SPORT FOR GOOD
Nominees
All the Nominees from the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards.
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Oscar Pistorius
Known as the Blade Runner, South African Oscar Pistorius is a double amputee who runs with the aid of carbon fibre artificial limbs.
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Cadel Evans
Won the 2011 Tour de France after dramatically taking the lead in the time trial on the penultimate day of the race.
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Lionel Messi
The greatest footballer of his generation - and still just 24 - Messi scored 53 goals in all competitions for Barcelona in the 2010/11 season.
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Queensland Reds
Victory in rugby’s Super 15 competition by Queensland Reds gave a huge lift to people in that part of Australia who had suffered tremendously in a series of floods in December 2010, in which 35 people died.
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Petra Kvitova
Petra Kvitova, at 21, beat Maria Sharapova in straight sets to win Wimbledon, her first ever Grand Slam.
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Carmelita Jeter
Carmelita Jeter became the fastest woman in the world when she won the blue riband 100 metres gold medal in the World Championships in Daegu.
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Crusaders
Super 15 rugby team Crusaders were badly affected when their home city of Christchurch was hit by the massive February earthquake which caused 181 deaths and caused widespread destruction.
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FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona, under coach Pep Guardiola, were winners of the Champions League and the Spanish League in the 2010/11 season.
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Jamie Bestwick
Bestwick claimed his seventh gold medal in BMX Vert at the X Games, earning the event's first-ever four-peat in the process.
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Homare Sawa
In July 2011, Homare Sawa captained Japan to its first ever FIFA Women's World Cup win with a 3-1 victory over the United States in a penalty shootout in the final.
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About the Laureus World Sports Awards
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