The highest honour the Laureus World Sports Academy can bestow is the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award and this year that honour was given to Nadia Comăneci, 50 years after she scored the first Perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history.
She won three gold medals at those 1976 Games and a further two four years later. In 2000, she became a founder Member of the Laureus World Sports Academy and has played a vital role in the growth of the Laureus movement, travelling across the world to visit programmes which support diverse communities, using sport to improve outcomes and opportunities for at-risk young people.
She becomes the 20th recipient of the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award and the first gymnast to be honoured.
Watch the emotional moment Comăneci received her Laureus statuette on stage from fellow gymnast and Laureus Ambassador, Simone Biles.
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