The winners of the 2022 World Sports Photography Contest have been announced
3The winners of the 2022 World Sports Photography Contest have been announced
The most striking moments of the athletes competing in the most prestigious sports competitions of the world were announced in the 2022 World Sports Photography Contest.
Tennis
Photographer David Gray's photo of tennis player Naomi Osaka at the 2022 Australian Open has been declared the grand winner of the 2022 World Sports Photography Competition. Osaka, a 4-time Grand Slam winner, was photographed helping a butterfly that landed on her hand.
Football
Dustin Satloff caught the Army Black Knights players relaxing in the locker room.
Athletics
Photographer Samuel Barnes captured Italian Ambra Sabatini's victory at the Tokyo Paralympic Games with this shot.
Swimming
Ian MacNicol captured the moment of Caeleb Dressel, who broke the record at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, coming out of the water.
Baseball
Abbie Parr captured the moment of victory for Texas Rangers' Adolis Garcia.
Basketball
Kevin Jairaj captured the moment Dallas Maverick's Dorian Finney-Smith took the ball from Milwaukee Bucks' Khris Middleton.
Cricket
Pakistan's left-handed cricketer Khusdil Shah was shot by photographer Muhammad Arbaz.
Boxing
Richard Pelham captured the resting moment of Australian fighter Ebanie Bridges taking a break from the fight.
Bike
Ashley & Jered Gruber have immortalized the cyclists that fill the streets of Siena, Italy.
Riding
Mike Egerton captured the moment Charles Bishop rode at Wolverhampton Racecourse in England.
Formula 1
Max Verstappen, who crashed at the F1 Grand Prix in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was shot by photographer Clive Rose.
Football
Eloisa Sanchez de Alba captured the moment of victory for Mexican football team Cruz Azul 23 years later.
Gymnastics
Photographer Ashley Landis captured the legs of 16-year-old Chinese Guan Chenchen, who won a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, from close-up.
Golf
Photographer Richard Heathcote captured the moment of American golfer Bryson DeChambeau hitting the ball in the 42nd Ryder Cup.
Ice Hockey
Photographer Bruce Bennet captured the game between the American ice hockey teams Pittsburgh Penguins and the New Jersey Devils.
Martial arts
The moment of Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar's fight in Abu Dhabi was captured by John Barry.
Motor sports
Yasi Seidan's maneuver at the 2021 Dakar Races was filmed by Marian Chytka.
Barbell
Isaac Julián Morillas Sánchez caught the moment of winning the gold medal of Chinese weightlifter Chen Lijun, who participated in the Tokyo Olympics.
Racquet Sports
This moment of Alexa Szvitacs from the Hungary team was captured by Donald Miralle at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Rugby
Steve Haag caught the rugby match at the Cape Town stadium in South Africa.
Extreme Sports
Romanian Catalin Preda jumps from the 27-metre platform. The photographer who captured the moment is Morgan Treacy.
Locations and Landscapes
Mark Edward Harris captured the image of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Water sports
Lukas Rohan, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, shot by Morgan Treacy.
Winter sports
Swede Linn Persson was framed by Joel Marklund while racing in Slovenia in 2021.