Laura Kenny has been named on the shortlist for Sportswoman of the Year in the 2017 Laureus World Sports Awards, with mountain biker and fellow Briton Rachel Atherton nominated in the Action Sportsperson of the Year category.
Kenny won two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Rio last summer, triumphing in the omnium and team pursuit - as she had done four years previously in London - to take her Olympic tally to four golds and become Britain’s most decorated female Olympian. Earlier in the year she won two World Championships titles, in the omnium and scratch race.
“Honoured to be a nominee for the @LaureusSport Sportswomen of the year award,” she wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
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Atherton enjoyed a perfect 2016, winning all seven rounds of the downhill World Cup series – taking her streak to 13 – and becoming world champion for a fourth time.
“Absolutely huge honour to be nominated for the Laureus Action Sportsperson amongst some personal heroes, John John Florence & Chloe Kim!! Wow!" said the 29-year-old.
Kenny, 24, will face stiff competition in a shortlist of six where gold medals are hardly in short supply. The favourite would seem to be Simone Biles, the 19-year-old American gymnast who became a sensation in Rio by winning four of a possible five gold medals.
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