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Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award

Annual athletic award

Summary

Annual athletic award

FieldValue
nameBest Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award
awarded_forbest female action sports athlete
presenterESPN
countryUnited States
year2004
holderEileen Gu (China)
website

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). 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. It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.

The inaugural winner of the award was the American wakeboarder Dallas Friday. 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. 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. The most recent winner of the award was Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu in 2022.

Winners

YearImageAthleteNation of citizenshipSport(s) regularly contestedNomineesRefs
2004–WakeboardingLayne Beachley (AUS) – Surfing
Aleisha Cline (CAN) – Ski cross
Hannah Teter (USA) – Snowboardingtitle=ESPY 2004 Female Action Sports Nomineesurl=http://www.espn.com/espy2004/s/04femaleactionsportsnominees.htmlpublisher=ESPNaccess-date=January 29, 2018url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130092942/http://www.espn.com/espy2004/s/04femaleactionsportsnominees.htmlarchive-date=January 30, 2018}}
2005[[File:Sofía Mulánovich.jpg100pxalt=Sofia Mulanovich in 2007]]SurfingKarin Huttary (AUT) – Ski cross
Janna Meyen (USA) – Snowboarding
Hannah Teter (USA) – Snowboarding
2006[[File:Hannah Teter (crop).jpg100pxalt=Hannah Teter in 2005]]Snowboarding (half-pipe)Gretchen Bleiler (USA) – Snowboarding
Cara-Beth Burnside (USA) – Skateboarding
Dallas Friday (USA) – Wakeboarding
Janna Meyen (USA) – Snowboarding
2007[[File:Sarah Burke 2010.jpg100pxalt=Sarah Burke in 2010]]Freestyle skiingJamie Anderson (USA) – Snowboarding
Layne Beachley (AUS) – Surfing
Torah Bright (USA) – Snowboarding
Elissa Steamer (USA) – Skateboarding
2008[[File:Gretchen Bleiler (cropped).jpg100pxalt=Gretchen Bleiler in 2010]]Snowboarding (half-pipe, slopestyle)Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) – Surfing
Lindsey Jacobellis (USA) – Snowboarding
Jessica Patterson (USA) – Motocross
2009[[File:Maya Gabeira (14065821984) (cropped).jpg100pxalt=Maya Gabeira in 2014]]SurfingTorah Bright (USA) – Snowboarding
Sarah Burke (CAN) – Freestyle skiing
Ashley Fiolek (USA) – Motocross
2010[[File:Torah Bright (cropped).jpg100pxalt=Torah Bright in 2010]]Snowboarding (half-pipe)Ashley Fiolek (USA) – Motocross
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) – Surfing
Jen Hudak (USA) – Freestyle skiing
Ashleigh McIvor (CAN) – Freestyle skiing
2011[[File:Stephanie Gilmore.jpg100pxalt=Stephanie Gilmore in 2008]]SurfingSarah Burke (CAN) – Freestyle skiing
Kelly Clark (USA) – Snowboarding
Ashley Fiolek (USA) – Motocross
2012[[File:Jamie Anderson (cropped).JPG100pxalt=Jamie Anderson in 2013]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Kelly Clark (USA) – Snowboarding
Carissa Moore (USA) – Surfing
Kaya Turski (CAN) – Freestyle skiing
2013[[File:Stephanie Gilmore.jpg100pxalt=Stephanie Gilmore in 2008]]SurfingLetícia Bufoni (BRA) – Skateboarding
Kelly Clark (USA) – Snowboarding
Laia Sanz (ESP) – Motocross
2014[[File:Jamie Anderson with campers (cropped).jpg100pxalt=Jamie Anderson in 2014]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Maddie Bowman (USA) – Freestyle skiing
Kelly Clark (USA) – Snowboarding
Vicki Golden (USA) – Motocross
Carissa Moore (USA) – Surfing
2015[[File:Kelly Clark @ Mammoth Mountain Ca (cropped).jpg100pxalt=Kelly Clark in 2010]]Snowboarding (half-pipe)Paige Alms (USA) – Surfing
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) – Surfing
Laia Sanz (ESP) – Motocross
2016[[File:Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Podium in Women's slopestyle (Anderson crop).jpg100pxalt=Jamie Anderson in 2014]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Keala Kennelly (USA) – Surfing
Chloe Kim (USA) – Snowboarding
Carissa Moore (USA) – Surfing
2017[[File:Anna Gasser Portrait crop.jpg100pxalt=Anna Gasser in 2017]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Lacey Baker (USA) – Skateboarding
Kelly Sildaru (EST) – Freestyle skiing
Tyler Wright (AUS) – Surfingfirst=Hunterlast=Felttitle=ESPY Awards 2017: Simone Biles and Russell Westbrook win Best Athletes – as it happenedurl=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2017/jul/12/espy-awards-2017-simone-biles-tom-brady-peyton-manning-livenewspaper=The Guardiandate=July 13, 2017access-date=October 31, 2017url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018215750/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2017/jul/12/espy-awards-2017-simone-biles-tom-brady-peyton-manning-livearchive-date=October 18, 2017}}
2018[[File:Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png121x121pxalt=Chloe Kim in 2017]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Jamie Anderson (USA) – Snowboarding
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) – Surfing
Brighton Zeuner (USA) – Skateboarding
2019[[File:Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png121x121pxalt=Chloe Kim in 2017]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Kelly Sildaru (EST) – Skiing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL) – Snowboarding
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS} Surfing
2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021[[File: Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png121x121pxalt=Chloe Kim in 2017]]Snowboarding (slopestyle)Eileen Gu (CHN) – Skiing
Carissa Moore (USA) – Surfing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL) – Snowboardinglast=Camenkerfirst=Jacobdate=July 11, 2021title=ESPY Award winners 2021: Full results, highlights, best moments from the ESPYswork=Sporting Newsurl=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/athletics/news/espy-award-winners-2021-results-highlights/pblozsovfcr71e432c3b5bik6url-status=liveaccess-date=January 21, 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121130258/https://www.sportingnews.com/us/athletics/news/espy-award-winners-2021-results-highlights/pblozsovfcr71e432c3b5bik6archive-date=January 21, 2022}}
2022[[File:2020-01-18 Eileen Gu at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Women's Freeski Slopestyle – Mascot Ceremony (Martin Rulsch) 18 (cropped).jpg121x121pxalt=Gu in 2020]]Freestyle skiingChloe Kim (USA) – Snowboarding
Rayssa Leal (BRA) – Skateboarding
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (NZL – Snowboardingurl=https://espnpressroom.com/us/the-2022-espys-nominees/title=The 2022 ESPYS Nomineeswebsite=espnpressroom.comdate=June 28, 2022access-date=July 3, 2022archive-date=July 4, 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704225124/https://espnpressroom.com/us/the-2022-espys-nominees/url-status=live }}

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