Dutch working famous person Sifan Hassan, identified for her success throughout a variety of distance occasions, was named the Feminine World Athlete of the Yr on Sunday in Monaco.
Hassan demonstrated her dominance on the Paris Olympic Video games, the place she accomplished a distance working triple. turning into the primary lady to win medals in three occasions at a single Olympics. Hassan claimed two Olympic bronze medals on the observe (5,000m/10,000m) and capped off her historic run with a gold medal within the ladies’s marathon, setting a brand new Olympic document.
Many followers felt Hassan was snubbed by World Athletics in 2023, when she was not nominated for the award regardless of a groundbreaking season that included victories at two main marathons (London and Chicago) in her first two makes an attempt on the distance.
Letsile Tebogo named Male World Athlete of the Yr
At simply 21 years outdated, Botswana’s Tebogo earned took prime honours within the males’s class on Sunday, after a spectacular 2024 season. Tebogo’s crowning second got here on the Paris Olympics when he surprised followers by charging to victory within the 200m closing. Operating in reminiscence of his mom, who handed away on Could 21, Tebogo clocked an African document and private better of 19.46 seconds, denying Noah Lyles the dash double he was chasing.
Tebogo, whose Olympic victory secured the primary medal for Botswana in any occasion, ran beneath the 20-second mark 9 instances within the 200m distance in 2024. He additionally anchored Botswana’s males’s 4x400m relay crew to an Olympic silver medal and completed sixth within the males’s 100m Olympic closing.
2024 World Athletes of the Yr
Girls’s World Athlete of the Yr: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s World Athlete of the Yr: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Girls’s observe: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)
Girls’s area: Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
Girls’s out of stadium: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s observe: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Males’s area: Mondo Duplantis (SWE)
Males’s out of stadium: Tamirat Tola (ETH)
Girls’s Rising Star: Sembo Almayew (ETH)
Males’s Rising Star: Mattia Furlani (ITA)
