After winning the world title in Qatar 2022, Lionel Messi won the traditional Golden Olympia Award, in a ceremony held in Parque Norte. For her part, Gabriela Sabatini received the Olimpia de Brillantes.
The captain of the Argentine national team was awarded the main award of national sport for second consecutive edition and for the third time in my careerafter the recognition also obtained in 2011.
Messi also won the silver statuette in football, in a squad he shared with Enzo Fernández, Julián Álvarez, Agustín Rossi and Yamila Rodríguez, and ‘digital gold’, in which fans vote online.
In this new edition, the traditional award ceremony of the best national athletes at the end of each year, the basketball player Gabriel Deck took the Olimpia de Platain a squad that he shared with Facundo Campazzo and Nicolás Laprovittola, his teammates in the Argentina national team.
He also stood out in motorsport Leonel Perniawho became TC2000 champion for the second time in his career (the first time with this name, because the previous one was achieved when the category was called Super TC2000).
In tennis, however, Francisco Cerúndolo won the Olimpia de Plata tennis prize, in a year in which he finished in 30th place in the world rankings, after collecting his first ATP title in Bastad. The 24-year-old tennis player from Buenos Aires also reached the semifinals of the Masters 1000 in Miami and the ATP 500 in Hamburg.
Among those particularly awarded was “Olympia de Brillante” awarded to tennis player Gabriel Sabatini for his careerwhile former San Lorenzo footballers Victorio Cocco, Pedro González and Carlos Veglio also stood out, representing San Lorenzo two-time champions of 1972, known as “Los Matadores”, on the 50th anniversary of that conquest.
At the same time, the women’s field hockey team, world champion in Perth, Australia, in 2002, and the men’s volleyball team, which took third place at the World Cup held in our country in 1982.
Winners in each sport:
- Claudia Amura (chess)
- Franco Florio (athletics)
- Leonel Pernia (motor racing)
- Gabriel Deck (basketball)
- Exequiel Talevi (baseball)
- Ricardo Dieguez (billiards)
- Guillermo Montemerlo (bocce)
- Fernando Martinez (boxing)
- Agustín Varnish (canoe)
- Maria Ladogana (basketball)
- Nicolás Tivani (cycling)
- Francesca Baruzzi (winter sports)
- Tiziano Gravier (winter sports, international screening)
- Damián Ancic (on horseback)
- Isabel DiTella (fencing)
- Eugenia de Armas (water skiing)
- Lionel Messi (soccer)
- Matías Edelstein (futsal)
- Daniel Villafane (gymnastics)
- Augusto Nunez (golf)
- Leonel Maciel (handball)
- Agustina Gorzelany (field hockey)
- Gonzalo Romero (rink hockey)
- Agustin Gil (judo)
- Diego Ojeda (karate)
- Agustin Destribats (fight)
- Joaquín Poli (motorcycling)
- Macarena Ceballos (swimming)
- Franco Stupaczuk (paddle tennis)
- Ken Kuwada (skate)
- Thomas Heally (duck)
- Facundo Andreasen (ball)
- Luz Casadevall (weights)
- Adolfo “Bean” Cambiaso (polo)
- Valeria Centellas (racquetball)
- Sonia Baluzzo, (rowing)
- Emiliano Boffelli (rugby union)
- Huemul Mata (softball)
- Leandro Romiglio (pumpkin)
- Santiago Muniz (surfing)
- Lucas Guzman (taekwondo)
- Sabrina Mai, (ITF taekwondo)
- Francesco Cerundolo (tennis)
- Horacio Cifuentes (table tennis)
- Federico Gil (shot)
- Luciano Taccone (triathlon)
- Francisco Goncalves (turf)
- Agustin Loser (volleyball)
- Luciana Cardozo (yacht).
In Paralympic sports they have won:
- Inaki Basiloff (swimming)
- Antonella Ruiz Díaz (athletics)
- Silvia Linari (basketball)
- Ariel Atamañuk (canoe)
- Micaela Barroso-María José Quiroga (cycling)
- Enrique Plantey (winter sports)
- Angel Deldo (soccer)
- Rocio Ledezma (judo)
- Luis Salas (rowing)
- Juan Samorano (taekwondo)
- Giselle Munoz (table tennis)
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Source: Clarin
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