Gazzetta Sports Awards

The Gazzetta Sports Awards and the Gazzetta Referendum are surveys conducted annually by the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport to reward the best sportsmen and sportswomen of the calendar year.^[1]

Jannik Sinner and Alice D'Amato, the 2024 Italian sportsman and sportswoman of the year.

Winners

Italian

Year	Sportman of the Year	Sport	Sportwoman of the Year	Sport	Team of the Year	Sport	Ref.
1978	Paolo Rossi	Football	Sara Simeoni[a]	Athletics (high jump)	Italy national football team	Football	[2][3][4]
1979	Pietro Mennea	Athletics (sprinting)	Roberta Felotti	Swimming	Milan	Football	[3][2][4]
1980	Pietro Mennea	Athletics (sprinting)	Sara Simeoni	Athletics (high jump)	Italy national basketball team	Basketball	[3][2][4]
1981	Marco Lucchinelli	Motorcycle racing	Sara Simeoni	Athletics	Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di Capua	Rowing	[3][2][4]
1982	Giuseppe Saronni	Cycling	Dorina Vaccaroni	Fencing	Italy national football team[a]	Football	[3][2][4]
1983	Alberto Cova	Athletics	Dorina Vaccaroni	Fencing	Italy national basketball team	Basketball	[3][2][4]
1984	Francesco Moser	Cycling	Sara Simeoni	Athletics	Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di Capua	Rowing	[3][2][4]
1985	Alberto Cova	Athletics	Maria Canins	Cycling	Juventus[a]	Football	[3][2][4]
1986	Reinhold Messner	Mountaineering	Maria Canins	Cycling	Italy men's national water polo team	Water polo	[3][2][4]
1987	Francesco Panetta	Athletics	Manuela Dalla Valle	Swimming	Tracer Milano	Basketball	[3][2][4]
1988	Alberto Tomba	Alpine skiing	Laura Fogli	Athletics	Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di Capua	Rowing	[3][2][4]
1989	Giorgio Lamberti	Swimming	Angela Bandini	Freediving	Milan[a]	Football	[3][2][4]
1990	Gianni Bugno	Cycling	Annarita Sidoti	Athletics	Italy men's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[3][2][4]
1991	Gianni Bugno	Cycling	Giovanna Trillini	Fencing	Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di Capua	Rowing	[3][2][4]
1992	Alberto Tomba	Alpine skiing	Giovanna Trillini	Fencing	Italy men's national water polo team	Water polo	[3][2][4]
1993	Jury Chechi	Gymnastics	Stefania Belmondo	Cross-country skiing	Italy men's national water polo team	Water polo	[3][2][4]
1994	Alberto Tomba	Alpine skiing	Manuela Di Centa[a]	Cross-country skiing	Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner	Cross-country skiing	[3][2][4]
1995	Alberto Tomba	Alpine skiing	Fiona May	Athletics	Italy men's national volleyball team[a]	Volleyball	[3][2][4]
1996	Jury Chechi	Gymnastics	Deborah Compagnoni	Alpine skiing	Juventus	Football	[3][2][4]
1997	Jury Chechi	Gymnastics	Deborah Compagnoni	Alpine skiing	Italy national basketball team	Basketball	[3][2][4]
1998	Marco Pantani[a]	Cycling	Deborah Compagnoni	Alpine skiing	Italy men's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[3][2][4]
1999	Fabrizio Mori	Athletics	Stefania Belmondo	Cross-country skiing	Italy national basketball team	Basketball	[3][2][4]
2000	Domenico Fioravanti	Swimming	Valentina Vezzali	Fencing	Ferrari	Formula 1	[3][2][4]
2001	Valentino Rossi	Motorcycle racing	Valentina Vezzali	Fencing	Ferrari[a]	Formula 1	[3][2][4]
2002	Valentino Rossi	Motorcycle racing	Stefania Belmondo	Cross-country skiing	Italy women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[3][2][4]
2003	Valentino Rossi	Motorcycle racing	Valentina Vezzali	Fencing	Ferrari	Formula 1	[3][2][4]
2004	Stefano Baldini	Athletics	Valentina Vezzali[a]	Fencing	Ferrari	Formula 1	[3][2][4]
2005	Filippo Magnini	Swimming	Valentina Vezzali	Fencing	Italy men's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[3][2][4]
2006	Filippo Magnini	Swimming	Vanessa Ferrari	Gymnastics	Italy national football team[a]	Football	[3][2][4]
2007	Filippo Magnini	Swimming	Valentina Vezzali	Fencing	Milan	Football	[3][2][4]
2008	Valentino Rossi	Motorcycle racing	Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Inter	Football	[3][2][4]
2009	Valentino Rossi	Motorcycle racing	Federica Pellegrini[a]	Swimming	Italy women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[3][2][4]
2010	Giuliano Razzoli	Alpine skiing	Francesca Schiavone	Tennis	Inter	Football	[3][2][4]
2011	Armin Zöggeler	Luge	Federica Pellegrini[a]	Swimming	Italy men's national water polo team	Water polo	[3][2][4]
2012	Alex Zanardi	Paracycling	Elisa Di Francisca	Fencing	Elisa Di Francisca, Arianna Errigo, Valentina Vezzali, Ilaria Salvatori	Fencing	[5]
2013	Vincenzo Nibali	Cycling	Jessica Rossi	Shooting	Juventus	Football	[6]
2014	Vincenzo Nibali	Cycling	Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci	Tennis	[7]
2015	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Flavia Pennetta	Tennis	Juventus	Football	[8]
2016	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Italy men's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[9]
2017	Gianluigi Buffon	Football	Sofia Goggia	Alpine skiing	Juventus	Football	[10]
2018	Filippo Tortu	Sprinting	Sofia Goggia	Alpine skiing	Italy women's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[11]
2019	Roberto Mancini	Football	Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Italy men's national water polo team	Water polo	[12]
2020	Ciro Immobile	Football	Federica Brignone	Alpine skiing	Atalanta	Football	[13]
2021	Marcell Jacobs	Athletics (sprinting)	Antonella Palmisano	Athletics (racewalking)	Italy national football team	Football	[14]
2022	Marcell Jacobs	Athletics (sprinting)	Benedetta Pilato	Swimming	Milan	Football	[15]
2023	Gianmarco Tamberi	Athletics (high jump)	Sofia Raffaeli	Rhythmic gymnastics	Napoli	Football	[16]
2024	Jannik Sinner	Tennis	Alice D'Amato	Artistic gymnastics	Inter	Football	[17]
					Alberta Santuccio, Giulia Rizzi, Rossella Fiamingo, Mara Navarria	Fencing

