Hassan, who also won the out-of-stadium award, was rewarded for her incredible performance in the French capital stretched beyond the marathon and to the track.
In the space of seven days, she won two bronze medals in the 5,000 metres, having also run a heat and the 10,000-metre, and a spectacular gold in the marathon when she outsprinted Ethiopia’s then world record holder, Tigist Assefa to win by just three seconds.
Tebogo received his award after becoming the first African Olympic champion in the 200m, crossing the line at the Stade de France in 19.46 seconds, edging out favourite American athletes, Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles.
The World Athletics also decided to reward many other athletes who shone at the Olympics.
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Swedish pole-vaulter Armand Duplantis won the men’s field category after an unbeaten 2024, winning Olympic gold and setting a new world record of 6.26 metres.
Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the women’s event, improving the high jump world record to 2.10m at the age of just 22 and also winning Olympic gold in Paris.
In addition to Tebogo, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was rewarded in the track category for beating her world record in the 400m hurdles, clocking 50.37 seconds to win gold in Paris, men’s Olympic marathon champion Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia was given the Out of Stadium award.
Ethiopian steeplechaser Sembo Almayew and Italian long jumper Mattia Furlani were given the Rising Star awards.