The Spaniard chooses the prize for the best male athlete of the year, Putellas for the best female athlete, Alcaraz for the revelation and Real Madrid for the best team
The Spanish tennis players Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz, the footballer Alexia Putellas and Real Madrid, among others, appear on the list of nominees for the Laureus World Sports Awards 2023, following votes by the sports media from around the world and whose winners will be revealed next spring.
Three-time Laureus winner Rafa Nadal has been nominated for the World Sportsman of the Year Award, after winning the Australian Open and Roland Garros in 2022, his 21st and 22nd wins in a ‘major’. Nadal became the fourth player, along with Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Novak Djokovic, to win the ‘big four’ at least twice.
Nadal will compete against footballers Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé, two-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen, pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry for the prize.
For his part, Carlos Alcaraz has been nominated for the World Revelation of the Year Award after winning the US Open and becoming the youngest male No. 1 in history, at 19 years, 4 months and 6 days. His rivals include Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, world 100m hurdles champion Tobi Amusan, figure skater Nathan Chen, Masters winner Scottie Scheffler and the Moroccan soccer team, the first African country to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Under the management of Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid won its fourteenth Champions League, its fifth success in nine years. It was also Ancelotti’s fourth Champions League as manager and the white team also won their 35th league title and the Spanish Super Cup. It is his seventh nomination for the Laureus Award for World Team of the Year.
Real Madrid competes with the football teams of Argentina, winner of the World Cup in Qatar 2022, and England women’s team, European champions, Golden State Warriors, NBA champions, Oracle Red Bull Racing, and France men’s rugby team, which took the Six Nations title after 12 years of waiting.
For its part, Barcelona captain Alexia Putellas has been nominated Best Sportswoman of the Year for the second consecutive year after winning the Ballon d’Or twice in a row. Putellas won with her club in all 30 league games of the 2021-2021 season. 22 and was the top scorer, with 11 goals, in the Champions League.
Putellas will compete for the prize with gold medal-winning athletes Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, world tennis No. 1 Iga Swiatek, American swimmer Katie Ledecky and overall Ski World Cup winner Mikaela Shiffrin.
Shortlisted for the Best Comeback award are golfer Tiger Woods, who returned to the Masters 14 months after a serious car accident, and Christian Eriksen, back in football after suffering cardiac arrest on the course during a Euro 2020 match with Denmark.
The six nominees in each Laureus category are chosen by a vote of 1,400 of the world’s leading sports journalists, editors and broadcasters, except in the case of the Laureus Award for World Sportsperson with Disability and Laureus Award for Sport for Disability shortlists. are chosen by specialists.
Source: La Verdad
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