OFFICIAL! Aitana Bonmatí wins the Laureus for the best female athlete of 2023

Published:22/04/2024 - 21:19h

Updated:22/04/2024 - 21:19h

Aitana Bonmatí has added a new award to her collection. The midfielder has become the first female athlete in Spain to receive the Laureus Award. This is due to the incredible 2023 that she experienced both on a collective level with Barça and the Spanish national team, and on an individual level

Pride culé! The midfield player Aitana Bonmatí follows harvesting big successes to professional level. In this opportunity, the player of 26 years of age has topped at all more and at all less than with the Prize Laureus 2024, a distinction delivered by the Academy Laureus World Sports that recognises the sportive merits achieved in the previous year, in this case, 2023.

The one of Sant Pere of Ribes imposed in the premiación, which took place in the Palace of Cibeles in Madrid, to personalities stood out like the velocistas Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) and Sha'Carri Richardson (United States), the athlete Faith Kipyegon (Kenia), the skier Mikaela Shiffrin (United States) and the tennist Iga Świątek (Poland). Of this way, Aitana turns into the first Spaniard in winning this award in his feminine category. It is necessary to mention that previously, in 2018, the tennist Garbiñe Muguruza had been nominated, to the equal that his current mate of team in the Barça Femení, Alexia Putellas, in 2022 and 2023, but any attained to obtain this prize.

The '14' of the Barcelona picture received the prize of hands of the legend of the athletics Usain Bolt and the multilaureada skier Lindsey Vonn, after receiving it, took a moment to express words of gratitude by this distinction, mentioning so much to the selection as to the Barça Femení. "The past year was an incredible year for me and my mates of team. We have won it everything with the club, with the selection. And it is thanks to this collective effort by which am today here. I want to thank they and to the club", limited.

The incredible year 2023 that lived Aitana Bonmatí

It is worthwhile to comment that Aitana Bonmatí had a 2023 flawless so much to individual level like community. With the Barça Femení, attained the triplete Ties F-Supercopa-Champions the past year. Besides, with the selection of Spain, did creditor of a historical Glass of the World. To individual level, received, among others awards, the The Best, the Balloon of Gold, the Prize to the Best Player of the UEFA, the 'MVP' of the Champions, as well as the Balloon of Gold of the Glass of the World. Definitively, it has been a flawless year for the talentosa midfield player, that follows harvesting the fruits of a season inigualable.