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Bekele retains IAAF top award

African athletes in contention for the 2005 IAF awards Yomi Omogbeja (11/09/2005)

Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele has been named the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) male athlete of the year for the second straight season.

At the prestigious annual World Athletics Gala, hosted at the Hotel Fairmont in Monte-Carlo by the International Athletic Foundation (IAF) Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and IAF & IAAF President Lamine Diack last weekend, Bekele retained the award won in 2004.

Fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba also received the award for the best women's performance of the season.

Bekele, 23, retained his world 10,000 metres title in Helsinki last month after winning his fourth successive World Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia - Source: BBCcross country double gold at the world cross country championships in St Etienne.

He also improved his own World 10,000m record by nearly three seconds to 26:17.53 at the 29th Van Damme Memorial - IAAF/TDK Golden League meeting in Brussels last month.

Dibaba,19, on the other hand won the women's award after becoming the first woman ever to win the World championshipsTirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia - Source BBC 5000m and 10,000m double in Helsinki, Finland.

She won an historic short and long-course double at the World Cross Country Championships in St-Galmier, France in March and broke the world indoor 5000m record at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games in January.

After a panel selection process that followed the public vote from Monday 5 September at 07:00 GMT till 07:00 GMT on Thursday 8 September, 2005, your votes for the African athletes on this website finally counted.

Past IAF Athletes of the Year

1988 Carl Lewis (USA)               Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)
1989 Roger Kingdom (USA)       Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)
1990 Steve Backley (GBR)         Merlene Ottey (JAM)
1991 Carl Lewis (USA)               Katrin Krabbe (GER)
1992 Kevin Young (USA)            Heike Henkel (GER)
1993 Colin Jackson (GBR)          Sally Gunnell (GBR)
1994 Noureddine Morceli (ALG)   Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)
1995 Jonathan Edwards (GBR)    Gwen Torrence (USA)
1996 Michael Johnson (USA)       Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)
1997 Wilson Kipketer (DEN)         Marion Jones (USA)
1998 Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)    Marion Jones (USA)
1999 Michael Johnson (USA)       Gabriela Szabo (ROM)
2000 Jan Zelezny (CZE)               Marion Jones (USA)
2001 Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)   Stacy Dragila (USA)
2002 Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)   Paula Radcliffe (GBR)
2003 Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)   Hestrie Cloete (RSA)
2004 Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)       Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)
2005
Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)       Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)

 

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