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Usain Bolt, Allyson Felix : IAAF world athletes of the year

November 27th, 2012

• Jamaican runner Usain Bolt was declared the winner of theIAAF World Athlete of the Year award for 2012 for the 4^thtime.
• US sprinter Allyson Felix bagged the women’s World Athlete of the Year award.
• Hurdler Aries Merritt of US clinched Inspiration Award
• David Rudisha, runner from Kenya, won the Performance of the Year award
• Keshorn Walcott, Javelin thrower of Trinidad and Anthonique Strachan sprinter of Bahamas won the Rising Star awards

Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix named IAAF World Athletes of the Year 2012

Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year Award 2012 for the fourth time and United States sprinter Allyson Felix won women's World Athlete of the Year Award 2012 on 24 November 2012 during the IAAF's 100th Anniversary Celebration. The Jamaican sprinter Bolt had won for defending his gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter races of the summers’ Olympic Games, he also won the same award previously in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Bolt managed to be ahead of United States hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha to win the award.


Allyson Felix managed to secure her Gold medal in the London Olympics in the 200 meter race. Before this she managed to settle down with the Silver in the Beijing Olympics in the year 2008. New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams and British heptathlete Jessica Ennis were the other finalists of the Women award segment, who also were the gold medalists in London Olympics.

In 2003, Bolt and Felix won the Rising Star awards for the most promising young athletes of the year.

United States hurdler Aries Merritt was successful in winning the Inspiration Award for his season and the award included a gold medal and a world record in the 110-meter hurdles. David Rudisha won the Performance of the Year award for his record-setting gold medal run in the 800 meters; he was the winner of the Athlete of the Year in 2010. Keshorn Walcott, Javelin thrower of Trinidad and Anthonique Strachan sprinter of Bahamas won the Rising Star awards.

NADDP Suspended 11 Athletes for Two Years on Charges of Doping

The National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (NADDP) on 5 November 2012 suspended all the 11 athletes for two years, who were tested positive with methylhexaneamine (MHA) in the run-up of the last Commonwealth Games. The decision came-up after a twenty five months long hearing process and the suspension would be in effect from the date of decision making.

The panel hearing into the case also ordered disqualification of all the records and results by their name recorded from the date of sample collection, it would also include omission of all the consequences that included forfeiture of all the points, medals and prizes. Following the provisions of Article 10.8 of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and the code of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which is yet not applied in the hearing procedures of Indian disciplinary, would mean the loss of Bronze Medal in the 96 kilogram freestyle category of Wrestling from wrestler Mausam Khatri, which he won in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

The additional disqualification of results from sample collection date, under Article 10.8 of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) rules and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, hitherto not applied in Indian disciplinary hearing procedures, will mean that wrestler Mausam Khatri will lose his bronze medal in the 96kg freestyle category in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

Under the same provisions, swimmer Richa Mishra would lose all the 16 medals that include 11 Gold in the National Games February 2011 held at Ranchi along with the other five Gold won during National Swimming Championships held in October 2012 at Pune.

Others, against whom the hearing were carried on and whose name were included in the suspension orders include six wrestlers out of which Rajeev Tomar is an Arjuna Awardee and rest five are Sumit Sehrawat, Joginder Singh, Gursharanpreet Kaur including Mausam Khatri. The list also have name of two athletes namely Saurabh Vij and Akash Antil along with three swimmers and they are Amar Muralidharan, Jyotsana Pansare and Richa.

The disciplinary panel that was hearing into the case included retired judge Dinesh Dayal and former Asian badminton champion Dinesh Khanna and Dr. N.K. Khadiya disqualified the evidence presented to establish deviations in proceedings of the laboratory and other agencies involved in the processes.

Oscar Pistorius named for Olympics in 4×400 race, is the first ‘disabled athlete’ to qualify for an able bodied event in the 2012 London Olympics in 400 metres race.
 Full name: Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius
 Pistorius named South Africa’s 4×400 relay team for the London Olympics.
 Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is a double amputee (i.e. doesn’t have his both limbs) South African
sprint runner.
 Famous as the "Blade Runner" and "The Fastest man on no legs".
 He is the world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres (sport class T44) events and runs with the aid
of Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs by Ossur.
 Pistorius is set to become the first amputee track athlete ever to compete at the games.
 The 25-year-old South African runs on carbon fiber blades.
 Pistorius made history in 2011 by qualifying for the world championships, where he won silver in the 4×400. The
decision to leave him out of the final race caused controversy.
 Pistorius won medals at the Beijing and Athens Paralympics.

Russian Athletics Federation on 3 July 2012 decided to suspend three Russian female athletes with the European Marathon Champion, Naiva Tulamanova. The three women are Svetlana Klyuka, Yevgenia Zinurova, Lithuania's Zivile Balciunaite.

European Marathon Champion 2010 Naiva Tulamanova was banned for two years. While Second winner in 800 meters European Champions in 2006 Svetlana Klyukaand 2011 European 800 indoor winner Yevgenia Zinurova, were suspended for anomalous indexes in their biometric passports and Lithuania's Zivile Balciunaite was disqualified and banned for using steroids.

The suspensions of Yulamanova and Klyuka have been backdated to February. The ban for Zinurova began from September.
All the three were suspended to compete in Russian championships as well as from London Olympics which is starting from 27 July 2012.

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Moiben Laban wins Mumbai Marathon 2012
 Kenya’s Moiben Laban wins the Full Marathon category of the Mumbai Marathon 2012.
 Moiben accomplished the target in 2 hours and 11 minutes.
 India’s Ram Singh Yadav won the race among the Indian contenders qualifying for the London Olympics.
 Netsanet Abeyo from Ethiopia has won in the women’s Marathon.
 Indians Soji Mathew and Priyanka Singh were the winners of the half marathon in the men and women’s
category.

Sprint star Usain Bolt on 5 July 2012 withdrew his name from the Samsung Diamond League meet in Monaco on 20 July 2012 due to slight problem at Jamaican Olympics trials. He was prepared for 200 meter race at Diamond League.

He was suffered with a shock in his right hamstring after finishing in 200 meters at Jamaican Olympics trials which took place on 1 July 2012. He was second to Yohan Blake in 200 meters. He was also defeated by Blake in 100 meters in Kingston as well. Bolt withdrew his name from Diamond League to get enough time for treatment and time to prepare for the Olympic Games in London.

Bolt is the three-time Olympic champion and five times world record holder. He was born on 21 August 1986. He was the record holder in 100 meters, 200 meters and 4X100 meters relay race.

Usain Bolt bags Olympic gold in 100m
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt clinched his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100m.