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Totallympics Awards 2023


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Male:

:SUI Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing)

:JPN Hifumi Abe (Judo)

:SRB Nikola Jokic (Basketball)

 

Female:

:AUS Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming)

:USA Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine skiing)

:NED Femke Bol (Athletics)

 

Non-Olympic:

:JPN Shohei Ohtani (Baseball)

:NED Max Verstappen (Motor racing)

:IND Virat Kohli (Cricket)

 

 

Best Youth:

:CAN Summer McIntosh (Swimming)

Alina Korneeva (Tennis)

:COL David Alonso (Motorcycling)

 

Best Men's Team

:RSA Rugby

:JPN Baseball

:IRL Rugby

 

Best Women's Team

:ESP Association Football

:TUR Volleyball

:NED Water Polo

 

Best Doubles/Mixed

:BRA Ana Patricia / Duda (Beach Volleyball)

 

Breakthrough:

:CAN Alexandria Loutitt (Ski jumping)

 

Comeback:

:FRA Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (Biathlon)

 

Moment:

:JPN vs :USA World Baseball Classic last at-bat between LA Angels teammates

:CMR Francis Ngannou knocks down :ENG Tyson Fury

Los Angeles Chargers blow a 27-0 lead in AFC Wild Card game

 

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My nominees:

 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

 

:FRA Lèon Marchand (Swimming)
:SUI Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing)
:USA Noah Lyles (Athletics)

:SRB Novak Djokovic (Tennis)

:SWE Armand Duplantis (Athletics)

:SRB Nikola Jokic (Basketball)

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

:AUS Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming)

:AUS Kaylee Mc Keown (Swimming)

:POL Iga Świątek (Tennis)
:KEN Faith Kipyegon (Athletics)
:NED Femke Bol (Athletics)

:USA Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine Skiing)
 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

:NED Max Verstappen (F1)

 

 

BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes with a disability

 

-

 

 

BEST YOUTH ATHLETE

for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:CAN Summer McIntosh (Swimming)
:GER Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics)

:CHN Qiu Qiyuan (Artistic Gymanstics)

:ALG Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics)
 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:POL Volleyball
:RSA Rugby (Union)
:DEN Handball

 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:AUS Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay

:AUS Swimming 4x200m Freestyle Relay

:FRA Handball
 

 

BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM

for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:SWE Equestrian - Jumping Team

 

 

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:USA Jordan Stolz (Speed Skating)

:CAN Ethan Katzberg (Athletics)
:USA Ilia Malinin (Figure Skating)

:ALG Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics)

 

 

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR

for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:USA Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics)
:AUS Cameron McEvoy (Swimming)
:GBR Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Athletics)
:USA Sha'carri Richardson (Athletics)
:POL Iga Świątek (Tennis) - due to coming back to No. 1 in style

:POL Ewa Swoboda (Athletics) - advancing to the 100m WCH final in the end... :bye:

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

:GBR Josh Kerr beating Jakob Ingebrigtsen in M 1500m Athletics WCH Final

:POL Iga Świątek winning French Open

:GRE Militiadis Tentoglou winning M Long Jump Athletics WCH Final in Round 6

:RSA RSA winning Rugby World Cup Final

:ARG ARG beating WAL in Rugby World Cup QF

:FIJ FIJ beating AUS in Rugby World Cup Pool C Match

 

and being biased 2 additional moments:

:POL W 100m final in Athletics WCH (Ewa Swoboda)

:POL W 400m final in Athletics WCH (Natalia Kaczmarek)

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As a joke - early thoughts on who may win this thing in 2024:

 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

:USA Noah Lyles (Athletics)

 

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

:JAM Shericka Jackson (Athletics)

 

 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

:NED Max Verstappen (F1)

 

 

BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes with a disability

 

-

 

 

BEST YOUTH ATHLETE

for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:RUS Mirra Andreeva (Tennis)

 

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:POL Volleyball
 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:AUS Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay

 

 

BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM

for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:FRA Men's Doubles (Tennis)

 

 

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:RUS Mirra Andreeva (Tennis)

 

 

 

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR

for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:HUN Kristof Milak (Swimming)

 

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

:POL M Volleyball team winning QF game in Paris :-)

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8 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

As a joke - early thoughts on who may win this thing in 2024:

I'm gonna save this post for next year :d

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10 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

As a joke - early thoughts on who may win this thing in 2024:

 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

:USA Noah Lyles (Athletics)

 

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

:JAM Sharicka Jackson (Athletics)

 

 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

:NED Max Verstappen (F1)

 

 

BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes with a disability

 

-

 

 

BEST YOUTH ATHLETE

for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:RUS Mirra Andreeva (Tennis)

