Best Sportsman of the Year: Cristiano Ronaldo

Sports Adina Camarasu
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Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who won multiple awards in 2016, such as Champions League, European Super Cup, World Club with Real Madrid and European Championship with the national team of Portugal, was nominated as ‘The Best Sportsman of the Year 2016’, as most important press agencies from around the world concluded.

Cristiano Ronaldo occupied the first place, scoring 204 points, followed by the British tennis player Andy Murray, the Olympic champion in Rio this year, with 180 points. Murray won the Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon in 2016 and the Champions Tournament.

The third step of the podium was occupied by the Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu, triple Olympic champion in Rio, with 136 points.

The investigation came to its 59th edition this year and was attended by 27 international news agencies: AFP (France), Agerpres (Romania), ANP (Netherlands), APA (Austria), ATA (Albania) BELGA (Belgium), BelTA (Belarus), BTA (Bulgaria), CTK (Czech Republic), DPA (Germany), EFE (Spain), ELTA (Lithuania), FENA (Bosnia & Herzegovina), HINA (Croatia), LETA (Latvia) LUSA (Portugal), MOLDPRES (Moldova), MTI (Hungary), SDA-ATS (Switzerland), SHGSK (Kosovo), SID (Germany), SITA (Slovakia), STA (Slovenia), TANJUNG (Serbia), TASS (Russia), UKRINFORM (Ukraine) and PAP (Poland).

Ronaldo follows the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic among the winners of the most important sports competition of the year.

The Best European Sportsmen of the year 2016 are:

1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal / football) 204 points


2. Andy Murray (Britain / tennis) 180


3. Katinka Hosszu (Hungary / swimming) 136


4. Nico Rosberg (Germany / Formula 1) 115


5. Mohamed Farah (UK / athletics) 93


6. Angelique Kerber (Germany / tennis) 77


7. Martin Fourcade (France / biathlon) 74


8. Marcel Hirscher (Austria / alpine skiing) 54


9. Anita Włodarczyk (Poland / athletics) 42


10. Chris Froome (Britain / cycling) 38.