August and now has the chance to win the annual IAAF award arecord sixth time.
The other two men are Briton Mo Farah, who got back-to-back 5,000/10,000 metre doubles in Rio; and South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk who bettered Michael Johnson's 400 metres world record for the gold.
The three women on the final list also bagged Olympic gold in Brazil: Ethiopian Alamz Ayana and Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk with world record performances in the 10,000 metres and hammer throw; while Jamaica's Elaine Thompson got a 100m and 200m sprint double.
