Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Overview Book

FOUNDATION OVERVIEW

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Laureus Sport for Good Foundation

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aureus project staff witness the L powerful social impact that sport creates for young people every day

12 FOUNDING PATRONS

82 LAUREUS WORLDWIDE

85 NATIONAL FOUNDATION

DIRECTORY 86 Academy members

14 GLOBAL PARTNERS 16 LauREUS PROJECTS

n overview of a selection of A Laureus-supported projects

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Africa Asia Australia Europe Latin America & The Caribbean North America

Map highlighting Laureus-supported projects

he Laureus Academy is a unique T association of 52 of the greatest living sportsmen and sportswomen

108 LAUREUS AMBASSADORS

he Laureus Ambassadors are a T select group of both current and retired sportsmen and women who have achieved sporting greatness

110 LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS

AWARDS WINNERS

ll the Laureus World Sports A Awards winners from 2000 – 2015

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS PROVIDED BY GETTY IMAGES / LAUREUS UNLESS OTHERWISE CREDITED THE CONTENT OF This book was last updated on June 2015

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OVERVIEW Sport has the capacity to enchant and delight millions of people around the world, but it also has the power to do much more.

The Laureus Family was created by people who passionately believe that sport can transform lives, bring people together and change society for the better.

At the very first Laureus World Sports Awards Ceremony in Monaco in 2000, President Nelson Mandela, the Patron of Laureus, made a visionary speech which has become the philosophy of Laureus and the driving force which has shaped its work.

Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.

Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair NELSON MANDELA, laureus world sports awards, monaco 2000

CHILDREN FROM THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT SEENIGAMA SPORT FOR LIFE, SRI LANKA

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proceeds from the Laureus World Sports Awards directly benefit and underpin the activities of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER NAWAL EL MOUTAWAKEL & BOBBY CHARLTON PRESENT ZINEDINE ZIDANE WITH THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

To achieve the mighty goals set by its Patron, Laureus needed to be much more than a spectacular red carpet event. It had to be a year-round charity dedicated to effecting social change through sport. Thus was born the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

Its work focuses on using sport to help young people overcome challenging social issues including poverty, homelessness, war, violence, drug abuse, discrimination and HIV/AIDS. If President Mandela supplied the philosophy, it is the Laureus World Sports Academy which has provided the energy and burning determination to turn this altruistic dream into reality.

This unique association of the greatest

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living sportsmen and sportswomen shares a belief in the power of sport to break down barriers and to improve the lives of young people around the world.

The Academy volunteer their services as global ambassadors for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. They also cast their votes to select the winners of the Laureus World Sports Awards, which honour the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen in the world each year.

The Awards also contribute significantly to the work of the Laureus Foundation around the globe. With coverage broadcast in more than 100 countries, the event acts as a global showcase for the power of sport, and thanks to the support from sponsors and host cities,

Laureus harnesses the power of sport to bring people together as a force for good. From cities, villages and townships to rural communities, the philanthropic work and expertise of the Foundation touches the lives of children in more than 35 countries, from high crime areas in the UK and Europe to the slums of Mumbai, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and the minefields of Cambodia. It is based on the inspiring idea that sport has a role to play in improving the lives of youth facing challenging social problems all over the world, whether it is providing a teenager standing on a street corner holding a gun with a different option, or giving a young person in a Nairobi slum a pathway into education and out of poverty. This is the ongoing achievement and mission of Laureus.

With the encouragement of its Founding Patrons, Richemont and Daimler, and its Global Partners, Mercedes-Benz and IWC Schaffhausen, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation now supports a diverse range of sports-based community projects which have changed the lives of young people for the better around the world.

In recent years, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has become a leading source of knowledge and expertise in the use of sport as a social tool, and provides a platform for practitioners to exchange innovation and know-how. In addition to funding grassroots sports

projects worldwide, Laureus provides training in Sport for Good, access to a global knowledge network through which grassroots sports projects can exchange best practice, and a package of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning support, which enables projects to effectively measure how exactly lives are being changed through sport. This reservoir of knowledge and expertise will prove an invaluable aid to the future growth of the Foundation and the sector as a whole.

Laureus is also building a reputation for being at the forefront of the expansion of the Sport for Good movement globally. In 2011 and 2012, it produced two watershed reports (Teenage Kicks and Sport Scores), which for the first time costed out the value community sports projects can actually deliver for society. The research showed that, on average, projects can create around five times the value of every dollar, euro or pound invested through reductions in criminality, youth unemployment and school exclusions.

Members of the Laureus World Sports Academy and the growing numbers of Laureus Ambassadors are at work year-round supporting the Foundation’s operations across the globe. They can help to publicise the impact that sport is having on disadvantaged and at-risk children, ensuring that their inspiring stories are heard. It is also important to put names and faces to the project leaders and volunteers who are beacons of hope to the children and who are heroes in their own right.

As ever, the beneficiaries from all this hard work are the thousands of children around the world whose lives have been improved. Laureus looks forward with confidence to doing even more in the future.

Chairman Edwin Moses says: “Everyone at Laureus shares a common belief that sport is a universal language, which has the power to speak to people across the globe, whatever their colour or creed.”

Academy Member Nawal El Moutawakel, a powerful voice in the International Olympic Movement, adds:

We may not be able to change the world overnight, but we are here for the long run and we can make a difference one playing field at a time Laureus Academy member nawal el moutawakel

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Laureus funding has helped to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people on every continent.

OUR IMPACT Since its inception, Laureus funding has helped millions of marginalised young people in more than 35 countries.

Laureus project staff witness the powerful social impact that sport creates for these youths every day. They see young people coming off drugs, quitting gangs, entering education, finding jobs, gaining confidence, getting fit, making friends and stepping up to become positive role models.

Taken as a whole, this impact creates huge value, not just for the individuals affected, but for society at large.

Laureus research has shown that across six sports-based crime prevention programmes in the UK, Italy and Germany, an average value of €5 was created for every €1 invested. This was due to cost savings associated with reductions in crime, unemployment and school exclusions, and associated benefits relating to health improvements and wage increases.

Laureus Academy Member Tanni GreyThompson explains: “I have always believed that sport can be a valuable social weapon. Now this report has produced evidence which proves that sport in certain circumstances can also be a more cost-effective solution than traditional social means. In these difficult economic times, this is a really significant finding.”

Laureus is committed to deepening the evidence base for the true transformational power of sport. To this end we have joined forces with other collaborators to create a new impact measurement system that combines software with tools and training in social impact measurement, helping shine a light on how sport is impacting marginalised communities all over the world.

PARTICIPANTS FROM the LAUREUS-supported GIRLS KICKING PROJECT, GERMANY

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STRENGTHENING the global network of laureus-funded programmes

Laureus Sport for Good Knowledge Centre

Laureus supports a global network of groundbreaking sports-based community programmes working across all six continents. In addition to financial support, organisations supported by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation get the opportunity to access:

CRIME prevention through sport

Based in London, delivered in partnership with the Active Communities Network – this features the UK’s first accredited qualification in the use of sport as a tool to tackle crime

PEace building through sport

Headquartered in Washington, delivered in partnership with Peace Players International – this programme is based on a world-renowned conflict resolution model developed over several decades

sport for development academy

Based in Nairobi, delivered in partnership with the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) – this includes a training programme based on over 20 years’ experience in the use of sport to deliver remarkable social transformation within the Mathare slum of Nairobi

life skills through sport

Based in Mumbai, delivered in partnership with Magic Bus – this programme includes a ground-breaking sports-based life-skills curriculum that is being rolled out across India

social transformation through boxing and martial arts

Based in Rio de Janeiro, delivered in partnership with Fight For Peace – this programme features cutting-edge training in the use of boxing and martial arts to combat crime and violence, based on over ten years of practice and experimentation in some of the toughest areas of Rio and London

Strategic support Cutting-edge training in how to use sport as a social and educational tool A package of support to help measure and communicate their social impact Networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities with a global network of Laureus-supported organisations that extend the possibilities of what sport can achieve for young people

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Laureus will continue to support innovative work that creates genuine social transformation through sport. It will fund robust research that shines a spotlight on the value this impact creates for communities and society at large.

Over the last few years, Laureus has helped create numerous virtual ‘knowledge centres’ around the world.

These spread expertise, and good practice in the use of sport as a social tool.

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The results will include an ongoing snowball of sports-based social change, a strong and growing global network of Laureus-supported projects and a deepening pool of hard evidence to underpin the claim that sport does indeed have the power to change the world.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER TONY HAWK VISITS FIGHT FOR PEACE PROJECT, UNITED KINGDOM

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FOUNDING PATRONS

As Founding Patron of Laureus, it is an honour for Richemont to be associated with so many legendary sportsmen and sportswomen who work tirelessly to help disadvantaged young people around the world.

It is heart-warming to see that from modest beginnings at the turn of the century, Laureus has developed into a major player in the sport for development world, active on every continent and with a respected and growing voice.

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Richemont, one of the world’s leading luxury goods groups, believes that business in today’s world should operate in a responsible and caring manner.

Laureus has immense potential to do good, and Richemont looks forward to helping the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation to grow and flourish in the years ahead for the betterment of young people around the world.

This guide gives a snapshot of Laureus today, showing the progress that has been made, and a flavour of our hopes for an even more potent future.

Daimler, represented by Mercedes-Benz Cars, is one of the Founding Patrons of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

The group can look back on a tradition that stretches back more than 125 years and is marked by pioneering automotive achievements.

We believe ‘inspiration’ and ‘spirit’ are the qualities which drive us on to achieve our goals both as a business and as an organisation which respects human rights and looks to improve the lives of those less fortunate around the world.

That is why we founded, together with Richemont in 2000, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. This commitment has developed into an important example of what we mean by corporate social responsibility.

We have provided long-term financial support to Laureus to help disadvantaged young people in more than 35 countries using sport as a tool for social change.

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GLOBAL PARTNERS

GLOBAL PARTNERS

Mercedes-Benz, the world’s oldest automaker, can look back on a unique tradition. It is the most valuable automotive premium brand and stands for quality, safety, comfort, fascinating design and sustainable mobility.

Mercedes-Benz enjoys an excellent reputation, particularly in the area of safety technology. Many pioneering technical innovations that are standard automotive features today were first seen in a Mercedes-Benz car. The Mercedes-Benz engineers will in future consistently reinvent the automobile – with the same enthusiasm and innovation as Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz in 1886.

Mercedes-Benz is a Global Partner of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

Since the beginning of the Foundation’s operations in 2000, Mercedes-Benz has shared and supported the goals and values of this worldwide charity programme where sports play the core role in the fight against social issues – Laureus has become a vital element of the corporate social responsibility programme of Mercedes-Benz.

With a clear focus on technology and development, the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has been producing watches of lasting value since 1868. The company has gained an international reputation based on a passion for innovative solutions and technical ingenuity. One of the world’s leading brands in the luxury watch segment, IWC crafts masterpieces of Haute Horlogerie at its finest, combining supreme precision with exclusive design.

IWC Schaffhausen became a Global Partner of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation in 2005 because the two organisations share a belief and a commitment: a belief that those blessed with good fortune have an obligation to help others less fortunate; and a commitment to setting up sustainable programmes that deliver long-term assistance. Every year, in keeping with a revered tradition, IWC Schaffhausen selects a model from its collection as a means of supporting the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER BOBBY CHARLTON AT THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT MATHARE YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION, KENYA

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laureus-supported projects in africa

The first-ever Laureus project was in Nairobi now our projects stretch from the length and breadth of Africa from Mali in the west to South Africa.

AFRICA Coaching for Hope Mali & BURKINA Faso

Mali ranks as the fifth least-developed country in the world, with the lowest levels of adult literacy on the planet.

The project trains local coaches and youth workers to deliver education in HIV/AIDS to vulnerable young people, using football as the means to pass on key messages.

Young people involved in the project take part in a minimum of eight educational sessions that use football games to generate debates around key concepts such as: healthy living, respecting one’s peers, self belief, ‘playing safe’ and avoiding risks.

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Buffalo City Soccer School

Community Based AIDS Programme

East London, South Africa

Kampala, Uganda

In the East London areas of Buffalo Flats and Duncan Village, drug and alcohol abuse has become a way of life. The Buffalo City Soccer School is committed to countering these ills and works with young people to provide a healthy alternative through football.

Nakulabye, near Kampala, is the home of the Community Based AIDS Programme (COBAP) which provides healthcare, rehabilitation and shelter for people who have been affected by HIV/ AIDS. Some years ago, COBAP realised that sport could be an effective way to communicate with the population about the dangers of the disease and created the Nakulabye Youth Intervention Programme.

Sport is used as a hook for youngsters to attend life-skills sessions to develop a good understanding of the negative impact of alcohol and drug abuse, as well as HIV/AIDS awareness. The project is funded through sponsorship from local businesses and Laureus.

Football and netball sessions were set up and, by introducing healthcare workshops into half-time, the project workers found that they had a captive audience to whom they could communicate their life-saving message.

Fight With Insight Johannesburg, South Africa

A boxing project for young offenders which aims to use their aggression as the means to help them make alternative and positive decisions about their future. There are rules in boxing that parallel those in life: respect for others, abiding by the referee’s decisions, accepting the judge’s verdict and, when the fight is over, the need to move on.

The young people take part in boxing classes at The Children Memorial Institute in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, run by renowned promoter Anton Gilmore and child protection and development specialist Luke Lamprecht.

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Development of Sports and Rights for People with Disabilities

Grassroot Soccer

Great Commission United

South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Rwanda

It is estimated that there are over 300,000 people with disabilities in Rwanda. Many thousands are amputees having suffered from years of war.

