Totallympics Awards 2024

[vinipereira 3,469]

SECOND STAGE OF VOTING

 

 

Voting for the 2024 Totallympics Awards winners is now open (click the image above).

 

All Totallympics members can vote, including those who didn't vote in the first stage.

 

Voters have until Saturday, January 18th to vote.

 

 

• Before voting, don't forget to include your Totallympics' username. The list of voters will be updated here.

 

• For each category, you can rank a maximum of three nominees of your preference, following the order:

 

                    #1 (20 points)

 

                    #2 (10 points)

 

                    #3 (5 points)

 

• You don't have to rank 3 nominees. You can rank 2 or simply pick only one (20 points) per category;

 

• You don't have to vote in all categories, only the ones you want. Votes can be edited until the deadline.

 

[Josh 12,141]

For my predictions I’m assessing a number of factors into it. For example in the comeback category, I prioritize injuries/life or career threatening stuff over breaks. World Championships, World Cups (and similar stuff for sports that don’t have those) also factor into it. 
 

BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

#1:  Leon Marchand
#2:  Armand Duplantis (3 WR’s in a year…)
#3:  Tadej Pogacar

 

Odermatt not being nominated is unexpected. 

 

 

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

#1:  Summer McIntosh
#2:  Sifan Hassan
#3:  Lisa Carrington

 

 

BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines

 

#1:  Shohei Ohtani
#2:  Patrick Mahomes
#3:  Max Verstappen

 

 

BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes with a disability

 

#1:  Catherine DeBrunner
#2:  Jiang Yuyan
#3:  Stefano Raimondi

 

 

BEST YOUTH ATHLETE

for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2006) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1:  Summer McIntosh (again)
#2:  Lamine Yamal
#3:  Darja Varfolomeev

 

 

BEST MEN'S TEAM

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

 

#1:  basketball team
#2:  waterpolo team
#3:  volleyball team

 

 

BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

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

 

#1:  volleyball team
#2:  handball team
#3:  field hockey team

 

If I’m gonna be completely honest, after #1 and #2, I had a hard time choosing one because all four teams had their struggles… 

 

 

BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM

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

 

#1:  Caterina Banti/Tito Ruggeri
#2:  David Åhman/Jonatan Hellvig
#3:  Paul O’Donovan/Fintan McCarthy

 

I had to let out a laugh when I saw that  Duda/AP were nominated, because even though they won gold they were not on the same page at all through most of the season and went months on the Beach Pro Tour between May and July without a single medal 

 

 

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

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

 

#1:  Adriana Ruano
#2:  Jasmine Paolini
#3:  Shinnosuke Oka

 

Again, some of the nominations are confusing to me.  Vaast is surfing at his home break in Tahiti and like a lot of sports that advantage is big,  Lafond had a best jump of 14.90m in 2023 and  Alfred was a medal contender in 2023 as well. 
 

I would put  Joan-Benjamin Gaba up there, he came into the Olympics completely out of the medal mix and he won silver and beat Hifumi by ippon in the mixed team final

 

 

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR

for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2024 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports)

 

#1:  Sunisa Lee
#2:  Paula Badosa
#3:  Kristof Milak

 

 

SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2024

 

#1:  Djokovic finally winning an Olympic gold medal in men’s singles tennis (and none of the other choices come close for me, honestly)
#2:  Letsile Tebogo’s gold in the men’s 200m, first ever gold for Botswana and he also beats evil Lyles in the process 
#3:  Armand Duplantis’ gold and WR in men’s pole vault

 

I wasn’t a fan the opening ceremony, and I thought the general consensus was that most people on here didn’t like it either, so I’m not sure on how it got nominated but… 

Also thought there would be at least one non-Olympic nomination, but I guess not.

 

OLYMPIC SPIRIT AWARD

for athletes or teams related to the 2024 Summer Olympics or Paralympics who exemplify the spirit of sportsmanship in the Games or showed great determination in overcoming obstacles

 

#1:  Kinzang Lhamo crossing the marathon finish line
#2:  Fariba Hashimi fulfilling her Olympic dream, having to hide her practices from her parents and the Taliban for doing a “boys’ activity”
#3: Same thing for  Manizha Talash, I can’t imagine how hard that must be for them…

 

Honestly, this was a tough category. Besides Skotheim, who I very clearly think is last… I feel like it could go in any order. 

Edited January 17, 2025 by Josh

[justony 479]

Posted my votes. 

 

For the first time our small country has an athlete, who without a doubt should deserve best athlete of the year award. Without being too "cocky", Armand Duplantis is the only real threat to Tadej Pogačar.

[phelps 8,456]

voted!

 

basically, I just kept my votes from the first round (unless some options were not available among the final nominèes) 

[Federer91 3,124]

Voted  

[George_D 1,474]

I have just voted

[Monzanator 4,846]

I have voted

[Josh 12,141]

Just voted! 
 

Choosing 10 for the Totallympics Star Award was practically impossible, there’s so many users on here that have contributed a lot to this forum that there’s a bunch of users who were probably snubbed… 

[heywoodu 16,279]

On 1/7/2025 at 8:50 PM, vinipereira said:

This is a great idea, but considering the low interest this year, I don't think we will have another edition of this award.

Sorry, I don't usually miss out on this one, but it was just too busy everywhere to even open the forum regularly...

 

I hope things will pick up a bit and we might have another one at some point (and meanwhile I see I am still in time to vote for the second stage, so that's great ).

[heywoodu 16,279]

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Totallympics Awards 2024
Thank you for the votes! Join us next Sunday, January 8th for the awards ceremony.

 

That is great, but if I'm not mistaken, the next time January 8th is a Sunday is in 2034, so we might have to wait a while...