Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award explained

Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award
Awarded For:best female action sports athlete
Presenter:ESPN
Country:United States
Year:2004
Holder:Eileen Gu (China)

The Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a female athlete from the world of action sports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2004 after the non-gender-specific Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was presented the previous two years (with the American snowboarder Kelly Clark receiving the 2002 award).[1] It is given to the female, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to be the best action sports athlete in a given calendar year. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts.[2] It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.[3]

The inaugural winner of the award was the American wakeboarder Dallas Friday.[4] During 2003 and 2004, Friday won 12 of the available 14 professional women's titles, including national and world championships. She became the first wakeboarder to be nominated for, and hence to win, an ESPY Award.[5] Athletes from the United States have won more times than any other nationality with ten (three times to snowboarders Jamie Anderson and Chloe Kim), followed by Australians with three, two of which went to the surfer Stephanie Gilmore. Snowboarders are most successful sportspeople, with eleven awards, followed by surfers with four. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] The most recent winner of the award was Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu in 2022.[7]

Winners

Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award winners and nominees
scope=col Yearscope=col class=unsortable Imagescope=col Athletescope=col Nation of citizenshipscope=col Sport(s) regularly contestedscope=col class=unsortable Nomineesscope=col class=unsortable
2004scope=row Wakeboardingalign=left Layne Beachley ( Australia) – Surfing
Aleisha Cline ( Canada) – Ski cross
Hannah Teter ( United States) – Snowboarding
[8]
2005scope=row Surfingalign=left Karin Huttary ( Austria) – Ski cross
Janna Meyen ( United States) – Snowboarding
Hannah Teter ( United States) – Snowboarding
[9] [10]
2006scope=row Snowboarding (half-pipe)align=left Gretchen Bleiler ( United States) – Snowboarding
Cara-Beth Burnside ( United States) – Skateboarding
Dallas Friday ( United States) – Wakeboarding
Janna Meyen ( United States) – Snowboarding
[11] [12]
2007scope=row Freestyle skiingalign=left Jamie Anderson ( United States) – Snowboarding
Layne Beachley ( Australia) – Surfing
Torah Bright ( United States) – Snowboarding
Elissa Steamer ( United States) – Skateboarding
[13] [14]
2008scope=row Snowboarding (half-pipe, slopestyle)align=left Stephanie Gilmore ( Australia) – Surfing
Lindsey Jacobellis ( United States) – Snowboarding
Jessica Patterson ( United States) – Motocross
[15] [16]
2009scope=row Surfingalign=left Torah Bright ( United States) – Snowboarding
Sarah Burke ( Canada) – Freestyle skiing
Ashley Fiolek ( United States) – Motocross
[17] [18]
2010scope=row Snowboarding (half-pipe)align=left Ashley Fiolek ( United States) – Motocross
Stephanie Gilmore ( Australia) – Surfing
Jen Hudak ( United States) – Freestyle skiing
Ashleigh McIvor ( Canada) – Freestyle skiing
[19] [20]
2011scope=row Surfingalign=left Sarah Burke ( Canada) – Freestyle skiing
Kelly Clark ( United States) – Snowboarding
Ashley Fiolek ( United States) – Motocross
[21] [22]
2012scope=row Snowboarding (slopestyle)align=left Kelly Clark ( United States) – Snowboarding
Carissa Moore ( United States) – Surfing
Kaya Turski ( Canada) – Freestyle skiing
[23] [24]
2013scope=row Surfingalign=left Letícia Bufoni ( Brazil) – Skateboarding
Kelly Clark ( United States) – Snowboarding
Laia Sanz ( Spain) – Motocross
[25] [26]
2014scope=row Snowboarding (slopestyle)align=left Maddie Bowman ( United States) – Freestyle skiing
Kelly Clark ( United States) – Snowboarding
Vicki Golden ( United States) – Motocross
Carissa Moore ( United States) – Surfing
[27] [28]
2015scope=row Snowboarding (half-pipe)align=left Paige Alms ( United States) – Surfing
Stephanie Gilmore ( Australia) – Surfing
Laia Sanz ( Spain) – Motocross
[29] [30]
2016scope=row Snowboarding (slopestyle)align=left Keala Kennelly ( United States) – Surfing
Chloe Kim ( United States) – Snowboarding
Carissa Moore ( United States) – Surfing
[31] [32]
2017scope=row Snowboarding (slopestyle)align=left Lacey Baker ( United States) – Skateboarding
Kelly Sildaru ( Estonia) – Freestyle skiing
Tyler Wright ( Australia) – Surfing
[33] [34]
2018scope=row Snowboarding (slopestyle)align=left Jamie Anderson ( United States) – Snowboarding
Stephanie Gilmore ( Australia) – Surfing
Brighton Zeuner ( United States) – Skateboarding
[35] [36]
2019scope=row Snowboarding (slopestyle)align=left Kelly Sildaru ( Estonia) – Skiing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott ( New Zealand) – Snowboarding
Stephanie Gilmore ( Australia
Surfing| [37] [38] |-| 2020| colspan=5 align=center|Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic|[6] |-| 2021|! scope=row | | | Snowboarding (slopestyle)| align=left | Eileen Gu ( China) – Skiing
Carissa Moore ( United States) – Surfing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott ( New Zealand) – Snowboarding| [39] [40] |-| 2022|! scope=row | | | Freestyle skiing| align=left | Chloe Kim ( United States) – Snowboarding
Rayssa Leal ( Brazil) – Skateboarding
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott ( New ZealandSnowboarding| [41] |-|}

See also

Notes and References

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