2023-12-27 18:47:42
The Murcian tennis player Carlos Alcaraz and Paralympic triathlete from Vigo Susana Rodríguez have been awarded this Wednesday as the best athletes of the year 2022 in the National Sports Awards, which also recognize the former handball player Raúl Entrerríos, the basketball player Izan Almansa, the national skating team on wheels or the Madrid Down Syndrome Foundation.
As reported by the Higher Sports Council, the jury of the National Sports Awards, appointed by the organization itself, made public the decision of the fourteen categories of the edition that rewards the merits of 2022 and headed by Alcaraz and Rodríguez.
The visually impaired triathlete Susana Rodríguez, current Paralympic champion who won world and European gold in 2022, has been awarded the Queen Letizia Award, while the Murcian tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, champion of the United States Open in 2022 and who He finished that year as number one in the world, with the King Felipe Prize. The Galician is the first athlete with a disability, woman or man, to win this category of these awards.
In addition, the Princess Leonor Award, which is awarded to the best athlete under 18 years of age, has gone to the basketball player Izan Almansa, European champion with the under-18 team and runner-up in the under-17 world championship in 2022 and in both cases as ‘MVP’, while the Madrid Down Syndrome Foundation will collect the Infanta Sofía Award, which rewards the person, entity or institution that, through its own sporting performance or by promoting the activity of others, has stood out especially in sport for people with disabilities, inclusive or Paralympic sport or that has promoted and enabled sporting activity among people with any type of disability.
For his part, the Spanish-Cuban triple jumper Jordan Díaz has been awarded the King Juan Carlos Prize, which is awarded to the revelation of the year, and the Reina Sofía Prize, which rewards fair play or the eradication of any type of violence in sports, has fallen on the journalists Paloma del Río and Antonio Pampliega for their involvement in the defense of women under the Taliban threat and assistance to immigrants.
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The Barón de Güell Cup, which rewards the most outstanding national team or selection, is for the Spanish skating team, which in the 2022 World Games achieved 40 medals and placed on the podium in all the categories in which it was represented, while RC Mediterráneo de Málaga has been recognized with the Stadium Cup for its special contribution to the promotion, dissemination and promotion of sport, especially grassroots sport. Former handball player Raúl Entrerríos will be awarded the Francisco Fernández Ochoa National Award for his career.
In addition, the Pan American Cycling Confederation is recognized with the Ibero-American Community Trophy, in honor of the centenary of its foundation, and, as the main novelty and coinciding with the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Union Trophy will go to the Czech skier Ester Ledecka, current Olympic snowboard parallel giant slalom champion.
The Higher Sports Council Award, intended for the Spanish local entity that has stood out the most for its initiatives to promote sports, has gone to the Getafe City Council for the ‘Getafe Diverse City’ program, which pursues integration and equality and which aims to eradicate violence and discrimination, and the University of Alicante has been awarded the Joaquín Blume Trophy for its commitment to sport, offering high quality facilities accessible to the university community.
Finally, the National Award for Arts and Sciences Applied to Sports has been awarded to Alberto Palomar, contentious-administrative magistrate, doctor of Law and reference in sports law.
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