Peruvian athlete in the top 20 leading athletes of the sport in 2022

Among the leading international athletes of this 2022, these ten men and ten women stood out above the rest thanks to their results:

KIMBERLY GARCÍA (Peru), athletics: World champion in the 20 km walk, Peru’s first gold in the history of the World Championships, and in the 35 km. Bronze in the World Cup for walking teams.

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YULIMAR ROJAS (Venezuela), athletics: Outdoor and indoor triple jump world champion. Diamond League Champion. She broke her world record with 15.74.

KATIE LEDECKY (USA), swimming: The American once again made clear her status as the undisputed “queen” of world swimming, after closing the Budapest World Championships with four gold medals, after winning the 400, 800 and 1,500 freestyle, as well as in the final of the 4×200 relay.

Metals to which to add the two world records with which Ledecky, 25, closed the year by setting two new universal records in the short course in the 800 -7:57.42 minutes- and 1,500 -15:08.24 minutes- freestyle.

BETH MEAD (England), soccer: European Championship Golden Boot, thanks to her six goals in the tournament, and best player in the competition. The England team was proclaimed champion.

IGA SWIATEK (Poland), tennis: Number 1 in the WTA ranking and winner in 2022 of the Roland Garros tournament and the United States Open.

A’JA WILSON (USA), basketball: WNBA Champion and MVP with the Las Vegas Aces and MVP and, for the second time, world champion with the United States team.

ANNEMIEK VAN VLEUTEN (Netherlands), cycling: World long-distance road, Giro, Tour and Vuelta champion in the season in which she turned 40.

REBECA ANDRADE (Brazil), gymnastics: First Brazilian and first South American champion of the world of artistic gymnastics in the all-around competition.

SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE (USA), track and field: Slashed her own 400 hurdles world record by 78 hundredths, first to 51.41 at the US Championships and then to 50.68 at the World Championships.

EILEEN GU (China), freestyle skiing: The sensation of the Winter Olympic Games held in Beijing, with three medals, two gold and one silver, in ‘freestyle’.

ELIUD KIPCHOGE (Kenya), athletics: Winner of the Berlin marathon with a new world record (2h01:09). Tokyo marathon winner.

LIONEL MESSI (Argentina), soccer: Soccer world champion with the Argentine national team and Ballon d’Or of the tournament. He broke the records for the most matches in World Cups, 26, and the most minutes played, 2,314.

NIKOLA JOKIC (Serbian), basketball: Voted MVP of the NBA regular season for the second time in a row. Average of 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists. First player in the NBA to achieve 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 assists in a single season.

MAX VERSTAPPEN (Netherlands), motorsports: Formula One world champion for the second consecutive season. Driver with the most wins (15) and points (454) in the same season.

REMCO EVENEPOEL (Belgium), cycling: Winner of the Tour of Spain. World gold en route -the youngest in history, at 22 years and 243 days) and bronze in time trial.

ARMAND DUPLANTIS (Sweden), Athletics: World (outdoor and indoor), European and Diamond League pole vault champion. He broke his world record three times with jumps of 6.19 and 6.20 (indoors) and 6.21 (outdoors).

RAFAEL NADAL (Spain), tennis: With his second Australian Open and fourteenth Roland Garros, he increased his tally of Grand Slams to 22, more than any other player in history. He ends the year as number 2 in the world, the oldest (36 years) to do so.

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STEPHEN CURRY (USA), basketball: NBA winner with the Golden State Warriors and MVP of the final series. First NBA player to hit more than 3,000 three-pointers. All-Star MVP with 50 points and 16 triples.

DAVID POPOVICI (Romania), swimming: Double world and European champion of the 100 and 200 free, the young Romanian swimmer, just 18 years old, became the fastest swimmer on the planet after lowering the legendary universal record of the hectometre free of the Brazilian Cesar Cielo, valid since 2009, after winning the final of the Europeans in Rome with a time of 46.86 seconds.

JURAJ SLAFKOVSKY (Slovakia), ice hockey: Bronze with the Slovakia team and top scorer at the Beijing Olympics at the age of 17. Seven goals and 24 shots on goal, more than any of his rivals. Decisive in his country’s first Olympic medal in hockey.

Source: EFE