The project gives young people with disabilities the opportunity to access sport and recreational activities, while raising awareness of the rights of people with disabilities.

Grassroot Soccer’s mission is to use the power of football in the fight against HIV/AIDS by providing young people with the knowledge, skills and support to live healthier lives. Grassroot Soccer trains African soccer stars, coaches, teachers and peer educators in the world’s most HIV/AIDS-affected countries to deliver an interactive HIV/AIDS prevention and life-skills programme.

Founded by former gang leader Mario van Niekerk, Great Commission United football-based project in the informal settlement of Cape Flats aims to keep young people away from gangs and crime and plugged into positive influences and aspirations.

Where possible, the activities are also open to their peers without disabilities to try to bridge the gap between the two groups. The project is run by the National Paralympic Committee of Rwanda.

Laureus is the founding member of Grassroot Soccer’s African Leadership Programme, the goals of which are to build successful African leaders and strengthen the effectiveness of the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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It is not uncommon for project leaders to intervene in gang fights and vandalism caused by unruly youngsters who are then recruited to attend the project. As participants get older, they are given the chance to become coaches and referees, as well as leaders and role models in their own right.

Grupo Desportivo de Manica Manica, Mozambique

Grupo Desportivo de Manica’s vision is using football to create empowering relationships that provide hope, youth leadership and social inclusion. Its mission is to create a hub that promotes youth participation in football, education and healthy living by setting up infrastructure, delivering a programme of engaging activities and working with communities to encourage participation. ​

HOUT BAY CYCLING CLUB

Indigo Youth Movement

CAPE TOWN, South Africa

DURBAN & CAPE TOWN, South Africa

The Hout Bay Cycling Club was founded in 2009 by a group of concerned veteran cyclists who wanted to provide Hout Bay youngsters with an opportunity to experience the world of cycling, whilst also offering a healthy alternative to the negative influences often found within their communities.

The rural Zulu communities in South Africa are extremely susceptible to poverty, lack of education and disease.

The Indigo Youth Movement is the brainchild of Dallas Oberholzer, whose exposure to international skating competitions inspired him to create opportunities for young people to learn about skateboarding.

By participating in the cycling programme the riders learn important life skills such as teamwork, discipline, dedication and determination. In addition, the boys receive counselling in respect of career and life choices and partake in discussions relating to work experience opportunities.

Established in the heart of Isithumba, a rural Zulu village on the outskirts of Durban, the project has introduced young people to skateboarding and created an opportunity to enhance tourism and entrepreneurialism as well as increasing the youngsters’ life skills and self-confidence.

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Johannesburg Cubs Johannesburg, South Africa

In the aftermath of apartheid, sport has proved a formidable tool in uniting South Africa. Johannesburg Cubs was set up to bring together children of different races, cultures, classes and beliefs. The vision of the programme is to create an environment free from any form of discrimination.

Disadvantaged, mostly black participants are chosen from the 2,500 schoolchildren actively involved in Gauteng Cricket Board development areas. Privileged, mostly white participants are recruited via parents and are assisted with integration and social awareness by project leaders.

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Laureus Youth Empowerment through Sport (YES) Programme

Kick4Life

South Africa

Kick4Life aims to address the HIV/ AIDS crisis in Lesotho which has a prevalence of 23%. The disease has had a devastating impact on the nation. The Test Your Team programme consists of a series of one-day football tournaments where voluntary HIV/AIDS education and HIV/AIDS testing is provided on-site.

The Laureus YES Programme aims to inspire a new generation of youth leaders through sport. The programme targets 18 to 25 year-olds and involves a combination of accredited and nonaccredited training (including sports management, personal development, facilitation, counselling, financial and business/workplace management training) that empowers young people to become role models in their communities. So far the programme has benefitted over 100 youth leaders predominantly from South Africa but also in Lesotho, Mozambique, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Mauritius.

Maseru, Lesotho

The campaign targets 12 to 19 yearolds, and teams are made up of an equal number of boys and girls. Test Your Team aims to break down stigma and encourage voluntary testing in an environment of positive peer pressure.

FOOTBALL LEGEND DAVID BECKHAM WITH CHILDREN FROM THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT KICK4LIFE, LESOTHO

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Little Champs

Lungisani Indlela

cape town, South Africa

Durban, South Africa

The Little Champs Academy is a project that operates across South Africa to teach children from a young age basic sporting skills and, at the same time, improve their learning skills. These children often start their schooling with poorly developed motor skills – the small muscle movements that occur in handeye coordination – which can impact on academic performance and participation in sports programmes.

Amaoti is the biggest informal settlement in KwaZulu-Natal. 70% of Durban’s street children come from here. The Back-to-School programme aims to keep children at school, as there is a very high drop-out rate. The project provides opportunities for the youngsters to play football and netball in holiday clubs. It also trains youth workers, who offer home visits and go to local schools on a daily basis to support and counsel the children.

For the youngsters involved in the project, learning physical skills will also improve life skills. Since 2000, more than 5,000 children have benefitted.

The Lungisani project believes that sport can be instrumental in getting life’s changing messages across.

Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) Nairobi, Kenya

Mathare is one of the largest and poorest slums in Africa. MYSA pioneers the use of football as a tool for change. At the heart of MYSA are football leagues with thousands of boys and girls participating. This selfhelp project uses innovative methods such as a slum clean-up programme in which teams clear the rubbish and ditches around their homes every weekend.

For every completed clean-up project a team earns extra points in the league standings. MYSA has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER MIchael johnson AT THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT MATHARE YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION, KENYA

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Makomba-Ndlela Youth Movement

PeacePlayers International

Limpopo, South Africa

Durban, South Africa

The project’s motto is ‘Your victory is our victory’, which is meant as a symbol of hope for the young people to keep on fighting problems such as sexually transmitted infections, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, crime and substance abuse. Laureus supports the sports element of the project which brings people together to participate in football, netball, volleyball and basketball.

Founded on the premise that children who play together can learn how to live together, PeacePlayers uses basketball to unite and educate young people. In South Africa, because of HIV/ AIDS, more than half of 15-year-olds will not reach 60.

Tournaments and leagues are organised either at schools or in the community.

Teamwork and nurturing talent are factors that offer young people a way to achieve their potential.

To combat these challenges, PeacePlayers has developed a lifeskills curriculum that uses basketball to educate young people in KwaZuluNatal, which has South Africa’s highest infection rates. So far the programme has reached over 25,000 children and trained more than 200 young adults as local leaders.

Moving the Goalposts Kilifi, Kenya

Kilifi is rated the poorest county in Kenya with 70% deemed living in poverty. Teenage girls face an adolescence with limited opportunities. The project is run by girls, for girls, and has over 3,000 participants. Football acts as the mobilising force, building a team spirit in this marginalised group.

The project provides opportunities for the girls, aged 10 to 25, to learn skills through playing and organising football and taking on leadership roles as coaches, referees and committee members.

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Poloafrica

Sport for All

OrphanAid Africa

eastern free state, South Africa

South Africa

Great Accra, Ghana

Uitgedacht is a working farm in the foothills of the spectacular Maluti Mountains in the Eastern Free State.

The farm has 45 playing ponies and a small breeding herd and is the home of Poloafrica, which provides polo coaching to young people from the surrounding communities.

One of the most significant social challenges facing South Africa today is the emergence of an orphan generation, a tragic consequence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Operating daily from an after-school centre, the project provides holistic care to the orphaned generation in the township Katlehong.

The project works closely with the Valley Education Fund, run by Franshoek Farm, which provides the educational support.

The children receive coaching and play polo as long as they do well at school and continue to demonstrate discipline and enthusiasm.

Sport for All is responsible for running the sports coaching sessions which give the children the opportunity to express their gifts and talents beyond the need to just survive. Courses include soccer, netball, tennis and volleyball.

Many orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana are in need of care as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the increase of rural-to-urban migration. OrphanAid Africa creates an environment where vulnerable children can grow up in safe, permanent and loving family settings. By encouraging them to play sport together, a substitute family is created through the team structure.

Laureus Academy Member Marcel Desailly, the French football legend who was born in Ghana, is an enthusiastic supporter of OrphanAid Africa and became Patron in 2005.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER MARCEL DESAILLY AT ORPHANAID AFRICA, ghana

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VUKA RUGBY

Waves for Change

RIGHT TO DREAM

Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

GHANA

The goal of Vuka Rugby is to keep children off the streets and out of trouble. This is achieved by offering a fun, rewarding and educational alternative through the use of rugby, aiming to create positive and lasting changes in their lives.

Created by the pioneering Isiqalo Foundation, this is the only organisation in the world looking to harness the power of surfing to address the issue of HIV/AIDS awareness. Waves for Change is based in the informal settlement of Masiphumelele in Cape Town.

The project is run in co-operation with Cool to Be Me, an organisation which helps to develop the life skills of the children involved. It encourages respect for others and helps to give them a clear direction in life.

The project aims to encourage young people to learn their HIV/AIDS status and to produce community peer leaders who will encourage a responsible and informed approach to the issues surrounding the spread of the virus. Other aims include increasing attendance at youth HIV/AIDS testing centres.

Right to Dream is one of the most successful Sport for Development (SfD) organisations in West Africa. The Right to Dream Academy in Ghana focuses on working with talented, underprivileged children and provides world-class opportunities that combine sport, education and personal and leadership development, all of which nurture talented individuals into role models, who are capable of leading positive and sustainable change in the future.

The Right to Dream Academy (Ghana) serves the training and development needs of SfD projects throughout West Africa. The academy represents a base from which tailored training can be delivered to SfD organisations in the region using their extensive knowledge and expertise.

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The diverse needs of young people in Asia means Laureus’ projects here have to tackle a unique mix of social problems.

ASIA IMAGE Rajasthan, India

There are over 90 million people in India living with a serious disability.

Indian Mixed Ability Group Events (IMAGE) runs 18 after-school clubs in Rajasthan where over 700 children, both disabled and able-bodied, come together to compete with each other in cricket, table tennis, kabaddi, badminton, basketball, volleyball, football and tug-of-war.

The IMAGE programme forms networks of parents of disabled children who will support and help each other. In the longer term it is hoped it will create bonds between the two communities.

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Magic Bus INDIA

Magic Bus transforms children out of poverty by nurturing them on a journey from childhood to livelihood using sport as a mechanism to institute behavioural change. The Magic Bus curriculum focuses on the vital inputs of education, personal and community healthcare, gender equality and livelihood to ensure that youths make the right choices from childhood all the way through to their post-teen years. The programme enables them to pursue higher education or obtain gainful employment to emerge out of the financial circumstances they were born into. Magic Bus is working nationally across India reaching approximately 300,000 young people.

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Operation Breakthrough

PeacePlayers International

Hong Kong, China

Israel / Palestine

A project where sport is used as a means of helping to fight crime and juvenile delinquency amongst lowincome and immigrant communities.

Operating in partnership with the Hong Kong Police and the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union, it helps youngsters who have either been arrested by the police for minor offences or have been identified by schools or social workers as being at risk.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most persistent, destructive and long-standing in modern history.

Established in South Africa in 2001, PeacePlayers International uses basketball to unite and educate young people from the opposing communities.

The project offers multiple sports such as rugby, boxing, football, contemporary dance, sailing and dragon boat racing.

Founded on the premise that children who play together can learn how to live together, PPI’s innovative peacebuilding curriculum, implemented in partnership with the Arbinger Institute, is delivered by local coaches. The project uses weekly basketball practices to help children understand the dynamics of conflict.

Peres Center for Peace Israel / Palestine

The Peres Center for Peace encourages Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Arab youngsters to volunteer in their communities by becoming local young leaders. This not only provides the opportunity for sport training, but also engages youths aged 15 to 18 in more sophisticated peace education activities, making them ambassadors for peace in their communities.

The participants will go through an intense process of getting to know each other, learning about the power of sport and how sport can be used and lead for social change. The youngsters will implement sport and peace education activities in their community during the project and afterwards.

Seenigama Sport for Life Project Seenigama, Sri Lanka

Following the tsunami disaster of December 2004, Laureus began working with the Foundation of Goodness to develop the Seenigama Sport for Life Project. Today, post-tsunami, the focus is on a long-term commitment to community development and social change through sport.

Working with over 1,400 young people, the project combines sports training across eight rural schools in cricket, volleyball, swimming, netball and badminton with programmes that build life skills such as leadership, confidence, communication skills and sports etiquette. Programmes are organised by a youth forum and include community aid work.

Skateistan Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Skateistan Cambodia works in partnership with local NGOs to bring skateboarding, arts and leadership opportunities to girls and boys of all backgrounds and abilities in the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh. Currently, they work with 150 to 200 youths each week.

The organisation’s main focus is on building the skills of local staff, training youth leaders and expanding its reach to engage more of the most vulnerable youths in the city with community supports and recreation opportunities. They are supported by the Cambodian National Olympic Committee, and with a partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, Skateistan Cambodia is uniquely positioned to make skateboarding more accessible throughout Cambodia.

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Spirit of Soccer Cambodia

According to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, over 6,000 villages are badly affected and over five million people are at risk in Northern Cambodia. Through the provision of football coaching and mine risk education, Spirit of Soccer is able to positively affect the attitude of young people to the threat of landmines.

Trained coaches, who run 60-to-90 minute football sessions, also deliver mine awareness presentations, which include information on types of mines, how they work and what the children should do if they find one.

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Special Olympics EAST ASIA CHINa, HONG KONG, MACAU, MONGOLIA & SOUTH KOREA

Founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1968, Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organisation for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

The Unified Sports Programme in China brings together Special Olympics athletes with their peers without disabilities to play in the same teams for training and friendly competition.

