Premios Nacionales del Deporte (National Sports Awards) are annual sporting awards given to best Spanish athletes. They are awarded by Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD) and sponsored by the Spanish royal family.
The awards were established in 1982 and are always presented for best achievements in the preceding calendar year. The two most prestigious awards are Premio Reina Letizia for Best Spanish Sportswoman and Premio Rey Felipe for Best Spanish Sportsman. Two of the other key categories among the fourteen are Premio Princesa Leonor presented to the best male or female athlete under 18 years of age and the Premio Infanta Sofía which recognizes sporting participation and achievement among people with disabilities.
List of winners YearSportsman of the YearSportswoman of the YearWinner SportWinner Sport1982 José MarínAthletics Marta Figueras-DottiGolf1983 Juan Antonio CorbalánBasketball Blanca Fernández OchoaSkiing1984 José Manuel AbascalAthletics Marta BoboGymnastics1985 José AmengualSpearfishing Theresa ZabellSailing1986 José Luis GonzálezAthletics Mari Cruz DíazAthletics1987 Jorge MartínezMotorsport Coral BistuerTaekwondo1988 José DoresteSailing Blanca Fernández OchoaSkiing1989 Manuel PereiraFencing Ana Bautista ReyesGymnastics1990 Carlos SainzMotorsport Sandra MyersAthletics1991 Martin López-ZuberoSwimming Miriam BlascoJudo1992 Miguel IndurainCycling Miriam Blasco andAlmudena MuñozJudo1993 Jesús Ángel García andValentí MassanaAthletics Carmen AcedoGymnastics1994 José María OlazábalGolf Arantxa Sánchez Vicario andConchita MartínezTennis1995 Miguel IndurainCycling Taymi ChappéFencing1996 Fermín CachoAthletics Theresa Zabell andBegoña Vía-DufresneSailing1997 Joan LlanerasCycling Isabel FernándezJudo1998 Àlex CorretjaTennis Dori RuanoCycling1999 Abel AntónAthletics Niurka MontalvoAthletics2000 Joan Llaneras andGervasio DeferrCyclingGymnastics Isabel FernándezJudo2001 Pau GasolBasketball Sheila HerreroSpeed skating2002 Alberto GarcíaAthletics Marta DomínguezAthletics2003 Juan Carlos FerreroTennis Joane SomarribaCycling2004 David CalCanoeing Beatriz Ferrer-SalatEquestrian2005 Fernando AlonsoMotorsport Gemma MengualSwimming2006 Rafael NadalTennis Laia SanzMotorsport2007 Rafael TrujilloSailing Mayte MartínezAthletics2008 Rafael NadalTennis Virginia Ruano Pascual andAnabel Medina GarriguesTennis2009 Xavi HernándezFootball Marta DomínguezAthletics2010 Jorge LorenzoMotorsport Edurne Pasaban Mountaineering2011 Juan Carlos NavarroBasketball Tara Pacheco andBerta BetanzosSailing2012 Joel GonzálezTaekwondo Marina AlabauSailing2013 Javier Gómez NoyaTriathlon Mireia BelmonteSwimming2014 Marc MárquezMotorsport Carolina MarínBadminton2015 Javier FernándezFigure skating Ruth BeitiaAthletics2016 Saúl CraviottoCanoeing Maialen Chourraut andLydia ValentínCanoeingWeightlifting2017 Rafael NadalTennis Sandra SánchezKarate2018 Regino Hernández andAlejandro ValverdeSnowboardingCycling Joana PastranaBoxing2019 Ricky RubioBasketball Cycling and Skiing2020Sportspeople who fought against COVID-19 from their positions on the front line (Extraordinary Award)2021 Jon RahmGolf Alexia PutellasFootball2022 Carlos AlcarazTennisSusana RodríguezAthletics2023 Rodri HernándezFootballAitana BonmatíFootball2024 Álvaro MartínAthleticsMaría PérezAthletics
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