World Sports Photography Awards 2025 winners revealed – in pictures
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The World Sports Photography Awards are the only global awards for sport photography and are designed to recognise and celebrate incredible sports images and the photographers who take them. More than 2,200 professional sports photographers from over 96 countries submitted more than 13,000 images across the 24 categories to this year’s competition, which all tell compelling stories of the emotion, passion, athleticism and focus that are at the heart of sport.
![[Brazil’s Gabriel Medina reacts after coming off the back of a big wave in round three of the men’s surfing competition at the Paris Olympics. Brouillet shares the story behind his breathtaking image here.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/19878e21a0e44e685050bc8b78e4322d95bf4565/0_0_6561_4361/master/6561.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b7acec320380f90b8b7fd37f72d373b0)
Fri 10 Jan 2025 05.00 GMT. Photograph: Jérôme Brouillet/AFP/Getty Images. Photograph: Mohd Rasfan/AFP. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters. Photograph: Steffie Wunderl/HMB Media. Photograph: Marc Aspland. Photograph: Mike Carlson. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA. Photograph: Hassan Omar Wamwayi.
![[Enmanuel Reyes Pla of Spain is punched by Belgium’s Victor Schelstraete in the men’s 92kg Olympic boxing.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcc77910285960597620708b996ccf09d5c0ff62/0_0_4086_2724/master/4086.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0f6ec2bb412e06990b3934afe552519e)
Photograph: Ezra Shaw. Photograph: Darrian Traynor-ICC/ICC/Getty Images. Photograph: James Gill. Photograph: Andrew Hancock. Photograph: Kevin Sabitus/AP. Photograph: Thomas Lam. Photograph: Peter Szalmas. Photograph: Shinya Tanaka. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images.
![[Team USA perform in the Olympic artistic swimming.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a2940833d848f03ba0376798bf8a18fd35ed3bd6/0_0_5907_3938/master/5907.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d4b0dd5a5bcccab5e8eeb3ad9a0fe96b)
