Olympic champions Sifan Hassan and Letsile Tebogo have been announced as World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.

Following a vote by fans, Hassan and Tebogo received top honours on an evening that saw six athletes crowned in three categories – track, field and out of stadium – before the overall two winners were revealed.

On the sidelines of the 20th edition of the International Half Marathon of the ‘District Autonome

d ’Abidjan’, the CAA CEO, Mr Lamine Faty visited the residents of the Ivorian Athletics Center located at the National Institute of Youth and Sports (INJS) in Marcory, Abidjan this Sunday, November 10, 2024.

Letsile Tebogo (BOTSWANA), Ruth Chepngetich (KENYA), Tamirat Tola (ETHIOPIA) are the three Africans in the race for the crown of the best athletes of the 2024 season.

As part of the World Athletics Awards 2024, World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list of five nominees for Women’s Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year and five nominees for Men’s Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year.

As part of the World Athletics Awards 2024, World Athletics is pleased to confirm the nominees for Women’s Track Athlete of the Year and Men’s Track Athlete of the Year.

Four Africans are in the race for these titles. They are Beatrice Chebet from Kenya (Four Olympic champion 5000m and 10,000m, world record holder for 10,000m); Faith Kipyegon from Kenya (Olympic champion in the 1500m and world record holder in the 1500m): Letsile Tebogo from Botswana (Olympic champion in the 200m and world best performer in the 200m); Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya (Olympic 800m champion and winner of the Diamond League).

The President of the Cameroonian National Olympic Sports Committee (CNOSC) and also President of the Confederation of African Athletics, Hamad KALKABA MALBOUM was elected on October 12, 2024, Pioneer President of the Confederation of African Olympic Sports (CASOL). The ceremony took place in Yaoundé during the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), in the presence of Mustapha Berraf, the President of ANOCA.

The 2023-2024 season saw the participation of six residents of AADC Dakar in the 2024 Olympic Games.

Four achieved the minimums or placed in the World Ranking (Gina BASS from Gambia, Louis François MENDY from Senegal, Sally SARR from Senegal and Sidonie FIADANANSOA from Madagascar and two representing their country Dylan SICOBO from Seychelles and Dom MULAMBA from DR CONGO.

The Dakar center is headed by Amadou Dia Ba, Olympic vice-champion in the 400m hurdles in 1988. Frenchman Alain Smail is the technical manager.

Africa at the Paris Olympics: 8 Gold, 9 Silver, 7 Bronze

Letsile Tebogo made history for Botswana at the Paris 2024 Games on Thursday (8), winning the first Olympic gold medal for his nation in any sport.

Storming to the 200m title, he held off USA’s Kenny Bednarek and 100m champion Noah Lyles with an African record of 19.46 – a time that moves the 21-year-old to fifth on the world all-time list. Bednarek got silver in 19.62 and Lyles bronze in 19.70.