Serbian Novak Djokovic, leader of the world tennis rankings, was chosen on Tuesday as European Sportsman of the Year by the 26 European news agencies that took part in the choice promoted by Poland’s PAP. successor to Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek.
According to the results of the vote in which Lusa took part, Djokovic, 36 years old, who was elected for the fifth time (2011, 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2023), collected 178 points, 28 more than the runner-up, the Dutch Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen (26 years old), and 92 more than the third place, the Swedish Armand Duplantis (24 years old), Olympic and world champion and world record holder in pole vault.
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland (23 years old), in fourth place, is the only footballer in the top 10 of the 66th edition of the award, which Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo won in 2016 and 2017.
The winner of the award, Novak Djokovic, will finish as world number one for the eighth time this year (a record), and despite playing only twelve tournaments this year, he has won six, including three Grand Prix tournaments. Slams (Open da Australia, Roland Garros and US Open).
– List of the 25 most voted:
1. Novak Djokovic (Serbia), tennis 178 points.
2. Max Vestappen (Netherlands), Formula 1 150.
3. Armand Duplantis (Sweden), athletics 86.
4. Erling Haaland (Norway), football 80.
5. Nikola Jokic (Serbia), basketball 74.
6. Iga Swiatek (Poland), tennis 72.
7. Johannes Things Boe (Norway), biathlon 51.
8. Femke Bol (Netherlands), athletics 49.
9. Marco Odermatt (Switzerland), alpine skiing 44.
10. Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark), cycling 40.
11. Leon Marchand (France), swimming 30.
12. Mathieu van der Poel (Belgium), cycling 26.
13. Carlos Alcazar (Spain), tennis 24.
14. Aitana Bonmati (Spain), football 23.
15. Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece), athletics 12.
16. Dennis Schroeder (Germany), basketball 10.
Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner (Czech Republic), beach volleyball 10.
18. Demi Vollering (Netherlands), cycling 9.
Jon Ram (Spain), wave 9.
Jacob Ingebrigtsen (Norway), athletics 9.
Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia), weightlifting 9.
22. Eleftherios Petrounias (Greece), artistic gymnastics 8.
Aleksander Vezenkov (Bulgaria), basketball 8.
Alvaro Martin (Spain), athletics 8.
Yaroslava Makhutchikh (Ukraine), athletics 8.
Source: DN