The Unified Sports Programme motto is: ‘On the field we’re team-mates, off the field we’re friends’. The programme focuses on 24 major cities in China and involves over 50,000 athletes and partners.

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Spirit of Soccer Iraq

Spirit of Soccer exists to reduce child casualties caused by landmines and undetonated explosives left behind from recent conflict. Children in Iraq are the latest to benefit. They are coached to play football on their local pitch and at the same time they are taught how to avoid fragmentation mines or cluster munitions in their local countryside.

Spirit of Soccer has trained 80 coaches in Iraq who work on projects in Baghdad, Basra, Erbil and Kirkuk that deliver its Mine Risk Education programme.

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Unity through Sport Project MANKULAM, Sri Lanka

The Foundation of Goodness replicated the successful post-tsunami Seenigama Sport for Life Project in war-torn Mankulam. It provides facilities and services to meet the needs of rural areas in the aftermath of 30 years of conflict and aims to bridge the gap between communities that have been split by civil war.

The project caters for the housing, healthcare, educational, business development and empowerment needs of the local population through programmes of sports, community development, inter-cultural activities and skills exchanges.

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Laos is one of the most heavily bombed nations in the world. During the Vietnam War, over five million tons of ordnance was dropped on Laos. An estimated 30% of these bombs did not detonate and now injure hundreds of children a year. Spirit of Soccer’s mission is to use the power of football to help save the lives of these children living at daily risk.

Spirit of Soccer uses a unique curriculum of Mine Risk Education alongside football games to teach lessons that help children recognise and avoid these bombs. The primary goal is to reduce child casualties and to offer lessons on hygiene, gender equality and health.

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laureus-supported projects in AUSTRALIA

When Laureus supported its first project in Australia in 2001, our network had spread to every continent in the world.

AUSTRALIA cathy freeman foundation palm island, Australia

The Cathy Freeman Foundation (CFF) is committed to supporting Australia’s indigenous young people to reach their potential by providing a range of pathways to success. The project offers sporting and educational programmes so that indigenous youth can enjoy the same wellbeing, sense of self belief and educational opportunities as their non-indigenous peers. CFF works with the community of Palm Island, one of Australia’s largest remote indigenous communities, and amongst the country’s most disadvantaged regions in terms of social, economic and education indicators.

At the heart of the project’s work is the Starting Block Programme. This is a sports-based programme delivered to indigenous students on Palm Island, with the objective of enhancing educational attainment and personal development. The key elements of this programme are rewarding educational achievement and providing incentives for continued positive education outcomes.

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football united SYDNEY, australia

Social isolation and disengagement is capable of fragmenting local communities. The Football United project in Australia aims to foster social inclusion and cohesion within areas with high refugee settlement and disadvantaged communities, through leadership, skills development, mentoring and the creation of links with local community leaders and organisations.

Football United uses the magic of football to bring people together for the common goal of creating harmonious and cohesive societies. As one of the leading sport for development bodies in the region, Football United will work with Laureus to train young leaders from organisations across Australia, Oceania and Asia.

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laureus-supported projects in EUROPE

From snowboarding and soccer to boxing and golf, Laureus uses numerous sports to deliver its mission across Europe.

EUROPE STREET LEAGUE Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London & Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM

Street League works with 16 to 25 year-olds who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). This includes young offenders and substance abusers. The vision is to help bring an end to structural youth unemployment in the UK, with almost one million young people currently out of work.

Street League engages with the ‘hardest to reach’ young people in a structured football and education ‘Academy’ programme, with two hours in the classroom and two hours on the pitch each day.

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Coole Pänz Cologne, Germany

Working with a partner instead of combatting against him; that is the motto of the sports project Coole Pänz in Cologne. Since 2013 it has been an official Laureus Sport for Good project under the patronage of Laureus Ambassador and judo Olympic champion Ole Bischof.

Weekly group training sessions for two hours – with a maximum of 12 children and juveniles per group – helps prevent violence and support social learning.

The sporting focus of the training – with methods of martial arts and judo – allows the participants to ease aggression and to apply reflective behaviour.

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Fight for Peace London, United Kingdom

Fight for Peace focuses on young people growing up in multicultural inner-city communities within the East End of London that are plagued by crime, gangs and knife and gun violence.

Through its focus on boxing and martial arts, the project aims to engage at-risk young people within the community and offers real alternatives to crime.

The project is open to all boys and girls in Newham between the ages of 12 to 21, with the target of integrating young people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

For Our Heroes with Fundación Alex Spain

For Our Heroes is a project promoting adapted sports among people with disabilities, conducted by Foundation Alex. Created in 2008, they have been able to reach hundreds of youths looking to face the challenges of disability through sport.

Operating across Spain (in collaboration with a number of partners in the sports and communications industry), the programme has gained widespread recognition for being a leading voice for disabled young people and accessibility to their environment. For Our Heroes has been a Laureus-funded project since its inception.

Ambassadors Juan Mata and Luis Figo visiting the project For Our Heroes at Asociación Pauta, spain

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Fundación 5+11

Horse Riding and Autism

Institut Guttmann

Vitoria, Spain

Valencia, Spain

Barcelona, spain

Baskonia (Euroleague basketball team) and Deportivo Alavés (Spanish football second division team) have joined forces to create the Fundación 5+11. It is a non-profit entity with a mission to foster healthy lifestyle habits among young boys and girls in Álava.

Horse Riding and Autism is an equestrian therapy programme for children with autism. It began in Valencia and brings children with autism together with their families as a means of developing social and communication skills through horse riding. With an educational curriculum and methodology carefully crafted by autistic specialists, children are taught to develop social behaviours through a series of objectives which demonstrate their inter-personal abilities.

Promoting sport as a tool for comprehensive rehabilitation, the project works with patients suffering from spinal cord injuries. The Guttmann Institute is a hospital specialising in the treatment and functional rehabilitation of patients with neurological disabilities.

The project also promotes positive values, sportsmanship, effort, selfimprovement and teamwork. Through sporting activities, it encourages an active lifestyle that brings young people physical and psychological benefits.

Through additional social and cultural activities, it aims to be a model in applying sport to high quality leisure and educational programmes.

The immersive programme, which brings autistic youths together with their families in these exercises, improves cognitive and motor functions as well as emotional communication and social interaction skills.

Laureus Ambassadors Gerard Piqué and Àlex Corretja marked a partnership between the Fundación Laureus España, the Guttmann Insitute and Laureus Global Partner Mercedes-Benz. Enrique Aguirre de Cárcer, Director of Communications at Mercedes, said: “Mercedes-Benz Spain employs more than 4,000 people in Spain, and consequently we have a social commitment that cannot be neglected…”

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KICKFORMORE I have a dream

Jóvenes Atletas

Spain & United States

Spain

Through the partnership of Foundation AGM and Laureus Spanish Foundation, this project gives young talented athletes in Spain with limited economic resources, the chance to receive a college education at a university in the United States. The partnership allows the athlete to develop their talents while furthering their academic ambitions.

Jovenes Athletes is a project developed in 2010 in partnership with Special Olympics and Laureus. Through eight facilities in seven Spanish cities, the programme cares for 150 children through the support of a tremendous 80-person volunteer network.

In this collaboration, the education will be funded by a sports scholarship from an American university, and AGM Sports Company will be responsible for seeking, negotiating and managing the scholarship. AGM Sports will match the right university with the selected candidate for his/her personal academic and athletic development.

Focusing primarily on activities and programmes for children (aged two to seven) with intellectual disabilities, Jovenes Athletes promotes and encourages early physical and mental development. Using a variety of sports, dance and skills-based games, it has been carefully designed to integrate socialisation elements which are an essential part of the learning methodology.

Germany

The KICKFORMORE project, with its slogan ‘Street Football for Tolerance’, assists young people in an area of great social deprivation.

Many participants are immigrants or from a disadvantaged social background, and most have low aspirations for their future.

Street football involves mixed teams playing in matches without a referee so that each player can learn how to handle right and wrong on their own. Fair play is an essential part of the rules. Street football creates a learning framework for social skills and a base for communication.

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KICK im Boxring

KICK on Ice

KICK the Ropes

KidSwing

Kids for Future

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Munich, Germany

Cologne, Germany

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KICK im Boxring was established in 2008, following the rise in popularity of the use of boxing to tackle social issues with at-risk youth. Former heavyweight boxer Axel Schulz, a Laureus Ambassador, is the Patron.

In recent years, a rise in violent behaviour and juvenile delinquency has been recorded in Berlin. In an attempt to combat this, at the initiative of Laureus and the Berliner Eisbären (Ice Bears) ice hockey club, KICK was set up.

The KICK organisation works with police and sports organisations to help juvenile delinquents aged 12 to 20, including young offenders. The project involved the construction of a rope-based obstacle course in Berlin. Participants were involved in the building of the course and then used it for training and other sporting activities.

KidSwing has been created by Anthony Netto, the captain of the German national team of physically challenged golfers. In his attempt to support physically disabled children, he has developed a so-called ‘paragolfer’, which enables children who are unable to walk or have limited movement to play golf standing up.

Young people in the area where this project is based face problems because of the unemployment of their parents, violence in the family, discrimination and lack of ambition. Kids for Future provides disadvantaged and at-risk young people with boxing training and educational support through weekly counselling by experienced teachers.

In order to help the largest number of young people, the project organises as wide a choice of sports opportunities as possible in different social areas of special need.

The rope garden is constructed from steel cables, timber and rope, reaching a height of 12 metres. The activity is aimed at improving social skills and encouraging teamwork, social behaviour and self-confidence.

Because of its scoring rules based on the handicap system, golf is one sport where players of all levels of ability can play together, so wheelchair and non-wheelchair players can compete in a meaningful way.

Laureus Ambassador Felix Sturm is Patron of the project and a role model for the young people. He regularly visits Kids for Future.

The project offers free boxing sessions on evenings and weekends, which are combined with educational lessons. On top of the physical training sessions, there are also workshops and consulting services which tackle problems such as debt, family conflict and drug abuse.

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The aim is to ensure that participants, supervised by qualified trainers, enjoy an attractive leisure activity at a time they would otherwise spend out on the streets. A sport has been deliberately chosen whose qualities of toughness and speed will appeal to the target group.

‘Körbe für Köln’ – Baskets for Cologne – aims to attract the target group by means of basketball. It uses the attractive street variant of indoor basketball in a protected space for girls, and indoor wheelchair basketball.

Sport is used as a low-barrier means to meet the target group’s needs and offer them a route to counselling sessions and vocational service.

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Laureus Cavallo

Laureus Girls in Sport

Laureus SportFreunde

Winterthur-Unterseen, Switzerland

Lucerne, Switzerland

Salzburg, Austria

The Laureus Cavallo project allows socially and economically disadvantaged children to work alongside animals. The project gives children aged from 8 to 16 the chance to be in contact with horses and to integrate socially with their peers.

Laureus Girls in Sport works to encourage more women and girls to become involved in sporting activity.

Current studies show that upon reaching puberty the desire to continue playing and enjoying sport decreases dramatically.

Laureus SportFreunde gives 60 socioeconomically deprived juveniles (aged 10 to 14) – from institutions like SOS Children’s Villages, Pro Juventute or Caritas Salzburg – the chance to participate in sporting activities for free, improving their sporting skills and their social behaviour.

The children are given the opportunity to ride the horses and learn from the experience. Dealing with the horses helps the children across all levels of their wellbeing, from physically and emotionally to mentally and socially.

The caring environment and emotional attachment to the horses instils a sense of responsibility in the children, as well as teaching patience and assertiveness.

Laureus Girls in Sport hopes to tackle this issue and become a national centre for the encouragement of female participation in sport. Sport camps will offer girls aged 12 to 16 a variety of workshops with a focus on sport and exercise, personal development and health and nutrition.

Since August 2013 SportFreunde has been an official Laureus Sport for Good project under the patronage of Laureus Academy Member Franz Beckenbauer and Laureus Ambassador Kathi Wörndl. The participants choose between soccer, dancing, boxing and climbing. The project increases selfconfidence and motivation and boosts educational attainment.

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Laureus Ladies Run

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The project was established in 2009 in the socially disadvantaged districts of Bremen and targets girls aged 8 to 16, particularly those from ethnic minorities.

It provides weekly football workshops in local schools as well as regular tournaments. Girls are taught teamwork, respect for others, assertiveness and the importance of give and take. The aim is to help provide the girls with access into local clubs and ensure that, once there, they can be successfully integrated both into the club and society as a whole.

Laureus Ladies Run is a unique programme operating in disadvantaged areas of Dutch cities, using running to empower and protect young girls. They train towards a clear goal: finishing the Almere City Run. The project brings girls and women together to exercise and to meet other people. The sport aspect of the project is combined with workshops to teach the participants about selfconfidence, respect and self-defence, among other things.

Girls Kicking is a national project now with more than 220 locations in Germany. 3,600 girls are participating in the project every week.

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Laureus Ladies Run was launched in December 2013 by Clarence Seedorf, board member of Laureus the Netherlands, and Laureus Ambassador Yvonne van Gennip. The project’s inspiration came from a similar initiative in Casablanca founded by Laureus Academy Member Nawal el Moutawakel.

LAUREUS METRO SPORTS

BY BLINDSPOT Switzerland

Laureus Metro Sports is a unique concept which integrates children and young people, both with and without disabilities. Young people with different physical attributes are brought together through sports activities in this project, which helps to break down barriers, thus providing a valuable link to society and an important contribution to the integration of the disabled in a common social fabric.

Laureus PannAcademy Netherlands

Panna is a lightning-fast form of street football in which nutmegging your opponent (passing the ball between your opponent’s legs and regaining control) is the ultimate goal! However, this project is about more than just nutmegs. It promotes social cohesion, an active lifestyle, personal development and participation in society. Operating clinics are aimed at both improving the skills of individuals, but also fostering the other positive disciplines learned through sport.

