Earlier this week the finalists for the 2025 Laureus World Sports Awards, self-proclaimed as the most prestigious honor in sports, were announced.
The finalists for World Sportsman of the Year, World Sportswoman of the Year, World Sports Team of the Year and more were revealed. Elite Olympic athletes like France’s Leon Marchand, United States hero Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Formula 1 superstar Max Verstappen all made the list while teams like the Boston Celtics and Team USA basketball were team finalists.
Among the finalists for World Sportswoman of the Year is United States gymnast Simons Biles – who won the award back in 2017, 2019 and 2020.
“She called the Paris Games her ‘Redemption Tour’ after withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics and taking a break from the sport, and she delivered in stunning fashion. As well as clinching the second all-round gold medal of her illustrious career, she won gold in team and vault – where she performed her celebrated Biles II, a Yurchenko double pike – and silver in the floor exercise,” Laureus wrote about Biles.
“Her lifetime total of 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals makes her the most decorated gymnast in history. She has won the prestigious Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award three times and last year won the Comeback of the Year Award.”
A three-time winner of the award, Biles was also the Comeback Athlete of the Year for Laureus in 2024 after being a finalist in 2022. She won three gold medals at the Paris Games for the All-Around, Team and Vault competitions while earning silver in the floor exercise.
