Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, the top tennis player in the world, was on Tuesday elected European Sportsman of the Year by the 26 European news agencies involved in the selection carried out by Poland’s PAP, replacing Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek.
In a vote in which Lusa participated, 36-year-old Djokovic, elected for the fifth time (2011, 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2023), scored 178 points, 28 more than the top runner-up, the Dutch racer. Formula 1 Max Verstappen (26 years old) and 92 places higher than third, Swedish Armand Duplantis (24 years old), Olympic and world champion and world record holder in the pole vault.
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland (23), ranked fourth, is the only player in the top 10 of the 66th award, which Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo won in 2016 and 2017.
The winner of this award, Novak Djokovic, will end this year as world number one for the eighth time (a record), and despite only playing 12 tournaments this year, he won six of them, including three Grands. tournament. Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open).
– List of the 25 most voted:
1. Novak Djokovic (Serbia), tennis 178 points.
2. Max Westappen (Netherlands), Formula 1 150.
3. Armand Duplantis (Sweden), athletics 86 years old.
4. Erling Haaland (Norway), football 80.
5. Nikola Jokic (Serbia), basketball 74.
6. Iga Swiatek (Poland), tennis 72.
7. Johannes Thinges Boe (Norway), biathlon 51.
8. Femke Bol (Netherlands), athletics 49.
9. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland), alpine skiing 44.
10. Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark), cycling 40 years old.
11. Leon Marchand (France), swimming 30.
12. Mathieu van der Poel (Belgium), cycling 26.
13. Carlos Alcazar (Spain), tennis 24.
14. Aitana Bonmati (Spain), football 23.
15. Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece), athletics 12.
16. Dennis Schröder (Germany), basketball 10.
Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner (Czech Republic), beach volleyball 10.
18. Demi Wollering (Netherlands), cycling 9.
Jon Rahm (Spain), golf 9.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway), athletics 9.
Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia), weightlifting 9.
22. Eleftherios Petrounias (Greece), artistic gymnastics 8.
Alexander Vezenkov (Bulgaria), basketball 8.
Alvaro Martin (Spain), athletics 8.
Yaroslava Makhutkikh (Ukraine), athletics 8.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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