NAIROBI， Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Four out of the seven gold medalists from Kenya at the Rio Olympics have been nominated for the 2016 World Athletes of the Year award.

Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge， Conselsus Kipruto (3，000m steeplechase)， David Rudisha (800m) and Vivian Cheruiyot (5，000m) were named in the list of 10 men and 10 women nominees for the award， which will be handed out in Monaco on December 2.

"It came as a big surprise. I had a good season and also won the Diamond League trophy，" said Kipruto on Tuesday from Eldoret.

"However， we have other top names that I believe did better and so for me to make this nomination list is a big boost and a challenge for me to work extra hard in the coming season."

The selection was done by an international panel of athletics experts， comprising representatives from all six continental areas of the IAAF.

Top on the list is triple Olympic champion and Jamaican legend Usain Bolt while the women field is led by Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana， winner of the 10，000m gold.

The list has Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva， Ashton Eaton (USA)， Mo Farah (Britain)， Omar McLeod (Jamaica)， Christian Taylor (USA)， Wayde van Niekerk (South Africa). Those named alongside Ayana and Cheruiyot in the women's part are Ruth Beitia (Spain)， Kendra Harrison (USA)， Caterine Ibarguen (Colombia)， Ruth Jebet (Bahrain)， Sandra Perkovic (Croatia)， Caster Semenya (South Africa)， Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) and Anita Wlodarczyk (Poland).

In a statement， IAAF said they will use the three-way voting process to determine the finalists. The IAAF Council and the IAAF Family will cast their votes by email， while fans can vote online via the IAAF's social media platforms.

The IAAF Council's vote will count for 50 percent of the result， while the IAAF Family's votes and the public votes will each count for 25 percent of the final result.

Voting closes on Nov. 1. At the conclusion of the voting process， three men and three women finalists will be announced by the IAAF.

The male and female World Athletes of the Year will be announced live on stage at the IAAF awards gala in Monaco on Dec. 2.

LONDON vans sk8 hi slim australia , Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Justin Gatlin upset all-time greatUsain Bolt to win the men's 100 meters title at the World AthleticsChampionships here on Saturday.

Gatlin, who won the silver medal in the last three worldchampionships, clocked 9.92 seconds for the surprising victory.

His fellow American Christian Coleman won silver in 9.94 andBolt, who is running his last 100 meters before retirement vans sk8 hi australia , wasthird in 9.95 seconds.

China's Su Bingtian, who became the first Asian to reach themen's 100m final at the world championships two years ago, finishedeighth in 10.27. Enditem

URUMQI, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Twenty years have passed since the first officials from the central government and other provinces were dispatched to Xinjiang to assist local development.

More than 19 vans old skool pink australia ,000 officials have worked in Xinjiang since the program was started by the Chinese government in 1997, which requires central ministries and 19 provinces and municipalities to support Xinjiang in building new infrastructure and boosting local development.

The assistance program set several records in terms of geographical area, the population involved and investment. The program has brought substantial changes for people in Xinjiang, which makes up one sixth of China's land area.

At the Sixth National Meeting on Pairing-Assistance to Xinjiang vans old skool pro australia , held in Xinjiang from Sunday to Tuesday, China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng called for better education and continued efforts to help Xinjiang tackle poverty and implement employment-based poverty reduction projects.

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Wang Zhaolong from Beijing still remembers the first day he came to work in Hotan, a prefecture near the Taklimakan Desert in southern Xinjiang, five years ago.

"Donkeys were running on muddy narrow streets vans old skool white australia , traffic was chaotic, and even downtown residents lived in shabby homes," he recalled.

Beijing has been paired with Hotan under the program.

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Over the years, Wang has witnessed the changes in the city: four-lane streets have been paved to address traffic problems, green belts have been established to absorb sand and dust vans old skool australia , and donkey carts have given way to cars.

Soon Hotan's 300,000 residents of different ethnic groups will have access to safe tap water of the same standard as Beijing. Upgraded water treatment plants are among the major infrastructure projects led by the Beijing municipal government this year.

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