'I can win this thing' - Noah Lyles confident on his feats in 2025 deserving of winning Male Track Athlete of the Year award

World and Olympic champion Noah Lyles was announced a finalist for the 2025 Male Track Athlete of the Year award. Now the American star believes he can win it - a confidence stirred by his Jamaican fiancée Junelle Bromfield.

The famous speedster was named a finalist for the prestigious award alongside Kenya's 800m runner Emmanuel Wanyonyi, for their iconic 2025 season, which culminated at the World Championships in Tokyo.

Both athletes chosen from an initial list of five nominees, the voting process concluded after 75% votes from the World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family, and 25% from social media.

When speaking on his first reaction after the announcement, Lyles' response to the news was below the confidence he’s known for: 'shock'.

In fact, he needed his fiancée, Bromfield, to remind him of his accomplishments this year: the most medals by a male athlete at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, two of them gold (200m and 4x100m); an undefeated streak in the 200m; 100m bronze medal, and a sixth Diamond League 200m title.

These iconic achievements, along with joining the legendary Usain Bolt as the only men in history to win four consecutive world titles in the 200m, boosted his confidence in his chances of winning it.

“Some good points,” Lyles said in an exclusive interview with wwd.com. “I was just so focused on trying to be in the best shape of my career for Worlds that I didn’t get to look at the season as a whole. Now that I’m looking back, I actually got a pretty good chance of winning this thing.”

The 28-year-old continues to mark his path in the annals of world and American athletics, and if he eventually wins the award on Nov 30, it will make him a two-time winner after his success in 2023.