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The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

2025 Awards: The People Who Made Track And Field

The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

CITIUS MAG

Sports, Running

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia unpack the people who made track and field special in 2025. Categories include:

– World Record of the Year
– Performance of the year
– Athlete of the year
– Most entertaining athlete of the year
– Social media Moment of the Year
– Heartbreak Moment of the year
– Coach of the Year
– Best event of the year
– Marathon of the year
– Celebration of the year
– Breakout athlete of the year
– Late career resurgence of the year
– Doping bust of the year
– Retirement of the year

Chime in via the Spotify comments section to share your thoughts on these categories.

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Hosts: Chris Chavez | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@chris_j_chavez on Instagram⁠⁠⁠ + Preet Majithia | @preet_athletics on Instagram

Produced by: Jasmine Fehr |⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@jasminefehr on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, all right, all right. Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to the first episode of the

0:10.3

City of Smag podcast in 26. Preet and I decided to take a little bit of downtime over the last

0:18.8

week and a half or so, just over the holidays. We thought about recording

0:23.0

last week. Things got a little bit hectic with the holidays. And so we are jumping on here

0:30.7

for our 2025 end of year awards. Is this kind of what you want to do it as pre? Because we'll do our bold

0:40.8

predictions episode next week. But I didn't want to leave the listeners hanging a whole week

0:45.9

without an episode. So we had the Jane Hedegren episode to hold people over during the holidays.

0:52.8

And I think we came up with about 15 different categories. There was a

0:57.7

longer list that was like 25 but we you know we know that episode could end up going four hours or so

1:04.3

if we wanted to yap and acknowledge every single big moment that happened in track and field in

1:08.6

2025 because it was quite the momentous year.

1:12.6

So, uh, pre, I guess do you want to run through really quick what are 15 categories are going

1:18.6

to be so that the listeners know what they can expect? Yeah, maybe there's a few that will evolve

1:23.0

as we, as we go through. But I think maybe let's's give you the first the first few um and i think

1:29.3

we're going to start off with some of the more obvious ones world record of the year performance

1:34.2

of the year athlete of the year um etc so social media moment of the year so we're going to start off

1:40.9

with a few like that and then we'll see where we go from there.

1:46.9

But yeah, let's dig in.

1:48.0

But happy new year, Chris.

1:50.2

Hope you had a good break as well.

1:56.6

It's, yeah, we've certainly got a very sunny day here in London, which is surprising for this time of year. But yeah, good to be starting the year off with the podcast.

2:00.5

Yeah, I was, I guess over the break i was

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