Arisa Trew, an Australian teenager, has been nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards, with Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, and Erling Haaland.
The 13-year-old from Queensland’s Gold Coast was nominated on Tuesday for the 2024 Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year Award.
The skateboarding prodigy was nominated alongside BMX legend Beth Shriever and surfer Felipe Toledo.
Trew became the first girl to land the notoriously difficult 720 maneuver in competition in 2023, and she did so in front of the sport’s most recognized figure, Tony Hawk.
Hawk was the first to land the feat, creating skateboarding history in 1985, and he said Trew’s attempt ‘brought the house down’.
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Aussie teenager Aris Trew has been nominated for the prestigious Laureus sporting awards
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Last year the skateboarding prodigy became the first female to land a 720 trick in competition
The incredible feat drove Trew to victory in the women’s final of the Tony Hawk Vert Alert, which she won ahead of Asahi Kaihara and Reese Nelson.
‘I’m so excited to be the first girl to land a 720 in the world,’ Trew said afterwards.
‘I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the crowd hyping me up.’
Later that year, Trew duplicated the trick at the X-Games in California, where she won the vert gold medal.
Erling Haaland, who won the Manchester City Treble, will compete for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award alongside Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, and Max Verstappen.
Norwegian striker Haaland scored 52 goals in all competitions in his debut season, helping City win the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League last season.
He will face Argentine legend Messi, who earned a record eighth Ballon d’Or and just signed with MLS team Inter Miami.
Serbian tennis player Djokovic, a four-time winner of the award, has won three Grand Slams and equaled the record with 24 titles.
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Trew has been nominated alongside BMX star Beth Shriever and surfer Felipe Toledo
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Lionel Messi has been nominated for the title of world’s best sportsman.
Dutch Formula One star Verstappen is also on the shortlist, having dominated the 2023 season to clinch a hat-trick of world championships.
Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and American sprinter Noah Lyles, who won three gold medals at the World Athletics Championships, are also nominated.
Aitana Bonmati, a Spanish footballer who won the World Cup and the Ballon d’Or, has been shortlisted for the World Sportswoman of the Year award.
She is joined by Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson, American Sha’Carri Richardson, and Kenyan distance runner Faith Kipyegon. All three earned at least one gold medal at the World Championships.
Completing the female shortlist are Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek, who won her third French Open, and American skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who became the all-time World Cup winner.
The Team of the Year competition pits City against Europe’s Ryder Cup squad, the Red Bull F1 team, Spain’s Women’s World Cup winners, South Africa’s rugby union world champions, and Germany’s men’s basketball team.
Guardiola said: ‘We are really proud for our club to have been nominated for the Laureus World Team of the Year award.
‘Of course, we are nominated because we won so much last season and the credit must go to all our players, all our staff who worked so hard throughout the season to compete in England and across Europe.’
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Erling Haaland, the Manchester City treble winner, has also been nominated for an award.
The Breakthrough Award appears to be among the most intensely fought.
Bellingham not only became a vital part of Gareth Southgate’s England squad ahead of Euro 2024, but he also obtained a dream transfer to Real Madrid and won the Golden Boy Award.
He competes against female talents Linda Caicedo of Colombia and Salma Paralluelo of Spain.
The selection also includes American tennis player Coco Gauff, who won her first Grand Slam championship at the US Open at the age of 19, Chinese sinner Qin Haiyang, and British athlete Josh Kerr, who won the world 1,500m gold.
Simone Biles of the United States is among the nominees for World Comeback of the Year, having returned after a two-year layoff to win four World Championship gold medals.
Sebastien Haller, who recovered from cancer to play for Borussia Dortmund, and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, a British heptathlete who overcame injury to earn World Championship gold.
