IAAF names Ashton Eaton, Genzebe Dibaba as world athletes

 

The IAAF has named American Decathlete Ashton Eaton  and Ethiopian middle-distance runner Genzebe Dibaba  as World Athletes of the Year.

Ashton Eaton(27)scored 9,045 points to break his own world record and win gold at the World Championships in Beijing in August 2015

 

The 27-year-old also won world gold in Moscow in 2013, a year after clinching Olympic gold in London.

Ashton Eaton took the award despite sprint superstar Usain Bolt clinching a fifth treble gold showing in a major world championships in Beijing in August 2015

The Jamaican star had performed the same feat at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics in Beijing and London, and world championships in 2009 and 2013 in Berlin and Moscow.

Genzebe Dibaba, 24, set a new 1500m world record of three minutes 50.07 seconds and also winning 1500m gold and 5,000m bronze at the world championships in Beijing in August 2015

Genzebe Dibaba, the sister of three-time Olympic champion Tirunesh, claimed gold in the 1500m in the Beijing worlds.