As expected, Charles Allie is being considered for World Masters Athletics Athlete of the Year — both in the overall and sprint-group categories, WMA has announced. His M70 records at Malaga and elsewhere should make him a shoo-in for the top male prize. No American women are up for the overall Athlete of Year honors, but three Yanks have good shots at event awards — W60 middle-distancer Lesley Hinz, W65 distance great Sabra Harvey and W60 throws legend Carol Finsrud. Besides Charlie, American men in the finals for event awards are M50 middle-distancer Charles Novak, M75 thrower George Mathews and M60 high jumper Pete Hlavin.

Only Australia (the bulk of Oceania WMA region), with nine nominees, has more than USA’s seven up for honors, with nearly 30 nations represented. Canada is third with six nominees.

WMA doesn’t say when the final winners will be named, but Tuesday was the final day for nominations.

Here’s the complete list of nominees bubbling up from the WMA regions:

WOMEN

OVERALL

43 Joice Kirui KEN
52 Petra Bajeat FRA
61 Lynette Ventris AUS
75 Carol LaFayette-Boyd CAN
80 Evaun Williams GBR
82 Yoko Nakano JPN
91 Julia Huapaya PER

SPRINTS

51 Winnie de Winnaar RSA
52 Julie Brims AUS
61 Jane Horder GBR
65 Karla del Grande CAN
80 Sumiko Yamakawa Imoto BRA

MIDDLE DISTANCE

38 Soumaya Bousaid TUN
45 Minori Hayakari JPN
50 Eva Trost GER
60 Lesley Hinz USA
70 Gillian Young AUS
76 Maria Bachsmann CHI

LONG DISTANCE

36 Innes Chenonge KEN
55 Sally Gibbs NZL
69 Sabra Harvey USA
71 Angela Copson GBR
82 Yoko Nakano JPN
83 Margarida Stella Hochstatter BRA

THROWS

53 Heleen Knobel RSA
61 Carol Finsrud USA
70 Jarmila Klimesova CZE
76 Janet Banens AUS
80 Evaun Williams GBR
91 Julia Huapaya PER

JUMPS

41 Miyuki Fukumoto JPN
52 Petra Bajeat FRA
62 Conceicao Aparecida Geremias BRA
67 Stephanie Claassen RSA
70 Margaret Taylor AUS
75 Carol LaFayette-Boyd CAN

COMBINED EVENTS

52 Gabi Watts AUS
53 Heleen Knobel RSA
70 Mirtha Perez CHI
75 Marianne Maier AUT
81 Christa Bortignon CAN

RACE WALKS

50 Kalliopi Gavalaki Greece
61 Lynette Ventris AUS
65 Kris Kozell CAN
72 Elsa Meyer RSA
80 Paulina Alejandro Valdez BOL

MEN

OVERALL

45 Peter Bii KEN
60 Adan Mendez Montiel MEX
70 Valdis Cela LAT
71 Charles Allie USA
86 David Carr AUS
90 Yoshiyuki Shimizu BRA
91 Fei Bingxiang CHN

SPRINTS

46 Spencer Moraope RSA
60 Trevor Young AUS
65 Dr Stephen Peters GBR
71 Charles Allie USA
76 Yuan-Chung Hsu TPE
90 Yoshiyuki Shimizu BRA

MIDDLE DISTANCE

46 Spencer Moraope RSA
51 Charles Novak USA
65 Joe Gough IRE
86 David Carr AUS
97 Lorenzo Juvenal Perez ARG

LONG DISTANCE

50 Miguel Molero-Eichwein GER
60 Alastair Prangnell NZL
66 Stephen Kamande KEN
76 Felix Chino Choque BOL
80 Fidel Díaz Méndez MEX
82 Bernardino Pacheco Pereira POR

THROWS

51 Wilhelm Pauer RSA
55 Norbert Demmel GER
55 Mark Cummings NZL
70 Arild Busterud NOR
71 Esa Kiuru FIN
75 George Mathews USA
86 Takumi Matsushima BRA

JUMPS

43 Samuel Okantey GHA
45 Yoshihisa Fukumoto JPN
55 Gianni Becatti ITA
60 Peter Hlavin USA
65 Wolfgang Ritte GER
70 Geoff Shaw AUS
90 Yoshiyuki Shimizu BRA

COMBINED EVENTS

70 Valdis Cela LAT
70 Geoff Shaw AUS
71 Bernardino Uribe CHI
82 Andrzej Rzepecki RSA
85 Ted Rowan CAN

RACE WALKS

44 Eric Maugo Sikuku KEN
52 Rodrigo Moreno COL
60 Adan Mendez Montiel MEX
68 Jose Luis Lopez Camarena MEX
76 Ralph Bennett AUS
88 Ivan Pushkin UKR

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