American gymnast Simone Biles and Swedish pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, two of the brightest stars from this yr’s Olympics in Paris, are the AIPS Athletes of the 12 months 2024, as voted by 518 journalists from 111 nations.
The standard end-of-year ballot, organised by AIPS, is probably the most worldwide ballot devoted to the talk relating to the athletes that dominated the sports activities world within the outgoing yr.
Biles, who gained three Olympic gold medals and one silver in Paris, garnered 703 factors to win the Greatest Feminine Athlete of the 12 months award for the fifth time, forward of Spain and Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati, who was just lately named The Greatest FIFA Ladies’s Participant for a second yr in a row (337 factors) and Saint Lucia’s first ever Olympic gold medallist within the 100m and silver medallist within the 200m, Julien Alfred in third with 263 factors.
Following his record-breaking season, Duplantis additionally dominated the Greatest Male Athlete of the 12 months class with 603 factors. The Swedish star, who completed second within the 2022 and 2023 editions of the AIPS ballot, has lastly secured the distinguished prize for the primary time. Serbian tennis icon, Novak Djokovic, who at 37 grew to become the oldest Olympic gold medallist in males’s singles and simply the fifth tennis participant to attain the profession Golden Slam, completed second with 368 factors, whereas Slovenian Tadej Pogačar, who grew to become the primary male bicycle owner since 1987 to win the ‘Triple Crown’ of the boys’s Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and world title in the identical yr, completed third with 294 factors.
AIPS BEST FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Simone Arianne Biles, born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, has now gained the AIPS Feminine Athlete of the 12 months accolade 5 occasions within the final eight years and consecutively on two events (2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024) after taking the Paris 2024 Olympics by storm to cement her standing because the the world’s most adorned gymnast.
The 27-year-old icon dazzled on her Olympics return as she soared to 4 Olympic medals, together with staff, all-around and vault golds and a silver medal on the ground train, and banished the recollections of Tokyo 2020 (held in 2021), the place she abruptly stop the Olympic staff closing after struggling the ‘twisties’.
Boasting a complete of 11 Olympic medals (seven gold, two silver, and two bronze medals) gained throughout three Olympic Video games: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024, Biles made historical past in Paris as she grew to become probably the most adorned American Olympic gymnast of all time.
Biles, who made her worldwide debut in 2013, additionally owns 30 World Championship medals, together with 23 world gold medals, and is extensively considered the best gymnast of all time.
Beneath are the High 10
1. Biles Simone (USA) – Gymnastics – 703
2. Bonmatí Aitana (Spain) – Soccer – 337
3. Alfred Julien (Saint Lucia) – Athletics – 263
4. Hassan Sifan (Netherlands) – Athletics – 226
5. Marta (Brazil) – Soccer – 196
6. Ledecky Katie (USA) – Swimming – 187
7. Shiffrin Mikaela (USA) – Alpine snowboarding – 176
8. Mahuchikh Yaroslava (Ukraine) – Athletics – 165
9. Chebet Beatrice (Kenya) – Athletics – 157
10. Swiatek Iga (Poland) – Tennis – 144
AIPS BEST MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR In 2024, Sweden’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, born on November 10, 1999 in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, continued his imperious kind because the dominant drive of pole vault.
He defended his titles on the World Athletics Indoor Championships, European Athletics Championships and Olympic Video games and cleared world information of 6.24m, 6.25m and 6.26m en path to an unbeaten season – indoors and outside.
On the Paris 2024 Olympics, Duplantis soared to his ninth world document of 6.25m, having already secured gold earlier with a vault of 6.00m to change into the primary back-to-back champion in males’s pole vault for the reason that Nineteen Fifties. Two weeks later, the 25-year-old Swedish star broke the world document for the tenth time in his profession on the Silesia Diamond League Assembly in Poland. He first broke the world document in February of 2020.
He additionally owns the eight greatest vaults of the 2024 season, together with the championship document of 6.10m that earned him a 3rd successive European outside title in Rome in June and the assembly document of 6.11m on the Allianz Memorial van Damme in Brussels the place he gained his fourth consecutive Diamond League Trophy.
Duplantis took to pole vaulting at an early age and, below the steering of his father Greg, has been a record-breaker since he was seven years outdated.
Beneath are the High 10
1. Duplantis Armand (Sweden) – Athletics – 603
2. Djokovic Novak (Serbia) – Tennis – 368
3. Pogačar Tadej (Slovenia) – Biking – 294
4. Marchand León (France) – Swimming – 246
5. Vinícius Junior (Brazil) – Soccer – 226
6. Alcaraz Carlos (Spain) – Tennis – 220
7. Yamal Lamine (Spain) – Soccer – 211
8. Sinner Jannik (Italy) – Tennis – 180
9. López Mijain (Cuba) – Wrestling – 172
10. Rodri (Spain) – Soccer – 144
AIPS Members from the next 111 nations participated within the Better of 2024 ballot: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Rep., Chile, China, Chinese language Taipei, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Nice Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Eire, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic Of Korea, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Trinidad And Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela and Yemen
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