After a thrilling year of athletics competition, including World Indoors Championships - in Glasgow - European Championships and Olympic Games, BASC members are voting for their Athlete of the Year. The winner will be announced at the BASC Annual Dinner later in November.

Our shortlist for the Athlete of the Year includes Olympic and European 800m Champion, Keely Hodgkinson, who has also run the fastest time of the year breaking her own British record, along with World Indoor Champions Molly Caudery (pole vault) and Josh Kerr (3000m). Molly has the world leading vault for the year, broke the British record and is British champion and European bronze medalist, while Josh has broken the British 1500m and mile records, and won Olympic bronze in the 1500m. Matt Hudson-Smith broke the European 400m record three times this year including his Olympic silver medal winning run, and is British 200m champion. Katarina Johnson-Thompson won her first Olympic medal taking silver in the heptathlon. Georgia Bell is the British champion and record-holder in the 1500m, winning bronze at the Paris Olympics and silver at the European Championships. Finally, European silver-medalist Charlie Dobson is the British 400m Champion, and won the Diamond League Final – he is third in the all-time European rankings.

Photos: Mark Shearman - Athletics Images / Georgia Bell: Richard Dear

This year BASC members are voting for their Para-athlete of the Year. This is for the Susanna Ingram Award, named after a former BASC Committee member who died from cerebral palsy. The winner will be announced at the BASC Annual Dinner in November.

For the Susanna Ingram Award the shortlist includes Sabrina Fortune and Dan Pembroke, world and paralympic champions, and world record holders in the F20 shot put and F13 javelin throw respectively. Hannah Cockroft is the world and paralympic champion in both the T34 and 100m and 800m. Sammi Kinghorn won her first paralympic gold medal in the T53 100m breaking the games record, and also paralympic silver medalist in the 400m, 800m, 1500m and universal relay. Ben Sandilands became T20 1500m paralympic champion and world record holder on his Games debut. Aled Davies is the F63 shot put world champion and paralympic silver medalist, while Hollie Arnold became world champion in the F46 javelin, and took bronze at the paralympic games.

Photos: Mark Shearman - Athletics Images

BASC members voted Dan Pembroke's demolition of the men’s F13 javelin world record to successfully defend his Paralympic title as their memorable moment from the Games. The 33-year-old threw a huge 74.49m, having already broken his existing record after reaching 71.15m on his third attempt. His performance and reaction after the winning throw and the crowd support made it a memorable moment.

In addition to Dan, the following performances were also shortlisted for the award:

Hannah Cockroft claimed her second gold of the Paris Games in winning the T34 800m on the final night. While not totally unexpected it was her 9th gold and continues her unbeaten record at the Paralympics.

Sammi Kinghorn - Gold T53 100m. While a medal was the likely outcome, especially with four silver medals in other events, perhaps gold in a new Paralympic record was a surprise and memorable, as she had beaten Swiss great Catherine Debrunner.

Ben Sandilands powered to men’s 1500m T20 gold in world record time on Paralympic debut.Sandilands, who was crowned world champion in the French capital last year, surged clear of the field with a lap to go. The 21-year-old crossed the line for victory in a brilliant 3:45.40, slicing a tenth of a second off the previous world best and taking 1.6 seconds off his personal best. The rest were in the rear view as Sandilands won by a margin of more than four seconds. The crowd support and the manner and margin of his victory made it a memorable moment.

When Keely Hodgkinson won that elusive global gold medal with a dominant performance in the 800m (1:56.82), at the Paris Olympic Games, BASC members were ecstatic - and voted this their most memorable athletics moment from THE major championships of 2024.

After a stunning 10 medal-winning performances, including a full-house in the relays, the shortlist compromising our five individual medalists was put to members to select their most memorable.

In addition to Keely, the following performances were shortlisted. Matt Hudson-Smith (43.44) shaved several tenths off his own European record as he was pipped on the line of the 400m, having to settle for silver. Josh Kerr broke the British record (3:27.79), and was also agonisingly close to gold as he took silver in the 1500m. Georgia Bell also broke the British record (3:52.61) in the women's event on her way to bronze. Katarina Johnson-Thompson (6844pts) finally got on the Olympic podium in the heptathlon, narrowly beaten by possibly the greatest Olympic heptathlete, to take silver with memorable performances particularly in the high jump, shot put, javelin and 800m.

BASC members selected Matthew Hudson-Smith's stunning performance as their memorable moment at the London Athletics Meet 2024. He broke his own European Record to join the 43 club in a world-leading time of 43.74s taking victory in the 400m against a world class field.

