Meeting of the jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports

30 nominations encompassing 13 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the fifth of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 45th year

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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports will meet this coming 27th and 28th May in Oviedo. This is the fifth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 45th year. A total of 30 candidatures encompassing 13 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes Hotel.

As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports is to be granted at “careers which have become an example of the benefits that practising sports can bring to people, via their promotion, fostering and advancement of sport and sense of solidarity and commitment.”

Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.

On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 27th, there will be a family photo of the jury members in the hotel’s “Salón Regenta”, followed by a meeting with the media, immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.

The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 28th, in the “Salón Regenta”, following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

Teresa Perales Fernández (chair)
Paloma del Río Cañadas (acting secretary)
Teresa Bernadas Porto
Carlos Carpio Rodríguez
Joaquín Folch-Rusiñol Corachán
Vicente Jiménez Navas
Santiago Nolla Zayas
Jennifer Pareja Lisalde
Edurne Pasabán Lizarribar
Samuel Sánchez González
Sitapha Savané Sagna
Alberto Suárez Laso
Joan Vehils Guasch
Theresa Zabell Lucas

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