Dutch runner is rewarded for her three Olympic medals within the house of per week on the 2024 Video games in Paris, the place Tebogo gained the lads’s 200m gold.
Dutch marathoner Sifan Hassan and Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo, each of whom took gold on the Paris Olympics, have been named Athletes of the 12 months by World Athletics.
Hassan, who additionally gained the out-of-stadium award, was rewarded for her unbelievable efficiency within the French capital which stretched past the marathon and to the observe.
Within the house of seven days, she gained two bronze medals within the 5,000 metres, having additionally run a warmth and the ten,000-metre, and a spectacular gold within the marathon when she outsprinted Ethiopia’s then world report holder Tigist Assefa to win by simply three seconds.
“I by no means thought I used to be going to win this one,” stated Hassan after receiving her award in Monaco on Sunday. “This yr was loopy. It’s not solely me – all of the athletes have been wonderful.”
Tebogo obtained his award after changing into the primary African Olympic champion within the 200m, crossing the road on the Stade de France in 19.46 seconds, edging out favorite American athletes Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles.
“This implies so much,” stated Tebogo who doubled up with the lads’s observe award. “It’s not simply in regards to the staff that’s round you, there are a variety of followers on the market that actually need us to win one thing nice for the continent.
“It was an actual shock to listen to my title as a result of I didn’t count on this.”
The World Athletics additionally determined to reward many different athletes who shone on the Olympics.
Swedish pole-vaulter Armand Duplantis gained the lads’s area class after an unbeaten 2024, profitable Olympic gold and setting a brand new world report of 6.26 metres.
Male Subject Athlete of the 12 months Winner 🏆
🇸🇪’s Mondo Duplantis is your Male Subject Athlete of the 12 months 🤩#AthleticsAwards pic.twitter.com/Qfri99weQT
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 1, 2024
Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh was the winner within the girls’s occasion, enhancing the excessive bounce world report to 2.10m on the age of simply 22 and likewise profitable Olympic gold in Paris.
Along with Tebogo, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was rewarded within the observe class for beating her personal world report within the 400m hurdles, clocking 50.37 seconds to win gold in Paris, whereas males’s Olympic marathon champion Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia was given the Out of Stadium award.
Ethiopian steeplechaser Sembo Almayew and Italian lengthy jumper Mattia Furlani got the Rising Star awards.
Throughout the ceremony, a second was taken to recollect final yr’s Males’s Out of Stadium Athlete of the 12 months Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon world record-holder who died in a highway accident in February.
World Athletics Awards 2024
Ladies’s World Athlete of the 12 months: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s World Athlete of the 12 months: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Ladies’s observe: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)
Ladies’s area: Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
Ladies’s Out of Stadium: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s observe: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Males’s area: Armand Duplantis (SWE)
Males’s Out of Stadium: Tamirat Tola (ETH)
Ladies’s Rising Star: Sembo Almayew (ETH)
Males’s Rising Star: Mattia Furlani (ITA)
