Olympic stars among Laureus World Sports Awards nominees

 Olympic gold medalists Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Katie Ledecky, and Mikaela Shiffrin are up for this year's Laureus World Sports Awards.

Together with fellow Olympic winner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the legendary Jamaican sprinter, tennis player Iga Swiatek of Poland, and Spanish soccer player Alexia Putellas, Ledecky, McLaughlin-Levrone, and Shiffrin are up for Sportswoman of the Year.

Ledecky triumphed in all four of her competitions at the 2022 World Swimming Championships. At the world championships, McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her 400-meter hurdles record twice. Shiffrin overcame the lack of medals at the Olympics to win the largest reward in ski racing every year, the World Cup overall title, for the fourth time. In one year, Fraser-Pryce set a record breaking seven times in the 100m, including the world championship.

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica received the honour the previous year after winning the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 4x100-meter gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Prior to it, Simone Biles (three times), Serena Williams (twice), and Naomi Osaka each won the prize the preceding six years (2021). The final Winter Olympian to triumph in 2011 was Lindsey Vonn.

The Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis, who won the global indoor and outdoor championships as well as the Diamond League crowns in 2022, is one of the candidates for Sportsman of the Year. Tennis player Rafael Nadal, soccer players Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, basketball player Stephen Curry, Formula One driver Max Verstappen, who won last year, are all opponents for Duplantis.

Olympic athletes are also up for Action Sportsperson of the Year, Comeback of the Year (runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen), and Breakthrough of the Year (figure skater Nathan Chen, hurdler Tobi Amusan) (skier Eileen Gu, snowboarder Chloe Kim).

Oksana Masters and Declan Farmer, two American paralympic athletes, are up for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability.