Dutch runner is rewarded for her 3 Olympic medals within the dimension of a month on the 2024 Video games in Paris, the place Tebogo received the boys’s 200m gold.
Dutch marathoner Sifan Hassan and Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo, either one of whom took gold on the Paris Olympics, had been named Athletes of the Future via International Athletics.
Hassan, who additionally received the out-of-stadium award, used to be rewarded for her unbelievable efficiency within the French capital which stretched past the marathon and to the monitor.
Within the dimension of 7 days, she received two bronze medals within the 5,000 metres, having additionally run a warmth and the ten,000-metre, and a impressive gold within the marathon when she outsprinted Ethiopia’s next global listing holder Tigist Assefa to win via simply 3 seconds.
“I never thought I was going to win this one,” stated Hassan then receiving her award in Monaco on Sunday. “This year was crazy. It’s not only me – all the athletes have been amazing.”
Tebogo gained his award then changing into the primary African Olympic champion within the 200m, crossing the layout on the Stade de France in 19.46 seconds, edging out favorite American athletes Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles.
“This means a lot,” stated Tebogo who doubled up with the boys’s monitor award. “It’s now not as regards to the staff this is round you, there are so many of fanatics available in the market that in point of fact need us to win one thing superior for the continent.
“It was a real surprise to hear my name because I didn’t expect this.”
The International Athletics additionally made up our minds to praise many alternative athletes who shone on the Olympics.
Swedish pole-vaulter Armand Duplantis received the boys’s farmland section then an unbeaten 2024, profitable Olympic gold and environment a brandnew global listing of 6.26 metres.
Male Grassland Athlete of the Future Winner 🏆
🇸🇪’s Mondo Duplantis is your Male Grassland Athlete of the Future 🤩#AthleticsAwards pic.twitter.com/Qfri99weQT
— International Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 1, 2024
Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh used to be the winner within the ladies’s match, bettering the prime bounce global listing to two.10m on the week of simply 22 and in addition profitable Olympic gold in Paris.
Along with Tebogo, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone used to be rewarded within the monitor section for beating her personal global listing within the 400m hurdles, clocking 50.37 seconds to win gold in Paris, time males’s Olympic marathon champion Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia used to be given the Out of Stadium award.
Ethiopian steeplechaser Sembo Almayew and Italian lengthy jumper Mattia Furlani got the Emerging Megastar awards.
All through the rite, a generation used to be taken to bear in mind utmost hour’s Males’s Out of Stadium Athlete of the Future Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon global record-holder who died in a street clash in February.
International Athletics Awards 2024
Girls’s International Athlete of the Future: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s International Athlete of the Future: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Girls’s monitor: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)
Girls’s farmland: Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
Girls’s Out of Stadium: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Males’s monitor: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Males’s farmland: Armand Duplantis (SWE)
Males’s Out of Stadium: Tamirat Tola (ETH)
Girls’s Emerging Megastar: Sembo Almayew (ETH)
Males’s Emerging Megastar: Mattia Furlani (ITA)