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Welcome to the nominations announcement for the 2022 Totallympics Awards, a celebration of the year in sports. Throughout the next hour, we will unveil the nominees for the 11 categories voted by Totallympics members, as well as remember some of the moments that made 2022 a great year for sports!

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT Sunday, January 1st, 18:00 (UTC+0)

After some careful consideration, I decided to make the mixed Equestrian teams ineligible for the Men's Team award. Voting regarding this issue didn't help as it was pretty much 50/50. Next year I hope we can solve this problem with the creation of a new category (or reformulation of the current ones).

That was my initial thought, but there wasn't much time to do something like this. Next year I will open the thread sooner so we can do shortlists.

While we've reached the voting deadline for the first stage, I'll be accepting votes until this Saturday for those who still want to vote

I see some votes for the swedish Equestrian team jumping being placed in Men's Team, even though there's a woman on the team. As we don't have a category for best mixed team (we will discuss this next year) and voting is already ongoing, I will leave this question here: Loading...

I've seen some votes for Eileen Gu for best Youth Athlete, but per rules (born after 1 January 2004) she would be ineligible.

It's for people related to the Winter Games in general, Olympics or Paralympics. Can even be someone who isn't an athlete but showed a true "Olympic spirit". While intended for this, I have seen some votes for this category for moments not related to the Beijing 2022, which could be a cue that we can have this award every year.

Thank you. In this stage, is necessary at least three names in the categories you want to vote. So you would have to add at least 1 more name in Teams, Doubles and Sport Moment and at least 2 more in Youth Athlete for them to be counted. The others are okay

Btw, if you are interested in voting in the first stage (nominees), just follow the instructions here

A friendly reminder that the voting for the first stage will end tomorrow. I can do a little extension to Saturday if needed - although I think people will be more worried about New Year's I'm tagging some names (that I could remember) that might have some interest in voting, I hope more people will join this event (only 11 voters so far). I totally understand if people can't vote because this isn't the best time, but I hope we can count with more members in the second stage (which will determine the winners) since it will be much easier to vote. I'm updating the voters list here.

If you can't vote in the first stage (nominees), you can still vote for the winners

I won't change it this year of course, but next year we really should rethink those categories so that there isn't much confusion among voters.

As some votes are coming in, I see a lot of similarities between Breakthrough of the Year and Youth Athlete, as I predicted that could be some confusion in these categories. I think the best solution right now would be to make the nominees in Youth Athlete ineligible in Breakthrough, and maybe rethink these categories next year