 

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:POL Volleyball
 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:AUS Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay

 

 

BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM

for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:FRA Men's Doubles (Tennis)

 

 

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:RUS Mirra Andreeva (Tennis)

 

 

 

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR

for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

:HUN Kristof Milak (Swimming)

 

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

:POL M Volleyball team winning QF game in Paris :-)

My predictions:

Male: Alcaraz or Marchand

Female: Biles or McIntosh

Youth: McIntosh

Men's team: USA basketball

Women's team: Spain football

Breakthrough: Extremely difficult to predict, possible candidates: Kharun, Pan Zhanle, Wiffen, Heilman, Laros, Zhoya, Neugebauer, Topic, Furlani, Zaire-Emery

Comeback: Extremely difficult to predict, possible candidates: Dressel, Miller-Uibo, Thompson-Herah, Van Niekerk, Mihambo, Wlodarczyk, Thiam, Peaty, Nadal

 

Breakthrough: Only athletes who never won an individual medal on the world stage before

Comeback: Athletes who underperformed the previous year or didn't compete due to injury

 

I think in a year with summer olympic games most awards will go to athletes who excelled at the olympics, which will make it difficult for athletes in winter sports to shine. If this wouldn't be an olympic year, i could have seen someone like Botn win the breakthrough award. Maybe it would be better to have all awards seperated by winter and summer sports. Personally i find it difficult to hand awards to winter sports athletes when they compete against summer sports athletes (since there is usually more competition in summer sports).

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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On 12/20/2023 at 7:32 PM, OlympicsFan said:

Not a fan of some of the categories. Would like to see categories like "best athlete over 40" or "best athlete by continent".

 

Nominations:

Male:

1st choice: Djokovic :SRB

2nd choice: Marchand :FRA

3rd choice: Boe :NOR

4th choice: Odermatt :SUI

5th choice: Stolz :USA

6th choice: Vingegaard :DEN

 

Female:

1st choice: Kipyegon :KEN

2nd choice: O'Callaghan :AUS

3rd choice: Biles :USA

4th choice: Shiffrin :USA

5th coice: Vu :USA

 

Youth:

1st choice: McIntosh :CAN

2nd choice: Lebrun :FRA

3th choice: Zaire-Emery :FRA

4th choice: Lee Chae-un :KOR

5th choice: Brookes :GBR

6th choice: Qiyuan :CHN

 

Breakthrough:

1st choice: Haiyang :CHN

2nd choice: Stolz :USA

3rd choice: Gauff :USA

4th choice: Malinin :USA

5th choice: Loutitt :CAN

6th choice: Tebogo :BOT

 

Comeback:

1st choice: Biles :USA

2nd choice: Meilutyte :LTU

3rd choice: McEvoy :AUS

4th choice: Johnson-Thompson :GBR

 

Men's team:

1st choice: Germany basketball :GER

2nd choice: Denmark handball :DEN

3rd choice: South Africa rugby :RSA

 

Women's team:

1st choice: Spain football :ESP

2nd choice: Australia women's 4 x 100 m free relay :AUS

3rd choice: Australia women's 4 x 200 m free relay :AUS

4th choice: France handball :FRA

I really would have liked to nominate Bellingham for the breakthrough award, but i don't want to take any of the other athletes off the list. Maybe he could be a candidate next year (if he wins the european championships and/or the champions league), but i guess he was already too good this year for him to still possibly qualify for the breakthrough award next year. I think someone like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander belongs in the same category.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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3 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

I really would have liked to nominate Bellingham for the breakthrough award, but i don't want to take any of the other athletes off the list. Maybe he could be a candidate next year (if he wins the european championships and/or the champions league), but i guess he was already too good this year for him to still possibly qualify for the breakthrough award next year. I think someone like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander belongs in the same category.

Bellingham is a good call for breakthrough of the year actually! I hadn't thought of him yet, because I don't really associate football with Totallympics/Olympics. In hindsight I would've replaced Finucane or Tebogo on my list with him.

 

#1: :USA Jordan Stolz - Speed skating
#2: :NED Puck Pieterse - Mountainbike
#3: :CHN Qin Haiyang - Swimming
#4: :BOT Letsile Tebogo - Athletics
#5: :GBR Emma Finucane - Track cycling
#6: :USA Anna Hall - Athletics

 

 

 

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Hey @vinipereirahere are my votes.

Thank you so much for the extension!

Should I also send you by DM?

 

I'm surprised I'm the first person to mention skateboarding? It is curious because I wanted to include some of them on "Breakthrough" but as they had less than 18 years I had to somehow nudge them all on the youth!

