At the 2023 World Athletics Awards, Faith Kipyegon leads Kenya's dominance as an example of African excellence

Discover the entire roster of 2023 World Athletics Awards winners, featuring Faith Kipyegon and Noah Lyles. African athletes excelled at the 2023 World Athletics Awards, where Kenyan dominance throughout the award categories was led by Faith Kipyegon. In contrast to the previous years, when there were only two categories (Men and Women), the World Athletics reorganized the award categories this year and named six athletes as the World Athletes of the Year: Tigist Assefa, Mondo Duplantis, Kelvin Kiptum, Faith Kipyegon, Noah Lyles, and Yulimar Rojas.The athletics organization states that this modification was made in response to comments made during the voting process. In 2023, many amazing feats were accomplished, setting an astounding 23 world records*