The largest names in sports activities and leisure got here collectively on Thursday evening to honor the yr’s greatest, most influential and galvanizing athletes at the 2024 ESPY Awards.
Coming into the large present — held as soon as once more this yr on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood — sports activities superstars together with Olympian Simone Biles, basketball stars Jaylen Brown and Caitlin Clark, tennis professional Coco Gauff, Tremendous Bowl champ Patrick Mahomes and MLB hotshot Shohei Ohtani had been among the many prime nominees at this yr’s massive awards present.
Moreover, this yr’s ESPYs handed out the standard trio of honorary awards to particular recipients, together with the Arthur Ashe Award for Braveness, the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance and The Pat Tillman Award for Service.
Former NFL professional Steve Gleason was introduced with the Arthur Ashe Award for his work elevating consciousness of ALS, whereas College of South Carolina girls’s basketball head coach Daybreak Staley was introduced with the Jimmy V Award. In the meantime, Prince Harry was honored with the Pat Tillman Award for his efforts in direction of serving to army veterans by way of sports activities with the Invictus Video games.
So who walked away with yet one more second of victory and glory beneath their belt? Try the complete checklist of the evening’s massive winners — marked in daring — beneath!
BEST ATHLETE, MEN’S SPORTS
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs — **WINNER!
Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels / Los Angeles Dodgers
Scottie Scheffler, Golf
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
BEST ATHLETE, WOMEN’S SPORTS
Caitlin Clark, Iowa Girls’s Basketball
Coco Gauff, Tennis
Nelly Korda, Golf
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces — **WINNER!
BEST BREAKTHROUGH ATHLETE
Haleigh Bryant, LSU Gymnastics
C.J. Stroud, Houston Texans
Juju Watkins, USC Girls’s Basketball — **WINNER!
Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs
BEST RECORD-BREAKING PERFORMANCE
49ers Christian McCaffrey scores a TD for a file breaking 17 straight video games
Caitlin Clark turns into NCAA’s All Time Scoring Chief breaking Pete Maravich’s Document — **WINNER!
Tara VanDerveer, Stanford Girls’s Basketball – will get 1,203rd win to cross Coach Ok for many by any coach in NCAA basketball historical past
Max Verstappen wins file tenth consecutive race with victory at Italian Grand Prix
BEST CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORMANCE
Michigan’s Blake Corum and Will Johnson, 2024 Faculty Soccer Nationwide Championship MVPs
Kayla Martello, Boston Faculty Girls’s Lacrosse
Midge Purce, NJ/NY Gotham FC – NWSL Championship MVP
Jaylen Brown, Boston Celtics — **WINNER!
BEST COMEBACK ATHLETE
Simone Biles, Gymnast — **WINNER!
Paige Bueckers, College of Connecticut Girls’s Basketball
Joe Flacco, Cleveland Browns
Zion Williamson, New Orleans Pelicans
BEST PLAY
Jayda Coleman calls GAME sending Oklahoma to their 4th Straight Championship – NCAA Softball 6/4/2024
Anthony Edwards Dunk of the 12 months – 3/18/24 – NBA
Alabama scores on 4th & 31 to win vs. Auburn 11/25/23
Lamar Jackson Caught His Personal Move & Ran With it – 1/28/24 – NFL — **WINNER!
BEST TEAM
South Carolina Gamecocks, NCAA Girls’s Basketball — **WINNER!
Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, NFL
Michigan Wolverines, NCAA Soccer
Las Vegas Aces, WNBA
College of Connecticut Huskies, NCAA Males’s Basketball
Oklahoma Sooners, NCAA Softball
Boston Celtics, NBA
Florida Panthers, NHL
Texas Rangers, MLB
BEST COLLEGE ATHLETE, MEN’S SPORTS
Jayden Daniels, LSU Soccer — **WINNER!
Zach Edey, Purdue Males’s Basketball
Ousmane Sylla, Clemson Soccer
Pat Kavanagh, Notre Dame Lacrosse
BEST COLLEGE ATHLETE, WOMEN’S SPORTS
Haleigh Bryant, LSU Gymnastics
Caitlin Clark, Iowa Basketball — **WINNER!
Sarah Franklin, Wisconsin Volleyball
Izzy Scane, Northwestern Lacrosse
BEST ATHLETE WITH A DISABILITY
Jaydin Blackwell World Champion Sprinter
Ezra Frech, World Champion Excessive Jumper
Brenna Huckaby Snowboarding Champion — **WINNER!
Oksana Masters, Cross-Nation Skier/Hand Bike owner
BEST NFL PLAYER
Myles Garrett, Cleveland Browns
Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs — **WINNER!
Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers
BEST MLB PLAYER
Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees
Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels — **WINNER!
Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
BEST NHL PLAYER
Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche
Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
BEST NBA PLAYER
Luka Dončić, Dallas Mavericks — **WINNER!
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets
Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
BEST WNBA PLAYER
Napheesa Collier, Minnesota Lynx
Breanna Stewart, New York Liberty
Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut Solar
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces — **WINNER!
BEST DRIVER
Ryan Blaney, NASCAR
Matt Hagan, NHRA
Álex Palou, IndyCar
Max Verstappen, F1 — **WINNER!
BEST UFC FIGHTER
Islam Makhachev
Sean O’Malley
Alex Pereira
Zhang Weili
BEST BOXER
Terence Crawford
Seniesa Estrada
Naoya Inoue
Oleksandr Usyk
BEST SOCCER PLAYER
Aitana Bonmatí, Spain
Naomi Girma, USWNT
Vinicius Junior, Brazil/Actual Madrid
Kylian Mbappé, France/Actual Madrid
BEST GOLFER
Nelly Korda
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Lilia Vu
BEST TENNIS PLAYER
Carlos Alcaraz
Novak Djokovic
Coco Gauff
Iga Swiatek
The 2024 ESPYS might be hosted by Serena Williams and air dwell Thursday, July 11 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
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