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Best Female Athlete ESPY Award

Annual athletic award

Annual athletic award

FieldValue
nameBest Female Athlete ESPY Award
awarded_forBest Female Athlete
presenterESPN
year2000
year2
holderSimone Biles (United States)
website

The Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Outstanding Female Athlete ESPY Award, has been presented annually at the ESPY Awards (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) since 1993 to the female voted to be, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, the best athlete in a given calendar year. Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously of fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.

Six athletes, American soccer player Mia Hamm, Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam, American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, American tennis player Serena Williams, American mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey, and American gymnast Simone Biles have won the award twice. Hamm was honored in 1998 and 2000, Sörenstam in 2005 and 2006, Vonn in 2010 and 2011, Williams in 2003 and 2013, Rousey in 2014 and 2015, and Biles in 2017 and 2025. Sörenstam, Osaka, and Monica Seles are the only honorees not to represent the United States at the time of their win. Of the winners, seven have played basketball, the most of any sport; the other sports with multiple individuals awarded are tennis, gymnastics, soccer, and swimming. The award wasn't given in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

YearImageAthleteNation representedSportRef(s)(2)(2)(2)(2)(2)(2)
1993[[File:Monica Seles 1991.jpg100pxalt=Monica Seles in 1991]]FR YugoslaviaTennis
1994[[File:Julie Krone riding Halfbridled at 2003 Breeders' cup.jpg100pxalt=Julie Krone in 2003]]Thoroughbred horse racing
1995[[File:Bonnie Blair(crop).jpg100pxalt=Bonnie Blair in 2010]]Speed skating
1996[[File:Rebecca Lobo taken by Danny Karwoski.jpg100pxalt=Rebecca Lobo in 2010]]Basketball
1997[[File:Amy Van Dyken (33365854492).jpg100pxalt=Amy Van Dyken in 2017]]Swimming
1998[[File:Mia Hamm 1995 001 stl.jpg100pxalt=Mia Hamm in 1995]]Soccer
1999[[File:Chamique Holdsclaw.jpg100pxalt=Chamique Holdsclaw in 2016]]Basketball
2000[[File:Mia Hamm signing an autograph.jpg100pxalt=Mia Hamm in 2006]]Soccer
2001[[File:Marion Jones Sydney 2000.JPEG100pxalt=Marion Jones in 2000]]Track and field
2002[[File:VenusWilliams (cropped).jpg100pxalt=Venus Williams in 2006]]Tennis
2003[[File:Serena Williams (19117668004) (cropped).jpg100px]]
2004[[File:Diana taurasi flickr.jpg100pxalt=Diana Taurasi in 2007]]Basketball
2005[[File:AnnikaSorenstamProAm2006.JPG100pxalt=Annika Sorenstam in 2006]]Golfurl = http://www.lpga.com/players/annika-sorenstam/81956/biopublisher = LPGAtitle = Annika Sorenstamaccess-date = 31 October 2017url-status = livearchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160416042848/http://www.lpga.com/players/annika-sorenstam/81956/bioarchive-date = 16 April 2016 }}
2006[[File:2008 LPGA Championship - Annika Sorenstam tee shot.jpg100pxalt=Annika Sorenstam in 2008]]
2007[[File:Taryne Mowatt at the 2008 Lotus Lounge Red Carpet.jpg100pxalt=Taryne Mowatt attending a Red Carpet event in 2008]]Softball
2008[[File:Candace Parker 2012.jpg100pxalt=Candace Parker in 2012]]Basketball
2009[[File:Nastia Liukin 2009.jpg100pxalt=Nastia Liukin in 2009]]Gymnastics
2010[[File:Lindsey Vonn (Vancouver 2010)-2.jpg100pxalt=Lindsey Vonn in 2010]]Alpine skiing
2011[[File:Lindsey Vonn (2011).jpg100pxalt=Lindsery Vonn in 2011]]
2012[[File:Griner dunking at 2015 All-Star game.jpg100pxalt=Brittney Griner in 2015]]Basketball
2013[[File:Serena Williams at 2013 US Open.jpg100pxalt=Serena Williams in 2013]]Tennis
2014[[File:Rousey HOF 2018 (cropped).jpg121x121pxalt=Ronda Rousey in 2018]]Mixed martial arts
2015
2016[[File:BreannaStewart foulshot.jpg100pxalt=Breanna Stewart in 2017]]Basketball
2017[[File:Simone Biles na Rio 2016 cropped.jpg100pxalt=Simone Biles in 2016]]Gymnasticsurl = https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2017/jul/12/espy-awards-2017-simone-biles-tom-brady-peyton-manning-livetitle = ESPY Awards 2017: Simone Biles and Russell Westbrook win Best Athletes – as it happenedfirst = Hunterlast = Feltdate = 13 July 2017access-date = 31 October 2017work = The Guardianurl-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 = 18 October 2017}}
2018[[File:Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png121x121px]]Snowboarding
2019[[File:USWNT group photo (42878126761) (cropped).jpg121x121px]]Soccer
2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021[[File:NaomiOsaka-smile-2020 (cropped).png121x121px]]Tennis
2022[[File:Katie Ledecky Olympics 2016.jpg121x121px]]Swimming
2023[[File:Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) 2019.jpg121x121px]]Alpine skiing
2024[[File:A'ja Wilson (53756794398) (cropped).jpg121x121px]]Basketball
2025[[File:Simone Biles National Team 2024.jpg121x121pxalt=Biles in 2024]]Gymnastics

Statistics

Sport contestedWinners (awards)Winners (individuals)BasketballTennisAssociation footballGymnasticsSwimmingAlpine skiingGolfMixed martial artsTrack and fieldSoftballSpeed skatingThoroughbred horse racingSnowboarding
77
54
32
32
22
32
21
21
11
11
11
11
11
NationWinners (awards)Winners (individuals)United StatesSwedenFR YugoslaviaJapan
2823
21
11
11

Notes

References

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