Iga Swiatek has won eight titles this year, including two Grand Slams. She established herself as the world No. 1 on the WTA Tour by winning 37 consecutive matches between Doha and Wimbledon.
Performances that have marked the entire sports world, beyond the small world of tennis, since Tuesday she was elected European sportswoman of the year by a jury of 27 news agencies from the old continent.
“The European Sportsperson of the Year” has been awarded since 1958. Its ranking confuses sportsmen and women. In 2022 the prize is awarded to a tennis player for the fourteenth time (second most awarded discipline after athletics) and for the second time in a row after Novak Djokovic in 2021.
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The agency organizing these elections is the Polish Press Agency, but Swiatek is only the fifth Polish personality in history to receive this award after Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak (athlete) in 1958, Irena Kirszenstein (athlete) in 1966, Irena Szewinska (athlete ) in 1974 and Robert Lewandowski (soccer) in 2020.
This year, the 21-year-old is ahead of high jumper Armand Duplantis and Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen.
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