The male and female world athletes of the year will be announced at the IAAF Athletics Awards gala on Dec. 4 in Monaco.

The current World 800m record holder David Rudisha is the only Kenyan athlete to have won the award in 2010.

This year, Chpkoech won the World steeplechase record by eight seconds, backed up by the third-quickest mark of all time. She was also the wiinner of seven out of eight steeplechase finals including the IAAF Continental Cup, African Championships and IAAF Diamond League final.

However, her biggest miss was at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia where she won silver at 1,500m in personal best of 4:03.09.

Chepkoech won four of her five diamond league races in the 3,000m this season with her victory in Monaco on July 20 producing a world record time of 8:44.32, making her the first woman run under eight minute and 50 seconds. This broke Kenya-turned Bahraini Ruth Jebet's previous record of 8:52.78.

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