Olympic champions Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan had been named female and male athlete of the yr on the World Athletics Awards in Monaco.
Tebogo, who was additionally named male observe athlete of the yr, grew to become Botswana’s first Olympic champion in Paris when he gained the 200m in an African report time of 19.46 seconds.
The 21-year-old additionally helped to set a brand new African report when taking silver within the males’s 4x400m relay.
“It feels wonderful to know that the followers are all the time there for us athletes,” mentioned Tebogo. “It was an incredible yr. This implies lots.”
Netherlands’ Hassan gained bronze within the 5,000m and 10,000m in Paris earlier than claiming gold within the girls’s marathon to turn into the primary athlete in 72 years to win medals in all three occasions on the identical Video games.
The 31-year-old was additionally named feminine out of stadium athlete of the yr, whereas Ethopia’s Tamirat Tola, who gained males’s marathon gold in Paris, claimed the male award.
“I by no means thought I used to be going to win this one,” mentioned Hassan. “This yr was loopy.”
American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who smashed her personal world report in profitable 400m hurdles gold in Paris, took the feminine observe athlete of the yr prize.
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, who broke his personal world report in profitable pole vault gold, was named male discipline athlete of the yr, with Ukrainian excessive leap gold medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh taking the feminine award.