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Erling Haaland, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jude Bellingham are among the nominees for the 2024 Laureus World Sports Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n Manchester City are in contention for team of the year and striker Haaland is in the running for sportsman of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Britain’s double heptathlon world champion Johnson-Thompson has been nominated for comeback of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n England and Real Madrid midfielder Bellingham and Britain’s 1500m world champion Josh Kerr have been shortlisted for the breakthrough award.<\/span><\/p>\n Haaland, 23, scored 52 goals in 53 games during his debut season as City completed the Treble by winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.<\/span><\/p>\n Argentina and Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi, last year’s winner, is again in contention for sportsman of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n “Last year was a very special year for me and the whole team,” said Haaland.<\/span><\/p>\n Johnson-Thompson, 30, won gold at last year’s World Championships in Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n She feared her career was over in 2019 when she tore an Achilles. She was taken off the track in a wheelchair at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a torn calf muscle.<\/span><\/p>\n “The journey to get back to being amongst the world’s best after rupturing my Achilles as well as the other injuries and surgeries I’ve had over the past couple years was hard – really really hard,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n “I questioned myself. I felt like quitting. I didn’t know what was possible but I had an amazing team around me who kept me going.”<\/span><\/p>\n Scot Kerr, 26, beat favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win the 1500m world title in Budapest last year.<\/span><\/p>\n Bellingham, 20, has become a key player for Real following his 103m euro (\u00a389m) move from Borussia Dortmund last summer, scoring 20 goals in 29 games this season.<\/span><\/p>\n British BMX rider Beth Shriever, 24, has again been nominated for the action sportsperson award she won in 2022. Last year she added the world title to her Olympic crown.<\/span><\/p>\n Europe’s Ryder Cup-winning team have been nominated for team of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n The awards take place in Madrid on 22 April.<\/span><\/p>\n Journalists and broadcasters chose the nominees and the Laureus World Sports Academy, containing several sporting legends, will vote for the winners.<\/span><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – tennis<\/span><\/p>\n Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) – athletics <\/span><\/p>\n Erling Haaland (Norway) – football<\/span><\/p>\n Noah Lyles (USA) – athletics <\/span><\/p>\n Lionel Messi (Argentina) – football<\/span><\/p>\n Max Verstappen (Netherlands) – motor racing <\/span><\/p>\n Aitana Bonmati (Spain) – football <\/span><\/p>\n Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) – athletics<\/span><\/p>\n Faith Kipyegon (Kenya) – athletics<\/span><\/p>\n Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) – athletics <\/span><\/p>\n Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) – skiing<\/span><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek (Poland) – tennis <\/span><\/p>\n European Ryder Cup Team – golf<\/span><\/p>\n Germany men – basketball<\/span><\/p>\n Manchester City – football <\/span><\/p>\n Red Bull – Formula 1<\/span><\/p>\n South Africa – rugby<\/span><\/p>\n Spain women – football<\/span><\/p>\n Jude Bellingham (GB) – football <\/span><\/p>\n Linda Caicedo (Colombia) – football<\/span><\/p>\n Coco Gauff (USA) – tennis <\/span><\/p>\n Qin Haiyang (China) – swimming <\/span><\/p>\n Josh Kerr (UK) – athletics<\/span><\/p>\n Salma Paralluelo (Spain) – football <\/span><\/p>\n Simone Biles (USA) – gymnastics<\/span><\/p>\n S\u00e9bastien Haller (Ivory Coast) – football <\/span><\/p>\n Katarina Johnson-Thompson (UK) – athletics <\/span><\/p>\n Siya Kolisi (South Africa) – rugby<\/span><\/p>\n Jamal Murray (Canada) – basketball <\/span><\/p>\n Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) – tennis <\/span><\/p>\n Simone Barlaam (Italy) – swimming <\/span><\/p>\n Danylo Chufarov (Ukraine) – swimming <\/span><\/p>\n Diede de Groot (Netherlands) – tennis <\/span><\/p>\n Luca Ekler (Hungary) – athletics <\/span><\/p>\n Nicole Murray (New Zealand) – cycling<\/span><\/p>\n Markus Rehm (Germany) – athletics<\/span><\/p>\n Rayssa Leal (Brazil) – skateboarding<\/span><\/p>\n Caroline Marks (USA) – surfing <\/span><\/p>\n Kirsten Neuschafer (South Africa) – sailing <\/span><\/p>\n Bethany Shriever (GB) – BMX <\/span><\/p>\n Filipe Toledo (Brazil) – surfing <\/span><\/p>\n Arisa Trew (Australia) – skateboarding<\/span><\/p>\n Bola Pra Frente (Brazil) multi-sport & employability <\/span><\/p>\n Dancing Grounds (USA) – dancing & social integration<\/span><\/p>\n Fundacion Rafa Nadal (Spain) – tennis & education <\/span><\/p>\n ISF Cambodia – football & education<\/span><\/p>\nNominees<\/h3>\n
Sportsman of the Year<\/h3>\n
Sportswoman of the year<\/h3>\n
Team of the year <\/h3>\n
Breakthrough of the year <\/h3>\n
Comeback of the year <\/h3>\n
Sportsperson of the year with a disability <\/h3>\n
Action sportsperson of the year<\/h3>\n
Sport for good <\/h3>\n