Faith Kipyegon among Olympic champions nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards
Six athletics gold medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are among the nominees for the Laureus World Sports Awards.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon, Ethiopian-born Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan, and the United States' Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone are among six Olympic gold medallists from the Paris 2024 Games nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the esteemed awards, with the ceremony scheduled for 21 April in Madrid.
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"Six athletics gold medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are among the nominees for the Laureus World Sports Awards. The ceremony, set for 21 April, will once again be held in Madrid. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the prestigious awards," according to reports from World Athletics sites.
Kipyegon, 31, is in contention for the World Sportswoman of the Year award following a remarkable season in which she became the first female athlete to win three consecutive Olympic titles in the 1500m.
Should she triumph, Kipyegon would become only the second Kenyan to win the award, following Vivian Cheruiyot’s victory in 2012.
Kipyegon claimed her third Olympic crown at the Paris 2024 Games, clocking 3:51.29 to add to her victories in Rio de Janeiro (2016) and Tokyo (2021). Her triumph came just weeks after she lit up the same city by breaking her own world record at the Paris Diamond League, where she ran 3:49.04.
A year earlier, she had secured her third world title in the 1500m, winning in Budapest with a time of 3:54.87.
Hassan secured Olympic marathon gold in Paris, adding to her bronze medals in the 5000m and 10,000m. Kipyegon made history as the only three-time Olympic 1,500m champion and also claimed silver in the 5,000m. McLaughlin-Levrone shattered the world record on her way to gold in the 400m hurdles before securing another gold in the 4x400m relay.
Mens' awards
Mondo Duplantis, who won his second Olympic pole vault gold and twice improved his own world record, has been nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award.
Olympic sprint champions Julien Alfred and Letsile Tebogo are contenders for the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year award. Alfred made history by winning St Lucia’s first-ever Olympic gold, while Tebogo delivered Botswana’s first Olympic gold with his victory in the men’s 200m.
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