Decorated Kenyan athlete and triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon has been nominated in the World Sportswoman of the Year category for the upcoming Laureus World Sports Awards.
She is set to compete against fellow athletes Sifan Hassan and USA’s Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone.
Other nominees include gymnast Simone Biles from the USA, female tennis world number one Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus and current women’s football Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmati from Spain.
This year, Kipyegon was Kenya’s sole nomination to the highly coveted sports award. If she wins, she would be the first Kenyan since Vivian Cheruiyot in 2012 to win a Laureus award.