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Usain Bolt and Almaz Ayana named IAAF World Athletes of the Year
- Updated: December 2, 2016
Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt and Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana were announced as the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards in Monaco on Friday.
Bolt, who took his Olympic gold medal haul to nine in Rio as he retained his Olympic 100m, 200m and 4x100m titles, claimed the honour for a record sixth time, having already claimed the award five times between 2008 and 2013.
The Jamaican clocked season’s bests of 9.81 and 19.78 to win the 100m and 200m in Rio and then anchored the Jamaican team to a world-leading 37.27 when winning the 4x100m. He also went undefeated throughout the whole season at all distances, including heats, and beat South Africa’s world 400m record-breaker and Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk and Britain’s four-time Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah to the trophy.
Ayana smashed the world 10,000m record with her time of 29:17.45 clocked when …