Participants of the Laureus PannAcademy are coached and trained by the European Champion Panna, Mohamed Boutaka, who teaches pupils to play panna and to improve themselves as individuals.

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laureus street soccer

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The Laureus Schneetiger project helps children and teenagers with mental or physical difficulties to enjoy healthenhancing community leisure activities by taking part in winter sports. The project is designed so that no matter what the special need or disability, the participating young people can enjoy the thrill of snow sport. This is possible thanks to a people-centred approach, extra curricular activities, quality instruction, and equipment.

Laureus Street Soccer is a street football league for children and young people aged ten to 21, taking place at more than 100 locations across Switzerland.

This programme is run by Infoklick.ch.

Sport in this case is ‘a social inclusion tool’ that empowers and promotes the inclusion of marginalised groups.

The project offers simple, motivating access to sport beyond the formal structure of a sports club and provides a framework for the young adults to learn how to deal with issues such as conflict management, improving their selfesteem, coping with cultural differences, learning how to be part of a team and understanding the sporting values of fairness and dealing with success and failure.

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Midnight Basketball Italy

Midnight Basketball is a programme designed to deliver basketball sessions at night, in Quarto Oggiaro, a neighbourhood in Milan which has high rates of juvenile crime.

The project tackles the issue by engaging 200 teenagers from the area.

Regular sessions three times a week are facilitated in tandem by coaches and experienced social workers.

Social workers actively recruit youths from high-risk areas offering them an alternative to gangs and drugs, through sport.

mit pferden stark machen achberg, germany

The vision of Mit Pferden stark machen – getting stronger with horses – which is located in Achberg, close to Lake Constance, is to use the positive effects of riding therapy to integrate handicapped children and teenagers into society.

By spending time with horses or horse riding with others, the youngsters are given the opportunity to engage with their peers both with and without disabilities.

Laureus Urban Stars Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, glasgow, London & Manchester, United Kingdom

Urban Stars is a gang intervention project operating in some of the most deprived and troubled areas of the UK. Run by Active Communities Network, it delivers a communitybased multi-sports programme, offering sports as diverse as football, boxing, weightlifting, basketball and dance.

The project operates in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London and Manchester, and targets young people aged 13 to 19.The project offers young people routes into education, training and employment.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER MORNÉ DU PLESSIS AND AMBASSADOR MICHAEL VAUGHAN AT THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT URBAN STARS, UNITED KINGDOM

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PeacePlayers International

PeacePlayers International

Cyprus

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Cyprus has long been characterised by a Greek and Turkish ethnic divide.

A Turkish military invasion in 1974 displaced thousands of Greek Cypriots and effectively cut the island in two.

This project enables Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot boys and girls to play basketball together, learn together and build positive relationships that overcome generations of mistrust.

PeacePlayers International Cyprus works to reverse the prejudices that have built steadily over the years in the segregated communities.

From 1968 to 1998, Northern Ireland was subject to a devastating conflict as paramilitary groups tried to break up this part of the United Kingdom. It sparked a series of terrorist atrocities of which the victims were often civilians.

Catholic and Protestant families often found themselves on different sides of the divide.

PeacePlayers International encourages cross-community peace building by encouraging children from both Protestant and Catholic backgrounds to compete together in mixed sports teams. This process is anchored by monthly workshops and quarterly residential retreats.

move&do Germany

The project is a mobile play and learning centre which visits schools and local communities around Stuttgart. By visiting deprived neighbourhoods, the MOVE&DO vehicle brings sports and recreational pursuits directly to problem areas.

Over the course of the day, the group is set different tasks and challenges to be solved, including activities with ropes and climbing equipment.

As a result, the participants learn the benefits of teamwork and cooperation. MOVE&DO also organises longer outdoor trips, such as hiking, climbing and canoeing in the Black Forest.

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Progetto PolisportivA

Progetto Polisportiva

Bari, Italy

Catania, Italy

Milan, Italy

Bari has a huge number of youths challenged by socio-economic issues: poverty, multi-problematic families, scholar drop outs, violence and crime.

There are few opportunities for young people to distance themselves from all these risks. Polisportiva Bari works to create these opportunities through the positive use of sport.

In suburban parts of Catania, there is a very large youth population who are at risk of marginalisation. Laureus supports the young people trying to achieve an important goal: using sport to offer them a better future.

Started in Milan in October 2007, Polisportiva was created to tackle issues of social exclusion by offering educational opportunities through sport. Running daily, the programme hosts sessions across a range of sports including volleyball, capoeira, judo, softball, rugby and basketball.

Polisportiva Bari, which has been in operation for two years, is a programme designed to work with three educational institutions offering services that reduce school drop-out rates, tackle family abandonment issues, and the psychological stresses of poverty.

Polisportiva Catania works with seven educational institutions using five sports and it has been running in four neighbourhoods of Catania for the last two years.

Progetto Polisportiva

Team sports focus on the development of positive social behaviour among youths by increasing discipline, leadership and teamwork. Participants of Polisportiva Milan benefit from a coordinated network of professionals – trainers, educators and psychologists. Laureus has been facilitating the development and training of coaches for this project for over seven years.

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Progetto Trame Fitte

naples, italy

rome, italy

Milan, Italy

Suburban Naples sees a number of youth challenged by socio-economic issues. Broken homes and families negatively impact academic attainment, and in turn this leads youths to involvement in street activities detrimental to their future.

In suburban areas of Rome, a large population of young people are at risk of social marginalisation. Polisportiva Rome uses sport as an educational tool for supporting youths to face these risks . This project founded in 2013, collaborates with one educational institution using four sports: basketball, football, judo and volleyball.

Cultural diversity is also an issue.

Polisportiva Naples works to create social cohesion through sport. With an aim to help young people facing these problems continue with their education, Polisportiva Naples, which has been in operation since 2009, is a programme designed to work with eight educational institutions that span six of the hardest hit metropolitan areas, offering services that reduce school drop-out rates and tackle family abandonment issues and the psychological stresses of poverty.

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Scholarship at Universidad Camilo José Cela

SPECIal olympics

track academy

russia

london, united kingdom

Progetto Trame Fitte has the bold mandate of reaching 700 youths and 300 families every year. Trame Fitte tackles San Donato Milanese’s hardest hit communities with sport as the primary vehicle to combat social issues.

Madrid, spain

Track Academy is an educational, mentoring and sports programme which supports the personal development of young people from some of the most deprived communities in London.

Through rugby, basketball and dance, this project has brought together local parishes, sport centres, schools and social service organisations with the common goal of improving the lives of marginalised youths. Using sports development to enhance social cohesion and combat economic challenges, Trame Fitte has been a cornerstone of Laureus’ Italian efforts.

Spain and Manchester United football star Juan Mata is the patron of this scholarship. He is also Laureus Ambassador and is studying Science of Physical Activity and Sport at the University. During the launch of the scholarship, he said: “It’s a privilege to be the ‘godfather’ of an initiative like this. I believe that joining education and sport together is always positive and can help improve our society…”

The University is known in Spain to be outstanding for its work with sport, with both professionals and amateurs.

Special Olympics Russia’s mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This gives them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

The scholarship being set up at the University Camilo José Cela in Madrid will fund the studies of a young athlete with limited resources.

Special Olympics Russia has its local Sub-Programmes in 62 regions of the Russian Federation with over 110,000 athletes regularly training and competing on all levels – school, city, regional, national, international.

The project challenges inequality and intolerance through advocating policies that recognise the abilities of people with intellectual disabilities.

Track Academy believe that if you can help a child understand at a young age that their thoughts and attitude will be the making or breaking of them, then you have empowered that child for life, in all aspects of their life.

As the name would suggest, the focus at Track Academy is athletics. Through athletics and other sports they have inspired disadvantaged young people to attend university and given hundreds of young people an opportunity to change their lives and contribute to society.

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From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the poorest neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, Laureus has a growing presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN Luta pela Paz Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A boxing-based project in Complexo da MarĂŠ, a favela where there has been a decade of territorial drug wars.

Here, openly armed adolescents patrol the streets. In a community where toughness and macho behaviour is important for young people, sports like boxing and martial arts have a natural appeal.

These sports channel aggression, transforming it into positive energy through building teamwork, selfconfidence, healthy competition and respect for the rules. The project encourages participants to return to school and works to place them into internships and jobs.

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBER SEAN FITZPATRICK VISITS LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT LUTA PELA PAZ, BRAZIL

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BOLA PRA FRENTE Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

Bola Pra Frente (BPF) is an initiative of footballer Jorginho, a key member of the Brazil team which won the 1994 World Cup. The project was established in 2000 in Muquico Complex, Guadalupe, west of Rio de Janeiro, and has become operational in Santa Cruz.

These are areas of low socio-economic households, where drug use and trafficking, teenage prostitution, high rates of school drop-outs, crime and lack of opportunities define day-to-day life.

BPF’s mission is to educate young people towards becoming leaders and role models in their communities, through sport. Its vision is for a fair social system, where all young people have the opportunity for social advancement through sport, education, art, culture and professional training.

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Club Deportivo Barracas General La Madrid, Argentina

Club Deportivo Barracas is a local sports club in the town of General La Madrid, to the south west of Buenos Aires, that has introduced a special programme for children and young people. The project has a strong emphasis on health, recreation, education and citizenship.

The club is attended by participants aged 5 to 18, with the majority coming from low socio-economic groups. Football and hockey are the main sports, but they are accompanied by activities such as chess, library sessions, sewing workshops and IT. All the activities are free.

A GANAR Buenos aires, argentina

The goal of A Ganar is to develop young people’s employability skills so they can become active members of society in the workplace. The core of this programme therefore is not sports training, but the application of sport lessons to personal development and employment training.

At-risk young people aged 16 to 24 gain marketable job expertise by building on six core sport-based skills: teamwork, communication, discipline, respect, a focus on results and continual self-improvement. In seven to nine months, the young people learn life and vocational skills and complete internships with local businesses. They learn to bring the best values of sport and apply them to the workplace.

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Escuela Deportiva inclusiva, Moreno Buenos Aires, Argentina

This is a unique Argentinian project bringing together sports, the arts and culture for those struggling with mental or physical disabilities. Focusing on generating innovative opportunities for the creative development potential of people with disabilities through work, sport, culture, art and health, this family-inclusive programme also strengthens relationships through a fully immersive experience. Social development, respect, diversity, solidarity and teamwork are the cornerstones of this programme, which seeks inclusion and integration of children with and without disabilities.

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Fátima, Pilar

GOL DE LETRA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

BRAZIL

Fundación CUBA is an Argentine NGO promoting education, social development and active lifestyles through sport. The Foundation was established in 2006 with a commitment to improving the lives of the most vulnerable families in Fatima and Villa de Mayo’s most impoverished communities.

With the coordination of a team of professionals and the collaboration of volunteers, Fundación CUBA develops programmes in neighbouring districts to tackle Argentina’s growing social inclusion challenges. Their programming is oriented around three pillars: family education, sports activities, and an apprenticeship programme.

This tiered approach allows people to graduate through a programme which is integrated with sport at every level in order to support them into sustainable work.

Gol de Letra is a Brazilian organisation that works in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Established by soccer players Raí and Leonardo, Gol de Letra is acknowledged by Unesco as a model that helps young people to overcome the obstacles they face in areas of extreme social risk.

The programme has an approach that uses arts, culture, education and sport to address social issues affecting the young people of Rio and São Paulo.

Community engagement is key to Gol’s success, as one of its aims is to bring together families, schools and local organisations to work with the project to allow a unified approach to help young people.

LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT Gol de letra, brazil. PHOTOgraph by: Jader Rosa

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La Liga LimaKids Lima, Peru

A six-a-side football project for children from residential children’s homes and orphanages in Lima. Extreme poverty or violent, dysfunctional family homes have brought these children into these institutions. Many have previously lived for a period on the streets. Sport is building bridges to these marginalised and disadvantaged youngsters.

Created in 2004, La Liga LimaKids enables the children to discover the rich experience of organised competitive sport and uses this as a vehicle for delivering education in life skills, fair play, good values and health.

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Mostrando Caminos, Lobos Buenos Aires, Argentina

This organisation uses sport and social activities to create spaces where socially disadvantaged children and young people with disabilities receive care and training to support their personal and social development. This project also promotes sport and culture to children and youth with disabilities, opening up pathways to further opportunities and options.

Instituto Passe de Mágica São Paulo, Brazil

Instituto Passe de Mágica is a Brazil-based NGO focused on social development through sport education, participatory and high-performance programmes, and projects with high impact and relevance. Focusing on a set of core values that include ethics, excellence, courage, innovation and commitment, they tackle some of the most deprived areas in Brazil.

Through basketball programmes (in places like the Immigrants’ Highway, once housing Brazil’s largest slum), they use sport to enhance young people’s life prospects. A unique combination of education and sports development has helped this project become deeply rooted in Brazilian communities over the last seven years.

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Pl4y International

Virreyes Hockey

Instituto Reação

PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In partnership with the staff of the Haiti Ministry of Youth, Sports and Civic Action, Pl4y International trains young volunteers, aged 18 to 22, to organise sports camps for children and adolescents in post-earthquake communities.

During the past decade, living conditions in deprived urban areas have deteriorated. Lack of work, dwindling expectations, violence, drugs and crime have damaged family cohesion.

The hockey-based project in Virreyes, 27 kilometres from Buenos Aires, offers a curriculum based on education through sport to girls and young women from 5 to 22 years old, who come from a vulnerable neighbourhood.

