Finalists introduced for 2025 World Athletics Photograph of the Year

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Three finalists for the Photograph of the Year award have been chosen forward of the World Athletics Awards 2025.

From the 141 photos that have been submitted, a panel of judges – comprising two-time world 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson, four-time world triple soar champion Christian Taylor, photographer and Paris 2024 picture chief Pascal Rondeau, and World Athletics digital inventive supervisor Christel El Saneh – narrowed the entries to 10 shortlisted photos earlier than deciding on the three finalists.

Photographers from 41 nations throughout all six continental areas submitted entries.

The shortlisted photos will type a part of a digital exhibition on the World Athletics web site that may go dwell later this month.

The successful {photograph} shall be introduced on World Athletics’ platforms as a part of the World Athletics Awards 2025.

The finalists

Fabrizio Bensch
‘Champions below the flag’

Photo of the Year finalist - Champions under the flag

Photo of the Year finalist – Champions below the flag (© World Athletics photographer icon REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch)

Men’s 100m bronze medallist Noah Lyles of the USA celebrates along with his teammate Tara Davis-Woodhall, gold medallist from the ladies’s lengthy soar, on the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25

Emilee Chinn
‘Perseverance’

Photo of the Year finalist - Perseverance

Photo of the Year finalist – Perseverance (© World Athletics photographer icon Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

Geordie Beamish of New Zealand avoids the foot of Jean-Simon Desgagnes of Canada as he falls to the bottom throughout the males’s 3000m steeplechase heats on day one of many World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25

Vegard Grott 
‘Shadows’

Photo of the Year finalist - Shadows

Photo of the Year finalist – Shadows (© World Athletics photographer icon Vegard Grøtt / Bildbyran)

Narve Gilje Nordas of Norway, Samuel Pihlstrom of Sweden and athletes compete within the males’s Dream Mile throughout the Bislett Games Diamond League competitors in Oslo, Norway

About the photographers

Fabrizio Bensch (GER)

Fabrizio Bensch studied political science on the Freie Universitat Berlin and began his profession as a photojournalist in 1989, a number of months earlier than the Berlin Wall got here down. He has labored for the Reuters Newspictures Service, primarily based in Berlin, since 1992, overlaying breaking information, politics and sports activities around the globe. He has lined conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Emilee Chinn (USA)

Emilee Chinn is a workers sports activities photographer for Getty Images primarily based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Her work covers main US skilled sports activities leagues (MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA) and collegiate athletics. She gained the seventy fifth College Photographer of the Year competitors for her sports activities portfolio together with awards of excellence and was recognised in 2023 on the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ for her work with the Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati sports activities.

Vegard Grott (NOR)

Vegard Grott has labored as an company photographer since 2011 and was employed by Bildbyran in 2017. He has lined quite a few Olympics and different main sporting occasions, along with being the group photographer for Norway’s nationwide soccer group. On three events, Grott has been named among the best sports activities photographers on this planet by Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism.

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