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Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award Awarded for best disabled male athlete Country United States Presented by ESPN First awarded
2005 Currently held by
Brad Snyder (USA) Website
www .espn .co .uk /espys /
The Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a male individual from the world of
disabled sports .
[1] Established with the aid of disability advocate and former
United States Paralympic soccer player Eli Wolff,
[2] the accolade's trophy, designed by sculptor
Lawrence Nowlan ,
[3] is presented to the disabled sportsman adjudged to be the best at the annual
ESPY Awards ceremony in
Los Angeles .
[1] The Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award was first bestowed as part of the ESPY Awards in 2005 after the non-gender specific
Best Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award was presented the previous three years (all won by sportsmen).
[4]
Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts.
[1] It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.
[5]
The inaugural winner of the Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award in
2005 was
Paralympic track and field competitor
Marlon Shirley , who won two medals at the
2004 Summer Paralympics and was the first para-athlete to go below eleven seconds in the men's
100-meter category with a time of 10.97 seconds.
[6] In 2015, South African
wheelchair racer
Krige Schabort was selected as the recipient of the award. As of 2018
[update] , he is the only athlete born outside of the United States to have won the accolade,
[7] though three additional foreign sportsmen have earned nominations. Track and field athletes have won more awards than any other sport with four with three
triathlon winners and two winners each coming in
sledge hockey ,
mixed martial arts , and
wrestling . It was not awarded in
2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
[8] The most recent winner of the award was American para-swimmer
Brad Snyder in 2022.
[9]
Winners and nominees
Statistics
See also
References
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External links
Cross-cutter Individual Discontinued Award ceremonies