page_title: AIMS Best Marathon Runner Award
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: AIMS Best Marathon Runner Award / Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Haile Gebrselassie at Vienna City Marathon 2011
context_page_description: The AIMS Best Marathon Runner Award is a running prize which is given annually by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races to the top male and female marathon runners of the year. Prior to 2013, the award was known as AIMS World Athlete of the Year Award.
  Established in 1992, runners receive nominations from the organisers of AIMS member races and the man and woman with the most nominations are each given the AIMS Golden Shoe. The athletic footwear company ASICS is a long-time sponsor of the award. There is no designated period in the year for when the awards are given out, but instead runners are given the Golden Shoe in a ceremony preceding their participation in one of the AIMS races.
  Those to have received the award include marathon world record holders Haile Gebrselassie and Paula Radcliffe, who have each been given the honour on three separate occasions. Kenyan Tegla Loroupe has the most wins to her name; she won her first award in 1995 and took the honour for three consecutive years from 1997 to 1999. Others to have been nominated as AIMS World Athlete of the Year are Lornah Kiplagat, Uta Pippig, Khalid Khannouchi and Catherine Ndereba.
caption: Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia has received the award three times.
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