We complete our focus on the Rising Star nominees for the Golden Tracks trophy with a look at the remaining men and women in the running.
In a summer of the European Athletics U23 Championships and the European Athletics Junior Championships, there were some sensational performances.
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Women’s Rising Star
When Tallinn staged the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships, Romania’s Bianca Razor won 400m gold in 51.96. Flick the clock forward four years to this summer, with the European U23 Championships being staged there in Estonia, and the outcome was just the same.
Now 21, this Romanian was indeed Razor-sharp again as she triumphed in 51.31 to take the title at this next level before making another major impression at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing a month later in August.
In the heats, Razor flew to victory in her race in 50.37. It was a personal best and the quickest time by a European under-23 for five years, and though she then just missed out on the final after another fine run in the semis, she can take so much into 2016 from her exploits this year.
Her success was mirrored by Germany’s javelin thrower Christin Hussong, also 21.
In Tallinn, she broke the championship record with a national age-group best as she won with 65.60m from the fourth round.
She had only three legal throws (her others were 62.07m and 59.40m) but how she made it count to land gold, the only woman to break 60m in the competition.
But that was not the end of her impressive season as Hussong also made her mark at the world championships by throwing even further.
Amazingly, she finished top in the qualifying competition as she took her personal best to 65.92m. She could not quite match that in the final where she finished sixth with 62.98m as her fellow German Katharina Molitor won gold in the final round (67.69m).
Türkiye’s Emel Dereli had a fabulous summer in the shot put, where she defended her title in superb fashion at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Eskilstuna.
Dereli, 19, won with a national record of 18.40m, the furthest distance in the world this year by a junior.
She triumphed in the third round to keep hold of the gold she took in Rieti when her 18.04m was also a national record.
She was unbeaten in 16 competitions in 2015 and even last weekend she was still winning as she threw 16.61m to triumph at the European Champion Clubs Cup Track & Field Juniors in Istanbul as her team Fenerbahce took the title.
Russia’s 20km race walker Lyudmyla Olyanovska made the podium twice this summer, a year on from silver at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich.
And it really was a season where she showed what she was made of.
Olyanovska, 22, might have expected greater success at the European Athletics U23 Championships where she finished third (1:28:41).
But she then responded in style when it came to the world championships in Beijing taking bronze there aswell.
In a similar time – 1:28:13 – Olyanovska put in a fine display behind Chinese duo Liu Hong and Lu Xiuzhi and will now look towards next summer, where European gold and the Olympics will be on her mind.
Switzerland’s Noemi Zbären chose the perfect time to run a 100m hurdles personal best – the final of the European U23 Championships.
She had been impressive throughout, winning her heat in 13.00 and then being the only athlete to go under 13 seconds in the semis where she was fastest in 12.88.
The final was an even quicker story as she took gold with a brilliant run of 12.71 before reaching the final at the world championships where she was sixth (12.95) in the Bird’s Nest Stadium.
One woman controlled the 3000m steeplechase final in Tallinn - Türkiye’s Tugba Güvenc.
But it was no surprise because a month earlier, on 14 June in Istanbul, she had run a European-leading under-23 time and national age group record of 9:33.34.
That was enough for fifth on the overall European Athletics rankings, and in Tallinn, Güvenc, 21, triumphed in 9:36.14 as she won by over four seconds.
Men’s Rising Star
What a year it has been for Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki.
He was still only 17 at the time of the European Athletics Indoor Championships in March when he caused quite a stir, with a European junior shot put record in an event using the senior implement of 7.26kg.
He achieved the distance of 20.46m both in qualifying and then in the final where he finished sixth.
The winter had earlier brought him the world junior indoor record with the 6kg shot of 22.38m before a summer where he won gold at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Eskilstuna with 22.62m.
It was a victory which came with a championship record and a national junior record using the 6kg shot and he was not finished yet.
At the start of this month in Zagreb, back using the heavier device, Bukowiecki then broke the world junior all-time best with 20.78m.
He was not the only Polish athlete celebrating success in the field in Eskilstuna as his teammate, discus thrower Bartlomiej Stoj, put in quite a performance too.
The final was the first event of the afternoon session on the final day in Sweden and it was worth the wait for this 19-year-old – and the packed crowd.
After fouling with his first two throws, and then hitting 64.09m with his next, Stoj had seen favourite and world junior champion Martin Markovic, of Croatia, break the championship record with 66.66m.
Unperturbed, Stoj then showed the power he possesses by launching the discus to 68.02m to instantly gain the record himself with an effort that brought the title and was the third best ever by a European junior.
Zharnel Hughes, born in the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, made some impression in his first summer running for Great Britain.
Hughes, 20, had already shown his ability in the 200m with victory at the London Anniversary Games in July in a personal best of 20.05 which he then lowered in Beijing as he finished fifth in the final won by Bolt (19.55).
His time of 20.02 was the third best of all-time by a European under-23 and the second quickest by a European of any age this summer in the rankings led by Türkiye’s Ramil Guliyev (19.88).
At 15, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis is another great European prospect and he proved as much when he took pole vault gold at the World Youth Championships in Cali in July.
He triumphed on countback from Ukraine’s Vladyslav Malykhin, both clearing 5.30m.
It was an impressive series by Duplantis who began at 4.85m, and had just one foul, at 5.00m, on his way to victory as he cleared heights of 5.10m, 5.20m and 5.25m before the winning 5.30m.
Hlib Piskunov, of the Ukraine, was also another of the shining stars in Cali as he won the hammer (5kg) with a sensational championship record.
His second round throw of 84.91m simply blew the field apart as he won the title by almost six metres from teammate Mykhailo Havryliuk (78.93m).
Piskunov had the top six marks this year and no one in the world matched this gold medal-winning distance.
Germany’s Niklas Kaul is 17 and he, too, was a championship record-breaker at the World Youths with a superb display in the decathlon before then winning silver in the javelin.
Kaul triumphed with 8002 points, victory by 324, and he made the podium in the javelin with 78.05m.
In the decathlon he broke personal bests in the long jump (6.76m), high jump (2.05m), pole vault (4.70m) and 1500m (4:42.29).