Created by Olympic medallist Flávio Canto in 2003, Instituto Reação is an NGO that promotes human development and social inclusion through sport and education. With a focus on judo as the sport around which their programmes are designed, Instituto Reação fosters involvement in the sport for those of all skill levels.

The mission is to apply the sport’s principles to the sport itself and to life off the mat.

By this means, Pl4y International offers children and young people, still recovering from the fall-out of the country’s natural disasters, a tangible framework of support.

A key aim of the programme is to raise awareness of issues such as HIV/AIDS, violence, health and hygiene.

The project has helped the girls to improve their attitudes and behaviour as well as their physical condition. It has also enhanced the standard of youth coaches and peer mentors.

Instituto Reação strives to develop black belts both on and off the mat.

With over 10 years in sport and education and working with 1,000 children per year, there is a focus on creating tremendous impact through the values of social responsibility and developing future leaders.

PARTICIPANTS FROM THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT INSTITUTO REAÇÃO, BRAZIL

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Since 2012 Laureus USA’s support has impacted young people in 30 cities across the US.

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NORTH AMERICA Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA is supporting the growth of a national trained coaching force. Coaches have the power to influence the lives of the kids they serve. It is important that youth coaches know how to relate to their young athletes and create opportunities for them to have early positive experiences with sport and physical activity. Laureus USA is committed to the growth and development of a trained national youth coaching force. These coaches become positive mentors, whose influence extends well beyond

the game. We believe that coaches are the most important factor in a child’s experience with sports, and the role of a coach can be transformational and lasting. We support two nationally recognised leaders who train and place coaches in under-resourced communities: Playworks Louisiana USA

Up2Us Sports USA

Laureus Academy Chairman Edwin Moses at Up2Us’ National Coach Training Institute at Boston University, usa

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The Laureus Model City Initiative is a long-term national strategy to inspire and mobilise the cities behind the growing sport for development movement. The approach has two core components. The initiative aims to strengthen organisations that use sport as a tool for youth and community development. Additionally, it aims to unify a wider coalition of stakeholders to act together to address the most challenging of its problems, from improving public health and youth employability to reducing crime and building cohesive communities. In the inaugural Model City, New Orleans, Laureus USA is providing three-year grants to six local organisations with ongoing support to build programme and operational capacity. The Foundation is also providing backbone support for an

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active coalition of sport for development practitioners and stakeholders who meet regularly to shape and grow the sport for development sector in the city.

Organisations supported through this initiative include: Elevate New Orleans New Orleans, USA

First Tee of Greater New Orleans New Orleans, USA

Girls on the Run NOLA New Orleans, USA

Playworks New Orleans New Orleans, USA

YLC Kicks New Orleans, USA

Youth Run NOLA New Orleans, USA

LAUREUS AMBASSADOR FELIX SANCHEZ PARTICIPATES IN ACTIVITIES WITH GIRLS ON THE RUN PROJECT, USA

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Sport for development continues to emerge as a field that has great potential to impact society. Innovative community-based organisations are at the heart of this movement. They understand the needs and opportunities of the communities they serve, inspiring real and lasting solutions for sustained change. Laureus USA has proudly supported emergent community-based organisations since our inception, supporting their growth into strong organisations with incredible success.

Some of these great organisations include:

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Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach California, USA

Catch the Stars Indianapolis, USA

Fight Back New York City, USA

I Challenge Myself New York City, USA

Overtown Youth Center Miami, Fl. USA

LAUREUS AMBASSADOR Missy Franklin visitING Bayview Elementary School, USA

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LAUREUS WORLDWIDE MAP highlighting SOME OF the laureus-sUPPORTED PROJECTS & LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS AWARDS HOST CITIES

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AFRICA

MONACO, LISBON, BARCELONA, ST PETERSBURG, ABU DHABI, LONDON, Rio de Janeiro, Kuala lumpur & shanghai

1. Buffalo City Soccer School – EAST

LONDON, South Africa 2. Coaching for Hope – MALI & BURKINA FASO 3. Community Based AIDS Programme –

KAMPALA, Uganda 4. ­­­­Development of Sports and Rights for People with Disabilities – Rwanda 5. Fight With Insight – JOHANNESBURG,

South Africa 6. Grassroot Soccer – south africa 7. Great commission united – cape town, south africa 8. Grupo Desportivo de Manica – manica,

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mozambique 9. Hout Bay Cycling Club – Cape Town,

South Africa 10. Indigo Youth Movement – durban & cape town, south Africa 11. Johannesburg Cubs – johannesburg, south Africa 12. Kick4Life – Maseru, Lesotho 13. Laureus Youth Empowerment through Sport (YES) Programme – South Africa 14. Little Champs – cape town, south Africa 15. Lungisani Indlela – durban, south Africa 16. Makomba-Ndlela Youth Movement – limpopo, South Africa 17. Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) – nairobi, kenya 18. Moving the Goalposts – kilifi, kenya 19. OrphanAid Africa – greater accra, ghana 20. PeacePlayers InternationAL – durban, south Africa

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21. poloafrica – EASTERN FREE STATE, south africa 22. Right to Dream – Ghana 23. Sport for All – south Africa 24. VUKA RUGBY – cape town, south africa 25. WAVES FOR CHANGE – CAPE TOWN, South africa

ASIA 26. IMAGE – rajasthan, india 27. Magic Bus – India 28. Operation Breakthrough – Hong Kong, china 29. PeacePlayers International – Israel / Palestine 30. Peres Center for Peace – Israel / Palestine 31. Seenigama Sport for Life Project – seenigama, sri Lanka 32. Skateistan – Phnom Penh, Cambodia 33. Special Olympics East Asia – CHINA,

Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia & South

Korea 34. Spirit of Soccer – Cambodia 35. Spirit of Soccer – Iraq 36. Spirit of Soccer – LAOS 37. UNITY THROUGH SPORT PROJECT – mankulAm, sRI LANKA

AUSTRALIA 38. Cathy Freeman Foundation – Palm

Island, Australia 39. Football United – Sydney, Australia

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EUROPE 40. Coole Pänz – Cologne, Germany 41. Fight for Peace – London, UK 42. For Our Heroes with Fundación Alex – Spain 43. Fundación 5+11 – Vitoria, Spain 44. Horse Riding and Autism – Valencia, Spain 45. I have a dream – Spain & United States 46. Institut Guttmann – Barcelona, spain 47. Jóvenes Atletas – Spain 48. KICK im Boxring – Berlin, Germany 49. KICK on Ice – Berlin, Germany 50. KICK the Ropes – Berlin, Germany 51. KICKFORMORE – Germany 52. KidSwing – Munich, Germany 53. Kids for Future – Cologne, Germany 54. Körbe für Köln – Cologne, Germany 55. Laureus Cavallo – Winterthur–

Unterseen, Switzerland 56. Laureus Girls in Sport – Switzerland 57. Laureus Girls Kicking – Germany 58. Laureus Ladies Run – almere, Netherlands 59. Laureus Metro Sports BY BLINDSPOT – Switzerland 60. Laureus PannAcademy – Netherlands 61. laureus SportFreunde – Salzburg,

Austria 62. Laureus Schneetiger – Austria 63. Laureus Street Soccer – Switzerland 64. Laureus Urban Stars – Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, glasgow,

London & Manchester, UK

65. Midnight Basketball – Italy 66. Mit Pferden stark machen – Achberg, Germany 67. Move&Do – Germany 68. PeacePlayers International – Cyprus 69. PeacePlayers International – Northern

Ireland, UK 70. Progetto Polisportiva – Bari, Italy 71. Progetto Polisportiva – Catania, Italy 72. Progetto Polisportiva – Milan, Italy 73. Progetto Polisportiva – Naples, Italy 74. Progetto Polisportiva – Rome, Italy 75. Progetto Trame Fitte – Milan, Italy 76. Scholarship at Universidad Camilo

José Cela – Madrid, spain 77. Special Olympics – Russia

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78. Street League – Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London & Nottingham, UK

79. Track Academy – London, UK

LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN 80. A Ganar – Buenos aires, Argentina 81. Bola PRa Frente – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 82. Club Deportivo Barracas – General La madrid, Argentina 83. Escuela Deportiva inclusiva, Moreno –

Buenos Aires, Argentina 84. Fátima, Pilar – Buenos Aires, Argentina 85. Gol de Letra – Brazil 86. INSTITUTO PASSE DE Mágica – São Paulo, Brazil 87. Instituto Reação – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 88. La Liga Limakids – Lima, Peru 89. Luta pela Paz – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 90. Mostrando Caminos, Lobos – Buenos

Aires , Argentina 91. Pl4y International – Port au Prince, Haiti 92. Virreyes Hockey – Buenos Aires, Argentina

north america 93. Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach –

California, USA 94. Catch the Stars – Indianapolis, USA 95. Elevate New Orleans – New Orleans, USA 96. Fight Back – New York City, USA 97. First Tee of Greater New Orleans – New

Orleans, USA 98. Girls on the Run NOLA – New Orleans, USA 99. I Challenge Myself – New York City, USA 100. Overtown Youth Center – Miami, Fl. USA 101. Playworks Louisiana – USA 102. Playworks New Orleans – New Orleans, USA 103. Up2Us Sports – USA 104. YLC Kicks – New Orleans, USA 105. Youth Run NOLA – New Orleans, USA

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Laureus Sport for Good Foundation

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Fundación Laureus Argentina

Fundación Laureus España

Ana Lia Santarelli analia.santarelli@laureus.org.ar www.laureus.org.ar

PAULA GARCIA VILLORA paula.garcia@laureus.es www.laureus.es

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SWITZERLAND

Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Germany

Laureus Foundation Switzerland

Paul Schif paul.schif@laureus.de www.laureus.de

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USA

Fondazione Laureus Italia Onlus

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LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS ACADEMY MEMBERS The Laureus World Sports Academy is a unique association of 46 of the greatest living sportsmen and women, under the chairmanship of double Olympic gold medal winner Edwin Moses. They share a belief in the power of sport to break down barriers and to improve the lives of young people around the world.

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They volunteer their services as global ambassadors for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

The Academy Members also cast their votes to select the winners of the Laureus Awards, which honour the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen in the world each year.

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Edwin Moses Athletics, United States

Edwin Moses (b.1955) will always be remembered for one of the most dominant reigns in world sport. For a remarkable nine years, nine months and nine days, he remained unbeaten in the 400 metres hurdles. Moses won his first gold medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, but, due to the American boycott in 1980, he had to wait eight years until he could win his second Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1984.

In the meantime, he enjoyed a practical monopoly in the event as he put together a string of 122 victories that began in 1977 and lasted nearly a decade. His farewell Olympics in Seoul, at the age of 33, saw him take the bronze. He has been Chairman of Laureus since 2000 and is a board member of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

Everyone at Laureus shares a common belief that sport is a universal language which has the power to speak to people across the globe, whatever their colour or creed. edwin moses, chairman, laureus sport for good foundation

LAUREUS ACADEMY MEMBERS STEVE REDGRAVE, MICHAEL JOHNSON & SEBaSTIAN COE AT THE LAUREUS-SUPPORTED PROJECT TRACK ACADEMY, UNITED KINGDOM

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Giacomo Agostini

Marcus Allen

Franz Beckenbauer

Boris Becker

IAN BOTHAM

Sergey Bubka

Motor Cycling, Italy

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Football, Germany

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Athletics, Ukraine

During his 17-year career, which saw him become motorcycling’s first global superstar, Giacomo Agostini (b.1942) racked up an astonishing 122 Grand Prix wins and 15 World Championship titles. Raised in northern Italy, Agostini started racing up hillside roads, but soon became a master of riding 350cc and 500cc bikes on the track. He came to prominence after winning his first Grand Prix race in 1965 at Nürburgring, the same venue where he was to record his final career victory 11 years later.

Brilliant running back Marcus Allen (b.1960) is considered one of the greatest American football players of all time. An outstanding goal-line and shortyardage runner, he was the first player to gain more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards during his career. In total he ran for 12,243 yards and caught 587 passes for 5,411 yards during a 15-year career in the National Football League from 1982 to 1997. He played for the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs. He scored 145 touchdowns, including a then record 123 rushing touchdowns.

Franz Beckenbauer (b.1945) is the only man to have led a country to World Cup success as a player and a coach – and organised a highly successful World Cup finals there. As a player, he is also credited with inventing the attacking sweeper role that helped Bayern Munich to three consecutive European Cups. Playing for West Germany, he was in the side that won the European Championship in 1972, but the undisputed highlight of his career was as captain of the 1974 West German side that lifted the World Cup trophy in Munich.

The career of tennis star Boris Becker (b.1967) is invariably linked to his first major success on the Grand Slam circuit, when as an unseeded 17-yearold he became the youngest male player to win at Wimbledon. After his 1985 triumph, Becker went on to reach another six finals, winning Wimbledon twice more in 1986 and 1989. His aggressive net play and overpowering serves made for a potent combination that won him both matches and the adoration of fans.

One of the greatest all-rounders, Ian Botham (b.1955) is arguably the most inspirational figure produced by English cricket in the post-war years.

During a 15-year Test career of 102 matches, Botham took 383 wickets at an average of 28.40, he scored 5,200 runs at an average of 33.54 and he took 120 catches. Botham’s greatest achievements came during England’s triumphant 1981 Ashes campaign against Australia when he set up two unlikely victories.

The career statistics of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka (b.1963) speak for themselves. He won a record six successive world titles – a feat unsurpassed in athletics – and was the first to clear both six metres and 20 feet. Although dominating his sport for nearly two decades, Bubka surprisingly won just a single Olympic gold medal.

Nonetheless, the Ukrainian set a world record mark 35 times.

Allen is best remembered for his heroics in the 1984 Super Bowl against Washington Redskins when he ran for 191 yards, caught two passes for 18 yards and scored two touchdowns in the Raiders’ 38-9 victory. One touchdown run was 74 yards, then the longest in Super Bowl history. He was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2003.

He then went on to coach his country to another World Cup victory in 1990.

Beckenbauer was duly honoured as Germany’s greatest player of the 20th century. To complete a remarkable career, he served as Chairman of the Organising Committee for the 2006 World Cup finals.

Although known for his ability on grass courts, Becker was also able to win on other surfaces, securing 49 career singles titles that included wins on hard court surfaces at the Australian (twice) and US Open. He was also instrumental in securing his country’s first-ever Davis Cup success in 1988 and won an Olympic doubles gold medal in 1992.

In the Headingley Test, he made a match-winning 149 not out and his ferocious 118 in the second innings at Old Trafford has been described as one of the best Test innings of all time. In addition to his work for Laureus, he has been a tireless supporter of charity, several times walking 874 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for leukaemia research.

Among Agostini’s impressive accomplishments was the world title double – in both the 350cc and 500cc categories – during a five-year stretch from 1968 to 1972, as well as 19 race wins during the 1970 season. After winning his final world title in 1975, Agostini enjoyed his last competitive year in 1976 with Grand Prix wins in both the 350cc and 500cc classes.

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Unable to compete in the 1984 Olympics due to the Soviet boycott, Bubka leaped to gold in Seoul four years later by nailing a 5.90 metre vault. In 1985 in Paris he became the first person to break the six-metre barrier and then outdid this by topping 20 feet in 1991.

He announced his retirement from competition in 2001, but his 6.14 metre world record set in 1994 has yet to be broken.

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Bobby Charlton

Sebastian Coe

Nadia Comaneci

Deng Yaping

Marcel Desailly

Kapil Dev

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Athletics, United Kingdom

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Table Tennis, China

Football, France

Cricket, India

Recognised as England’s greatest footballer, Bobby Charlton (b.1937) possessed tremendous skill and a ferocious shot. A survivor of the 1958 Munich air crash, Charlton retired from the game in 1974 after having scored 247 goals in 752 games for his only club, Manchester United, and helping his side to win three English First Division titles, the 1963 FA Cup and the 1968 European Cup.

Sebastian Coe (b.1956) is one of the bestknown figures in British sport. His easy, rhythmic running style made him one of the most popular athletes to watch.

Nadia Comaneci (b.1961) is easily the most celebrated figure in the history of gymnastics. In a career that spanned two Olympic Games, Comaneci won nine Olympic medals for Romania, including five golds. First discovered at age six by legendary coach Béla Károlyi, she rose quickly through the ranks and in 1975 at the European Championships she took home three golds and one silver. In 1979 she became the first gymnast to win three consecutive European overall titles.

Heralded as the finest table tennis player in history, China’s Deng Yaping (b.1973) was the top-ranked woman in the world for eight straight years. Known for her attacking style, the petite Deng won 18 individual and team titles at Olympic and world level. She clinched Olympic gold in singles and doubles at both the Barcelona Games in 1992 and the 1996 Atlanta Games. She won the world singles title in 1991 and 1995, was world doubles champion with Qiao Hong in 1989 and 1995 and clinched both the world singles and doubles crowns for a third time in 1997.

One of the greatest modern French footballers, Marcel Desailly (b.1968) was a member of the charismatic French football team which won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2000 European Championship. Following those triumphs, he became captain of the team and in 2001 led France to victory in the Confederations Cup. He played 116 times for France, then a record, before retiring following the 2004 European Championship.

The greatest all-rounder in Indian cricket, Kapil Dev (b.1959) was a gifted bowler and batsman who helped India to World Cup glory. By the time he retired from the Test arena in 1994, Kapil had made 5,248 runs and taken 434 Test wickets. A natural striker, the right-handed batsman routinely got his country out of trouble with impressive outings, most notably during the 1983 World Cup in England.

With his side reeling at 17 for 5, he smashed a devastating 175 not out against Zimbabwe to turn the tide. Team captain Kapil then led his players to a memorable upset of the heavily favoured West Indies in the final.

But England fans will forever remember Charlton as the player who guided his country to World Cup glory in 1966.

Playing on home soil, Charlton inspired the England team with two goals in the 2-1 semi-final victory over Portugal and then neutralised Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer in the final at Wembley.

Charlton was voted the best player of the tournament, European Footballer of the Year and English Footballer of the Year.

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At the 1980 Moscow Olympics he took gold in the 1,500 metres and silver in the 800, a feat he repeated four years later in Los Angeles. He is perhaps best remembered for his phenomenal performance in 1979 when, in 41 days, he broke world records in the 800 metres, the mile and 1,500 metres.

After retiring in 1989, Coe became a UK Member of Parliament from 1992–97.

Most recently he was Chairman of the Organising Committee for the highly successful 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. He is currently Chairman of the British Olympic Association and is a member of the IOC Co-ordination Commission for Tokyo 2020.

But the diminutive Romanian will forever be linked with one individual performance on the uneven bars at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The 14-yearold Comaneci stunned the judges and the world by becoming the first gymnast to receive a perfect 10 score.

Overnight, she became a worldwide media sensation and helped boost the popularity of her sport.

She also helped China to three team titles at the World Championships.

Despite initial concerns by coaches about her being too short, she was already beating the best players in China by the age of 13 and went on to clinch her country’s national championship in 1986.

In club football, he was with Olympique de Marseille for two years, winning the Champions League, before moving to Italian giants AC Milan, who in 1994 also won Europe’s most prestigious club competition. He was the first player to win the Champions League in consecutive seasons with different clubs.

In 1998 Desailly moved to London club Chelsea, for whom he played for the last six years of his top-class career.

During a 16-year career that saw him never miss a match, Kapil played in 225 One-Day Internationals and accumulated 3,783 runs and more than 250 wickets.

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Mick Doohan

David Douillet

RAHUL DRAVID

Emerson Fittipaldi

Sean Fitzpatrick

Dawn Fraser

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Judo, France

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One of the giants of motorcycle racing, Australia’s Mick Doohan (b.1965) won five consecutive 500cc World Championships between 1994 and 1998, an achievement only beaten

by Giacomo Agostini who won seven.

Doohan appeared to be on his way to winning his first World Championship in 1992, when he was seriously injured in a practice crash before the Dutch TT. He suffered permanent damage to his right leg and at one stage it was feared that the leg might have to be amputated.

Restored to fitness, Doohan won his first World Championship in 1994.

In a sport long dominated by the Japanese, Frenchman David Douillet (b.1969) became the first Westerner to win both world heavyweight and open weight championships in judo. Achieving the feat in Japan in 1995, Douillet then went on to collect back-to-back gold medals in the heavyweight division at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. His victory in Sydney was all the sweeter since he had recovered from a bad motorbike accident suffered shortly after the Atlanta Games.

India’s Rahul Dravid (b.1973) is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, scoring 13,288 runs, and was one of the key figures in India’s rise to the summit of world cricket.

In 1972, Emerson Fittipaldi (b.1946) became Brazil’s first Formula One world champion, igniting a passion for the sport in that country which still exists today. The charismatic Brazilian won a second world title in 1974 and later made a successful switch to the United States, which culminated in two victories in the prestigious Indianapolis 500.

Sean Fitzpatrick (b.1963) is one of the giants of international rugby. Having made his debut for the All Blacks in 1986, he was appointed captain in 1992, ultimately playing in 121 international matches, including 92 Test matches, 51 of those as captain.

Remarkably he played in 63 consecutive Test matches. Combining mobility and strength, he is rated as one of the bestever players in his position as hooker.

Widely regarded as Australia’s greatestever sportswoman, Dawn Fraser (b.1937) won four gold medals in three successive Olympic Games between 1956 and 1964, including three straight 100 metres freestyle titles. She became the first swimmer, male or female, to win the same event three times. Fraser rounded off her outstanding Olympic career at the Tokyo Games of 1964 when, just past her 27th birthday, she triumphed with her third consecutive 100 metres success. A silver in the relay boosted her Olympic career total to a remarkable eight medals.

His most successful year was 1997 when he won 12 out of 15 races and finished second in another two, although frustratingly he crashed out of the final race of the season at his home Grand Prix when leading.

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Prior to his extraordinary double in 1995, Douillet had earned his first Olympic medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games, where he clinched a bronze in the heavyweight division. He claimed his first world title in Canada the following year and then repeated the effort twice, winning his third consecutive heavyweight crown in front of his home supporters in Paris.

During his time as captain, Dravid led India to Test series victories in England and the West Indies for the first time in a generation. An occasional wicket-keeper, he is the most successful slip catcher in history.

As a professional, Dravid received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year accolades at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004. Dravid retired from international cricket in March 2012. He is now the team’s mentor and works on youth and talent initiatives.

Fittipaldi took over as the No.1 driver for Team Lotus after the death of Jochen Rindt in 1970, and he won his first world title just two years later. His second world title came with McLaren two years after that. In 1984, Fittipaldi joined the Indy Car series in the United States and quickly won the hearts of American race fans. He continued his brilliant performance on the track, winning the Indy Car championship in 1989 and the Indianapolis 500 in 1989 and 1993.

He took part in the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987, which saw New Zealand triumph over France in the final in Auckland. As captain, he led New Zealand to a series win over the touring British Lions in 1993, to a clean sweep in the first Tri-Nations tournament with Australia and South Africa in 1996 and to the All Blacks’ first-ever Test series win in South Africa.

She was recognised for her achievement in 1964 when she was named Australian of the Year. During her nine years of global swimming dominance, she set 28 world records. In 1981, she was awarded the prestigious Olympic Order.

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Cathy Freeman

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Athletics, Australia

Paralympic Athletics, United Kingdom

Cathy Freeman’s (b.1973) victory in the 400 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics is one of the most indelible moments in Olympic history. After lighting the Olympic flame during the Opening Ceremony, her run for the gold medal became the iconic memory of the Games for host country Australia and made a stirring visual image around the world as she raced to victory in her yellow and green hooded running suit.

Her feat won her the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award in 2001.

Britain’s Tanni Grey-Thompson (b.1969) concluded a magnificent career with gold medals in the 100 and 400 metres at her final Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004. It took her medal haul from five Paralympics to 11 gold, four silver and a bronze and established her as one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation.

She also won World Championship gold medals in 1997 and 1999 and an Olympic silver medal in Atlanta in 1996.

An Aboriginal Australian, she is regarded as a role model for her people and, by many in the non-Aboriginal community, as a symbol of national reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

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Born with spina bifida, she began using a wheelchair at the age of seven and took up wheelchair racing at 13. She made her debut at the 1988 Paralympics in Seoul where she was third in the 400 metres. At Barcelona four years later, she proved unbeatable, securing four gold medals to kick-start her remarkable career. She has also won six London Wheelchair Marathons and is now a member of the UK upper chamber of Parliament, the House of Lords.

Marvelous Marvin Hagler Boxing, United States

One of the greatest fighters of all time, Marvelous Marvin Hagler (b.1954) was World Middleweight Champion from 1980 to 1987. He compiled a career record of 62 wins, three losses, and two draws, with 52 wins by knockout, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993. Hagler became champion in September 1980 with a victory in three rounds over Britain’s Alan Minter to take the undisputed title which he went on to hold for seven-and-a-half years.

Hagler subsequently made 12 successful title defences. Among his victims were Vito Antuofermo, Mustafa Hamsho, Roberto Duran, Juan Roldan, John Mugabi and Thomas Hearns.

His last fight in 1987 ended with a controversial split decision in favour of Sugar Ray Leonard. Hagler then retired from boxing, travelled to Italy and began another career as an actor, boxing analyst and sports commentator.

Mika Häkkinen

Tony Hawk

Mike Horn

Motor Racing, Finland

Skateboarding, United States

Explorer, South Africa

Mika Häkkinen (b.1968) showed immense courage to come back from a crash in 1995, in which he nearly lost his life, to win back-to-back Formula One World Championships. Häkkinen was a test driver from 1993 with McLaren, whose front-line drivers were Ayrton Senna and Michael Andretti. When Andretti returned to the US and Senna left for Williams, Häkkinen became team leader.

The best-known action sportsman in history, Tony Hawk (b.1968) is a skateboarding legend. During his 20year competitive career, he defied gravity with his outlandish tricks and became a role model to millions of young people.

He was given his first skateboard at nine, turned professional at 14 and by 16 was acknowledged as the best skateboarder in the world. Hawk won 12 World Championships, 13 X Games medals and invented over 80 tricks. He entered 103 professional contests, winning 73 of them and coming second in 19.

Mike Horn (b.1966) is one of the world’s greatest modern-day adventurerexplorers, undertaking feats of endurance and courage. He became known in 2000 after completing a solo 18-month journey around the equator without motor transport, by trimaran, foot, bicycle and canoe. This feat won him the 2001 Laureus World Alternative Sportsperson of the Year Award.

The arrival of Mercedes-Benz power gave him a car which matched his competitive instincts, and he won his first Grand Prix at Jerez in 1997. He never looked back, collecting his first World Championship in style in 1998, winning eight of the 16 races, and the following year retaining the title in the final race of the season.

At the start of 2001, Häkkinen had another big accident, at the Australian Grand Prix, and retired at the age of 33.

His defining moment came in June 1999 when he made skateboarding history at the X Games by performing a ‘900’, which requires two-and-a-half full rotations while flying through the air.

Although now retired, his fans follow all his moves via the video games that he has helped to develop.

In 2004, he completed a two-year solo 20,000 km circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle, by boat, kayak, ski kite and on foot, through Greenland, Canada, Alaska, the Bering Strait and Russia’s Siberia. In 2006, Horn and Norwegian explorer Børge Ousland became the first men to travel without dog or motorised transport to the North Pole during the permanent darkness of the Arctic months, reaching their destination after 60 days and five hours.

