Dutch operating famous person Sifan Hassan, recognized for her success throughout a variety of distance occasions, was named the Feminine World Athlete of the 12 months on Sunday in Monaco.
Hassan demonstrated her dominance on the Paris Olympic Video games, the place she accomplished a distance operating triple. changing into the primary girl to win medals in three occasions at a single Olympics. Hassan claimed two Olympic bronze medals on the monitor (5,000m/10,000m) and capped off her historic run with a gold medal within the ladies’s marathon, setting a brand new Olympic report.
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 12 months
At simply 21 years previous, Botswana’s Tebogo earned took high 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 shocked followers by charging to victory within the 200m ultimate. Operating in reminiscence of his mom, who handed away on Might 21, Tebogo clocked an African report 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 below the 20-second mark 9 occasions 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 ultimate.
2024 World Athletes of the 12 months
Ladies’s World Athlete of the 12 months: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s World Athlete of the 12 months: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Ladies’s monitor: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)
Ladies’s subject: Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
Ladies’s out of stadium: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s monitor: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Males’s subject: Mondo Duplantis (SWE)
Males’s out of stadium: Tamirat Tola (ETH)
Ladies’s Rising Star: Sembo Almayew (ETH)
Males’s Rising Star: Mattia Furlani (ITA)