MADRID, April 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Simone Biles stepped to the highest of the Olympic podium thrice in Paris final summer season, and tonight she took a bow as soon as extra, this time on the stage of the Laureus World Sports activities Awards as she acquired her fourth Laureus World Sportswoman of the 12 months Award. As essentially the most prestigious awards night time on the sporting calendar celebrated its personal silver anniversary, one other consensus G.O.A.T. of his sport, Kelly Slater, acquired the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of his lengthy and wonderful profession as browsing’s best champion.
At Madrid’s Palacio de Cibeles, the best athletes of the previous in addition to the current have been in attendance, and stars from the worlds of leisure, trend and enterprise walked the pink carpet alongside them. Different large winners included Mondo Duplantis, the double-Olympic pole vault champion who raised his personal world document thrice in 2024 and gained Laureus World Sportsman of the 12 months Award; and Rebeca Andrade, Biles’ Brazilian rival, honored right here for her comeback from three ACL accidents which ended with gold on the ground in Paris.
The Awards night launched a multi-media wave of posts, protection and broadcast world wide, as athletes, media and content material creators reacted to this yr’s winners – every introduced with ‘The Laureus’ – the coveted statuette awarded to the winner in every class and the prize the best athletes on the planet worth above all different – voted on by the 69 sporting legends of the Laureus World Sports activities Academy.
Biles gained the Comeback of the 12 months Award right here final yr, after getting back from a close to two-year break from the game she had dominated. In 2024, her ‘Redemption Tour’ took her again to the Olympic stage and in Paris she gained gold within the all-around, vault and ladies’s workforce classes. In some ways Biles defies comparability, however at these Awards that’s not the case: she now stands subsequent to Serena Williams, the one different athlete to have gained the Sportswoman of the 12 months Award 4 instances – each have been additionally honored within the Comeback class throughout stellar careers.
For Slater, the Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledged an elite profession that spanned three a long time. He’s each the youngest (aged 20) and the oldest (39) surfer to win the world title, and he did so 11 instances in complete. He’s a four-time winner of the World Motion Sportsperson of the 12 months Award and acquired his fifth Laureus to a standing ovation in Madrid.
Tom Pidcock follows Slater as a winner of the Laureus World Motion Sportsperson of the 12 months after successful the Olympic mountain bike cross nation title in unforgettable trend after a puncture, a wheel change and a daring late overtake of residence favourite Victor Koretsky.
Paralympic swimming famous person Jiang Yuyan collected the Laureus World Sportsperson of the 12 months with a Incapacity Award after successful seven para swimming golds from seven occasions within the pool, matching the feat of Laureus Academy Member Mark Spitz. The 19-year-old additionally set two particular person world data.
Actual Madrid are the Laureus World Group of the 12 months after a yr during which they gained soccer’s Champions League – for a record-extending fifteenth time – and La Liga, for the thirty sixth time, one other document.
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