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MIGUEL INDURAIN

Michael Johnson

Kip Keino

Franz Klammer

LI XIAOPENG

TEGLA LOROUPE

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Athletics, Kenya

Skiing, Austria

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Athletics, Kenya

In 1995, Miguel Indurain (b.1964) became the first man to win five consecutive victories in the Tour de France, the premier distance cycling event in the world. Born in Navarre, Indurain was Spanish champion at 19 and competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics before turning professional in 1985. In that same year, he joined the Banesto team and raced in his first Tour.

He made steady progress and celebrated his first Tour victory in 1991.

With his powerful, upright style, Michael Johnson (b.1967) is regarded as the greatest 400 metres runner of all time.

Five times an Olympic champion, he had won nine World Championship gold medals when he retired. The Texan was the first man to hold both 200 and 400 metres world records. Between 1990 and 1997, he had 58 consecutive wins over 400 metres, and in the 200 metres, he won 32 straight races between 1990 and 1992.

Kip Keino (b.1940) is one of Kenya’s greatest Olympic athletes. His courage and determination in winning a gold in the 1,500 metres and a silver medal in the 5,000 metres in the 1968 Olympics, despite a gallbladder infection, endeared him to sports lovers around the world. That drive and single-minded determination to succeed against the odds has today made him one of the great benefactors to underprivileged children in Kenya.

Franz Klammer (b.1953) dominated downhill skiing during the mid-1970s and won 26 World Cup races and five Downhill World Cups. His finest hour came during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck when he dramatically responded to the pressure of the home fans and won the Olympic downhill by 0.33 of a second. Austria had not won a gold medal during the first week of those Olympics and expectations were sky-high. Klammer did not disappoint.

One of China’s greatest gymnasts, Li Xiaopeng (b.1981) won a total of four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championship titles in his career. On the parallel bars, Li Xiaopeng won two Olympic gold medals in Sydney in 2000 and Beijing in 2008 and a bronze in Athens in 2004. He also won two world titles and has three World Cup successes to his name. His other two Olympic gold medals, also in 2000 and 2008, came in the team competition.

Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe (b.1973) is a celebrated long distance athlete who is active in the field of peace and women’s rights. In 1994, she took part in and won her first major marathon in New York, making history as the first African woman to win the New York Marathon. In 1994 and 1998, Loroupe won the 10,000 metres at the Goodwill Games and bronze medals over the same distances at the World Athletics Championships in 1995 and 1999.

While winning the next four Tours, he demonstrated his incredible stamina by twice winning the Giro d’Italia in 1992 and 1993. Indurain excelled in short time trials and in 1996 took gold at the Olympic Games. His indomitable strength and the respect he showed to competitors and fans made him one of the most popular cyclists of all time.

His first Olympic gold came in Barcelona in 1992 when he was a member of the US 4 x 400 metres relay team.

Four years later in 1996 at Atlanta, he became the first athlete to win both 200 metres and 400 metres at the same Games. In Sydney in 2000 he retained the 400 metres title and won his fifth career gold in the 4x400 metres relay event.

Keino’s training at 1,800 metres above sea level helped to introduce high-altitude preparation as a normal technique to improve running. At 32, he tried his luck in the steeplechase at the 1972 Olympics. Though unfamiliar with the event, he upset the favourites in the field to win a gold medal and added a silver in the 1,500 metres.

Cheered on by a crowd of 60,000, he raced at the limit, throwing caution to the wind, eventually beating Switzerland’s Bernhard Russi, the 1972 gold medallist, into second place. Not only did Klammer post the fastest-ever speed recorded in the event, with an average of 102.828 km/h, but he thrilled the skiing world with a display of extreme daring and determination.

2003 was a stand-out year for Li Xiaopeng, as he won three gold medals at the World Championships in Anaheim – parallel bars, vault and team – and was voted 2003 World Gymnast of the Year.

In 2008, after suffering from a serious toe injury, he made an extraordinary comeback to record an emotional victory in front of his fans at the Beijing Olympics, winning two gold medals.

A highly committed woman, in 2006 she was named a United Nations sport ambassador. She is also an international ambassador for the International Association of Athletics Federations and UNICEF and is a member of Monacobased ‘Champions for Peace’.

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Dan Marino AMERICAN FOOTBALL, UNITED STATES

One of the greatest quarterbacks ever to have played, Dan Marino (b.1961) became the most prolific passer in National Football League history thanks to his lightning-quick release.

In 1983, his first pro season, he made an immediate impact for the Miami Dolphins, as he threw 20 touchdowns and won Rookie of the Year honours. The following year he established a season record by becoming the only NFL passer to throw for more than 5,000 yards as he took his team to Super Bowl XIX. After 17 seasons with the Dolphins, Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, having established records in passing yardage (61,361), touchdown passes (420), completions (4,967) and pass attempts (8,358). Off the field, he and his wife Claire have created the Dan Marino Foundation to assist children suffering from autism.

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Nawal El Moutawakel athletics, morocco

By winning the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Nawal El Moutawakel (b.1962) became the first Moroccan, African and Arab woman to win an Olympic track gold medal. Her watershed performance was watched live in her hometown of Casablanca in the early hours of the morning and locals poured onto the streets to celebrate.

A former Vice-Chair of Laureus and Minister of Sport and Youth in Morocco, Nawal plays an increasingly significant role in international sport. She was the Chair of the International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission for the 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. And in January 2010, she was appointed Chair of the IOC Co-ordination Commission for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016, becoming the first woman ever to lead a Co-ordination Commission.

Robby Naish Windsurfing/Kiteboarding, United States

Widely acknowledged as the greatest windsurfer of all time, Robby Naish (b.1963) became world champion at the age of 13 and went on to win another 23 world titles. When the sport turned professional in 1981, he was ranked No.1 and maintained the top spot for six years. Raised in Hawaii, Naish had a knack for riding big waves and is renowned for his excellent slalom and course racing skills.

He began surfing when he was just eight and picked up windsurfing three years later. After winning his first windsurfing World Championship in the Bahamas, he successfully defended his crown the following year in Italy. That triumph led to another victory in Mexico in 1978, beginning a decade of total dominance on the waves.

Ilie Nastase

Martina Navratilova

Alexey Nemov

Tennis, Romania

Tennis, United States

Gymnastics, Russia

With a fluid and bold style of tennis, Ilie Nastase (b.1946) was a popular player on the tennis circuit in the 1970s.

Nastase won two Grand Slam singles titles – the US Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973. Utilising his drop shots and touch volleys, he finished his career with 57 singles and 51 doubles titles.

While she was a champion on all surfaces, Martina Navratilova (b.1956) is most remembered for her play at Wimbledon. The Czech-born Navratilova mesmerised fans at the All England Club during her magnificent reign, which saw her win a record nine singles titles, including six in a row from 1982 to 1987. She retired from the game with 167 singles titles, 178 doubles titles and 59 Grand Slam crowns.

Alexey Nemov (b.1976) demonstrated a unique style and elegance whenever he performed. An immensely popular crowd-pleaser, he won a total of 12 Olympic gymnastic medals, beginning in 1996 with two gold, one silver and three bronze at the Atlanta Olympics. Over the next four years he continually battled recurring shoulder injuries, yet he surprised everyone at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when he produced the best gymnastics of his career, once again taking home six medals, including the all-round title.

Although he came out on the losing end of the 1972 Wimbledon final, the five-set match with Stan Smith was one of the most thrilling contests ever seen there. During the peak of his career, Nastase also won three Grand Slam men’s doubles titles: the French Open with fellow Romanian Ion Tiriac in 1970; Wimbledon with Jimmy Connors in 1973; and the US Open, again with Connors, in 1975.

During her extraordinary career, Navratilova served and volleyed her way to four US Open victories, three Australian Open wins and two French Open wins. In 2003, she became the oldest Grand Slam winner and only the third player to have won every event (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) in the four Grand Slam tournaments when she clinched the Australian mixed doubles title at 46.

In the 2004 Olympics, Nemov performed a routine with amazing release skills in the high-bar finals, for which the judges scored only 9.725. The outraged Athens crowd interrupted the competition for 15 minutes until Nemov pleaded for quiet.

The incident resulted in a revision of the sport’s scoring system.

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Jack Nicklaus

Gary Player

Morné du Plessis

Hugo Porta

Steve Redgrave

Vivian Richards

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Golf, South Africa

Rugby, South Africa

Rugby, Argentina

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Cricket, Antigua

Jack Nicklaus (b.1940) was renowned for his ability to tame even the most demanding golf course. Using an arsenal of precision shot-making, power and one of the strongest minds the game has ever known, he is arguably the greatest player in the sport’s history.

Voted the Best Individual Male Athlete of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated magazine, Nicklaus won 18 majors, a feat unmatched in golf history. He won each of the four majors at least three times, including a record six green jackets at Augusta.

Gary Player (b.1935) is one of the game’s greatest players. The South African has won 163 titles and is one of only five golfers to have completed the coveted Grand Slam by winning all four of golf’s majors. In all, Player has won three US Masters, three British Open Championships, two US PGA Championships and a US Open.

He has won the British Open in three different decades, showing his capacity to continually push himself to new challenges.

Morné du Plessis (b.1949) is a legendary figure in South African rugby and is regarded as one of his country’s greatest forwards. As manager of the Springboks, the South African national rugby team, du Plessis was instrumental in helping his side to a historic victory in their first-ever Rugby World Cup in 1995 on home soil.

At the peak of his career, Argentinian rugby player Hugo Porta (b.1951) was considered the best fly-half in the world.

He was instrumental in making rugby an attractive option in football-obsessed South America. Porta was renowned for his kicking abilities, compiling an impressive 530 international points.

At Sydney in 2000, when Steve Redgrave (b.1962) won his fifth gold medal from as many consecutive Olympic Games, he confirmed his status as not only the finest rower the world has ever seen, but as one of the greatest Olympians of all time. His career achievements included: gold for the Coxed Fours in Los Angeles in 1984; gold with his previous partner Andy Holmes in the Coxless Pairs at Seoul in 1988; gold with partner Matthew Pinsent for the Coxless Pairs at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996; and a famous win in the Coxless Fours in Sydney.

Whenever he stepped into the batting crease, Vivian Richards (b.1952) invariably inflicted damage on opposing sides as his 8,540 runs for West Indies at Test level attest. The powerful righthanded batsman appeared in 121 Test matches and notched 24 Test centuries.

Richards made his Test debut in 1974 against India and in 1989 became the first West Indian cricketer to make 100 first-class hundreds.

He immediately made his presence known as a professional when he beat Arnold Palmer in a play-off to win the US Open in Oakmont in 1962 to claim his first win and major. He showed impressive longevity, winning his last major championship at the age of 46 in the 1986 Masters.

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Considered the best bunker player of all time, he possesses an extraordinary work ethic and coined the famous quote: ‘The harder you practise, the luckier you get.’ Now in his sixth decade as a professional, Player regularly competes on the Champions Tour and has been a wonderful ambassador for the game.

As a player, he represented his country in 22 Test matches (15 as captain), posting 18 wins. His impressive captaincy included triumphs over the fearsome All Blacks of 1976 and the British Lions of 1980. An intelligent No.8 with the Cape powerhouse team Western Province, du Plessis was first picked as a Springbok in 1971 during a Test series away to Australia where the visitors blanked their hosts taking three straight victories.

In one memorable match against perennial heavyweights New Zealand, the sturdy fly-half kicked all of his side’s 21 points as they drew with the much-feared All Blacks. He played for Argentina’s Pumas 65 times in Test matches and wore the captain’s armband for 11 years. Off the pitch, he was Argentinian Ambassador to South Africa and received the Order of Good Hope award from President Nelson Mandela. He also served as Argentina’s Minister of Sport.

In addition to his Olympic successes, and following four unbeaten seasons from 1993 to 1996, he won his ninth World Championship gold in August 1999. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 1997.

He also assisted the West Indies side in claiming victory in the first two Cricket World Cup tournaments. In 1976 he produced a massive total of 1,710 Test runs, including a remarkable 829 runs against England during a four-match series. Taking over as captain of the squad in 1980, he propelled West Indies to their greatest spell at Test level as they won 27 times.

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Monica Seles

Mark Spitz

SACHIN TENDULKAR

Daley Thompson

Alberto Tomba

Steve Waugh

Tennis, United States

Swimming, United States

Cricket, India

Athletics, United Kingdom

Skiing, Italy

Cricket, Australia

Using two-fisted groundstrokes and an aggressive service return, Monica Seles (b.1973) is considered by many to be the first power player in the women’s game. After turning professional in 1988, she quickly turned heads when two years later at the age of 16 she became the youngest-ever winner of the French Open, beating the formidable Steffi Graf in straight sets. From 1991 to 1993, she was undoubtedly the dominant force in tennis as she won 22 titles and reached 33 finals of the 34 tournaments in which she played.

The Olympic achievements of Mark Spitz (b.1950), one of the most famous names in swimming, are unequalled. While studying at Indiana University, Spitz earned four national championships. After performing poorly in his first Olympics in Mexico City, winning only two gold medals in relays and a silver and bronze in his butterfly and freestyle races, Spitz produced the unthinkable at the 1972 Games.

Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, universally known as the Little Master, retired from cricket in November 2013 after a truly historic career. Tendulkar’s career has been spectacular and since his Test debut in November 1989, at the age of 16 years and 223 days, he has rewritten all the record books.

