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8 May 2023
Lionel Messi won the best player award, while Argentina became the team of the year at the Laureus World Sports Awards.
Messi, Argentina’s captain, scored seven goals and won the Golden Ball in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in December.
He is the first to win the award individually and with a team in the same season.
The outstanding woman of the year is the Jamaican, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who won the award.
She won the 100 meters at the world track and field championships in Oregon in July.
This made her the first person to win five medals in athletics.
Fraser-Pryce, 36, first won the 100m 13 years ago, and is the all-time record winner.
Manchester United and Denmark player, Christian Eriksen is among the winners of the award, who recovered after falling in the middle of the match at Euro 2020.
Carlos Alcaraz is also among the prize winners, after the 19-year-old won the US Open.
List of awards won:
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award: Lionel Messi
Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Laureus World Team of the Year award: Argentina men’s football team
Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year award: Carlos Alcaraz
Laureus World Comeback of the Year award: Christian Eriksen
Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award: Catherine Debrunner
Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year award: Eileen Gu
Laureus Sport for Good award: TeamUp (A programme for children displaced by war by Barcelona and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski)
2023-05-08 19:14:31
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