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Aitana Bonmatí and Rodri (2023) and Álvaro Martín and María Pérez (2024) win the National Sports Awards

The jury, meeting this Thursday at the CSD, has failed the National Sports Awards corresponding to the years 2023 and 2024

  • The winners also include Lamine Yamal, the women’s football and water polo teams, Ricardo Ten, Rebeca Andrade and The Ricky Rubio Foundation, among others.

 

Madrid, October 16, 2025.- The jury of the National Sports Awards, convened by the president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), announced on Thursday the decision of the editions corresponding to the years 2023 and 2024, highlighting among the winners the footballers Rodrigo Hernández and Aitana Bonmatí and the athletes Álvaro Martín and María Pérez.

Rodrigo Hernández ‘Rodri’ and Aitana Bonmatí have won, respectively, the Rey Felipe and Reina Letizia awards, which recognize them as the best athlete and the best athlete of 2023.

Rodri won the Premier League, the Champions League and the English Cup with Manchester City and conquered with the Spanish national team the League of Nations. These titles earned him the nomination for the Ballon d’Or, which he won a year later.

For her part, Aitana Bonmatí enshrined in 2023 her status as an undisputed figure at an international level by winning the World Cup with the selection. With FC Barcelona he added the Champions League, the F League and the Queen’s Cup to his list of winners, as well as winning the first of his three Ballons d’Or that same year.

The athletes Álvaro Martín and María Pérez have been the winners of the Rey Felipe and Reina Letizia awards corresponding to the year 2024. They both made history by conquering Olympic gold together in the mixed relay of the Paris Games, in which they also individually achieved bronze and silver, respectively, in the test of the 20 km march.

The Princess Leonor Award, which recognizes the best athlete under 18 years, has fallen on the 2023 edition in the basketball player Iyana Martín. The young woman achieved silver in that year in the U19 World Cup in Hungary - in which she was also elected MVP - and achieved bronze in the U18 European Championship in Turkey.

In its 2024 edition, this prize has been awarded to basketball player Awa Fam, who won the Eurobasket under-18 and under-20 championship titles with the Spanish team, in addition to being chosen as part of the ideal quintet and MVP, respectively.

The Infanta Sofía Prize, which values the promotion of sport by people with disabilities, has fallen to the 2023 edition of the CERMI (Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities), for its contribution and support to public policies to promote inclusion. In particular, during the process of drafting and regulatory development of the new Sports Law.

Ricardo Ten has been recognized with this award in the 2024 edition. His list of winners is almost unfathomable. In that year alone, he won the gold medal in the Single Time Trial (C1), the silver medal in speed by mixed teams of 750 meters (C1-5) and the bronze medal in individual pursuit of 3,000 meters (C1) at the Paralympic Games in Paris.

Junior Snowboard Cross World Champion (SBX) in Italy and silver at the Veysonnaz World Cup, Álvaro Romero has won the Rey Juan Carlos Award, which recognizes the athlete revelation of 2023.

The footballer Lamine Yamal has won this same award corresponding to the merits of 2024, year in which he was proclaimed champion of the European Championship together with the Spanish national team - being the youngest player to achieve it. He was named Best Young Player of the Tournament and also won the Kopa Trophy for Best Young Player of FIFA.

A gesture as human as it is sporty has made the athlete Ricardo Rosado worthy of the Reina Sofía Award, which highlights fair play and the values of sport. In the year 2023, in the Malaga marathon and a few meters from the finish line, the Spanish athlete decided to give his fifth place to the Kenyan Kimtai Kiprono, who had led the race for much of the route and was in trouble, thus giving up the economic prize.

Paula Leitón has been chosen for this same prize corresponding to the year 2024. After winning the Olympic gold in Paris 2024, the waterpolist suffered a campaign of harassment on social networks because of her physique. He responded by claiming the diversity of bodies and fighting against gordophobia and hate speeches inside and outside the sport.

The athlete Marileidy Paulino has won the Ibero-American Community Trophy, which recognizes the best athlete or entity in Ibero-America. Paulino became the World Athletics Championships of Budapest 2023 in the first Dominican in twenty years to conquer the title of individual world champion, dominating the test of 400 meters.

 

 

In the edition corresponding to 2024, this award has been awarded to the Brazilian gypsy Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade, who made history at the Paris Olympic Games by obtaining four medals: gold on the ground, silver in individual competition and in foal jumping and bronze in team competition.

The European Union Trophy, intended for the best athlete, team or entity from another EU member country, has fallen to the European team of the 2023 Solheim Cup. A disputed edition in Andalusia, in which the European team won against the United States, and which had a great prominence of the Spanish Carlota Ciganda.

Femke Bol has been awarded this recognition in the 2024 edition. A year in which the Dutch athlete accumulated an impressive record, with gold, silver and bronze standing out at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The Spanish women’s football team, world champion in 2023, has won the Barón de Güell Cup, which rewards the best team or selection of the year. This recognises a generation that has already become a legend and a reference, which won in Australia the first absolute world title in the history of Spanish women’s football.

In the 2024 edition, this prize has been awarded to the Spanish women’s water polo team, gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games, European silver in Eindhoven and bronze at the Doha World Championship.