Worldwide

Year	Sportman of the Year	Sport	Sportwoman of the Year	Sport	Team of the Year	Sport	Ref.
1978	Henry Rono	Athletics (track and field)	Sara Simeoni[a]	Athletics (high jump)	Argentina national football team	Football	[3][18]
1979	Sebastian Coe	Athletics (track and field)	Mary T. Meagher	Swimming	Soviet Union national football team	Football	[3][18]
1980	Pietro Mennea[a]	Athletics (sprinting)	Tatyana Kazankina	Athletics (track and field)	Germany national football team	Football	[3][18]
1981	Sebastian Coe	Athletics (track and field)	Olga Bicherova	Artistic gymnastics	Olga Bicherova, Yelena Davydova, Maria Filatova, Elena Polevaya, Stella Zakharova	Artistic gymnastics	[3][18]
1982	Daley Thompson	Athletics (decathlon)	Marita Koch	Athletics (sprinting)	Italy national football team[a]	Football	[3][18]
1983	Carl Lewis	Athletics (track and field)	Tamara Bykova	Athletics (high jump)	Australia II team	Sailing	[3][18]
1984	Carl Lewis	Athletics (track and field)	Valerie Brisco-Hooks	Athletics (track and field)	Stefan Edberg, Anders Järryd, Henrik Sundström, Mats Wilander	Tennis	[3][18]
1985	Sergey Bubka	Athletics (pole vault)	Marita Koch	Athletics (sprinting)	Juventus[a]	Football	[3][18]
1986	Diego Maradona	Football	Heike Drechsler	Athletics (long jump)	Argentina national football team	Football	[3][18]
1987	Ben Johnson	Athletics (sprinting)	Steffi Graf	Tennis	Greece men's national basketball team	Basketball	[3][18]
1988	Carl Lewis	Athletics (track and field)	Kristin Otto	Swimming	McLaren-Honda	Formula 1	[3][18]
1989	Greg LeMond	Cycle sport	Vreni Schneider	Alpine skiing	Milan[a]	Football	[3][18]
1990	Stefan Edberg	Tennis	Merlene Ottey	Athletics (sprinting)	Germany national football team	Football	[3][18]
1991	Carl Lewis	Athletics (track and field)	Katrin Krabbe	Athletics (track and field)	Guy Forget, Henri Leconte	Tennis	[3][18]
1992	Miguel Induráin	Cycle sport	Krisztina Egerszegi	Swimming	United States men's national basketball team	Basketball	[3][18]
1993	Miguel Induráin	Cycle sport	Krisztina Egerszegi	Swimming	Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell	Athletics (sprinting)	[3][18]
1994	Leroy Burrell	Athletics (sprinting)	Manuela Di Centa[a]	Cross-country skiing	Brazil national football team	Football	[3][18]
1995	Haile Gebrselassie	Athletics (long-distance running)	Gwen Torrence	Athletics (sprinting)	Italy men's national volleyball team[a]	Volleyball	[3][18]
1996	Michael Johnson	Athletics (sprinting)	Marie-José Pérec	Athletics (sprinting)	Arnaud Boetsch, Guy Forget, Cédric Pioline, Guillaume Raoux	Tennis	[3][18]
1997	Wilson Kipketer	Athletics (middle-distance running)	Ana Fidelia Quirot	Athletics (track and field)	Williams-Renault	Formula 1	[3][18]
1998	Marco Pantani[a]	Cycle sport	Marion Jones	Athletics (track and field)	France national football team	Football	[3][18]
1999	Lance Armstrong	Cycle sport	Gabriela Szabo	Athletics (track and field)	Manchester United	Football	[3][18]
2000	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Swimming	Marion Jones	Athletics (track and field)	France national football team	Football	[3][18]
2001	Michael Schumacher	Formula 1	Inge de Bruijn	Swimming	Scuderia Ferrari[a]	Formula 1	[3][18]