Yes, voters are allowed to share their votes if they want

Some suggestions for the Paralympic category: Lauren Parker (Triathlon) - 2 gold medals at WCs Michèle George (Equestrian) - 2 gold medals at WCs Gizele Costa Dias (Sitting Volleyball) - led Brazil's team to its first ever World title Leomon Moreno (Goalball) - led Brazil's team to their third consecutive World title Maria Carolina Santiago (Swimming) - 7 medals (6 gold) at WCs Petrúcio Ferreira (Athletics) - WR in 100m T47 (10.29), the fastest time ever by any para-athlete Brian McKeever (Cross-country Skiing) - 3 gold medals at Beijing 2022, the fourth Games where he achieved this Yang Hongqiong (Cross-country Skiing) - 3 gold medals at Beijing 2022, flagbearer for China in closing ceremony Ji Lijia (Snowboarding) - 2 medals (1 gold) at Beijing 2022 Katrine Kristensen (Equestrian) - 2 gold medals (+1 team silver) at WCs Tobias Jørgensen (Equestrian) - 2 gold medals (+1 team silver) at WCs Alexandre Léauté (Road/Track Cycling) - 5 medals (4 gold) at Track WCs and 2 medals (1 gold) at Road WCs Arthur Bauchet (Alpine Skiing) - 4 medals (3 gold) at Beijing 2022 Anna-Lena Forster (Alpine Skiing) - 4 medals (2 gold) at Beijing 2022 Annika Zeyen (Road Cycling) - 2 gold medals at WCs Charlotte Henshaw (Canoeing) - 2 gold medals at WCs Finlay Graham (Road/Track Cycling) - 4 medals (3 gold) in Track WCs and 2 medals (1 gold) in Road WCs Morteza Mehrzad (Sitting Volleyball) - led Iran's team to another World title Giacomo Bertagnolli (Alpine Skiing) - 4 medals (2 gold) at Beijing 2022 Simone Barlaam (Swimming) - 6 gold medals at WCs Stefano Raimondi (Swimming) - top athlete at WCs with 8 medals (6 gold) Shingo Kunieda (Wheelchair Tennis) - won 3 GS titles in Singles and 1 title in Doubles Diede de Groot (Wheelchair Tennis) - won all 4 GS titles in Singles, and 3 titles in Doubles Jetze Plat (Road Cycling/Triathlon) - 2 gold medals at Road Cycling WCs and World title in Triathlon Rogier Dorsman (Swimming) - 7 medals (5 gold) at WCs Sanne Voets (Equestrian) - 3 gold medals at WCs Jesper Pedersen (Alpine Skiing) - 5 medals (4 gold) at Beijing 2022 Henrieta Farkašová (Alpine Skiing) - 2 gold medals at Beijing 2022 Jozef Metelka (Track Cycling) - 4 medals (3 gold) at WCs Veronika Vadovičová (Shooting) - 3 medals (2 gold) at WCs Ricardo Ten (Track Cycling) - 4 medals (3 gold) at WCs Ebba Årsjö (Alpine Skiing) - 3 medals (2 gold) at Beijing 2022 Marcel Hug (Athletics) - WR in 1500m T53/54 (2:47.82), won Berlin, Chicago, London, New York and Tokyo marathons Sevda Altunoluk (Goalball) - led Türkiye's team to their first ever World title Oksana Shyshkova (Biathlon) - 3 medals (2 gold) at Beijing 2022 Vitaliy Lukyanenko (Biathlon) - 3 medals (2 gold) at Beijing 2022 Abdullah Sultan Alaryani (Shooting) - 2 gold medals at WCs Leanne Smith (Swimming) - 7 gold medals at WCs Declan Farmer (Ice Hockey) - top scoring leader for the gold winning team at Beijing 2022 Oksana Masters (Biathlon/Cross-country Skiing/Road Cycling) - 7 medals (3 gold) at Beijing 2022 and 2 gold medals at Road Cycling WCs

Pan American Games

First stage voting deadline is friday, December 30th. To vote, just follow the instructions here

There isn't a category for mixed teams, as they are very few (and sometimes only "made up" for a competition). Individual athletes are eligible, though.

Baseball is not currently Olympic anymore, same for Karate.

All swimmers are eligible for the main categories, unless they're finswimmers

I don't know much about the Boxing situation, but if an athlete can't compete at the Olympics, he can be considered for the non-Olympic category. This also should include athletes that exclusively compete in events that aren't part of the Olympic programme, like those who can compete only at the World Games etc.

For rugby players, yes (non-Olympic). For boxers it's a little tricky since professionals can compete at the Olympics, even though most of them won't. Since it's allowed, I think they should be up for the main category.

I have added the best Doubles/Pair category. Some contenders include: Matthew Ebden/Max Purcell (Tennis) Thanasi Kokkinakis/Nick Kyrgios (Tennis) Duda/Ana Patrícia (Beach Volleyball) Chen Yuxi/Quan Hongchan (Diving) Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan (Badminton) Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong (Badminton) Sui Wenjing/Han Cong (Figure Skating) Xu Shixiao/Sun Mengya (Canoeing) Barbora Krejčíková/Kateřina Siniaková (Tennis) Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (Tennis) Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (Figure Skating) Hugo Boucheron/Matthieu Androdias (Rowing) Francesco Friedrich/Thorsten Margis (Bobsleigh) Laura Nolte/Deborah Levi (Bobsleigh) Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt (Luge) Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (Wheelchair Tennis Bence Nádas/Bálint Kopasz (Canoeing) Stefania Constantini/Amos Mosaner (Curling) Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik (Badminton) Diede de Groot/Aniek van Koot (Wheelchair Tennis) Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (Beach Volleyball) Karolina Naja/Anna Puławska (Canoeing) Ancuța Bodnar/Simona Radiș (Rowing) Marius Cozmiuc/Sergiu Bejan (Rowing) Cayetano García/Pablo Martínez (Canoeing) Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury (Tennis)