Also on the shortlist was a second standout individual performance: Keely Hodgkinson breaking her own British record in winning the 800m in a world leading 1:54.61.

With UK titles on the line and places on the Paris Olympic team up for grabs, it's been an exciting Microsoft UK Athletics Championships with plenty of memorable moments. Club members overwhelmingly voted 17-year-old Phoebe Gill's stunning 800m victory as their most memorable moment.

Other athletes on the shortlist included Amber Anning who broke the Championship record to win the 400m and book her place for Paris. Louie Hinchliffe, after success in the USA, came home to beat all-comers to the 100m title. Scott Lincoln wins his 10th national title in the shot put. Phil Norman came so close to a qualifying time in the steeplechase to win the title. Callum Wilkinson broke the British Record to win the 10,000m race walk.

What an exciting European Championships! So many memorable moments. Club members chose Charlie Dobson's stunning silver medal performance in the 400m in a personal best time as their favourite. Charlie just missed out on gold in an epic duel with Belgium's Doom.

The shortlist also included: Dina Asher-Smith blazing from the back to the front of the 100m field to win gold in the event for a second time (as well as a sprint relay gold); Keely Hodgkinson dominating the 800m despite being under-the-weather to retain her title; Calli Haugen-Thackery heading our half-marathon team to take team gold and also an individual bronze. Charlie Dobson's PB to take silver in the 400m in an epic duel with Doom; Georgia Bell the best of the British 1500m runners taking silver; George Mills stepping up to the 5000m to win silver; and Megan Keith's gutsy bronze in a fast 10,000m.

The BASC Committee selected their Breakthrough Performance of the championships. The award goes to Romell Glave who won a bronze medal in the 100m.

Club members overwhelmingly voted Molly Caudery as their memorable moment at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Following on from her three world leading pole vaults in this indoor season, Molly won her first global medal, taking gold in a field comprising many of the best women vaulters.

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland athletics team, though small, saw success at the home world indoor championships in Glasgow. BASC shortlisted four outstanding British performances for members to select their memorable moment. We witnessed another Super Saturday this time with two gold medals. As well as Molly Caudery, Josh Kerr, pacing himself and forcing his way through a crowded field at times, conquered the 3000m, making this his second global gold. On the last evening, home favourite Jemma Reekie took 800m silver in a class field. Laviai Nielsen, just missed out on an individual medal with 4th place in the 400m, but came away with a relay bronze medal and a British record.

The BASC Committee selected their Breakthrough Performance of the championships. The award goes to Georgia Bell who placed 4th in the 1500m final.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson was voted by BASC members as their Athlete of the Year following her stunning heptathlon victory at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Katarina returned from injuries and setbacks to reclaim the world title. She was chosen from a shortlist of seven athletes comprising world champions, European indoor champions and record breakers during the 2023 indoor and outdoor seasons.

Our shortlist for the Athlete of the Year included our European Indoor Champions: long-jumper Jazmin Sawyers with her first 7m leap, Keely Hodgkinson who also won a silver medal in the world championships as well as becoming Wanda Diamond League 800m champion breaking the British record, and the 1500m champion, Laura Muir. Our World Athletics Champions are also represented: Josh Kerr with his stunning 1500m victory as well as Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Zharnel Hughes who broke the longstanding British 100m and 200m records as well as winning world bronze in the 100m and Matt Hudson-Smith who broke the longstanding European 400m record on his way to winning world silver are also on the list.

Katarina was announced as Athlete of the Year at the club's Annual Dinner.

Aled Davies and Hannah Cockroft have been voted winners of the Susanna Ingram Award. Aled completed a decade of dominance in the F63 shot put winning gold at the World Para-Athletics Championships in Paris, while Hannah Cockroft won both T34 100m and 800m to take her world title tally to 14. This year was the first time that BASC members could vote for their male and female para-athletes of the year. The Susanna Ingram Award is named after a former BASC Committee member who died from cerebral palsy.

The shortlists for the Susanna Ingram Award comprised our champions from the World Para-Athletics Championships. In the female category, Hannah was joined on the shortlist by Hollie Arnold winning the hotly contested F46 javelin throw to take her 5th world title, Sabrina Fortune winning back-to-back F20 shot put world titles, and Sammi Kinghorn regaining her T53 world title, not to mention success in the Big Half and Great North Run.

In the male category, Aled was accompanied by Jonathan Broom-Edwards retained his T64 high jump title in his first competition of the year, Gavin Drysdale took his second world gold in the T72 framerunning 100m, while Dan Pembroke beat off stiff competition to win the F13 javelin throw and Ben Sandiland triumphed in the T20 1500m.

The winners were announced at the BASC Annual Dinner Weekend.