MADRID, April 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Simone Biles stepped to the highest of the Olympic podium 3 times 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 obtained her fourth Laureus World Sportswoman of the Yr Award. As probably the most prestigious awards evening on the sporting calendar celebrated its personal silver anniversary, one other consensus G.O.A.T. of his sport, Kelly Slater, obtained the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of his lengthy and superb profession as browsing’s biggest 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, style and enterprise walked the pink carpet alongside them. Different massive winners included Mondo Duplantis, the double-Olympic pole vault champion who raised his personal world document 3 times in 2024 and received Laureus World Sportsman of the Yr 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 around the globe, as athletes, media and content material creators reacted to this yr’s winners – every offered with ‘The Laureus’ – the coveted statuette awarded to the winner in every class and the prize the best athletes on this planet worth above all different – voted on by the 69 sporting legends of the Laureus World Sports activities Academy.
Biles received the Comeback of the Yr Award right here final yr, after coming 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 received gold within the all-around, vault and ladies’s crew 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 received the Sportswoman of the Yr Award 4 occasions – 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 many years. He’s each the youngest (aged 20) and the oldest (39) surfer to win the world title, and he did so 11 occasions in whole. He’s a four-time winner of the World Motion Sportsperson of the Yr Award and obtained his fifth Laureus to a standing ovation in Madrid.
Tom Pidcock follows Slater as a winner of the Laureus World Motion Sportsperson of the Yr after profitable the Olympic mountain bike cross nation title in unforgettable style after a puncture, a wheel change and a daring late overtake of house favourite Victor Koretsky.
Paralympic swimming famous person Jiang Yuyan collected the Laureus World Sportsperson of the Yr with a Incapacity Award after profitable 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 information.
Actual Madrid are the Laureus World Staff of the Yr after a yr wherein they received soccer’s Champions League – for a record-extending 15th time – and La Liga, for the 36th time, one other document.
Simone Biles Wins Document 4th Sportswoman of the Yr Title
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