Have your say and vote now for your men’s Athlete of the Month for March 2026!
Five nominees have been selected for both the women's and men's categories based purely on performances achieved throughout the month of March with the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze having the biggest bearing on the shortlists.
Click here to cast your vote!
The voting closes at 11.59pm CET on 8 April and the winners will be announced across the European Athletics social media channels on 10 April.
Last month’s winners were Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson and Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis. Hodgkinson smashed the long-standing world indoor 800m record with 1:54.87 in Lievin while Karalis vaulted to second on the world all-time list with a 6.17m clearance at the Greek Indoor Championships in Athens.
The five nominees are listed below in alphabetical order with each athlete's key achievements listed.
Gerson Balde (POR) | Profile
-World indoor long jump champion
-World lead of 8.46m
Andy Diaz Hernandez (ITA) | Profile
-World indoor triple jump champion
-World lead of 17.47m
Armand Duplantis (SWE) | Profile
-World indoor pole vault champion
-Championship record of 6.25m
-World record of 6.31m at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala
Simon Ehammer (SUI) | Profile
-World indoor heptathlon champion
-World indoor record of 6670 points
Jakub Szymanski (POL) | Profile
-World indoor 60m hurdles champion in 7.40
-Polish record and equal world lead of 7.37 in Berlin