{"id":619947,"date":"2026-04-20T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:04:08","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-aryna-sabalenka-psg-win-top-laureus-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619947\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, PSG win top Laureus awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID &#8212; Tennis players <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"c91d133a-526a-ea8d-654c-7ef6915ad63b\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> were named sportsman and sportswoman of the year at the Laureus awards on Monday while Paris Saint-Germain was the team of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz won the French and US Opens last year plus the Australian Open in January. Sabalenka, the top-ranked woman, won her second consecutive US Open last year.<\/p>\n<p>PSG broke through with its first Champions League title in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"65575c5e-0ef2-9f58-6495-42da8638a332\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3470\/rory-mcilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>, who successfully defended the Masters title this month, received the comeback of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona and Spain star <a data-player-guid=\"de67ce6f-0991-36b9-afb9-c008f21dc4b4\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/362150\/lamine-yamal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lamine Yamal<\/a>, 18, won the young sportsperson of the year prize.<\/p>\n<p>Formula One champion Lando Norris received the world breakthrough of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>German soccer great Toni Kroos won the world sporting inspiration award, and retired gymnast Nadia Comaneci got the lifetime achievement prize.<\/p>\n<p>The world action sportsperson award went to American snowboarder Chloe Kim.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Gabriel Ara\u00fajo was the world sportsperson of the year with a disability.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony in the Spanish capital was hosted by tennis great <a data-player-guid=\"4a27bb1c-2422-55c3-208b-9e9d8c1f30af\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> and freestyle skier Eileen Gu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID &#8212; Tennis players Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka were named sportsman and sportswoman of the year at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-619947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}