Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Sifan Hassan, Religion Kipyegon and Mondo Duplantis are up for International Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Yr respectively
Six Olympic champions and a Paralympic gold medallist from Paris 2024 were nominated for the 2025 Laureus International Sports activities Awards.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Sifan Hassan, Religion Kipyegon are up for International Sportswoman of the Yr, with all 3 starring within the French capital closing 12 months.
After a world-record breaking run to retain her Olympic identify within the 400m hurdles, McLaughlin-Levrone adopted that up by means of serving to the United States ladies’s 4x400m staff protected gold on the State de France.
Hassan created historical past in Paris by means of changing into the primary ever feminine athlete to protected 3 medals within the 5000m, 10,000m and marathon.
Sifan Hassan (GSC)
The Dutch athlete claimed bronzes within the 5000m and 10,000m after which took gold over 26.2 miles, all within the area of simply six days.
Kipyegon received her 3rd Olympic consecutive 1500m identify closing 12 months – changing into the primary ever athlete to succeed in the feat – after golds at each Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
The Kenyan additionally added Olympic silver within the 5000m and diminished her personal international of listing to three:49.04 on the Paris Diamond League.
Mondo Duplantis is nominated for Sportsman of the Yr, whilst Letsile Tebogo and Julien Alfred may just win the International Leap forward of the Yr Award.
Mondo Duplantis (Getty)
On the Paris Olympics, Duplantis retained his pole vault identify with a worldwide listing of 6.25m, with the Swede having since raised that mark to six.27m.
Tebogo become Botswana’s first ever Olympic champion with 200m gold within the French capital, clocking an African listing of nineteen.46 – a time that positioned him 5th at the all-time listing over part a lap.
The 21-year-old then adopted that up by means of serving to Botswana’s males’s 4x400m staff protected an Olympic silver medal, completing in the back of the United States.
Alfred in the meantime become the Olympic 100m champion in Paris, backing that identify up with silver within the 200m.
Julien Alfred (Getty)
They had been Saint Lucia’s first ever medals on the Video games and the rustic then declared a countrywide vacation to commemorate Alfred.
Catherine Debrunner, after a record-breaking summer season, is up for International Sportsperson of the Yr with a Incapacity Award.
The Swiss athlete secured 5 gold medals within the T53 400m and 800m plus T54 1500m, 5000m and marathon. She additionally claimed silver within the T53 100m.
Clear of the Olympics, Debrunner received the London, Chicago and Berlin Marathons.
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