Gazzetta Sports Awards

Gigi Buffon and Sofia Goggia, the 2017 Italians sportman and sportwoman of the year.

The Gazzetta Sports Awards and the Gazzetta Referendum are surveys conducted annually by the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, which select the best athletes of the calendar year.[1]

Winners

YearSportman of the YearSportSportwoman of the YearSportTeam of the YearSport
1978 Paolo RossiAssociation football Sara SimeoniAthletics (high jump) Italy national football teamAssociation football
1979 Pietro MenneaAthletics (sprinting) Roberta FelottiSwimming MilanAssociation football
1980 Pietro MenneaAthletics (sprinting) Sara SimeoniAthletics (high jump) Italy national basketball teamBasketball
1981 Marco LucchinelliMotorsport Sara SimeoniAthletics Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di CapuaRowing
1982 Giuseppe SaronniCycling Dorina VaccaroniFencing Italy national football team*Association football
1983 Alberto CovaAthletics Dorina VaccaroniFencing Italy national basketball teamBasketball
1984 Francesco MoserCycling Sara SimeoniAthletics Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di CapuaRowing
1985 Alberto CovaAthletics Maria CaninsCycling Juventus*Association Football
1986 Reinhold MessnerMountaineering Maria CaninsCycling Italy men's national water polo teamWater polo
1987 Francesco PanettaAthletics Manuela Dalla ValleSwimming Tracer MilanoBasketball
1988 Alberto TombaAlpine skiing Laura FogliAthletics Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di CapuaRowing
1989 Giorgio LambertiSwimming Angela BandiniFreediving Milan*Association Football
1990 Gianni BugnoCycling Annarita SidotiAthletics Italy men's national volleyball teamVolleyball
1991 Gianni BugnoCycling Giovanna TrilliniFencing Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di CapuaRowing
1992 Alberto TombaAlpine skiing Giovanna TrilliniFencing Italy men's national water polo teamWater polo
1993 Jury ChechiGymnastics Stefania BelmondoCross-country skiing Italy men's national water polo teamWater polo
1994 Alberto TombaAlpine skiing Manuela Di Centa*Cross-country skiing Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio FaunerCross-country skiing
1995 Alberto TombaAlpine skiing Fiona MayAthletics Italy men's national volleyball team*Volleyball
1996 Jury ChechiGymnastics Deborah CompagnoniAlpine skiing JuventusAssociation Football
1997 Jury ChechiGymnastics Deborah CompagnoniAlpine skiing Italy national basketball teamBasketball
1998 Marco Pantani*Cycling Deborah CompagnoniAlpine skiing Italy men's national volleyball teamVolleyball
1999 Fabrizio MoriAthletics Stefania BelmondoCross-country skiing Italy national basketball teamBasketball
2000 Domenico FioravantiSwimming Valentina VezzaliFencing FerrariFormula 1
2001 Valentino RossiMotorsport Valentina VezzaliFencing Ferrari*Formula 1
2002 Valentino RossiMotorsport Stefania BelmondoCross-country skiing Italy women's national volleyball teamVolleyball
2003 Valentino RossiMotorsport Valentina VezzaliFencing FerrariFormula 1
2004 Stefano BaldiniAthletics Valentina Vezzali*Fencing FerrariFormula 1
2005 Filippo MagniniSwimming Valentina VezzaliFencing Italy men's national volleyball teamVolleyball
2006 Filippo MagniniSwimming Vanessa FerrariGymnastics Italy national football team*Association football
2007 Filippo MagniniSwimming Valentina VezzaliFencing MilanAssociation Football
2008 Valentino RossiMotorsport Federica PellegriniSwimming InterAssociation Football
2009 Valentino RossiMotorsport Federica Pellegrini*Swimming Italy women's national volleyball teamVolleyball
2010 Giuliano RazzoliAlpine skiing Francesca SchiavoneTennis InterAssociation Football
2011 Armin ZöggelerLuge Federica Pellegrini*Swimming Italy men's national water polo teamWater polo
2012 Alex ZanardiParacycling Elisa Di FranciscaFencing Elisa Di Francisca, Arianna Errigo, Valentina Vezzali, Ilaria SalvatoriFencing
2013 Vincenzo NibaliCycling Jessica RossiShooting JuventusAssociation football
2014 Vincenzo NibaliCycling Tania CagnottoDiving Sara Errani and Roberta VinciTennis
2015 Gregorio PaltrinieriSwimming Flavia PennettaTennis JuventusAssociation football
2016 Gregorio PaltrinieriSwimming Tania CagnottoDiving Italy men's national volleyball teamVolleyball
2017 Gianluigi BuffonAssociation football Sofia GoggiaAlpine skiing JuventusAssociation football
  • Winner was also honored as a world athlete or team.

Others awards

From 2015 the prize has been awarded in a further six categories.[2]

Coach of the Year
Performance of the Year
Paralympic athlete of the Year
  • 2015: Martina Caironi (Paralympic athletics)
  • 2016: Beatrice Vio (Wheelchair fencing)
  • 2017: Italy women's national deaf volleyball team (Deaf volleyball)
Exploit of the Year
Fair Play of the Year
Legend

Multiwinners

Respectively with 6 and 5 successes the two Valentinos, Vezzali and Rossi, are the most victorious athletes.
  Women athletes
AthleteSportWins
Valentina VezzaliFencing6
Valentino RossiMotorcycle racing5
Sara SimeoniAthletics4
Alberto TombaAlpine skiing4
Stefania BelmondoCross-country skiing3
Jury ChechiGymnastics3
Deborah CompagnoniAlpine skiing3
Filippo MagniniSwimming3
Federica PellegriniSwimming3
Gianni BugnoCycling2
Tania CagnottoDiving2
Alberto CovaAthletics2
Pietro MenneaAthletics2
Vincenzo NibaliCycling2
Gregorio PaltrinieriSwimming2
Giovanna TrilliniFencing2
Dorina VaccaroniFencing2

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Gazzetta Sports Awards" (in Italian). gazzzetta.it. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Gazzetta Sports Awards - Vincitori" (in Italian). gazzzetta.it. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. ↑ In 2016 the name was Revelation of the Year
  4. ↑ In 2016 the name was Gentleman of the Year
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