Paris 2024 Olympics – Athletics – Girls’s 100m Remaining – Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France – August 03, 2024. Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia celebrates after profitable gold.
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St. Lucia’s Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred missed out on being named World Athletics Monitor Athlete of the 12 months, dropping out to the US’ Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone on the ceremony.
Alfred had a wonderful 12 months, profitable gold within the ladies’s 100 meters and silver within the 200 meters on the 2024 Paris Olympics. She additionally gained the 60-meter title on the World Indoor Championships and the 100-meter title on the Wanda Diamond League.
Her stellar performances gained awards from the Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees, the Caribbean Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees, and Athletics Weekly.
Nevertheless, it was nonetheless not sufficient to offer her the victory over McLaughlin-Levrone, who had an unbeaten season, which included setting two World data and an Olympic document.
She gained two gold medals on the 2024 Paris Olympics, together with the 400m hurdles, with a world-record time of fifty.37 seconds, and has set a world document within the 400m hurdles six occasions within the final 5 years.
McLaughlin-Levrone was additionally voted World Athletics Feminine Athlete of the 12 months in 2022.
In the meantime, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands was named Feminine Athlete of the 12 months and Out Of Stadium Feminine Athlete of the 12 months.
Hassan’s triple medal on the Olympics in Paris was accomplished by her profitable the ultimate athletics gold medal of the Video games together with her success within the marathon in an Olympic document of two:22:55.
Her stellar efficiency got here simply after she claimed bronze within the 10,000m and bronze within the 5,000 m, six days after her first medal.
Hassan turned the primary lady to win medals within the 5000m, 10,000m, and marathon on the identical Video games and the primary athlete since Emil Zatopek, who gained all three males’s titles in Helsinki in 1952.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine was declared Discipline Occasions Feminine Athlete of the 12 months.
