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Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Awarded for "the person who best demonstrates excellent athletic achievement and strong leadership qualities in a sport in the Paralympic programme"
[1] Location
Seville (2021)
[2] Presented by Laureus Sport for Good Foundation First awarded 2000 Currently held by
Catherine Debrunner (SUI) (2023)
[3] Website
Official website
The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability is an annual award honouring the achievements of individual disabled athletes from the world of
Paralympic sports . It was first awarded in 2000 as one of the seven constituent awards presented during the
Laureus World Sports Awards .
[1] The awards are presented by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, a global organisation involved in more than 150 charity projects supporting 500,000 young people.
[4] The first ceremony was held on 25 May 2000 in
Monte Carlo , at which
Nelson Mandela gave the keynote speech.
[5] Nominations for the award come from a specialist panel.
[1] The Laureus World Sports Academy then selects the winner who is presented with a Laureus statuette, created by
Cartier , at an annual awards ceremony held in various locations around the world.
[6] The awards are considered highly prestigious and are frequently referred to as the sporting equivalent of "
Oscars ".
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The first winner of the award was the Australian
wheelchair racer ,
Louise Sauvage , who had won three medals at the
2000 Sydney Paralympics .
[10] In 2002,
Esther Vergeer , a Dutch
wheelchair tennis player, was selected as the award winner. Described as the "most dominant athlete in the world",
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[12] Vergeer won 470 matches in a row during her career, collecting 284 titles, including 21 grand slam singles titles and 23 grand slam doubles titles.
[13] She is one of two people to have won the Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award more than once, winning again in 2008; she was also nominated in 2006, 2007, 2011 and 2012. The Brazilian
swimmer
Daniel Dias has the most wins, collecting the award three times with a further three nominations, while German
racing cyclist
Michael Teuber has been nominated the most times (four) without winning. The 2004 winner, Canadian sprinter
Earle Connor , had his award and his 2002 nomination rescinded after he failed a drugs test.
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Athletes have been the most successful at the awards with 6 wins and 28 nominations (excluding Connor's results), followed by swimmers with 4 wins and 19 nominations. The winner of the 2020 Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability was the Ukrainian-born American
Paralympic cross-country skier
Oksana Masters .
[18] The award was not presented in the 2021 ceremony.
[19]
List of winners and nominees
Statistics
Statistics are correct as of 2023 ceremony.
See also
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* Since this award, Connor tested positive for two banned substances. His award has been rescinded.
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