2002	Michael Schumacher	Formula 1	Serena Williams	Tennis	Brazil national football team	Football	[3][18]
2003	Michael Phelps	Swimming	Paula Radcliffe	Athletics (long-distance running)	England national rugby union team	Rugby	[3][18]
2004	Michael Phelps	Swimming	Valentina Vezzali[a]	Fencing	Argentina men's national volleyball team	Volleyball	[3][18]
2005	Roger Federer	Tennis	Yelena Isinbayeva	Athletics (pole vaulting)	New Zealand national rugby union team	Rugby	[3][18]
2006	Roger Federer	Tennis	Laure Manaudou	Swimming	Italy national football team[a]	Football	[3][18]
2007	Roger Federer	Tennis	Justine Henin	Tennis	South Africa national rugby union team	Rugby	[3][18]
2008	Usain Bolt	Athletics (sprinting)	Yelena Isinbayeva	Athletics (pole vaulting)	Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell	Athletics (sprinting)	[3][18]
2009	Usain Bolt	Athletics (sprinting)	Federica Pellegrini[a]	Swimming	Barcelona	Football	[3][18]
2010	José Mourinho	Football	Lindsey Vonn	Alpine skiing	Spain national football team	Football	[3][18]
2011	Lionel Messi	Football	Federica Pellegrini[a]	Swimming	Barcelona	Football	[3][18]
2012	Usain Bolt	Athletics (sprinting)	Lindsey Vonn	Alpine skiing	Spain national football team	Football	[19]
2013	Usain Bolt	Athletics (sprinting)	Serena Williams	Tennis	Bayern Munich	Football	[20]
2014	Vincenzo Nibali[a]	Cycle sport	Tina Maze	Alpine skiing	Germany national football team	Football	[7]
2015	Usain Bolt	Athletics (sprinting)	Flavia Pennetta[a]	Tennis	Barcelona	Football	[8]
2016	Usain Bolt	Athletics (sprinting)	Simone Biles	Artistic gymnastics	Leicester City	Football	[20]
2017	Roger Federer	Tennis	Federica Pellegrini[a]	Swimming	Real Madrid	Football	[20]
2018	Lewis Hamilton	Formula 1	Mikaela Shiffrin	Alpine skiing	France national football team	Football	[20]
2019	Eliud Kipchoge	Athletics (long-distance running)	Mikaela Shiffrin	Alpine skiing	Liverpool	Football	[21]
					United States women's national soccer team
2020	Lewis Hamilton	Formula 1	Federica Brignone[a]	Alpine skiing	Bayern Munich	Football	[22]

Other awards

Since 2015, other awards have been given.^[8]

Coach of the Year

• 2015: Antonio Conte (association football)^[8]
• 2016: Claudio Ranieri (association football)^[9]
• 2017: Gian Piero Gasperini (association football)^[10]
• 2018: Massimiliano Allegri (association football)^[11]
• 2019: Roberto Mancini (association football)^[12]
• 2020: Stefano Pioli (association football)^[13]
• 2021: Antonio Conte (association football)^[14]
• 2022: Ferdinando De Giorgi (volleyball)^[15]
• 2023: Luciano Spalletti (association football)^[16]
• 2024: Julio Velasco (volleyball)^[17]

Performance of the Year

• 2015: Fabio Aru (cycling)^[8]
• 2016: Niccolò Campriani (shooting)^[9]
• 2017: Andrea Belotti (association football)^[10]
• 2018: Mauro Icardi (association football)^[11]
• 2019: Jannik Sinner (tennis)^[12]
• 2020: Filippo Ganna (cycling)^[13]
• 2021: Sonny Colbrelli (cycling)^[14]
• 2022: Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming)^[15]
• 2023: Lautaro Martínez (association football)^[16]
• 2024: Nicolò Martinenghi (swimming)^[17]

