Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan marathon champion and Colombian jumper Caterine Ibarguen won the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) men and women’s 2018 awards on Tuesday.

Kipchoge set a new world record of marathon in Berlin, September, smashing the previous best by an incredible 78 seconds as he clocked 2hr 1min 39sec.

The 34-year-old Olympic master’s effort was the largest single improvement on the marathon world record since Derek Clayton improved the mark by 2:23 in 1967.

Acclaimed as the greatest marathon runner of the modern era, Kipchoge has dominated marathon racing since making his debut in Hamburg in 2013 after a successful track career that saw him win world gold and silver (2003, 2007) in the 5000m and Olympic silver and bronze (2008, 2004) over the same distance.

Sweden’s 19-year-old pole vaulter Armand Duplantis won the men’s rising star award after equalling the second best ever vault with 6.05m at the European champs in Berlin in August.

“Pole vaulting’s a very strange discipline,” said Duplantis. “All the stars aligned for that one meet.”

Handed the award by France’s Renaud Lavillenie, the world record holder with a best of 6.16m, Duplantis was in a playful mood.

“I think I can jump higher than you,” he said when asked by Lavillenie on how high he could go.

American Sydney McLaughlin won the women’s rising star award after setting a world junior indoor 400m record of 50.36sec in March.

That was followed up two months later with an outdoor 400m hurdles mark of 52.75sec – a world junior record and the fastest time recorded this year.