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History beckons for Faith Kipyegon and Kelvin Kiptum as the two Kenyan athletes await to know if they will be crowned the 2023 World Athlete of the Year during Monday’s gala in Monaco
Multiple world champion Faith Kipyegon and world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum will learn their fate on Monday night when the World Athletics 2023 Athlete of the Year Awards gala is held in Monaco.
Kipyegon is heavily tipped to win the award following her impressive 2023 season which will be historic since no Kenyan woman has ever claimed the gong.
The double Olympic champion broke the 1500m and 5000m world records in 2023, before storming to gold over both distances in the 2023 World Athletics Championships and had also set the mile world record before it was lowered.
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06:56 - 08.12.2023
ATHLETICS Team Kenya official reveals how they plan to ensure harmony between Kipchoge & Kiptum at Paris Olympics
The veteran coach has detailed how Team Kenya will ensure both Eliud Kipchoge & Kelvin Kiptum work as a team and deliver gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics despite their emerging rivalry.
She is up against Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa, the world record holder, who smashed the previous historic best by more than two minutes when she crossed the line in the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:53, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, who enjoyed an excellent season, winning the 200m world title and both the 100m and 200m Diamond League titles this year and Netherlands' Femke Bol who broke the world indoor 400m record and won gold in the 400m hurdles in Budapest.
Venezuela’s ‘Queen of the Triple Jump’ Yulimar Rojas, who was once again too good for the competition as she leapt to gold at the Worlds, is also among the finalists.
In the men’s category, Kiptum, who smashed Eliud Kipchoge’s world record by running an astonishing 2:00:35 in Chicago having claimed the London Marathon with the third fastest time in history (2:01:25), is among the finalists.
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13:00 - 10.12.2023
ATHLETICS Emmanuel Wanyonyi shares how he overcame poverty and critics to become a global superstar
World 800m silver medallist Emmanuel Wanyonyi has revealed how poverty and naysayers nearly ruined his athletics talent before his resilience and a good Samaritan came to his rescue
He faces competition from 2022 winner Mondo Duplantis who won his second world title in pole vault and raised the bar even higher in his sport with a new world record of six metres and 23 centimetres.
The two are joined by Noah Lyles, the winner of both the 100m and 200m at this year’s World Athletics Championships, and another American, Ryan Crouser, who shattered his own shot put world record in May with a 23.56m throw that was 19cm above his previous best.
The last of the men’s finalists is Indian history-maker Neeraj Chopra who became the first athlete from his country to win gold at the World Athletics Championships when he secured the javelin gold medal in Budapest.
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11:00 - 03.12.2023
ATHLETICS NOC-K president Paul Tergat believes Faith Kipyegon will rule the marathon
The National Olympic Committee of Kenya president Paul Tergat believes Faith Kipyegon will be a force to reckon with even when she transitions to the full marathon.
Two Kenyans will also be gunning for the Rising Star Award with world 800m silver medallist Emmanuel Wanyonyi and world 3000m steeplechase bronze medallist Faith Cherotich, both 19, among the finalists.
Kipchoge and David Rudisha are the only Kenyans to have won the award, the former claiming it twice in 2018 and 2019, while the latter was feted in 2012 after breaking the 800m world record as he won the London Olympics gold.
That precedent should put Kipyegon in good stead although her fans, and Kenyans in general, will be wary of lighting striking twice after Vivian Cheruiyot harshly lost out on the 2011 award to Australian Sally Pearson despite winning gold in both 5,000m and 10,000m at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
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10:53 - 07.12.2023
ATHLETICS Sha’Carri Richardson stirs new controversy as she calls out Team USA Fund
Sha’Carri Richardson has raised eyebrows once again after telling Americans not to donate to Team USA Fund because athletes allegedly do not receive anything from it
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