WATCH: Letsile Tebogo Offers Support to Emmanuel Wanyonyi After Scary Experience in Monaco

World and Olympics 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi may not be afraid of taking on seasoned competitors but there are some things that scare him to death.

Wanyonyi just completed a memorable 2025 season, when he was crowned World Athletics Track Athlete of the Year, having edged out American Noah Lyles.

This was after another dominant year on the track, when he won his first world title in Tokyo in September, having dominated the Diamond League series before winning the final.

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However, before the World Athletics awards gala last weekend, his nerves were tested to the limit when he joined fellow athletes, among them Letsile Tebogo for a short helicopter ride across Monaco.

It was something the 21-year-old had never experienced and it told by how he behaved before the ride.

“Relax man,” Tebogo had to calm him down as he trembled at the helipad just before boarding the chopper, as seen from a video posted on social media by World Athletics.

“This is me and it is my first time to ride a helicopter,” Wanyonyi mumbled amid laughter from Tebogo and those around.

“Are you scared,” a lady could be heard asking the Kenyan ace, to which he responded: “Yes, I am scared.”

The athletes would board the chopper for a few minutes after which Wanyonyi came out smiling, perhaps with the butterflies out of his stomach.

Wanyonyi had an impressive season that included winning Diamond League circuit meetings in Oslo, Stockholm, Monaco and London before claiming the trophy at the season-finale in Brussels after which he headed to the World Championships in Tokyo.

In Tokyo, he shrugged off stiff competition from defending champion Marco Arop of Canada and Algerian Djamel Sedjati to claim gold, his first world title, to hold both the crown and the Olympics at the same time.