World Games Athlete of the Year 2024 -Voting starts
The voting period for The Athlete of the Year 2024 Award officially opens today at 12:00 GMT, inviting sports fans from around the world to celebrate and honour the year’s most exceptional athletes.
The profile of the 22 nominees, including individual athletes, pairs and teams, representing a wide range of sports, are as follows:
Archery – Sara Lopez (COL)
Baseball Softball – Women’s Softball Team (JPN)
Beach Handball – Lucie Marie Kretzschmar (GER)
Canoe – Mads Brandt Pedersen (DEN)
Cheerleading – Allison Hoeft & Sydney Martin (USA)
DanceSport – Phil Wizard (CAN)
Flag Football – Vanita Krouch (USA)
Floorball – Veera Kauppi (FIN)
Fistball – Isabella Lucchin (BRA)
Flying Disc – Kristin Lätt (born Tattar) (EST)
Gymnastics – Xuefeng Ma, Jingwei Shi, Minghe Zhang, and Junjie Shi (CHN)
Kickboxing – Rayimjonov Davlatbek (UZB)
Korfball – Lise Van Maldeghem (BEL)
Orienteering – Joey Hadorn (SUI)
Racquetball – Alexandra Herrera and Montserrat Mejía (MEX)
Roller Sports – Duccio Marsili (ITA)
Sambo – Seidou Njimouluh (CMR)
Sport Climbing – Veddriq Leonardo (INA)
Squash – Diego Elias (PER)
Tug of War – Mengmei Li (CHN)
Underwater Sports – Yaoyao Hu (CHN)
Wushu – Xin Tong (CHN)
