The World Athletics list of year's best athletes is here

World Athletics has published the list of the top-10 athletes of the year. 

Here is the list of the selected male athletes:

Joshua Cheptegei
Ryan Crouser
Mondo Duplantis
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Eliud Kipchoge
Pedro Pichardo
Daniel Stahl
Miltiadis Tentoglou
Damian Warner
Karsten Warholm

If you compare the list to mine you'll observe that they coincide at 80 %. The two differences are Pichardo and Stahl. I had included DeGrasse and Vetter, but the choice of Pichardo and Stahl is equally excellent. Pichardo had a great season, missing barely the 18 m barrier. Stahl also dominated his discipline and had a 71+ year's best (plus one other throw over 70 m). They could have made my list.

The list of the top female athletes of the year is:

Valarie Allman
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
Sifan Hassan
Faith Kipyegon
Mariya Lasitskene
Sydney McLaughlin
Shaunae Miller-Uibo
Athing Mu
Yulimar Rojas
Elaine Thompson-Herah

Again there is a 80 % overlap between my list and that of WA. And in fact the two athletes missing from my list are somehow there: Miller-Uibo appears in the honourable mentions, while I have reserved Mu for the rising star list. (It would be a pity if Mu missed the rising star distinction having made the "senior" list).

The first name from my list missing in the WA one is Jepchrichir. Her victory in the olympic marathon should have sufficed for a place in the list. 

The shocking omission is that of Wlodarczyk. Once more World athletics is ignoring her. This is  something I cannot understand. Wlodarczyk has accomplished this year a unique feat with a third olympic gold in a row. She was nominated athlete of the year by Track and Field News both in 2014 and 2016. She made the top of my year's best list in 2017. I have trouble understanding why World Athletics is systematically ignoring her. It's a blatant injustice.