SPORT FOR GOOD
Nominees
All the Nominees from the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards.
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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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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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Rory McIlroy
Rory Mcllroy captured his first Major Championship in June 2011, when he won the US Open at Congressional by eight shots.
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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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Dirk Nowitzki
In 2011, Dirk Nowitzki became the first European-born player to receive the Most Valuable Player Award in the NBA Finals, as Dallas Mavericks beat Miami Heat 4-2 to win their first ever title.
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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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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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Liu Xiang
After injury and the huge disapointment of not being able to compete fully in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Liu Xiang, to the delight of everyone in China, came back to win the silver medal in the 110 metres hurdles in the World Championships in Daegu.
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Travis Rice
Travis Rice has developed into the best all-around snowboarder in the world, equally capable of showing up to win a Slopestyle event in Aspen as he is in pioneering a first descent in the remote Darwin Range on the tip of South America.
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Philip Köster
Philip Köster became PWA Wave World Champion in September 2011 at the age of 17.
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This years nominees
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About the Laureus World Sports Awards
Celebrating the year’s greatest achievements in sport and promoting the groundbreaking work of the Sport for Good Foundation, find out more about the world’s most prestigious sports awards here.
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