The Stadium Cup, which highlights the people or institutions that have contributed most to the promotion of grassroots sport, went to Antonio Sabuguéiro, founder and organizer of the San Silvestre Vallecana Internacional y Popular, in the 2023 edition.

The Ricky Rubio Foundation, for its part, has been the entity awarded with the Stadium Cup in the 2024 edition. That year he presented the Lung Fit project, an initiative that seeks to integrate physical exercise into cancer treatment to improve the quality of life of patients with lung cancer. In addition, the foundation stands out for its support of basketball programs for children from vulnerable neighborhoods and the promotion of sport as a tool of social inclusion.

The City of Gandía has been recognized with the Superior Sports Council Award as the Spanish local entity that has most contributed to the promotion of sport in 2023. In addition to dedicating more than 200,000 euros to the support of grassroots clubs and celebrating more than a thousand sporting activities in that year, it has been an example of implementation of European funds with the creation of innovative spaces for urban sports, such as the skate park that is already a national reference.

This same prize, corresponding to 2024, has been awarded to the City of Tarragona. During that year, the capital of Tarragona hosted more than half a hundred sporting events that brought together more than 36,000 athletes and generated an economic impact of almost 10 million euros.

Corresponding to the year 2023, the CAFYD Faculty of the University of Extremadura has been recognized with the Joaquín Blume Trophy, which highlights the schools that have contributed most to the promotion of sport. UEX was the best ranked Spanish university in the Shanghai Ranking of Sport Science Schools of Departments in 2023, being the thirteenth best rated university in the world.

In the 2024 edition, the University of Murcia and Catholic University of Murcia have won this same award ex aequo.

The UMU has launched the UMUSALUD project, a program of healthy exercise in the work environment, which already benefits more than 22% of the workers of this public university of Murcia, a city that commemorates this 2025 the 1,200 years of history.

Among the logos of the UCAM, for its part, stand out the leadership in the University Spanish Championships and a prominent presence in the Endesa Basketball League and in sports such as table tennis and football. In addition, it was the university of the world with the highest participation in Paris 2024, with 65 athlete scholarships, which achieved five golds, five degrees, seven bronzes and 45 diplomas.

For his contribution to the dissemination of physical and sporting activity, the National Award for the Arts and Sciences Applied to Sport has fallen in its 2023 edition to Pedro Chueca, physiotherapist of the Spanish football team for more than two decades.

In 2024, the award was given to the traumatologist Pedro Luis Ripoll, founder of the Spanish Society of Arthroscopic Surgery, member of the Medical-Scientific Commission of the Royal Spanish Football Federation and director of the medical services of football clubs such as Elche, Almería or Hercules. He is a regular consultant for sports clubs of the highest international level.

Finally, Alejandro Abascal and Alberto Jofre, respectively, have won the Francisco Fernández Ochoa National Award from 2023 and 2024, for a lifetime dedicated to sport.

Abascal participated in the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games, winning the first gold medal of Spanish sport in Moscow 1980 in flyeing dutcham (sailing), as well as two medals in the 1978 and 1979 World Championships. His most outstanding contribution was as sporting and technical director of the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation and the Prince Felipe Specialized High Performance Sailing Center, between 1996 and 2015, when Spain experienced its best stage in Olympic sailing. From 2015, he continued to be responsible for the technical training of the Spanish Olympic team of this sport. He also holds the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sporting Merit.

Alberto Jofre, for his part, has been managing director of the Spanish Paralympic Committee for thirty years. He participated in the 1984 New York Paralympic Games, where he won four medals and a world record. Considered the greatest expert in paralympic sport in our country, under his leadership the CPE has won more than 840 medals in the various Games. He was also the promoter of the ADOP Plan.

  

A jury of experts

For the award of the National Sports Awards corresponding to the merits of 2023 and 2024, the jury of experts meeting this Thursday at the Superior Sports Council has valued more than 180 proposals sent by institutions, athletes and professionals of the sector.

The jury, chaired by the General Director of Sports of the CSD, Fernando Molinero, is composed of more than twenty representatives of Spanish sport. the President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, Alberto Durán; the Secretary General of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Victoria Cabezas; the President of ADESP, José Hidalgo; the Councillor of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Berni Álvarez; the Councillor of Culture and Sport of the Junta de Andalucía, Patricia del Pozo; the Director of Sports, José Luis Soto

Once the ruling has been issued, it is expected that the award of the National Sports Awards will be carried out soon in a solemn act presided over by SS.MM. the Kings Philip and Letizia.

 

More than four decades of National Sports Awards

Established in 1982, the National Sports Awards have recognized during the last four decades athletes such as Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Gemma Mengual, Sandra Sánchez, Alexia Putellas or Susana Rodríguez, in the women’s categories, and Miguel Indurain, Pau Gasol, Rafa Nadal, Marc Márquez, Saúl Craviotto, Jon Rahm or Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s.

They distinguish those athletes, associations, entities and people who have stood out for the promotion and promotion of physical activity and sport. They are, along with the awards of the Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo (medals, plates and Gran Cruz), the greatest recognitions of the State in sports matters.