2024 Laureus Sports Awards: Messi, Haaland, Bellingham, others bag top nominations
Inter Miami star Lionel Messi, Manchester City forward Erling Haaland and Real Madrid sensation Jude Bellingham have been announced as nominees at the 2024 Laureus World Sports Awards.
Haaland, with 52 goals in 53 games as City clinched a Champions League, Premier League, and FA Cup treble last season, is nominated in the Sportsman of the Year category alongside last year’s winner Messi.
Tennis legend Novak Djokovic, F1 champion Max Verstappen, American 100m and 200m world champion Noah Lyles and two-time Pole Vault champion Mondo Duplantis were also nominated in the category.
World Cup winner Aitana Bonmati, Sha’Carri Richardson and others bagged nominations in the Sportswoman of the Year category.
Meanwhile, Bellingham, who has been on top of his game since he joined Real Madrid last summer, Tennis protege Coco Gauff, footballer Linda Caicedo, Josh Kerr, Salma Paralluelo and Qin Haiyang tango in the Breakthrough of the Year category.
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Sportsman of the Year
Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – tennis
Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) – athletics
Erling Haaland (Norway) – football
Noah Lyles (USA) – athletics
Lionel Messi (Argentina) – football
Max Verstappen (Netherlands) – motor racing
Sportswoman of the Year
Aitana Bonmati (Spain) – football
Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) – athletics
Faith Kipyegon (Kenya) – athletics
Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) – athletics
Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) – skiing
Iga Swiatek (Poland) – tennis
Team of the year
European Ryder Cup Team – golf
Germany men – basketball
Manchester City – football
Red Bull – Formula 1
South Africa – rugby
Spain women – football
Breakthrough of the Year
Jude Bellingham (GB) – football
Linda Caicedo (Colombia) – football
Coco Gauff (USA) – tennis
Qin Haiyang (China) – swimming
Josh Kerr (UK) – athletics
Salma Paralluelo (Spain) – football
Comeback of the Year
Simone Biles (USA) – gymnastics
Sébastien Haller (Ivory Coast) – football
Katarina Johnson-Thompson (UK) – athletics
Siya Kolisi (South Africa) – rugby
Jamal Murray (Canada) – basketball
Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) – tennis
Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability
Simone Barlaam (Italy) – swimming
Danylo Chufarov (Ukraine) – swimming
Diede de Groot (Netherlands) – tennis
Luca Ekler (Hungary) – athletics
Nicole Murray (New Zealand) – cycling
Markus Rehm (Germany) – athletics
Action Sportsperson of the Year
Rayssa Leal (Brazil) – skateboarding
Caroline Marks (USA) – surfing
Kirsten Neuschafer (South Africa) – sailing
Bethany Shriever (GB) – BMX
Filipe Toledo (Brazil) – surfing
Arisa Trew (Australia) – skateboarding
Sport for Good
Bola Pra Frente (Brazil) multi-sport and employability
Dancing Grounds (USA) – dancing and social integration
Fundacion Rafa Nadal (Spain) – tennis and education
ISF Cambodia – football & education
Justice Desk Africa (South Africa) – multi-sport and human rights
Obiettivo Napoli (Italy) – multi-sport and inclusion
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