On December 14, Beijing time, the 2022 Lawrence World Sports Awards opened the voting process, and China's diving national team, Chinese diver Cao Yuan, diver Quan Hongchan and skier Gu Ailing are all in the shortlist. Among them, Cao Yuan is The Laureus Male Athlete of the Year candidate, the Chinese Diving Team is the candidate for the Laureus Team of the Year Award, Quan Hongchan is the candidate for the Lawrence Best Rookie of the Year Award (also known as the Lawrence Best Breakthrough Award), and Gu Ailing is the candidate for the Lawrence Annual Best Extreme Athlete Award.
As Lawrence's candidate for Men's Athlete of the Year, Chinese diver Cao Yuan won the men's individual 10m platform at the Tokyo Olympics. Following a gold medal in the 10m double diving at the London 2012 Olympics and an individual gold medal in the 3m board diving at the Rio 2016 Olympics, he became the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in three different diving events.
As a candidate for the Lawrence Team of the Year Award, the Chinese Olympic diving team won 7 gold medals in 8 diving events at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which was the greatest performance in the history of Olympic diving, and the Chinese Dream Team won 7 gold and 5 silver in this Olympic Games, known as the Dream Team.
A candidate for the Lawrence Rookie of the Year Award, also known as the Lawrence Breakthrough of the Year Award, 14-year-old Chinese diving prodigy Quan Hongchan won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with a record total score of 466.20 points. The Tokyo Olympics were not only the first Olympic Games she participated in, but also her first international competition, but she was not afraid of the stage, and won full marks twice in 5 diving, thus shocking the world and being jokingly called having "splash elimination".
As a candidate for the Lawrence Extreme Athlete of the Year Award, Chinese and American mixed race athlete Gu Ailing has performed amazingly in the recent year. At the age of 17, she overcame a hand injury to win gold medals in U-shaped track and steeplechase at the World Championships, as well as bronze medals in the Big Jump. Earlier at the World Extreme Games in Aspen, she won the Super U-Pool and Steeplechase. The past year has been truly memorable for this brilliant rising star.
The Laureus World Sports Awards were founded in 2000 by Dailmer AG and Richemont and supported by global partners Mercedes-Benz and IWC. The Lawrence Awards are one of the most influential awards in the world of sport, and their sports awards ceremony takes place every spring.
At the 2022 Lawrence World Sports Awards, 1,200 senior media personalities from more than 100 countries around the world have the right to vote, and Fu Zhenghao, a teacher of sports big business, has long been a member of the nomination panel of the Lawrence World Sports Awards. In this year's voting, in addition to exercising his voting rights, Fu Zhenghao also nominated Jeon Hongchan as a candidate for Lawrence's Annual Women's Athlete of the Year and Zhang Yufei as a candidate for The Lawrence Rookie of the Year Award (also known as the Lawrence Breakthrough Award of the Year). Fu Zhenghao called on the Lawrence Institute of Sport and all those with voting power to pay more attention to Chinese and Asian sports stars. The following are Fu Zhenghao's voting options: