Some of those I considered
Johannes Thingnes Bø (Norway) in biathlon won three of the four individual world championships individual events and three world cup titles winning sixteen races.
Sandra Näslund (Sweden) won the first nine ski cross world cup races and the world championship.
Kaylee McKeown (Australia) swept gold in all three events of backstroke (50m, 100m, and 200m) at all three World Cup legs. She won all three events at the world championship, the first woman to do this at any stroke, and during the year broke the world record in each event.
Qin Haiyang (China) won gold in all three events of breaststroke (50m, 100m, and 200m) at all three World Cup legs. He won all three events at the world championship, the first man to do this at any stroke, and broke the world record in the 200m.
The gold medal winning Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team broke the world record by more than 1 1/2 seconds.
Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) won gold at the cycling world championships on the track in points and elimination races and the road race.
Denys Babliuk (Ukraine) won five gold medals at the world championship in shooting.
Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) won the world title and achieved 20 clearances of 6.00m or higher.Indoors, he added a centimetre to his previous outright best, clearing 6.22m. During the outdoor season, won his third Diamond League trophy with a clearance of 6.23m to better his world record.
Faith Kipyegon (Kenya) set world records at three distances during a season in which she also achieved a golden double at the World Athletics Championships improved the world 1500m record to 3:49.11, taking almost a full second off the previous mark. Just one week later, she improved the world record for the 5000m. Her third world record smashed the previous mile mark by five seconds. Then, in Budapest, she won her third senior world 1500m title and her first world 5000m crown.
Tigist Assefa (Ethiopia) at the Berlin Marathon ran 2:11:53, smashing the world record by two minutes and 14 seconds and achieving the biggest single improvement on the mark for 40 years.
Darja Varfolomeev (Germany) won all five individual golds at the world championship in rhythmic gymnastics.
Gyda Westvold Hansen (Norway) won all ten races in the Nordic Combined world cup and the world championship gold.
Max Verstappen (Netherlands) had one of the best seasons in the history of Formula One. He broke the record for the highest Grand Prix win percentage for drivers, with a win rate percentage of 86.36%, winning a record 19 out of 22 Grands Prix held and finishing on the podium 21 times (also a record number for most podiums in a season)
Red Bull Racing won 21 out of 22 Formula One Grands Prix, breaking the team record for highest percentage of Grand Prix wins in a season at 95.45%.
Novak Djokovic won three of the four Grand Slam singles titles and came close to the fourth when losing an epic Wimbledon final.
Manchester City won the English Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League and World Club Championship.
England women were undefeated all year and won the Six Nations title and the new world rugby WXV tournament.
Sportswoman
Runners up
Gyda Westvold Hansen (Norway) the only downside of her brilliant year is that her sport is a new one and lacks strength in depth.
Faith Kipyegon .
Winner
Kaylee McKeown
It was almost impossible to choose between her and Kipyegon but I just thought that Kaylee McKeown had a more groundbreaking year with so many races and historic achievements.
Team
Runners up
The gold medal winning Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team.
Manchester City
Winners
Red Bull Racing Formula One team. The runners up were excellent but their feats have been done before. Red Bull simply had the best season in the history of Formula One which is more than seventy years old.
Sportsman
Runners up
Qin Haiyang and Novak Djokovic
Winner
Max Verstappen. If Red Bull were the most dominant team in Formula One history it was almost all down to one man. Verstappen had the best individual season ever, maintaining his supremacy in a very long year of races. Of course he had the best car but he took full advantage.
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