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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 ".[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
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",[ 11] [ 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 The 2004 winner, Canadian sprinter Earle Connor , had his award and his 2002 nomination rescinded after he failed a drugs test.[ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17] Athletes have been the most successful at the awards with 6 wins and 28 nominations (excluding Connor's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 [ edit ]
Statistics are correct as of 2023 ceremony.
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* Since this award, Connor tested positive for two banned substances. His award has been rescinded.
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