Paralympic Athlete of the Year

• 2015: Martina Caironi (paralympic athletics)^[8]
• 2016: Beatrice Vio (wheelchair fencing)^[9]
• 2017: Italy women's national deaf volleyball team (deaf volleyball)^[10]
• 2018: Beatrice Vio (wheelchair fencing) and Oney Tapia (paralympic athletics)^[11]
• 2019: Simone Barlaam (paralympic swimming)^[12]
• 2020: Briantea 84 Cantù^[13]
• 2021: Beatrice Vio (wheelchair fencing)^[14]
• 2022: Xenia Palazzo (paralympic swimming)^[15]
• 2023: Ambra Sabatini (paralympic athletics)^[16]
• 2024: Stefano Raimondi (paralympic swimming) and Carlotta Gilli (paralympic swimming)^[17]

Exploit of the Year

• 2015: Roberta Vinci (tennis)^[8]
• 2016: Gianluigi Donnarumma (association football)^[9]
• 2017: Andrea Dovizioso (motorsport)^[10]
• 2018: Elia Viviani (cycling)^[11]
• 2019: Charles Leclerc (Formula 1)^[12]
• 2020: Jannik Sinner (tennis)^[13]
• 2021: Nicolò Barella (association football)^[14]
• 2023: Francesco Bagnaia (motorsport) and Italy Davis Cup team (tennis)^[16]
• 2024: Atalanta (association football)^[17]

Revelation of the Year

• 2018: Simona Quadarella (swimming)^[11][23]
• 2019: Matteo Berrettini (tennis)^[12]
• 2020: Enea Bastianini (motorcycle racing) and Larissa Iapichino (long jump)^[13]
• 2021: Francesco Bagnaia (motorcycle racing)^[14]
• 2022: Yemaneberhan Crippa (long-distance running)^[15]
• 2024: Nadia Battocletti (long-distance running)^[17]

Most Promising Talent of the Year

• 2018: Francesco Bagnaia (motorsport)^[11][23]
• 2019: Benedetta Pilato (swimming)^[12]
• 2024: Mattia Furlani (long jump)^[17]

Fair Play of the Year

• 2015: Valentina Diouf (volleyball)^[8]
• 2016: Tamara Lunger (ski mountaineering)^[9]
• 2017: Matteo Manassero (golf)^[10]

Legend

• 2015: Valentino Rossi (motorsport) and Alex Zanardi (paracycling)^[8]
• 2016: Federica Pellegrini (swimming) and Alberto Tomba (alpine skiing)
• 2017: Francesco Totti (association football) and Alberto Contador (cycling)^[24]
• 2018: Paolo Maldini (association football), Vincenzo Nibali (cycling), and Christian Vieri (association football)^[11]
• 2019: Siniša Mihajlović (association football)^[25][12]
• 2020: Zlatan Ibrahimović (association football)^[13]
• 2021: Daniele De Rossi (association football)^[14]
• 2022: Giacomo Agostini (motorcycle racing), Beatrice Vio (wheelchair fencing), and Vincenzo Nibali (cycling)^[15]
• 2023: Fabio Cannavaro (association football) and Massimiliano Rosolino (swimming)^[16]
• 2024: Marcello Lippi (association football)^[17]

ESport

• 2019: Daniele “Jizuke” Di Mauro^[12]

SportWeek Award

• 2019: Italy women's national football team^[12]
• 2020: Maxime Mbanda (rugby)^[13]
• 2021: Federica Pellegrini (swimming)^[14]

Special Award

• 2020: Maxime Mbanda (rugby)^[26]

Emotion of the Year

• 2021: Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump)^[14]

Giro d'Italia Award

• 2021: Lorenzo Fortunato (cycling)^[14]

Multiwinners

Italian

Respectively with 6 and 5 successes, Valentina Vezzali and Valentino Rossi are the most victorious athletes.

  Women athletes

Athlete	Sport	Wins
Valentina Vezzali	Fencing	6
Valentino Rossi	Motorcycle racing	5
Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	4
Sara Simeoni	Athletics	4
Alberto Tomba	Alpine skiing	4
Stefania Belmondo	Cross-country skiing	3
Jury Chechi	Gymnastics	3
Deborah Compagnoni	Alpine skiing	3
Filippo Magnini	Swimming	3
Vincenzo Nibali	Cycling	3
Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	2
Gianni Bugno	Cycling	2
Tania Cagnotto	Diving	2
Maria Canins	Cycling	2
Alberto Cova	Athletics	2
Sofia Goggia	Alpine skiing	2
Marcell Jacobs	Athletics	2
Pietro Mennea	Athletics	2
Giovanna Trillini	Fencing	2
Dorina Vaccaroni	Fencing	2

See also

• La Gazzetta dello Sport

Notes

1. Winner in both Italian and worldwide categories.