 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

 

#1: :NOR Johannes Thingnes Boe (Biathlon)
#2: :USA Noah Lyles (Athletics)

#3: :SRB Novak Djokovic (Tennis)
#4: :JPN Hashimoto Daiki (Artistic Gymnastics)

#5: :FRA Lèon Marchand (Swimming)
#6: :NED Mathieu van der Poel (Cycling)

 

Could complete a back-up list equally as powerful as this one. No judoka (Tasoev, Abe, Hashimoto), No Filipe Toledo, no Marco Odermatt, no Fan Zhendong... What Mondo Duplantis needs to do to come back to this list? Or Jakob Ingebrigtsen...

 

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

#1: :AUS Molly O'Callaghan (Swimming)
#2: :USA Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics) 

#3: :BRA Rebeca Andrade (Artistic Gymnastics)

#4: :CAN Christa Deguchi (judo)

#5: :NZL Lisa Carrington (Canoeing)
#6: :JPN Kokona Hiraki (Skateboarding)

 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

Sorry, need to get better on this one!

 

 

BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes with a disability

 

#1: :BRA Aline Rocha (Cross-Country Skiing) - biased perhaps or for sure?

#2: :FRA Tanguy De La Forest (Shooting)

#3: :NOR Jesper Pedersen (Alpine Skiing)
#4: :SUI Marcel Hug (Athletics)

#5: :ITA Simone Barlaam (Swimming)

#6: :NED Diede De Groot (Tennis)

 

 

BEST YOUTH ATHLETE

for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)


#1: :CAN Summer McIntosh (Swimming)

#2: :BRA Rayssa Leal (Skateboarding)

#3: :GER Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics)
#4: :CHNChen Yuxi (Diving)

#5: :SGP Maximilian Maeder (Sailing, Kitesurfing)

#6: :JPN Yumeka Oda (Skateboarding)

 

Special Mention: :JPN Ginwoo Onodera (Skateboarding)

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1: :GER Basketball NT
#2: :HUN Waterpolo NT
#3: :RSA Rugby (Union) NT
#4: :JPN Baseball NT

#5: :NED Team Sprint (Track Cycling)

#6: :GBR 8+ (rowing)
 

 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1: :ITA Foil (Fencing)
#2: :AUS Swimming Freestyle Relays
#3: :NED Waterpolo NT
#4: :ESP Football NT
#5: :NED Field Hockey 

#6: :ROU 8+ (rowing)

 

 

BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM

for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1: :CHN Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan (badminton)

#2: :BRA Ana Patrícia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (women's Beach Volleyball)
#3: :SWE Equestrian Jumping Team

#4: :GER Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer (Bobsleigh)

#5: :NED Jan Willem van Schip / Yoeri Havik (Track Cycling)

#6: :CZEPerusic/Schweiner (Beach Volleyball)

 

 

 

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1: :CHN Qin Haiyang (Swimming)
#2: :BRALuigi Cini (Skateboarding)
#3: :SWEJonatan Hellvig/David Åhman (Beach Volleyball)

#4: :BRN Akhmed Tazhudinov (Wrestling)

#5: :AUS Cassiel Rousseau (Diving)

#6: :HUN Máté Tamás Koch (Fencing)

 

(Thought about including Women's AG from Brazil for finally winning a team medal but in the end Cini got the individual mention)

 

 

 

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR

for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1: :USA Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics)

#2: :RUS Inal Tasoev (Judo)

#3: :AUS Cameron McEvoy (Swimming)

#4: :BRA Mayra Aguiar (Judo)

#5: :ITAAntonella Palmisano (race walk - athletics)

#6: :FRA Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (biathlon)

 

 

I tried to avoid 2022 comebacks even if they managed to reach the top of their game only this year

 

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

#1: :USA "World Champion of What?" (LYLES, Noah, 2023)

#2: :ITA Italy winning the Davis Cup (Tennis)
#3: :AUS Australia winning World Championship over India at the Narendra Modi Stadium

#4: :NED Femke Bol falling on the finish line and losing the Relay Gold (Athletics)

#5: :GER Men's Team celebration of their Olympic Quota in the locker room - is this about sport? not sure anymore (Volleyball) 

#6: :BRA totally biased now: Nathalie Moellhausen, Amanda Netto Simeão and Victoria Vizeu winning the gold medal at the PanAm, only the second for Brazilian history in fencing (Netto Simeão retired just after the match and it was the last match for Moellhausen on the team - she will focus on individual now) (fencing)

 

also very moving: :PURAdriana Diaz and :BRABruna Takahashi embrace at the end of their match at the Pan American Games final (Table Tennis)

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