Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce win IAAF World Athletes of the Year awards Jamaican sprint duo Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have been named as the IAAF's male and female World Athletes of the Year for 2013.
The 27-year-old Bolt, who also won the award in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, successfully defended both his 100 and 200 metres titles at August's world championships in Moscow, winning the latter in a 2013 world-leading time of 19.66.
He concluded his world championships by anchoring a Jamaican quartet to the gold in the 4x100m relay.
Bolt also won 10 out of his 11 100m races (including heats) and was unbeaten in his five races over 200m.
He beat off strong competition from British distance runner Mo Farah, who followed up on his 5,000-10,000m double at the London Olympics with two golds in Moscow.
Fraser-Pryce, 26, regained her 100m title in Moscow, her winning time of 10.71 the fastest of the year.
She also clocked the fastest 200m time of the year (22.13) at the Jamaican championships in June and went on to win world gold in Moscow.
Like her compatriot Bolt, she also anchored the Jamaican 4x100m team to victory, a national record and the second fastest time in history.
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