Paralympian Leo-Pekka Tähti has been named Finland's Athlete of the Year for 2018.
It is Tähti's fourth time as athlete of the year having previously claimed the title in 2011, 2016, and 2017.
Thirty-five year-old Tähti won three medals at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin last summer, with gold medals in the 100-, 200- and 400-metre T54 sprints. He also won a silver medal in the 800-metre event.
”This is the best year of all time,” Tähti said at the Berlin competition.
In spite of his stellar accomplishments on the track it Tähti many years to be recognised as the country's Sports Personality of the Year, an honour he claimed in 2016.
Four years before finally winning that mantle, Tähti had won the highest number of votes for top spot after winning gold at the London Paralympics in 2012.
However he lost out in the total points count as 50 of Finland's 650 card-carrying sports reporters did not choose him in their list at all. Instead, windsurfer Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén was named sports personality of the year.