The Prensa Latina news agency launched the 58th edition of its annual Sports Poll to select the best athletes in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022.
Havana, November 15 (PL) -- The Prensa Latina news agency launched the 58th edition of its annual Sports Poll to select the best athletes in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022.
The reception of votes is open since Monday, and all the press media of the world can participate to choose the best male and female athletes and the best team of the year after the final tally.
The deadline for casting votes will close on December 22 and the results will be announced one day later.
Votes from the media -radio, television and print media- (not personal) can be sent to the following e-mail address: deportes@prensa-latina.cu.
We remind you that any media can vote on equal terms for any athlete not included in the list of suggestions who deserves to be included.
Below is the list of the proposals suggested by our sports editorial staff:
FEMALE:
ATHLETICS:
Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela): She won the World Track and Field Championships in Eugene, USA, with a mark of 15.47 meters in the triple jump; and the World Indoor Track and Field Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. In the latter competition she achieved the current world record with a jump of 15.74 m.
Shelly Ann-Fraser (Jamaica): The sprinter took the women's 100 m flat title at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, USA. She led the world ranking for the season, with a mark of 10.62 seconds. Won the 100 m at the 2022 Diamond League.
Kimberly García (Peru): The walker became a double world champion and Peru's first medalist at a World Athletics Championships. She won the 25 km and 35 km race walking events in Eugene, USA.
Shericka Jackson (Jamaica): The sprinter won the women's 200m flat title at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, USA; and the Diamond League circuit. She led the world ranking of the season with a time of 21.45 seconds, the second best in history.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bahamas): Dominated the women's 400m event throughout 2022. Won the World Track and Field Championships in Eugene, USA, and the World Indoor Track and Field Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.
GYMNASTICS:
Rebeca Andrade (Brazil): Became the first Brazilian artistic gymnastics world champion. The 23-year-old athlete, Olympic runner-up in Tokyo, won in the final of the overall competition at the World Championships held in Liverpool, Great Britain.
JUDO:
Mayra Aguiar (Brazil): first in the world ranking in the -78kg category, the judoka won this year's continental championship held in Lima. She finished first in the Universal Championship in Tashkent (Uzbekistan).
Rafaela Silva (Brazil): She won the universal championship in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), breaking Japan's dominance in the competition. Won silver medal at the Hungarian Grand Slam and bronze at the Georgian Grand Slam.
SWIMMING:
Ana Marcela Cunha (Brazil): The undina achieved the five-kilometer and 25-kilometer open water titles at the World Swimming Championships, organized in the city of Budapest, Hungary.
SKATING:
Jhoana Viveros (Colombia): Won four gold medals at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama (United States). The skater won the 15,000-meter elimination race skating, and also reached the top of the podium in the 10,000-meter points plus elimination, the 10,000-meter elimination and the 1,000-meter sprint.
BASKETBALL:
Paola Longoria (Mexico): World ranking leader since 2011, Longoria reached the individual, doubles and team gold medals at the 2022 World Championships in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. She won gold at the World Games in Birmingham, Great Britain.
ARCHERY:
Sara Lopez (Colombia): The Colombian won a new title in compound archery in the final of the World Cup, held in Mexico, to become the first archer to triumph in seven finals of the event. She was also a protagonist in the Bolivarian and South American Games, winning the gold medal in the individual category. She occupied the first place in the world ranking in the compound bow modality.
MALE:
ATHLETICS:
Alison dos Santos (Brazil): The hurdler again broke the South American record and the World Championship record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 46.29, becoming world champion. It was the first men's gold in the history of Brazil at the World Athletics Championships and he became the second Brazilian in history to be an outdoor planetary title holder.
BASEBALL:
Framber Valdez (Dominican Republic): Established himself as one of the best left-handed pitchers in the Major Leagues. The Dominican won a Major League Baseball World Series title with the Houston Astros.
Jeremy Peña (Dominican Republic): Peña had a freshman season like no other in MLB, becoming the first rookie position player to win a World Series Most Valuable Player award after batting .400 during the Houston Astros' six-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic. He won a Gold Glove and was also the Most Valuable Player of the American League Championship Series. The 25-year-old became the first hitter to win all three of those awards in his career, and he did it all in his debut season.
Luis Arráez (Venezuela): The Venezuelan achieved one of the most complicated feats in Major League Baseball, as it is to become the regular season batting champion, in this case in the American League. The Yaracuy native crowned his batting title with an average of 316.
BUNTING:
Isaquias Queiroz (Brazil): The Brazilian won gold in the single-seater canoe (C-1) at 500 meters and second place in (C-1) at 1,000 meters at the World Championship of the discipline held in Canada.
JUDO:
Andy Granda (Cuba): Achieved gold medal at the Universal Championships in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in the +100 kg division, his biggest trophy throughout his career.
SKATING:
Brayan Carreño (Colombia): This year he also won gold at the South American Games in Asunción. Carreño repeated the world title he had already won in 2018 in the junior category and in 2019 in the senior category. In this 2022 he shined in the World Skate Games Argentina in the individual dance modality.
RACKETBALL:
Conrado Moscoso (Bolivia): He was crowned 2022 world champion in the Open category, the maximum of this sport, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. This is the first title not only of Moscoso, but of a Bolivian in individual, with which the athlete made history and crowns his sports career with the greatest consecration.
TEAMS:
Basketball (Argentina): The men's team won the FIBA Americas Cup, the most important international basketball tournament on the American continent at the national team level, which granted seven quotas for the 2023 Pan American Games.
Máximo Videla /Tadeo Funes (Argentina): They were crowned champions in the 29er class World Championship held at the Club Náutico El Balis, in Barcelona, Spain. The duo, both 18 years old, also won the Junior World Championship in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Ana Patricia Silva/Eduarda Santos (Brazil): The Brazilians won the World Beach Volleyball Championship in Rome, Italy. The duo won gold medals in the elite tournament held in Switzerland.
Yarisleidis Cirilo/Katherin Nuevo (Cuba): The Antillean women, who had taken bronze in the last Copenhagen event, improved their performance with first place in the 200-meter canoe (C-2) at the World Championship of the discipline held in Canada.
Indoor soccer (Colombia): World champion after winning all six of its matches. In total, Colombia scored 55 goals and conceded no goals against, a unique mark in the competition.
