Léon Marchand was voted L’Équipe’s male World Champion of Champions—an award given yearly by the L’Équipe editorial workers. The award has been separated by gender since 2012; this yr marks the inaugural awards for para-athletes, which have been gained by a pair of swimmers: Brazil’s Gabriel dos Santos Araujo and China’s Jiang Yuyan.
Final week, Marchand was honored because the male French Champion of Champions. This makes him simply the third Frenchman to win the French and World crowns in the identical yr, becoming a member of Zinedine Zidane in 1998 and Renaud Lavillenie in 2014.
Males’s Champion of Champions Rating
- Léon Marchand (FRA), swimming — 1118 factors
- Armand Duplantis (SWE), athletics — 778 factors
- Tadej Pogačar (SLO), biking — 759 factors
- Teddy Reiner (FRA), judo — 229 factors
- Antoine Dupont (FRA), rugby — 223 factors
Marchand was the face of the host nation on the Paris Olympics this summer time, profitable 5 medals—4 of which have been golds in Olympic report occasions. He grew to become the primary swimmer since Kornelia Ender in 1976 to win two Olympic golds in the identical session, and within the final occasion of the meet, he swam breaststroke on France’s males’s 4×100 medley relay, serving to the staff earn bronze in a nationwide report.
These accolades helped him earn 1118 factors in L’Équipe’s rankings, securing the title by 340 factors. After defending Olympic gold and breaking the boys’s pole vault world report a number of occasions this yr, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis completed second within the voting, simply forward of Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar, who grew to become the third man to finish biking’s Triple Crown by profitable the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, and World Championship in the identical season.
Two French athletes rounded out the boys’s high 5, with Teddy Reiner (Judo) and Antoine Dupont (rugby) taking fourth and fifth in voting.
Girls’s Champion of Champions Rating
- Simone Biles (USA), gymnastics — 1100 factors
- Summer season McIntosh (CAN), swimming — 580 factors
- Katie Ledecky (USA), swimming — 552 factors
- Sydney McLaughlin (USA), athletics — 257 factors
- Yaroslava Machuchikh (UKR), athletics — 222 factors
Simone Biles gained the ladies’s World Champion of Champions rankings for the fifth time in her profession and second-straight yr. Probably the most adorned gymnast in historical past, she picked up 4 extra medals in Paris, together with gold within the all-around, vault, and staff occasions. Biles completed forward of swimmers Summer season McIntosh and Katie Ledecky in voting.
Like Marchand within the males’s rankings, she was the one athlete in her rankings to surpass 1000 factors. McIntosh—who has picked up many Canadian Athlete of the Yr honors—earned 580 factors for her Paris efficiency, which included three golds (200 butterfly, 200 IM, 400 IM) and one silver (400 freestyle).
Ledecky accomplished a historic Olympic four-peat within the girls’s 800 freestyle. She defended her gold from Tokyo within the girls’s 1500 freestyle, and her 4 medals from Paris cemented her as probably the most adorned feminine Olympic swimmer in historical past and probably the most adorned American feminine Olympian. She completed third within the voting with 552 factors, 52 factors behind the teenaged McIntosh.
Males’s Para-Sport Champion of Champions Rating
- Gabriel dos Santos Araujo (BRA), para-swimming — 595 factors
- Ihar Boki (BLR), para-swimming — 478 factors
- Alexandre Léauté (FRA), para-cycling — 429 factors
- Guo Jincheng (CHN), para-swimming — 402 factors
- Alexis Hanquinquant (FRA), para-triathlon — 385 factors
Two para-swimmers topped the rankings in L’Equipe’s first vote for the boys’s para-sport World Champion of Champions. Brazil’s Gabriel dos Santos Araujo gained the inaugural crown with 595 factors, with Ihar Boki taking the runner-up place.
Araujo, 22, gained three gold medals on the Paris Paralympics, bringing his Paralympic medal haul to 6 after profitable three (two golds, one silver) in Tokyo at 19 years outdated. He broke the boys’s 150 IM SM2 world report twice in sooner or later, reducing the mark to three:14.02 and ending fourth whereas swimming up a classification within the SM3 class. He defended his Olympic titles from Tokyo, profitable the 200 freestyle S2 and the 50 backstroke S2. Araujo swept the dash backstrokes in S2, selecting up the win within the 100 backstroke S2.
Ihar Boki is without doubt one of the most profitable Paralympic swimmers within the Video games’ historical past. He was accepted to race as a Impartial Paralympic Athlete in Paris, marking his fourth Paralympic look. He gained 5 medals, taking gold within the 50 freestyle 13, 400 freestyle S13, 100 backstroke S13, 100 butterfly S13, and 200 IM SM13.
Para-swimmer Guo Jincheng completed fourth within the voting after profitable six medals—together with 4 gold—on the Paralympics.
Girls’s Para-Sport Champion of Champions Rating
- Jiang Yuyan (CHN), para-swimming — 901 factors
- Sarah Storey (GBR), para-cycling — 720 factors
- Catherine Debrunner (SUI), para-athletics — 634 factors
- Saysunee Jana (THA), para-fencing — 346 factors
- Omara Durand (CUB), para-athletics — 221 factors
China’s Jiang Yuyan was probably the most adorned athlete of the Paris Paralympics, and that distinction helped her win the primary girls’s para-sport World Champion of Champions title. The 20-year-old gained set the tone in her first occasion, capturing the 50 freestyle S6 Paralympic title with a world report.
She additionally set world data within the 100 freestyle S7 and 100 backstroke S6 and gained a whopping seven golds on the competitors. She earned particular person titles within the 50 freestyle S6, 100 freestyle S7, 400 freestyle S6, 100 backstroke S6, and 50 butterfly S6, together with relay golds within the combined 4×50 freestyle relay 20 factors and combined 4×50 medley relay 20 factors. Her medal haul from Paris brings her profession complete of Paralympic medals to 11.
Jiang was the one feminine para-swimmer included within the high 5. Behind her, Nice Britain’s Sarah Storey took second with 720 factors to her 901. Catherine Debrunner rounded out the highest three, whereas Saysunee Jana and Omara Durand completed fourth and fifth within the voting.
