Norwegian Karsten Warholm and Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah were on Wednesday named World Athletics Athletes of the Year in a virtual ceremony held in Monaco.
Warholm won the men’s award beating felow Olympic gold medalists Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda, 5000m), Ryan Crouser (USA, shot put), Mondo Duplantis (Sweden, pole vault) and Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya, marathon).
Warholm smashed the world record at the Tokyo Olympics in a time of 45.94sec .
Presenting the award,World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: "We were rendered speechless by your run."
Warholm, 25, said: "I'm so happy for this. When I first saw the time I thought it must be a mistake. It was a very intense race, I always go out hard and never know what's going on behind me.
"When I realised the time I thought 'I'll take it,'".
Thompson-Herah bagged the women’s award trouncing Sifan Hassan (Netherlands), Faith Kipyegon (Kenya), Sydney McLaughlin (USA) and Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela).
Herah became the first woman to win 100m, 200m and 4x100m golds at one Olympics since Florence Griffith Joyner in 1988. She also clocked the second-fastest 100m and 200m times in history (10.54, 21.53), trailing only Griffith Joyner’s world records.
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