AS THE WORLD AOY, Ryan Crouser was obviously the top American as well. And while the shot put king was a few votes shy of unanimous on the world side, there was no question of his perfection here… He’s the first putter to be U.S. men’s AOY since John Godina in ’98…
Crouser was No. 7 in our ’19 voting and is joined as a repeater from two years ago by Raj Benjamin, Grant Holloway, Joe Kovacs and Noah Lyles (the winner in both ’18 & ’19)…
The charting of this year’s voting (points are awarded in inverse order of place: 10-9-8… etc):
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | % | |
| 1. Ryan Crouser | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 290 | 100.0% |
| 2. Rai Benjamin | — | 19 | 9 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 249 | 85.9% |
| 3. Grant Holloway | — | 8 | 16 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 234 | 80.7% |
| 4. Fred Kerley | — | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | — | 177 | 61.0% |
| 5. Kenny Bednarek | — | — | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 163 | 56.2% |
| 6. Chris Nilsen | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 118 | 40.7% |
| 7. Joe Kovacs | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 110 | 37.9% |
| 8. JuVaughn Harrison | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 76 | 26.2% |
| 9. Noah Lyles | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 64 | 22.1% |
| 10. Rudy Winkler | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 51 | 17.6% |
| 11. Paul Chelimo 34; 12. Devon Allen 16; 13. Garrett Scantling 11; 14. tie, Grant Fisher & Michael Norman 1. | ||||||||||||
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