“For me, 2025 was a yr of stepping outdoors of the consolation zone and pushing the bounds of what was mentally and bodily potential,” stated McLaughlin-Levrone, 26.
“I need to proceed pushing boundaries in 2026.”
Duplantis added: “It is actually necessary for me to win this for the sector eventers. It is very particular, I will actually cherish this one.
“I genuinely attempt to be the most effective model of myself that I can probably be. I’ve a variety of pleasure that I hope to unfold after I’m on the monitor. I’ve an immense ardour and pleasure for what I do.
“I am so obsessive about pole vaulting and I really like pushing myself.”
Duplantis and McLaughlin-Levrone additionally received the athlete of the yr prizes for males’s subject and ladies’s monitor respectively.
Australian Nicola Olyslagers, who received world excessive bounce titles each indoors and outdoor, was named girls’s subject athlete of the yr, whereas Kenya’s world 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi received the boys’s monitor prize.
Spain’s Maria Perez, who received world titles in each the 20km race stroll and the 35km race stroll, and London Marathon and Berlin Marathon winner Sabastian Sawe received the out of stadium awards.