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American Mikaela Shiffrin, the greatest alpine skier of all time, is nominated for the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (ESPY) award in the Best Athlete – Women’s Sports category. Hockey star Hilary Knight, golfer Nelly Korda and WNBA standout A’ja Wilson join the Colorado-based ski star in the category. Additionally, U.S. Para Nordic Ski Team athletes Oksana Masters and Jake Adicoff were nominated for ESPY awards for Best Athlete with a Disability.
The ESPY Awards are an annual sports award show that highlights the best athletes, teams and change-makers in sports. Athletes are considered from numerous sports, including basketball, tennis, F1, soccer and football to Olympic and Paralympic sports.
Shiffrin Nominated Following Third Olympic Gold Victory
Mikaela Shiffrin is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, eight-time world champion medalist and the winningest alpine skier of all time.
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Throughout the 2025-26 season, Shiffrin was virtually untouchable in the slalom, winning nine of 10 races on the World Cup tour and claiming her record ninth discipline globe and tying the all-time women’s record with her sixth career overall title, all while pushing her career World Cup win total to 110 victories. On top of that, Shiffrin earned her third Olympic gold medal by winning the slalom by a historic margin of 1.5 seconds, cementing her place in history as the most decorated alpine ski racer of all time.
Masters Nominated for Best Athlete with a Disability
The most decorated Winter Paralympian of all time, Oksana Masters was nominated for Best Athlete with a Disability alongside teammate Jake Adicoff, Para hockey player Declan Farmer and wheelchair racing athlete Susannah Scaroni. Masters, who competes in both cross country and biathlon in the sitting classification, has amassed 24 Paralympic medals across four different sports — Para cross country skiing, Para biathlon, Para cycling and Para rowing — and has competed at eight Paralympic Games dating to London 2012 in both summer and winter Games. She was the first Para athlete nominated in the Best Athlete, Women’s Sports category at the ESPYs in 2022 and has been nominated several times in the Best Female Athlete with a Disability category.
Adicoff Nominated for Best Athlete with a Disability
Jake Adicoff, who competes in the visually impaired classification in Para cross country, was nominated in the Best Athlete with a Disability category. This is his first ESPY nomination. The nomination comes after a dominant performance at the Paralympic Winter Games, where he swept all four gold medals. The Sun Valley, Idaho, native holds 11 World Championship medals and eight Paralympic medals. In Milano Cortina, he set a record for the most Para cross country gold medals won by a Team USA athlete in a single Games.
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