Olympic champions Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan had been named female and male athlete of the 12 months on the World Athletics Awards in Monaco.
Tebogo, who was additionally named male observe athlete of the 12 months, turned Botswana’s first Olympic champion in Paris when he received the 200m in an African file time of 19.46 seconds.
The 21-year-old additionally helped to set a brand new African file when taking silver within the males’s 4x400m relay.
“It feels superb to know that the followers are at all times there for us athletes,” mentioned Tebogo. “It was a fantastic 12 months. This implies rather a lot.”
Netherlands’ Hassan received bronze within the 5,000m and 10,000m in Paris earlier than claiming gold within the girls’s marathon to develop into the primary athlete in 72 years to win medals in all three occasions on the similar Video games.
The 31-year-old was additionally named feminine out of stadium athlete of the 12 months, whereas Ethopia’s Tamirat Tola, who received 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 12 months was loopy.”
American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who smashed her personal world file in profitable 400m hurdles gold in Paris, took the feminine observe athlete of the 12 months prize.
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, who broke his personal world file in profitable pole vault gold, was named male subject athlete of the 12 months, with Ukrainian excessive soar gold medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh taking the feminine award.
