Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award

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Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award
Awarded forbest female action sports athlete
CountryUnited States
Presented by ESPN
First awarded2004
Currently held by Eileen Gu (China)
Website www.espn.co.uk/espys/

The Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a female athlete from the world of action sports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2004 after the non-gender-specific Best Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award was presented the previous two years (with the American snowboarder Kelly Clark receiving the 2002 award). [1] It is given to the female, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to be the best action sports athlete in a given calendar year. Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, which is composed of a panel of experts. [2] It is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months. [3]

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The inaugural winner of the award was the American wakeboarder Dallas Friday. [4] During 2003 and 2004, Friday won 12 of the available 14 professional women's titles, including national and world championships. She became the first wakeboarder to be nominated for, and hence to win, an ESPY Award. [5] Athletes from the United States have won more times than any other nationality with ten (three times to snowboarders Jamie Anderson and Chloe Kim), followed by Australians with three, two of which went to the surfer Stephanie Gilmore. Snowboarders are most successful sportspeople, with eleven awards, followed by surfers with four. It was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] The most recent winner of the award was Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu in 2022. [7]

Winners

Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award winners and nominees
YearImageAthleteNation of citizenshipSport(s) regularly contestedNomineesRefs
2004 Dallas Friday Flag of the United States.svg  United States Wakeboarding Layne Beachley (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
Aleisha Cline (Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN) – Ski cross
Hannah Teter (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
[4] [8]
2005 Sofia Mulanovich.jpg Sofía Mulánovich Flag of Peru.svg  Peru Surfing Karin Huttary (Flag of Austria.svg  AUT) – Ski cross
Janna Meyen (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Hannah Teter (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
[9] [10]
2006 Hannah Teter (crop).jpg Hannah Teter Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (half-pipe) Gretchen Bleiler (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Cara-Beth Burnside (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Skateboarding
Dallas Friday (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Wakeboarding
Janna Meyen (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
[11] [12]
2007 Sarah Burke 2010.jpg Sarah Burke Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Freestyle skiing Jamie Anderson (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Layne Beachley (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
Torah Bright (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Elissa Steamer (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Skateboarding
[13] [14]
2008 Gretchen Bleiler (cropped).jpg Gretchen Bleiler Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (half-pipe, slopestyle) Stephanie Gilmore (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
Lindsey Jacobellis (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Jessica Patterson (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Motocross
[15] [16]
2009 Maya Gabeira (14065821984) (cropped).jpg Maya Gabeira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Surfing Torah Bright (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Sarah Burke (Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN) – Freestyle skiing
Ashley Fiolek (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Motocross
[17] [18]
2010 Torah Bright (cropped).jpg Torah Bright Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Snowboarding (half-pipe) Ashley Fiolek (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Motocross
Stephanie Gilmore (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
Jen Hudak (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Freestyle skiing
Ashleigh McIvor (Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN) – Freestyle skiing
[19] [20]
2011 Stephanie Gilmore.jpg Stephanie Gilmore Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Surfing Sarah Burke (Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN) – Freestyle skiing
Kelly Clark (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Ashley Fiolek (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Motocross
[21] [22]
2012 Jamie Anderson (cropped).JPG Jamie Anderson Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (slopestyle) Kelly Clark (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Carissa Moore (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Surfing
Kaya Turski (Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN) – Freestyle skiing
[23] [24]
2013 Stephanie Gilmore.jpg Stephanie Gilmore Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Surfing Letícia Bufoni (Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA) – Skateboarding
Kelly Clark (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Laia Sanz (Flag of Spain.svg  ESP) – Motocross
[25] [26]
2014 Jamie Anderson with campers (cropped).jpg Jamie Anderson Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (slopestyle) Maddie Bowman (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Freestyle skiing
Kelly Clark (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Vicki Golden (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Motocross
Carissa Moore (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Surfing
[27] [28]
2015 Kelly Clark @ Mammoth Mountain Ca (cropped).jpg Kelly Clark Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (half-pipe) Paige Alms (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Surfing
Stephanie Gilmore (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
Laia Sanz (Flag of Spain.svg  ESP) – Motocross
[29] [30]
2016 Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics - Podium in Women's slopestyle (Anderson crop).jpg Jamie Anderson Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (slopestyle) Keala Kennelly (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Surfing
Chloe Kim (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Carissa Moore (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Surfing
[31] [32]
2017 Anna Gasser Portrait crop.jpg Anna Gasser Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Snowboarding (slopestyle) Lacey Baker (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Skateboarding
Kelly Sildaru (Flag of Estonia.svg  EST) – Freestyle skiing
Tyler Wright (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
[33] [34]
2018 Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png Chloe Kim Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (slopestyle) Jamie Anderson (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Stephanie Gilmore (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS) – Surfing
Brighton Zeuner (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Skateboarding
[35] [36]
2019 Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png Chloe Kim Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (slopestyle) Kelly Sildaru (Flag of Estonia.svg  EST) – Skiing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL) – Snowboarding
Stephanie Gilmore (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS} Surfing
[37] [38]
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic [6]
2021 Chloe Kim (February, 2017).png Chloe Kim Flag of the United States.svg  United States Snowboarding (slopestyle) Eileen Gu (Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN) – Skiing
Carissa Moore (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Surfing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL) – Snowboarding
[39] [40]
2022 2020-01-18 Eileen Gu at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics - Women's Freeski Slopestyle - Mascot Ceremony (Martin Rulsch) 18 (cropped).jpg Eileen Gu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Freestyle skiing Chloe Kim (Flag of the United States.svg  USA) – Snowboarding
Rayssa Leal (Flag of Brazil.svg  BRA) – Skateboarding
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZLSnowboarding
[7] [41]

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