Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan claimed high honors on the World Athlete of the Yr awards in Monaco, celebrating their outstanding achievements in athletics. Tebogo, Botswana’s first Olympic champion, picked up the award for male world athlete of the yr after an unbelievable efficiency on the Paris Video games throughout which he broke his personal file within the males’s 200 meters. Whereas choosing up the award, he remarked on the satisfaction of laborious work paying off and expressed his gratitude for being thought of. Hassan, who secured her first international marathon title on the Paris Olympics and beforehand gained the London Marathon, was named feminine world athlete of the yr. She thanked followers and voters for the respect, acknowledging the aggressive discipline of athletes. The occasion additionally paid tribute to Kelvin Kiptum, final yr’s honoree, who tragically handed away in a highway accident earlier this yr.
SOURCE: AFRICA NEWS