IAAF World Athlete of the year for year 2015 has been announced. Usually the sprinters or long distance runners would grab it. But for the 1st time, A decathlete won the award.
Ashton Eaton from USA became the first decathlete to win the male World Athlete of the Year award after his spectacular performance in Beijing, 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 from Etophia, after setting a world indoor 5000m record of 14:18.86, was then unbeaten in her five 1500m races during the summer. Firstly, she ran an African record of 3:54.11 in Barcelona, the fastest time in the world for almost 12 years, and then topped that with a stunning world record of 3:50.07 in Monaco to beat a mark that had been on the books since 1993.
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