Athletics Weekly has announced the winners of their 2015 AW Readers’ Choice Awards.
World 100m and 200m champion, Usain Bolt, was voted their reader’s top international male athlete, while world heptathlon champion, Jessica Ennis-Hill, finished on top in the women’s poll.
Bolt earned 31.1 per cent of the votes to beat double world champion, Mo Farah (20.4%), and IAAF World Athlete of the Year, Ashton Eaton (16.8%).
Ennis-Hill was chosen by 38.9 per cent of voters and had a similar winning margin to Bolt, with runner-up Dafne Schippers collecting 27.1 per cent of the votes.
IAAF World Athlete of the Year, Genzebe Dibaba, was third in the poll with 15.7 per cent.