What a year it has been for Europe's younger athletes, who excelled both at the European Athletics U23 Championships and Junior Championships, and at the major senior events.
It means the voting for the Rising Star awards at the European Athletics Golden Tracks will be as close as it has ever been.
The Golden Tracks trophy will be awarded at a televised gala evening in Lausanne on Saturday 17 October when the European male and female athletes of 2015 will also be honoured.
Voting will close on Monday 28 September, with your chance to vote through our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Today we look at Ali Kaya, Patryk Dobek, Florentina Marincu and Klavidya Afanasyeva.
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Men's Rising Star award
On the late afternoon of July 9, an extraordinary exhibition of distance running took place at the Kadriorg Stadium in Tallinn.
It was the final of the 10,000m at the European U23 Championships and Türkiye’s Ali Kaya, in what was already a brilliant year for this 21-year-old, set off at the front of the field.
Within a few laps he was on his own, and that pattern never changed as he charged away to win gold in not only a championship record of 27:53.38, but amazingly by more than a minute and a half.
It was a stunning performance from Kaya, who also took the 5000m title in Estonia in another championship record (13:20.16), having started 2015 by winning gold in the 3000m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague where victory came in 7:38.42, a championship and national record.
But his success does not end there. In Rome in June, he ran his 5000m personal best of 13:00.31 which is a European Under-23 record and the best by a European this year – even quicker than multiple champion Mo Farah.
The European Under-23 Championships proved a great occasion too for Poland’s Patryk Dobek, 21, who won gold in the 400m hurdles.
His triumph was reward for a young career where he has consistently made the podium, specialising also in the flat 400m where he was European Junior silver medallist in 2013 having been world youth bronze medallist in 2011.
This first major title arrived with a personal best (48.84) – having won his heat in 49.83 - as he beat Finland’s Jussi Kanervo (49.66) and Denmark’s Nicolai Hartling (50.02).
He then won silver as part of the 4x400m relay team before heading to the IAAF World Championships in Beijing where he proved his worth among the senior stars of the sport.
Dobek ran the fourth fastest time in the semi-finals as he lowered his best to 48.40m, the quickest time this year by an under-23 hurdler, before finishing seventh in the final (49.14).
Women's Rising Star award
Indoors and out, 2015 has been a year to remember for Romania’s Florentina Marincu.
At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague in March, and just a few weeks before her 19th birthday, Marincu leaped to a European Junior indoor long jump record to take bronze.
Her distance of 6.79m came in round five of the competition, having started with 6.70m, and put her on the podium alongside Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic (6.98m) and Germany’s Sosthene Taroum Moguenara (6.83m).
If these major senior championships are often seen as breeding grounds for the next generation, Marincu would have absorbed everything which comes with the experience, never mind ending it with a medal aswell.
By the time of the summer, Marincu also entered the triple jump at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Eskilstuna and it proved to be a great decision.
With a distance of 6.78m she won the long jump and then with 13.08m she finished third in the triple to be one of the leading stars of the week in Sweden.
At the European Race Walking Cup in Murcia in May, Russia's Klavidya Afanasyeva broke away with 3km of the 10km left to win the junior race in style.
It was a pattern she would repeat a few weeks later in Eskilstuna, as the 10,000km walk took place on the opening morning of the European Athletics Junior Championships.
Afanasyeva, 19, led a Russian cleansweep as she triumphed in a world-leading junior time of 43:36.88 from teammates Olga Shargina (44:01.08) and Mariya Losinova (44:07.44).
As in Murcia, there was no rush to make her mark on this final.
Losinova was first at every checkpoint up to 7000m but then Afanasyeva moved away with a burst of speed that proved decisive even this far out but the outcome even surprised her as she said: 'I didn't expect to go this fast.'