BEST MALE ATHLETE NOMINEES

ALAPHILIPPE JULIAN – Cycling, France
ANTETOKOUNMPO GIANNIS – Basketball, Greece
BARSHIM ESSA MUTAZ – Athletics, Qatar           
BENZEMA KARIM - Football, France
CHEN NATHAN – Figure skating, USA
CHEPTEGEI JOSHUA – Athletics, Uganda
DJOKOVIC NOVAK – Tennis, Serbia
DRESSEL CAELEB – Swimming, USA
DUPLANTIS MONDO ARMAND – Athletics, Sweden
DURANT KEVIN – Basketball, USA
FRIEDRICH FRANCESCO – Bobsleigh, Germany 
HAMILTON LEWIS – Formula 1, UK
INGEBRIGTSEN JAKOB – Athletics, Norway
JACOBS MARCELL – Athletics, Italy
JORGINHO - Football, Italy 
KIPCHOGE ELIUD – Athletics, Kenya
KRIECHMAYR VINCENT – Alpine skiing, Austria
LEWANDOWSKI ROBERT – Football, Poland
MESSI LIONEL – Football, Argentina
OHTANI SHOHEI – Baseball, Japan          
POGAAR TADEJ – Cycling, Slovenia
QUARTARARO FABIO – MotoGP, France  
ROGLI PRIMO – Cycling, Slovenia
RONALDO CRISTIANO – Football, Portugal
ROSSI VALENTINO – MotoGP, Italy
SZILÁGYI ARON – Fencing, Hungary        
TAMBERI GIANMARCO – Athletics, Italy  
TENTOGLOU MILTEADES – Athletics, Greece     
VERSTAPPEN MAX – Formula 1, Netherlands    
WARHOLM KARSTEN – Athletics, Norway

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE NOMINEES

ABE UTA – Judo, Japan       
ANDRADE REBECA – Artistic gymnastics, Brazil
BARTY ASHLEIGH – Tennis, Australia
FOX JESSICA – Canoeing, Australia          
GARNBRET JANJA – Sport climbing, Slovenia
HASSAN SIFAN – Athletics, Netherlands
JEPCHIRCHIR PERES – Athletics, Kenya
KENNY LAURA  - Cycling, UK
KERR SAM – Australia, Football
KIESENHOFER ANNA – Cycling, Austria
KIPYEGON FAITH – Athletics, Kenya
LEAL RAYSSA – Skateboarding, Brazil
LEE SUNISA – Artistic gymnastics, USA
LIENSBERGER KATHARINA – Alpine skiing, Austria
MACNEIL MARGARET – Swimming, Canada
MCKEON EMMA – Swimming, Australia  
MCLAUGHLIN SYDNEY – Athletics, USA   
MELNIKOVA ANGELINA – Artistic gymnastics, Russia
MIHAMBO MALAIKA – Athletics, Germany
MU ATHING – Athletics, USA
OSAKA NAOMI – Tennis, Japan     
PUTELLAS ALEXIA – Football, Spain
RADUCANU EMMA – Tennis, UK
ROJAS YULIMAR – Athletics, Venezuela
SAN AN – Archery, South Korea
SHIFFRIN MIKAELA – Alpine skiing, USA
THOMPSON–HERAH ELAINE – Athletics, Jamaica
TWIGG EMMA – Rowing, New Zealand
VLHOVA PETRA – Alpine skiing, Slovakia
VON BREDOW-WERNDL JESSICA – Equestrian, Germany
WERTH ISABELL – Equestrian, Germany

BEST TEAM NOMINEES

ARGENTINA MEN'S FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM – Football, Argentina                    
AUSTRALIA MEN'S CRICKET TEAM – Cricket, Australia
ATLANTA BRAVES – Baseball, USA
BARCELONA WOMEN’S FOOTBALL CLUB – Football, Spain
BAYERN MUNICH MEN’S FOOTBALL CLUB – Football, Germany        
BRAZIL MEN'S OLYMPIC FOOTBALL TEAM – Football, Brazil
CHELSEA MEN'S FOOTBALL TEAM – Football, UK
CROATIA MEN'S COXLESS PAIR – Rowing, Croatia        
FRANCE MEN'S HANDBALL NATIONAL TEAM – Handball, France
FRANCE JUDO TEAM – Judo, France
FRANCE MEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM – Volleyball, France
GERMANY EQUESTRIAN DRESSAGE TEAM – Equestrian, Germany
GERMANY MEN’S BOBSLEIGH TEAM – Bobsleigh, Germany    
GERMANY MEN’S KAYAK FOUR TEAM – Canoeing, Germany 
GERMANY WOMEN’S TRACK CYCLING TEAM – Cycling, Germany
ITALY MEN'S NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM – Football, Italy
LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB – Football, UK                              
MILWAUKEE BUCKS – Basketball, USA
NEW ZEALAND MEN'S ROWING EIGHT TEAM – Rowing, New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND WOMEN'S RUGBY 7s TEAM – Rugby, New Zealand
REAL MADRID FOOTBALL CLUB – Football, Spain
RUSSIAN NOC MEN’S GYMNASTIC TEAM – Gymnastics, Russia
SOUTH AFRICA RUGBY 15s TEAM – Rugby, South Africa
SOUTH KOREA WOMEN'S ARCHERY TEAM – Archery, South Korea
SWITZERLAND ALPINE SKI TEAM – Alpine skiing, Switzerland
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS - American football, USA
USA MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM – Basketball, USA