Europe's Best Athlete of the Year 2022 by 20 European News Agencies.
The victory was won by the first racket of the world Iga Sventek. Polish tennis player ahead of Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen.
The top ten also included world tennis stars Carlos Alcaras and Rafael Nadal, PSG forward and the French national team Cillian Mbappe, biathlete Johannes Bio, skier Teresa? Johaug, swimmer David Popovich and cyclist Jonas Wingegaard.
Note that for the first time since 2005, this award was received by a woman. Then Elena Isinbayeva became the laureate.
Recall that in 2021 Novak Djokovic became the best European athlete, and in 2020 - the star Polish forward Robert Lewandowski.
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Earlier it was reported that Sventek supported Ukraine in the war against Russia.