Fans around the world will be able to select the best performer of the day during the IAAF World Championship in Beijing.
Bermuda will be represented at the IAAF World Championships by Tyrone Smith and Tre Houston.
In conjunction with Adidas, the official IAAF partner, the IAAF is asking athletics fans around world to choose the best performers of each day.
After each evening session of the championships, which runs August 22nd – 30th, a panel of experts will put together a shortlist of three athletes deemed to be among the day's best performers.
The IAAF will then announce the names of the three athletes -- who need not be winners or even medalists but nevertheless are competitors who grab the imagination of the experts -- through the IAAF website and social media, opening it up to the public to vote via www.iaaf.org and decide a winner.
The athlete with the most votes will be announced before the following day's evening session (except for the winner of the final day which will be announced the following morning, the day after the championships).
Each day's winning athletes will then form a final shortlist -- the 'champion of champions' shortlist -- and voting will take place from Monday, August 31st to Friday, September 4th.
One athlete will emerge as the overall winner and get the accolade of being the Best Performer of the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 presented by Adidas.
The overall winner will be announced on September 4 and will be presented with a special Golden Shoe Award at the IAAF Gala in November.
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