Holland’s Sifan Hassan and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo made history as they were crowned the World Athletics Athletes of the Year for 2024.

Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands and Letsile Tebogo of Botswana were named World Athletics Athlete of the Year award winners for 2024. Hassan won marathon gold and 5000m and 10,000m bronze at the Paris Games.

The Dutch Olympic record-holder in the women's marathon took top honours alongside Botswana's 200m men's Olympic champion

A season of historic achievement by 21-year-old Letsile Tebogo was richly acknowledged in Monaco as he was announced as the men’s World Athlete of the Year

Tebogo was confirmed as men’s track athlete of the year, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone receiving the women’s honour. Hassan claimed the women’s out of stadium crown and Tamirat Tola the men’s, while Mondo Duplantis and Yaroslava Mahuchikh were named field athletes of the year.

Olympic champions Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan are named male and female athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards.

The International Athletics Federation (World Athletics) awarded the Dutch Sifan Hassan and the Botswanan Letsile Tebogo, as the best athletes of the year in their respective sexes in Monaco.

The runners claimed their accolades at the 2024 World Athletics Awards, where Tamirat Tola, winner of the men’s Olympic marathon in Paris, also received honours

The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan and Botswana's Letsile Tebogo were named World Athletes of the Year on Sunday after they both scooped multiple medals at the Paris Olympics. Hassan won the women's marathon in an Olympic record time of 2.

PARIS – Dutch marathon runner Sifan Hassan and Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo, both of whom took gold at the Paris Olympics, were named ‘Athletes of the Year’ by World Athletics in Monaco on Dec 1.

The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan and Botswana's Letsile Tebogo were named World Athletes of the Year on Sunday after they both scooped multiple medals at the Paris Olympics.