Olympic champions Letsile Tebogo and Sifan Hassan are named male and female athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards.

Letsile Tebogo has been won two top prizes at the 2024 World Athletics Awards ceremony on Sunday, December 1, 2024The Botswana sprinter won both awards after his world class performance at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris where he won two medalsThe 21-year-old Olympic gold medalist beats other top nominees in the world to win the major award set aside for male track and field athletesLetsile Tebogo has bagged two awards at the 2024 World Athletics Awards after his impressive performance at the Olympic Games in Paris, France.The 21-year-old pulled a major surprise at the games as he beat race favourite Noah Lyles to the gold medal in the 200m race.He was also involved in the 4x400m men's relay race and won the silver medal while anchoring the Botswana relay team in the final.Tebogo bags two awards after impressive Olympics performanceTebogo's performance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been duly rewarded with two top prizes at the World Athletics Awards.The Botswana sprinter was nominated for two categories at the World Athletics Awards, with six nominees battling for one of the awards.Letsile was named the Male Track Athlete of the Year Winner ahead of Norway's 5000m gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen.The Olympic gold medalist claimed the second award of the day as he beat Ingebrigtsen, Militiadis Tentoglou, Tamirat Tola, Mondo Duplantis, and Brian Daniel Pintado to win the Male World Athlete of the Year.It has been an amazing year for Tebogo, and he certainly deserves all the accolades he's received since his performance at the Olympics.Tebogo calls out Netflix’s Sprint showLegit.ng earlier reported that Letsile Tebogo called out Netflix regarding their new documentary series, SPRINT.The Botswana sprinter with a host of other African athletes were not happy with the way the story is being told especially about runners from their region.The 21-year-old raised his concerns on his official handle on X (formerly known as Twitter), claiming the show was made for the American fans.