He is the only player to have scored 100 international centuries and is the highest scorer in the history of Test cricket with 15,921 runs at an average of 53.86 in 198 appearances. In One Day Internationals he has scored a staggering 18,426 runs at an average of 44.83 and a strike rate of 86.23.

Having won two Olympic gold medals in the decathlon, Daley Thompson (b.1958) at his peak can safely lay claim to being the best all-round athlete in track and field. Thompson dominated his event over a nine-year stretch that saw him take first place in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, three Commonwealth titles (1978, 1982, 1986), two European titles (1982 and 1986) as well as a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki.

Alberto Tomba (b.1966) is highly regarded for his outstanding skill and aggressive style in both Slalom and Giant Slalom events. The charismatic Italian recorded 50 World Cup race wins and participated in four Winter Olympics, taking three golds and two silvers. Tomba accomplished a fantastic double, taking the Slalom and Giant Slalom at his first Olympics in 1988.

When he retired in January 2004, Steve Waugh (b.1965) was the most successful captain in the history of Test cricket, with 41 wins in 57 Tests.

In his career, he scored 10,927 Test runs at an average of 51.06, including 32 centuries. The team he led won successive World Cups in 1999 and 2003. In his last match, a record finalday crowd of 27,000 at the Sydney Cricket Ground roared their appreciation as Waugh was chaired round the ground by his team-mates at the end of his 168th and final Test match.

Overall, Seles clinched 53 singles titles, including nine Grand Slams (four Australian Opens, three French Opens and two US Opens). After becoming a US citizen, Seles helped her new country win the Federation Cup in 1996 and 2000 and then went on to secure herself a bronze at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

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He swam in seven different events – four individual and three relays – setting a world record time in all of them. The unmatched performance left him as the first person to have taken most golds at a single Olympics, until Michael Phelp’s eight golds at the Beijing Games in 2008. He also broke 35 world records during his career.

Outside of the world of Cricket, Sachin was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament in 2012.

In addition, his 1984 gold medal performance was recognised as a world record after a scoring error had been discovered. Despite his unsuccessful bid to win an unprecedented third gold in Seoul, Thompson racked up 19 decathlon wins, including an incredible streak of 12 straight first places.

He then proceeded to become the first alpine skier to defend his Olympic title as he raced to victory in the 1992 Giant Slalom in Albertville and was placed second in the Slalom. Not content with this performance, he then added to his tally by taking a silver medal in the Slalom at the 1994 Winter Games as he once more set a record, becoming the only skier to reach the podium in three different Winter Olympics.

A batsman who mixed mental courage with natural ability, it was Waugh’s contribution as a captain that has seen him become a legend of the game. In his time as captain, Waugh fashioned Australia into arguably the greatest cricket team of all time.

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YAO MING

Figure Skating, Germany

BASKETBALL, China

Speed Skating, China

Enchanting figure skater Katarina Witt (b.1965) left an indelible mark on her sport. She took her first Olympic gold medal in 1984 in Sarajevo and then repeated the feat at the 1988 Games in Calgary, becoming the first skater in 50 years to achieve such a feat. During the 1980s she was in full command of her abilities on the ice as she clinched four World Championships and earned six successive European titles. Mixing glamour with athleticism, her graceful moves captivated audiences.

Yao Ming is one of China’s best-known sportsmen. He played basketball for NBA team Houston Rockets in the United States for eight years, reaching the NBA Play-offs four times. Yao also represented his country at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, carrying the Olympic flame into Tiananmen Square and then leading the Chinese team at the Opening Ceremony. China reached the quarter-finals, with Yao’s average of 19 points a game the second-highest in the Olympics. In 2008, he founded the Yao Ming Foundation in response to the devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. The foundation’s longterm mission is to provide educational opportunities for children in the United States and China.

Yang Yang (b.1976) became China’s first-ever Winter Olympic champion when she won the women’s 500 metres short track speed skating gold medal at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.

She also won a second gold in the 1,000 metres and a silver medal in the 3,000 metres relay.

Although she could not compete at the 1992 Games because she had turned professional, Witt was allowed to return and compete in her third Olympic Games in Lillehammer in 1994, where she skated a piece that paid tribute to the then war-ravaged city of Sarajevo.

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In a glittering period of domination of her sport, she also won a remarkable 32 world titles in seven years, becoming the first speed skater to win six overall short track world titles, which she won consecutively from 1997 to 2002.

Since her retirement, Yang Yang has had a distinguished career in sports administration, being appointed a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2010. She has also been a member of the Athletes Commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency and was a founding member of the Chinese Athlete Education Foundation.

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Laureus Ambassadors are people from sport, business and the media who have made a significant contribution to sport in their own community. Below is a selection of Ambassadors who support the work of Laureus around the world.

AMBASSADORS Paul Accola Alpine Skiing Kurt Aeschbacher TV Personality Cecil Afrika Rugby Union Josef Ajram Extreme Sports Natascha Badmann Triathlon Mansour Bahrami Tennis Robert Baker Golf Baschi Rock Singer Layne Beachley Surfing Kenny Belaey Trial Biking Diego Benaglio Football Verena Bentele Paralympic Skiing Jamie Bestwick BMX Serge Betsen Rugby Union Miki Biasion Motor Racing Denise Biellmann Figure Skating Ole Bischof Judo Stefan Blöcher Hockey Fredi Bobic Football Annabelle Bond Mountaineering Marco Bortolami Rugby Union Martin Braxenthaler Paralympic Skiing Schalk Brits Rugby Union Schalk Burger Rugby Union Adolfo Cambiaso Polo Fabian Cancellara Cycling Fabio Capello Football Jesús Carballo Gymnastics Davide Cassani Cycling

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Tamika C​atchings Basketball Jackie Chan Film Star Stéphane Chapuisat Football Almudena Cid Gymnastics Javier Conde Paralympic Athletics Àlex Corretja Tennis David Coulthard Motor Racing Lawrence Dallaglio Rugby Union Lin Dan Badminton Nicol David Squash Teun de Nooijer Hockey Iván de Pineda TV Personality David de Rothschild Eco Adventurer Jean de Villiers Rugby Union Deco Football Vicente del Bosque Football Deshun Deysel Mountaineering Lucas Di Grassi Motor Racing Andrea Dovizioso Motorcycling Natalie du Toit Paralympic Swimming Desiree Ellis Football Manel Estiarte Water Polo Alessandro Fabian Triathlon Anna Fenninger Alpine Skiing Juan Fernández Miranda Rugby Union Nicolás Fernández Miranda Rugby Union Luís Figo Football Missy Franklin Swimming Frankie Fredericks Athletics

Thomas Frischknecht Cycling Jan Frodeno Triathlon Martin Fuchs Equestrian Barbara Fusar-Poli Figure Skating Danilo Gallinari Basketball Alejandra Garcia Flood Athletics Ryan Giggs Football Raúl González Blanco Football Felix Gottwald Nordic Skiing Pep Guardiola Football Ruud Gullit Football Lara Gut Alpine Skiing Bryan Habana Rugby Union Eduardo Heguy Polo Tim Henman Tennis Maria Höfl-Riesch Alpine Skiing Kelly Holmes Athletics Edith Hunkeler Wheelchair Racing Juan Ignacio Sánchez Basketball Colin Jackson Athletics Butch James Rugby Union Mike Jankowski Snowboarding Jacques Kallis Cricket Ariella Käslin Athletics Elvira Khasyanova Synchronised Swimming Taïg Khris Inline Skating Christa Kinshofer Alpine Skiing Conny Kissling Freestyle Skiing Daria Korobova Synchronised Swimming

Janica Kostelic Alpine Skiing Nia Künzer Football Dr. Thomas Ladner Business Christoph Langen Bobsleigh Henri Leconte Tennis Jens Lehmann Football Kathrin Lehmann Ice Hockey Lennox Lewis Boxing Carlos Lima Fuentes Athletics Bob Lujano Wheelchair Rugby Michael Lynagh Rugby Union Fabrizio Macchi Cycling Filippo Magnini Swimming Hermann Maier Alpine Skiing Matteo Manassero Golf Maurizio Margaglio Figure Skating Marc Márquez Motorcycling Matías Martin TV Personality Ferran Martínez Basketball Juan Mata Football Nick Matthew Squash AP McCoy Horse Racing Barry McGuigan Boxing Zanele Mdodana Netball Sarah Meier Figure Skating Elana Meyer Athletics Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum Equestrian Roger Milla Football Alonzo Mourning Basketball

Thomas Muster Tennis Dan Nicholl TV Personality Gary Paffett Motor Racing Chris Paul Basketball Umberto Pelizzari Diving Manuela Pesko Snowboarding Santiago Phelan Rugby Union Bertrand Piccard Explorer Gerard Piqué Football Shaun Pollock Cricket Birgit Prinz Football Carles Puyol Football Lucas Radebe Football John Robbie Rugby Union Todd Rogers Volleyball María Cecilia Rognoni Hockey Nico Rosberg Motor Racing Antonio Rossi Canoeing Rainer Maria Salzgeber TV Personality Félix Sánchez Athletics Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Tennis Ryan Sandes Ultra Trail Running Christoph Sauser Mountain Biking Axel Schulz Boxing Ralf Schumacher Motor Racing Nino Schurter Mountain Biking Pius Schwizer Equestrian Marcel Siem Golf Gian Simmen Snowboarding

Emma Snowsill Triathlon Albert Soler Former Secretary of Sports Nicola Spirig Athletics Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Football and Polo Felix Sturm Boxing Alain Sutter Football Michael Teuber Paralympic Cycling Anzhelika Timanina Synchronised Swimming Alessandro Troncon Rugby Union Cynthia Tshaka TV Broadcasting Amaya Valdemoro Basketball Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Edwin van der Sar Football Ernst van Dyk Wheelchair Racing Yvonne van Gennip Speed Skating Michael Vaughan Cricket Esther Vergeer Wheelchair Tennis André Villas-Boas Football Filippo Volandri Tennis Ian Walker Sailing Courtney Walsh Cricket Kathi Wörndl TV Personality Team MTN Qhubeka Cycling Spanish Basketball Team Basketball

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LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS AWARDS WINNERS

LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS AWARDS WINNERS AWARD

2000

2001

2002

2003

world sportsman of the year

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

world sportswoman of the year

Marion Jones (rescinded)

Cathy Freeman Jennifer Capriati

world TEAM of the year

Manchester United

French Football Team

world BREAKTHROUGH of the year

Sergio Garcia

Marat Safin

world COMEBACK of the year

Lance Armstrong Jennifer (rescinded) Capriati

Goran Ivaniševic Ronaldo

world SPORTSPERSON of the year WITH A DISABILITY

Louise Sauvage Vinny Lauwers

Esther Vergeer

world ACTION sportsPERSON of the year

Shaun Palmer

SPORT FOR GOOD AWARD

LAUREUS SPIRIT OF SPORT AWARD

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

LAUREUS ACademy Exceptional Achievement Award

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2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011 Rafael Nadal

2012

Lance Armstrong Michael (rescinded) Schumacher

Roger Federer

Roger Federer

Roger Federer

Roger Federer

Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt

Serena Williams Annika Sörenstam

Kelly Holmes

Janica Kostelic

Yelena Isinbayeva

Justine Henin

Yelena Isinbayeva

Serena Williams Lindsey Vonn

Australian Cricket Team

Brazilian National English Rugby Football Team Union Team

Greek Football Team

Renault F1 Team

Italian Football Team

South African Rugby Team

Chinese Olympic Brawn GP Team F1 Team

Spanish Football FC Barcelona Team

Juan Pablo Montoya

Yao Ming

Michelle Wie

Liu Xiang

Rafael Nadal

Amélie Mauresmo

Lewis Hamilton

Rebecca Adlington

Jenson Button

Martin Kaymer

Hermann Maier

Alessandro Zanardi

Martina Hingis

Serena Williams Paula Radcliffe

Vitali Klitschko

Kim Clijsters

Michael Milton

Earle Connor

Chantal Petitclerc

Ernst van Dyk

Martin Braxenthaler

Esther Vergeer

Daniel Dias

Bob Burnquist

Dean Potter

Layne Beachley Ellen MacArthur Angelo d’Arrigo

Kelly Slater

Shaun White

Eunice Kip Keino Kennedy Shriver

Peter Blake

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India/Pakistan Cricket Team

Gerry Storey

Luke Dowdney

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Boston Red Sox Valentino Rossi

Pelé

Steve Redgrave Peter Blake

Gary Player

Arne Naess

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Mike Horn

Michael Schumacher

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Jürgen Griesbeck

Johan Cruyff

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Novak Djokovic

2013 Usain Bolt

Vivian Cheruiyot Jessica Ennis

2014

2015

Sebastian Vettel Novak Djokovic

Missy Franklin

Genzebe Dibaba

European Ryder Cup Team

Bayern Munich

Germany Men’s Football Team

Rory McIlroy

Andy Murray

Marc Márquez

Daniel Ricciardo

Valentino Rossi

Darren Clarke

Félix Sánchez

Rafael Nadal

Schalk Burger

Natalie du Toit

Verena Bentele

Oscar Pistorius

Daniel Dias

Marie Bochet

Tatyana McFadden

Kelly Slater

Stephanie Gilmore

Kelly Slater

Kelly Slater

Felix Baumgartner

Jamie Bestwick Alan Eustace

Brendan & Sean Tuohey

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Dikembe Mutombo

May El-Khalil

Raí Souza Vieira de Oliveira

FC Barcelona

Dick Pound

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European Ryder Cup Team

Franz Beckenbauer

Sergey Bubka

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Nawal El Moutawakel

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Magic Bus

Skateistan

Afghanistan Cricket Team

Yao Ming

Zinedine Zidane Bobby Charlton Sebastian Coe

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Michael Phelps

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Li Na

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