Cristiano Ronaldo Football
Cristiano Ronaldo, the
Portugal and Real Madrid winger accumulated nearly everything this year, a
footballer can get in individual capacity. As captain he lifted the trophy of
EURO 2016 for Portugal defeating the host France in the final. Earlier he had
guided a month ago his club Real Madrid to win the 2015-16 UEFA Champions
League, UEFA Super Cup Super and finally the FIFA Club World Cup all in 2016.
That deserved him the prestigious Ballon d'Or by French Magazine and he is also
expected to win the FIFA Best Player of the year award 2016, the most coveted
trophy for a footballer.
Ravichandran Ashwin Cricket
Ravichandran Ashwin, the right-arm off break
Indian bowler has been adjudged the ICC Player of the Year 2016. One can
questions the quality of his talent, he but when it comes to performance this
year it is head and shoulder above the rest. In 12 Test he has taken 72 wickets
at 23.90 with the help of 8 times 5-wicket haul. That helped India to get Top
ICC ranking and win 9 out of 12 Test this year so far, the most by any team
this year. In Twenty-20 this year he is second leading wicket taker with 23
wickets in 17 matches.
Usian Bolt
Athletics
Usian Bolt, the Jamaican
sprinter is globally known as Lightening Bolt and he justified this tag this
year by attaining the "Triple-Triple" in the Rio Olympics. As he won
the Gold in 100 m, 200 m and 4x100 m relay, and more importantly he repeated
that feat at Rio for the third time after Beijing 2008 and London 2012, capping
his Olympic career with 100% winning record.
Michael Phelps
Swimming
The American swimming great
enjoyed again a great year of his great career. Leading the US Olympic Team,
Michael Phelps won 5 Gold and single Silver medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics
held at Rio de Jenario. He won Gold in 200 m Medley, 200 m Butterfly,
4x100 Butterfly, 4x100 Medley, 4x200 Medley and Silver in 100 m Butterfly.
These five medal in 2016 made him the most decorated Olympian of all time with
28 Olympic medals, including the record 23 Gold. Phelps reportedly has retired
form sports in 2016 but he ends this year winning the awards of American
Swimmer of the Year, World Swimmer of the Year and FINA Swimmer of the Year.
Simone Biles Gymnastics
Simone Biles, the US Artistic Gymnast secured four medals the most
numbers of medals in Olympics 2016. Making her debut in Olympics, she won
record 4 Gold medals in Gymnastic team events, Women' Vault, Women' Floor
Exercises and Balance Beam categories. Although at Rio, Biles made her debut in
Olympics but because of her outstanding performance in the event she was chosen by Team USA in
the end to be the flag bearer for the closing
ceremonies, becoming the first American female gymnast to be given the honor . Which is the reason BBC includes her in the Top 100
Women in 2016 and she was the finalists of the TIMES Magazine' Person of the
Year award for 2016.
Andy Murray Tennis
Throughout 2016 Andy Murray had a nick
to nick competition with Novak Djokovic in Tennis circuit. The British Tennis star this year lost his battles to
Novak Djokovic in the finals of the Australian Open, Madrid Open, Roland Garros
and again in the French Open. However, in the final of the Italian Open
he took the revenge and defeated Djokovic in straight sets. Thereafter he went
to win the Queen' Club Championship and the biggest Tennis title Wimbledon,
defeating Milos Raonic in the final each time. Then in Rio 2016 he won
the Gold medal and thereafter his back to back title victories in China
Open Shinghai Open, Vienna Open and the Paris Masters won him $10,000,000 prize
money in a single season for the first time in his career. And, finally in the World Tour Finals Andy Murray had to face
the four-time defending champion Djokovic again in the final. where he defeated the Serbian in straight sets. This awarded
Murray his first ATP World Tour Finals title, his ninth title of 2016, and
ensured that he would hold the year-end No. 1 ranking for the first time.
Nico
Rosberg Formula 1
Like Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic in
Tennis, there remained throughout the year an intense battle in Formula One Car
Racing between Mercedes AMG Petronas drivers Luis Hamilton and the Nico
Rosberg, which the later won eventually after winning the Abu Dhabi Grand
Prix. It was the first time when the German win the Formula One World
Championship in his 18 years career. Although, Rosberg took the lead during the
initial quarter of this year by consecutively winning Australian Gran Prix,
Bahrain Grand Prix, China Grand Prix and Russian Grand Prix in a series but
because of tough fight from Luis Hamilton the World Championship remained
undecided till on November 27 when Rosberg won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. A week
after the winning the Championship he announced his retirement.
Jason
Day Golf
Jason Day attained the number one position
in the official World Golf Championship in 2016 with 445.69 points in 40 events
ahead of Rory Mcllroy who earned 421.02 points in 42 events. The
Australian won one of the most coveted Players Championship in 2016 to amass
10th PGA Tour victory of his overall career and earned over $33 million in prize money on the PGA Tour. Earlier before that triumph he had
also won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC- Dell Match Play to authenticate his
claim on top position. Capping this year Jason Day also won the Greg
Norman Medal awarded annually to the best golfer of Australia.
Roman
Reigns WWE
You may call the WWE a drama set for fixed
results, but the event is one of the world most popularly- watched sports with
exorbitant telecast rights. Professional wrestler Roman Reigns is
therefore gets an automatic place in the world' top 10 athletes in 2016.
Presently, he is not the World Heavyweight Champion but retained the title most
number of days this year for total 77 days. More dominant thing of this popular
wrestling brand is his exposure and charisma in the event, which kept the
viewers captivated on screens this year. Besides, that he is the current WWE
United States Champion and Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him number one
among the Top 500 wrestlers in 2016.
Bahman Golbarnezhad Para Olympics
Bahman Golbarnezhad, a
veteran of Iran-Iraq war where he lost his left leg and thereafter he started
his career as Para Olympian cannot be gone unnoticed in 2016 because of his
unfortunate demise during the 2016 Summer Para Olympics. In sports he started his professional career first as a wrestler, then
he turned to weightlifting and won twelve gold medals and one silver medal
before stop weightlifting due to a shoulder injury. He then started cycling in
2006. He was the only Iranian cyclist at the 2016 Paralympics, where he died in
an accident while competing in men's C4-5 road cycling event. Since 1960, it was the first time when an athlete lost his
life during competition in Olympic and Para Olympic Games. Lots of condolence
messages were delivered on his fortunate demise including of Presidents of Rio
2016 and Iran while the Iranian Sitting Volleyball team dedicated their Gold to
Bahman Golbarnezhad
By Naseem Rajput
naseemrajput@hotmail.com
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