Mustapha Berraf, President of ANOCA and IOC Member and Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, President of the National Olympic and Sports Committee of Cameroon (CNOSC), President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) and President of the Association of African Olympic Sports Confederations (CASOL) received, on 7 January 2025 in Lausanne, an extremely warm welcome by Dr Thomas Bach, President of the IOC.

The Confederation of African Athletics has elected the best athletes, coaches, officials, federations and leaders of the year 2024. Letsile Tebogo (Botswana) and Beatrice Chebet (Kenya) were crowned Best Male Athlete and Best Female Athlete respectively.

A season of historic achievement by 21-year-old Letsile Tebogo was richly acknowledged in Monaco on Sunday (1) as he was announced as the men’s World Athlete of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2024.

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.