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Eaton, Dibaba named IAAF's World Athletes of Year for 2015

Xinhua, November 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Decathlete Ashton Eaton of the United States and Ethiopia's 1,500m world champion Genzebe Dibaba have been named respectively the men's and women's IAAF World Athletes of the Year for 2015, announced the sport's world governing body on Thursday.

   Both athletes set world records during 2015, Eaton in the decathlon and Dibaba in the 1500m, and won gold medals in their respective events at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015.

   "Ashton Eaton became the first decathlete to win the male World Athlete of the Year award after his spectacular performance in the Chinese capital, his only decathlon of the year, when he set a world record of 9045 and improved his own three-year-old mark by nine points.

   "Genzebe Dibaba, after setting a world indoor 5000m record of 14:18.86, was then unbeaten in her five 1500m races during the summer," said a statement released by IAAF after the council meeting in Monaco.

   With former IAAF president Lamine Diack under investigation on corruption and Russia suspended over massive doping, the world athletics ruling body canceled the usually gala party to honor its world athletes of the year.  Endi