Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad named athletes of the year

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad named athletes of the year

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad have been named World Athletics' male and female athletes of the year.

Kenya's Kipchoge, 35, won the London Marathon for a fourth time in April before becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours.

He covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in October.

Dalilah  Muhammad, 29, won World Championship 400m hurdles gold in Doha having twice broken the world record this year.

Dalilah  Muhammad,  won the Olympic title at Rio 2016

Eliud  Kipchoge, won the male athlete of the year award for the second consecutive year

Ethiopia's world 5,000m silver medallist Selemon Barega was named male rising star while Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who won high jump silver with a world Under-20 record of 2.04m in Doha, won the female award.