PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS LAUREATES FOR SPORTS
The award will be to the individual, institution, group of individuals or institutions whose efforts throughout their exemplary career have contributed in an extraordinary manner to perfecting, cultivating, fostering or disseminating sports.
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2011
Haile Gebrselassie
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Considered the best distance runner of all time, Haile Gebrselassie is an extraordinary example of sacrifice and self-improvement who has been a leading figure among the sports elite for over two decades.
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2010
The Spanish National Football Squad
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Spanish National Football Squad, 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
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2009
Yelena Isinbayeva
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Considered the best pole-vaulter of all times, Yelena Isinbayeva has achieved historic records and has become the only female pole-vaulter ever to clear the 5.00 metre barrier, setting a total of 27 world records.
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2008
Rafael Nadal
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Prince of Asturias Award laureate for Sports was one of the major figures at the Beijing Olympic Games.
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2007
Michael Schumacher
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The career of this sportsman bespeaks the greatest accomplishments achieved in every category.
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2006
Spain´s National Basket Team 2006
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The important triumph at the World Championship in Japan, the most brilliant achievement in the history of Spanish basketball.
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2005
Fernando Alonso
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Alonso has been able to arrive to the summit of his sport discipline after years of big sacrifices and renouncements.
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2004
Hicham El Guerrouj
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Uno de los deportistas más brillantes del atletismo actual y encarna los auténticos valores del espíritu olímpico.
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2003
The Tour de France
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Tour is one of the world's major sporting events, and has symbolised the grandeur of cycling for one hundred years.
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2002
The Brazilian football squad
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
winning five World Championships is as important as the grass-roots impact of football in Brazil.
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2001
Manuel Estiarte
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Manuel Estiarte is a remarkable case in Spanish and world sport, having participated in six consecutive Olympic Games.
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2000
Lance Armstrong
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
In the world of sport, the two-times winner of the Tour de France stands for man's struggle to overcome illnesses that in many cases are considered terminal.
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1999
Steffi Graf
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
She won 22 Grand Slam tournament victories and was leader of the Professional Tennis Players ranking for 377 weeks.
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1998
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Spanish tennis player won her third Roland Garros tournament in 1998.
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1997
Spanish Marathon Team
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Athletes who, successively, have won the European Championship of 1994 (first, second, third), the 1995 world championships (Martín Fiz), the 1997 world championships (Abel Antón), and the 1997.
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1996
Carl Lewis
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
He holds ten Olympic titles, nine gold medals and one silver.
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1995
Hassiba Boulmerka
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
Boulmerka is a representative of a country and of a world in which the facilities for playing sports are not the most favourable for women.
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1994
Martina Navratilova
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The legendary tennis champion who, with eighteen grand slam titles, has been at the forefront of world tennis for more than a decade.
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1993
Javier Sotomayor
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
This charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Cuban athlete is currently the Olympic high-jump champion.
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1992
Miguel Induráin
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
In addition to his indisputable stature as a professional cyclist, Miguel Induráin´s great human values.
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1991
Serguey Bubka
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The award- winner is the Olympic champion and world record-holder in the athletics event of the pole-vault.
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1990
Sito Pons
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The jury has also placed special value on his personal contribution to anti-drug.
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1989
Severiano Ballesteros
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The jury wishes to highlight the development of a sporting personality who has managed to reach the position of number one in the world of golf in recent years.
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1988
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Jury has valued a life-long career dedicated to encouraging Spanish and international sport.
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1987
Sebastian Coe
Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Jury has taken into account the exemplary sporting and Olympic career of Sebastian Coe, as well as his personality.