There is plenty of representation for professional cycling in the 2026 Laureus World Sports Awards, with Tadej Pogačar, Tom Pidcock, Simon Yates, and Egan Bernal all among the nominees.
Pogačar is again nominated for the flagship World Sportsman of the Year award, while Pidcock is looking to double up on the award he won last year, World Action Sportsperson of the Year. Yates and Bernal will face off against each other in the World Comeback of the Year category.
Pogačar was nominated for the main award for the first time last year but lost out to the Olympic champion pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis. The Swede is once again among Pogačar’s competition this time, alongside the tennis rivals Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, football’s Ballon d’Or-winning Ousmane Dembéle, and the MotoGP world champion Marc Márquez.
The award is essentially based on the 2025 season, in which Pogačar won a fourth Tour de France title, a second straight World Championships road race title, and three further Monuments in the Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and Il Lombardia.
Elsewhere, Pidcock is up for the Action Sportsperson of the Year award he won last year. Pidcock’s stunning Olympic victory helped him to that crown last year, but he is in the mix once again after “reinforcing his reputation as one of world cycling’s most versatile athletes”. The British rider took the European Mountain Bike Championship, as well as finishing on the podium of the Vuelta a España, which was a breakthrough moment in his road career.
There are two cyclists in the Comeback of the Year category. Simon Yates, now retired, has been given the nod for his Giro d’Italia triumph in 2025 and the circularity with the devastation he felt on the Colle Delle Finestre seven years previously.
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