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Runner Marina Arzamasova clinched the award for the second year in a row. In 2015 she claimed the 800m gold at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. A special award also went to Arzamasova’s coach Natalia Dukhnova, who scooped the second Atletika as well.

At the 2015 European Athletics Team Championships in Cheboksary Alexander Linnik took the 400m bronze and set a new national record of 45.43 seconds (that stood unchanged for more than 30 years). Alexander Sidoruk was named the best men’s coach.

The awards were presented by Chairman of the Belarusian Athletics Federation, member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vadim Devyatovsky. He noted that 2015 was a successful year for the Belarusian athletics. “Following a long hiatus Belarus has won a gold medal at the world championships. The Minsk Polo Marathon became a springboard for the popularization of the sport. A large-scale project Atletika Awards 2015 has been implemented as well. However, the 2016 Olympic year sets even more difficult tasks before the Belarusian athletes,” the chairman of the federation stressed.

A special award in the nomination Breakthrough of the Year went to Alina Talay, bronze medalist of the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

The U21 Atletika Award went to Yelena Soboleva (hammer throwing, 2^nd place at the 2015 European Cup in Tallinn), Alexander Kozlovsky (who threw his javelin at 73.39m at the 2015 European Winter Cup Throwing in Leiria, Portugal), and coach Lyudmila Kunats.

The U19 Atletika was bestowed upon decathlete Maxim Andraloit, runner Elvira German and coach Viktor Myasnikov.

The U17 Atletika went to long jumper Violetta Skvortsova, discus thrower Gleb Zhuk and Gleb Zhuk’s coach Vasily Kaptyukh.

The Atletika Award is a bronze statuette instituted by the Belarusian Athletics Federation in 2014.