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Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet has been named the 2024 Athlete of the Year by a US athletics outlet following her breathtaking season that yielded multiple world records and gold medals.
Double Olympics champion Beatrice Chebet may have brutally missed out of the World Athlete of the Year Award but her hard work and success in 2024 has not gone unnoticed.
Chebet, arguably the most successful female athlete in 2024, did not make the final list on the World Athletics Athlete of the Year Award, a decision that left fans disappointed, but US Athletics outlet Letsrun.com has recognized her for the outstanding season.
Letsrun has crowned Chebet their 2024 Female Athlete of the Year ahead of Olympics 400m hurdles champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
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In fact, Chebet swept all three awards the outlet handed out for the 2024 season being; Athlete of the Year, Runner of the Year and Distance Runner of the Year.
It is easy to see why Chebet had no equals as she started the season by defending her World Cross-Country title, smashed the 10,000m world record at the Prefontaine Classic, won two Olympics gold medals in 5,000m and 10,000m, claimed a 5,000m Diamond League title and ended 2024 by breaking the 5km world record at the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona on New Year’s eve.
While McLaughlin-Levrone did not feature in different events, Chebet was nearly everywhere, testing herself on various surfaces, and it is this tenacity that won over the selection panel.
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“The case for Chebet is that she took on all comers and beat them all, all year long. Chebet began 2024 by winning the Juan Muguerza cross country race in Spain on January 7 and closed it out with her 5k road world record on December 31,” the outlet said of Chebet’s season.
“She showed up and won at World XC in March, then won two individual golds at the Olympics, and capped her track campaign by winning the Diamond League final. By contrast, SML [Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone] skipped World Indoors, only ran one individual event at the Olympics (granted, the schedule made the 400/400 hurdles double tougher than the 5k/10k double), and did not run a single Diamond League race all year (those two races in Brussels in September were not official DL races).
“Plus, Chebet did it all in what is arguably the most competitive era ever of women’s distance running. She outkicked the 1,500m GOAT (and reigning world champion) Faith Kipyegon to win a tactical Olympic 5,000, and defeated perhaps the greatest female distance runner ever, Sifan Hassan, in both the 5,000 and 10,000.”
Letsrun was impressed by Chebet’s heroics in different races, pointing to it as a sign of an athlete who is ready to challenge herself, unlike McLaughlin-Levrone, who restricted herself to select events.
“It’s a tough call, but we’re going with Chebet. SML is more dominant in her chosen event, and her 50.37 world record in Paris was one of the greatest performances in the history of the sport. But we value athletes who compete a lot and challenge themselves,” it added.
“Sydney didn’t run World Indoors, she didn’t run a second individual event in Paris and her decision not to run the mixed 4x400m in Paris likely cost the US a gold medal. We’re rewarding Chebet for running World XC and the Diamond League and doubling up at the Olympics and her two world records.”
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Chebet, who delivered two gold medals at the Paris Olympic games last summer has wrapped up her 2024 in style by smashing yet another record in Barcelona.
However, on the men’s side, Letsrun had three different winners, pole vault king Mondo Duplantis of Sweden crowned Athlete of the Year, American hurdler Grant Holloway named Runner of the Year, while Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen was crowned Distance Runner of the Year.
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