On Monday, the Laureus World Sports activities Awards introduced its nominees for the twenty fifth version, with monitor athletes standing out as dominant contenders. The final time a monitor and discipline athlete gained was in 2023, however this yr, six gold medallists from the 2024 Olympic Video games are within the working for the distinguished trophy: Sifan Hassan, Religion Kipyegon, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Mondo Duplantis, Julien Alfred and Letsile Tebogo. Paris 2024 Paralympic wheelchair gold medallist Catherine Debrunner was additionally nominated. The winners, voted on by 69 legendary athletes of the Laureus World Sports activities Academy, shall be introduced in Madrid on April 21.
Hassan, Kipyegon and McLaughlin-Levrone for Sportswoman of the Yr
Dutch Olympic champion Sifan Hassan and world file holders Religion Kipyegon of Kenya and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the U.S. make up half the athletes nominated for Laureus Sportswoman of the Yr. Hassan accomplished the enduring distance triple, incomes bronze within the 5,000m and 10,000m and taking gold within the marathon after solely making her debut within the 42.2-km occasion in 2023. In Paris, Kipyegon grew to become the one three-time Olympic 1,500m champion, and likewise claimed silver within the 5,000m. McLaughlin-Levrone broke the 400m hurdles world file for the sixth time and efficiently defended her Olympic title.
Duplantis for Sportsman of the Yr
The world’s biggest pole vaulter is one among 5 males up for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Yr award. At solely 25 years previous, Mondo Duplantis claimed his second Olympic title in Paris and in 2024, broke his personal world file for the ninth and tenth instances. Final Friday, Duplantis went on to shatter that mark for the eleventh time, leaping 6.27m.
Alfred and Tebogo for Breakthrough of the Yr
Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred made historical past together with her 100m victory, profitable her nation’s first-ever Olympic medal. She went on to take silver within the 200m. And Botswanan hero Letsile Tebogo gained his nation’s first-ever Olympic gold medal at his debut, outrunning the favorite, Noah Lyles, within the 200m. Tebogo’s efficiency of 19.46 marked a private finest and an African file.
Debrunner for Sportsperson of the Yr with a Incapacity
Swiss wheelchair athlete Catherine Debrunner was the newest monitor and discipline athlete to win a Laureus World Sports activities Award, taking dwelling a trophy in 2023 alongside Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. After profitable 5 Paralympic gold medals in Paris within the 400 metres T53, 800m T53, 1,500m T54, 5,000m T54 and marathon T54 (alongside silver within the 100m T53), Debrunner is up for the award as soon as once more.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Catherine Debrunner win 2023 Laureus World Sports activities awards
2024 monitor nominees
Final yr, Duplantis and Kipyegon have been nominated for the sportsman/sportswoman trophy, alongside males’s world 100m champion Lyles, and girls’s 100m champion Richardson and silver medallist Shericka Jackson. Paralympic champions Luca Ekler and Markus Rehm have been up for Sportsperson of the Yr with a incapacity, whereas 1,500m world champion Josh Kerr was additionally nominated for the largest breakthrough.