The winner of the African Sports Personality of the Year award will be announced in 2021.
A panel of journalists from Africa and the United Kingdom chose the six candidates.
The best African sporting achievements on the international stage between January and September in 2021 were selected by the panel.
The impact of the person's achievement beyond their sport was also taken into account.
The nominees have been nominated.
Eliud Kipchoge is an athlete.
Faith Kipyegon is an athlete.
Ntando Mahlangu is a para-athletes.
Christine Mboma is an athlete.
Mendy is a football player.
There is a swimmer named Tatjana Schoenmaker.
You can also vote for the winner if you know more about the nominees.
The winner of the award will be announced on Friday, January 7, 2022, on Focus On Africa television and radio and on the BBC Sport website.
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There are six people vying for the honor.
Eliud Kipchoge is from Uganda.
Eliud Kipchoge was the African Sports Personality of the Year.
The age of the marathon runner in the country is 37.
The best marathon runner of all time is Eliud Kipchoge, who won his second successive Olympic gold in the event.
The International Olympic Committee's best male athlete of the Games was named after the Kenyan who successfully defended his Olympic marathon title.
He has won 13 of the 15 major marathons he has run since stepping up to the distance in 2013, with the official world record of 2:01:39 he set in Berlin being the most recent.
He was the oldest man to win the Olympic marathon since Carlos Lopes of Portugal in 1984 and he recorded the greatest winning margin since 1972.
Faith.
Faith Kipyegon was the African Sports Personality of the Year.
Middle-distance runner.
Faith Kipyegon set an Olympic record in Tokyo as she defended her 1500m title. The win was dedicated to the three-year-old daughter of the winner.
The dedication was all the more significant since it was the third athlete to retain an Olympic title after giving birth after the Games, after Australia's Shirley Strickland in 1956 and Cameroon's Francoise Mbango in 2008).
In July, she set a world-leading time of 3:51.07 at the Diamond League in Monaco, which was the fourth fastest time in history.
She wants to break the world record.
Ntando Mahlangu.
Ntando Mahlangu was the African Sports Personality of the Year.
Discipline: long jumper and 200m runner.
Two years after taking up the sport, Ntando won a silver medal in the T42 200m at the Rio Games.
He added to his collection when he took gold in the men's 200 metres and long jump in Tokyo. Even though he only started training for the event six weeks before the Games, he set a new world record of 7.17m.
The youngster who lost his legs due to under-developed limbs, has a bright future on the track, and combines his athletic exploits with his academic work. He set a world record in the men's 200 metres.
Christine Mboma is a woman.
Christine Mboma was the African Sports Personality of the Year.
The age of the country is 18.
Christine Mboma described her performance at Tokyo 2020 as the "best race of my life", as she became the first woman to ever stand on an Olympic podium.
The teen won her country's first medal in 25 years in the 200m, finishing behind Jamaica's five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. The fastest time ever run by a woman under the age of 20 was run by Mboma.
In September, she became the 200m Diamond League champion and set two world records, one under-20 and one African record.
After being banned from the 400m by World Athletics because of her high testosterone levels, the 18-year-old began focusing on the 200m.
Mendy is named Edouard.
The African Sports Personality of the Year is Edouard Mendy.
The age of the football goalkeeper is 29
In May, the west London club made it to the group stage of the European competition for the first time after signing Mendy from Rennes.
In his debut season in the competition, he kept a record-equalling nine clean sheets. Mendy became the first African goalkeeper to play in a final of the European Cup and the first in Europe's showpiece event since Bruce Grobbelaar appeared for the Reds in 1985.
Mendy picked up the Uefa Goalkeeper of 2020-21 award last season, after he had 19 clean sheets in the premier league.
The man who won the Uefa Super Cup and was a runner-up in the FA Cup missed out on winning the France Football magazine's Yashin Trophy for the best goalkeeper in Europe.
There is a person named Tatjana Schoenmaker.
The African Sports Personality of the Year is in 2021.
South Africa is a country with a young age of 24.
In Tokyo, she won a gold and a silver for South Africa, and set two new world and Olympic records in the 200m and 100m breaststroke.
She won South Africa's first Olympic medal in women's swimming since 2000 and ended her country's 25-year wait for a female Games gold in the pool as she finished first in the 200m final.
In 2016 he missed out on a spot in the Rio Games by one-hundredth of a second. She has amassed multiple national and continental records, two Commonwealth Games golds and a world silver medal after sticking with the sport.
How can I improve on myself? She said she was excited to see where her swimming was going.
