Laureus Awards: Kerber, Halep and Djokovic hope for sports Oscar
The coveted Laureus World Sports Awards will be presented in Monaco for the 20th time today. Top athletes from various sports can win prizes in eight categories, each with six candidates. Among them Wimbledon winner Angelique Kerber and Para long jumper Markus Rehm - and also the Formula 1 world champions in construction hope for an award.
by SID / tennisnet
last edit: Feb 18, 2019, 08:16 am
Kerber waves the title "Sportswoman of the year", but she has well-known competitors. French Open winner Simona Halep from Romania is also nominated. The following are also available: gymnastics superstar Simone Biles (USA), Ester Ledecka (Czech Republic), who won gold in Super-G and snowboard at the 2018 Olympics, triathlete Daniela Ryf from Switzerland, who competed for the fourth time this year Ironman in Hawaii won, and ski ace Mikaela Shiffrin (USA).
Among the men are the soccer stars Kylian Mbappe (France) and Luka Modric (Croatia), basketball player LeBron James (USA), Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain), marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, Number one in the tennis world rankings, nominated.
So far, 13 awards have gone to Germany. Mercedes cleared away in 2018, in 2017 the former Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg won the sports Oscar "Breakthrough". At that time Kerber was also nominated, but she had to let Biles go first. The Laureus World Sports Award is the most important award in international sports. At the suggestion of around 2000 journalists, the winners will be selected by a top-class jury.
The award ceremony will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. on skysport.de!