Totallympics Awards 2023

[Matteo92 86]

Thanks for extending the deadline, I will vote during the weekend 

[Monzanator 3,600]

Male:

Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing)

Hifumi Abe (Judo)

Nikola Jokic (Basketball)

 

Female:

Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming)

Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine skiing)

Femke Bol (Athletics)

 

Non-Olympic:

Shohei Ohtani (Baseball)

Max Verstappen (Motor racing)

Virat Kohli (Cricket)

 

 

Best Youth:

Summer McIntosh (Swimming)

Alina Korneeva (Tennis)

David Alonso (Motorcycling)

 

Best Men's Team

Rugby

Baseball

Rugby

 

Best Women's Team

Association Football

Volleyball

Water Polo

 

Best Doubles/Mixed

Ana Patricia / Duda (Beach Volleyball)

 

Breakthrough:

Alexandria Loutitt (Ski jumping)

 

Comeback:

Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (Biathlon)

 

Moment:

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

Francis Ngannou knocks down Tyson Fury

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

 

[rafalgorka 1,386]

My nominees:

 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

 

 Lèon Marchand (Swimming)
 Marco Odermatt (Alpine Skiing)
 Noah Lyles (Athletics)

Novak Djokovic (Tennis)

Armand Duplantis (Athletics)

Nikola Jokic (Basketball)

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

 Mollie O'Callaghan (Swimming)

Kaylee Mc Keown (Swimming)

Iga Świątek (Tennis)
 Faith Kipyegon (Athletics)
 Femke Bol (Athletics)

 Mikaela Shiffrin (Alpine Skiing)
 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

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)

 

 Summer McIntosh (Swimming)
 Darja Varfolomeev (Rhythmic Gymnastics)

 Qiu Qiyuan (Artistic Gymanstics)

Kaylia Namour (Artistic Gymnastics)
 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

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

 

Volleyball
 Rugby (Union)
Handball

 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

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

 

 Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Swimming 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Handball
 

 

BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM

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

 

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)

 

Jordan Stolz (Speed Skating)

Ethan Katzberg (Athletics)
Ilia Malinin (Figure Skating)

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)

 

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

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

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

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

Iga Świątek winning French Open

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

RSA winning Rugby World Cup Final

ARG beating WAL in Rugby World Cup QF

FIJ beating AUS in Rugby World Cup Pool C Match

 

and being biased 2 additional moments:

W 100m final in Athletics WCH (Ewa Swoboda)

W 400m final in Athletics WCH (Natalia Kaczmarek)

Edited December 23, 2023 by rafalgorka

[rafalgorka 1,386]

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

 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

 Noah Lyles (Athletics)

 

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

Shericka Jackson (Athletics)

 

 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

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)

 

Mirra Andreeva (Tennis)

 

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

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

 

Volleyball
 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

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

 

 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)

 

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)

 

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)

 

Kristof Milak (Swimming)

 

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

M Volleyball team winning QF game in Paris :-)

Edited December 23, 2023 by rafalgorka

[vinipereira 3,054]

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 

[OlympicsFan 783]

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

 

 Noah Lyles (Athletics)

 

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

Sharicka Jackson (Athletics)

 

 

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

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)

 

Mirra Andreeva (Tennis)

 

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

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

 

Volleyball
 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

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

 

 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)

 

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)

 

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)

 

Kristof Milak (Swimming)

 

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2023

 

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).

Edited December 23, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[OlympicsFan 783]

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

2nd choice: Marchand

3rd choice: Boe

4th choice: Odermatt

5th choice: Stolz

6th choice: Vingegaard

 

Female:

1st choice: Kipyegon

2nd choice: O'Callaghan

3rd choice: Biles

4th choice: Shiffrin

5th coice: Vu

 

Youth:

1st choice: McIntosh

2nd choice: Lebrun

3th choice: Zaire-Emery

4th choice: Lee Chae-un

5th choice: Brookes

6th choice: Qiyuan

 

Breakthrough:

1st choice: Haiyang

2nd choice: Stolz

3rd choice: Gauff

4th choice: Malinin

5th choice: Loutitt

6th choice: Tebogo

 

Comeback:

1st choice: Biles

2nd choice: Meilutyte

3rd choice: McEvoy

4th choice: Johnson-Thompson

 

Men's team:

1st choice: Germany basketball

2nd choice: Denmark handball

3rd choice: South Africa rugby

 

Women's team:

1st choice: Spain football

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

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

4th choice: France handball

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.

[Jinzha 529]

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

 

 

 

[Belle 723]

@vinipereiraI’m sorry but I’m not able to vote today either. Today is the big day in Sweden not Christmas Day. I need to spend time with my family. 

[Pasolini 142]

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:  Johannes Thingnes Boe (Biathlon)
#2:  Noah Lyles (Athletics)

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

#5:  Lèon Marchand (Swimming)
#6:  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:  Molly O'Callaghan (Swimming)
#2:  Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics) 

#3:  Rebeca Andrade (Artistic Gymnastics)

#4:  Christa Deguchi (judo)

#5:  Lisa Carrington (Canoeing)
#6:  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:  Aline Rocha (Cross-Country Skiing) - biased perhaps or for sure?

#2:  Tanguy De La Forest (Shooting)

#3:  Jesper Pedersen (Alpine Skiing)
#4:  Marcel Hug (Athletics)

#5:  Simone Barlaam (Swimming)

#6:  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:  Summer McIntosh (Swimming)

#2:  Rayssa Leal (Skateboarding)

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

#5:  Maximilian Maeder (Sailing, Kitesurfing)

#6:  Yumeka Oda (Skateboarding)

 

Special Mention:  Ginwoo Onodera (Skateboarding)

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

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

 

#1:  Basketball NT
#2:  Waterpolo NT
#3:  Rugby (Union) NT
#4:  Baseball NT

#5:  Team Sprint (Track Cycling)

#6:  8+ (rowing)
 

 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

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

 

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

#6:  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:  Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan (badminton)

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

#4:  Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer (Bobsleigh)

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

#6: Perusic/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:  Qin Haiyang (Swimming)
#2: Luigi Cini (Skateboarding)
#3: Jonatan Hellvig/David Åhman (Beach Volleyball)

#4:  Akhmed Tazhudinov (Wrestling)

#5:  Cassiel Rousseau (Diving)

#6:  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:  Simone Biles (Artistic Gymnastics)

#2:  Inal Tasoev (Judo)

#3:  Cameron McEvoy (Swimming)

#4:  Mayra Aguiar (Judo)

#5: Antonella Palmisano (race walk - athletics)

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

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

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

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

#6:  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: Adriana Diaz and Bruna Takahashi embrace at the end of their match at the Pan American Games final (Table Tennis)

Edited December 24, 2023 by Mateus Nagime
included a special mention at Breakthrough