The verdict is in: at the end of a long vote organized among the general public, the World Games athlete of the year trophy for 2023 is awarded to a Bolivian racquetball player. Conrrado Moscoso, 28 years old, reigning world champion and current world number 1, beat a specialist in a sport also very far from the Olympic universe, the Italian Luisa Rizzo, bronze medalist at the last world championships. drones. The Bolivian obtained 75.389 votes, the Italian 55. The rest of the ranking is occupied by the Germans Marius-Andrei Balan (834 years old) and Khrystyna Moshenska (33 years old), nominated in the Latin dance discipline. Good news for the International World Games Federation (IWGA), chaired by the Spaniard José Perurena (former president of the International Canoe Federation): the top 34 displays a good balance of sports and genders, with two men and two women on the podium (including a couple), four men and three women completing the ranking. A first round of voting, completed on January 10, resulted in a selection of ten finalists. The candidates had all been nominated by their respective federations.
