Julien Alfred of Workforce Saint Lucia celebrates successful the gold medal throughout the Ladies’s 100m Closing on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on Aug. 3, 2024 in Paris, France.
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St. Lucia’s dash queen Julien Alfred has bagged one more distinguished award as she was named the Athletics Weekly (AW) Worldwide Feminine Athlete of the 12 months for 2024.
Alfred, who received St. Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medals on the 2024 Paris Olympics when she succeeded in successful gold within the girls’s 100 meters and silver within the 200 meters, beat out a number of different nominees, together with Belgium’s Nafi Thiam, the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan, Kenya’s trio of Ruth Chepngetich, Religion Kipyego, and Beatrice Chebet, the USA’s Gabby Thomas and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, and Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
Alfred, 23, had a spectacular 12 months. She additionally received gold within the 60 meters on the World Indoor Championships and the 100-meter title on the Wanda Diamond League.
Finally month’s Caribbean Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees (CANOC) Sports activities Awards, Alfred took residence the Caribbean Feminine Sports activities Character of the 12 months and the Caribbean Break-through Award, which she shared with Dominica’s Olympic gold medallist Thea LaFond.
She can also be a finalist for the World Athletics Observe Athlete of the 12 months, together with McLaughlin-Levrone.
Athletes Weekly is the primary web site, journal, and social media hub in the UK for highway racing, observe and area, cross nation, walks, path operating, fell operating, mountain operating, and extremely operating.
Because the Forties, AW’s prestigious annual awards have honored the brightest and greatest within the UK and past.
