Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award

The Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a female athlete from the world of action sports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2004 after the non-gender-specific Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was presented the previous two years (with the American snowboarder Kelly Clark receiving the 2002 award). It is given to the female, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to be the best action sports athlete in a given calendar year. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts. It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.

The inaugural winner of the award was the American wakeboarder Dallas Friday. During 2003 and 2004, Friday won 12 of the available 14 professional women's titles, including national and world championships. She became the first wakeboarder to be nominated for, and hence to win, an ESPY Award. Athletes from the United States have won more times than any other nationality with ten (three times to snowboarders Jamie Anderson and Chloe Kim), followed by Australians with three, two of which went to the surfer Stephanie Gilmore. Snowboarders are most successful sportspeople, with eleven awards, followed by surfers with four. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent winner of the award was Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu in 2022.

Winners + Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award winners and nominees Year Image Athlete Nation of citizenship Sport(s) regularly contested Nominees 2004 – Wakeboarding Layne Beachley () – Surfing Aleisha Cline () – Ski cross Hannah Teter () – Snowboarding 2005 Surfing Karin Huttary () – Ski cross Janna Meyen () – Snowboarding Hannah Teter () – Snowboarding 2006 Snowboarding (half-pipe) Gretchen Bleiler () – Snowboarding Cara-Beth Burnside () – Skateboarding Dallas Friday () – Wakeboarding Janna Meyen () – Snowboarding 2007 Freestyle skiing Jamie Anderson () – Snowboarding Layne Beachley () – Surfing Torah Bright () – Snowboarding Elissa Steamer () – Skateboarding 2008 Snowboarding (half-pipe, slopestyle) Stephanie Gilmore () – Surfing Lindsey Jacobellis () – Snowboarding Jessica Patterson () – Motocross 2009 Surfing Torah Bright () – Snowboarding Sarah Burke () – Freestyle skiing Ashley Fiolek () – Motocross 2010 Snowboarding (half-pipe) Ashley Fiolek () – Motocross Stephanie Gilmore () – Surfing Jen Hudak () – Freestyle skiing Ashleigh McIvor () – Freestyle skiing 2011 Surfing Sarah Burke () – Freestyle skiing Kelly Clark () – Snowboarding Ashley Fiolek () – Motocross 2012 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Kelly Clark () – Snowboarding Carissa Moore () – Surfing Kaya Turski () – Freestyle skiing 2013 Surfing Letícia Bufoni () – Skateboarding Kelly Clark () – Snowboarding Laia Sanz () – Motocross 2014 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Maddie Bowman () – Freestyle skiing Kelly Clark () – Snowboarding Vicki Golden () – Motocross Carissa Moore () – Surfing 2015 Snowboarding (half-pipe) Paige Alms () – Surfing Stephanie Gilmore () – Surfing Laia Sanz () – Motocross 2016 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Keala Kennelly () – Surfing Chloe Kim () – Snowboarding Carissa Moore () – Surfing 2017 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Lacey Baker () – Skateboarding Kelly Sildaru () – Freestyle skiing Tyler Wright () – Surfing 2018 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Jamie Anderson () – Snowboarding Stephanie Gilmore () – Surfing Brighton Zeuner () – Skateboarding 2019 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Kelly Sildaru () – Skiing Zoi Sadowski-Synnott () – Snowboarding Stephanie Gilmore (} Surfing 2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 Snowboarding (slopestyle) Eileen Gu () – Skiing Carissa Moore () – Surfing Zoi Sadowski-Synnott () – Snowboarding 2022 Freestyle skiing Chloe Kim () – SnowboardingRayssa Leal () – SkateboardingZoi Sadowski-Synnott ( – Snowboarding

Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award

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