Paris has been the setting for the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards gala, which honors the best athletes in the world for their merits during the previous year, both individually and collectively.
The greatest spectacle in sport returned live and direct for the first time since 2020, and each of the eight honorees was there to celebrate an extraordinary sporting year. They were joined by sports legends from the Laureus Academy of World Sport, Laureus Award winners from previous years and some of the world's best athletes in a glittering ceremony at the Pavillon Vendome.
The Argentine Leo Messi won the Laureus Award as the best male athlete of 2022 on Monday, ahead of names like Rafa Nadal, Kylian Mbappé and Stephen Curry, driven by his performance with the Argentina team, which he led to the World Cup. of Qatar 2022. It is the second time that Messi, 35, has won this award.
The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, 20, won as the best revelation athlete of 2022 thanks to his conquest of the United States Open in September last year and becoming the youngest men's world number one in history.
