The Laureus World Sports Awards 2025
Madrid became the capital city of sport tonight as the Laureus World Sports Awards celebrated its 25th anniversary. This by gathering the greatest athletes not only of the past 12 months, but of the 21st Century.
Simone Biles and Rebecca Andrade both winners here. Together they’ve been friends, rivals and Olympic champions from the world of gymnastics.
Both sides of Spanish football’s great duopoly were represented on the winners’ podium. Real Madrid and Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal were honoured.
Olympic and Paralympic heroes including Mondo Duplantis, Tom Pidcock and Jijang Yuan added a Laureus to their laurels.
Standing alongside the world’s greatest athletes leaders from the inspirational Lesotho-based football programme Kick4Life, recipients of the 2025 Laureus Sport for Good Award.
25 years after the inaugural Laureus World Sports Awards held in Monaco in 2000. This special anniversary edition of the greatest show in sports was also a celebration of the growth of Laureus.
This a unique sporting movement – encompasses the world-famous Awards and the year-round work of Laureus Sport for Good in over 40 countries.
The Awards evening launched a multi-media wave of posts, coverage and broadcast around the world. This as athletes, media and bloggers reacted to the year’s winners – each presented with ‘The Laureus’.
The coveted statuette awarded to the winner in each category and the prize the greatest athletes in the world value above all other Awards. All voted on by the 69 sporting legends of the Laureus World Sports Academy.
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