All the winners of the Laureus World Sports Awards, from 2000 to 2014

TheLaureus World Sports Awardsis an annual award ceremony honouring the most remarkable individuals from the world of sports along with the greatest sporting achievements throughout the year. It was established in 1999.The 2014 award winners were announced just two days ago, with Sebastian Vettel and Missy Franklinwalking away with the top honoursfor their stupendous achievements in the year 2013.We at Sportskeeda decided to list the winners of the Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year honours since the inception of the awards in the year 2000.

#1 2000 - Tiger Woods and Marion Jones

Tiger Woods: After a disappointing 1998 season, Tiger Woods came back strongly in 1999 with eight tournament wins, including the PGA Championship, to register the best season since 1974.

Marion Jones: Marion Jones won a gold medal in the 200m and a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1999 World Athletics Championships to qualify for the award among the women.

#2 2001 - Tiger Woods and Cathy Freeman

Tiger Woods: In 2000, Tiger Woods won six consecutive titles to establish the longest winning streak since 1948. Among these titles was the 2000 US Open, where he broke or tied nine tournament records. At age 24, Woods became the youngest golfer to achieve the Career Grand Slam. At the end of 2000, Woods had won nine of the twenty PGA Tour events he entered and had broken the record for lowest scoring average in tour history.

Cathy Freeman: Sprinter Cathy Freeman won the Olympic gold medal at the Sydney games in the 400m category. She won the title in a time of 49.11 seconds, in the process becoming only the second Australian Aboriginal Olympic champion.

#3 2002 - Michael Schumacher and Jennifer Capriati

Michael Schumacher: Michael Schumacher took his fourth drivers' title in the 2001 season. Four other drivers won races during the year, but no one sustained a season-long challenge for the championship. Schumacher scored a record-tying nine wins and clinched the world championship with four races to go. He finished the championship with 123 points, 58 ahead of runner-up David Coulthard.

Jennifer Capriati: Jennifer Capriati started the 2001 season seeded 12th at the Australian Open. In the semi-final and final, she dispatched the then world numbers 2 and 1 respectively to clinch the title. She clinched the French Open too but faltered at Wimbledon. Capriati accumulated the best Grand Slam record of 2001, and she was the only player to reach at least the semifinals of all four of the Grand Slam tournaments.

#4 2003 - Lance Armstrong and Serena Williams

Lance Armstrong: Competing with the US Postal team, cyclist Lance Armstrong finished the season on the number one position, in the process recording his fifth Tour De France title in a row.

Serena Williams: In 2002, Serena Williams won three of the four Majors, defeating her sister Venus in the final of the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She went on to add the 2003 Australian Open title to her collection, becoming the sixth woman in the Open Era to complete a Career Grand Slam. She was also only the fifth woman to hold all Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously.

#5 2004 - Michael Schumacher and Annika Sorenstam

Michael Schumacher: In 2003, Michael Schumacher broke Juan Manuel Fangio's record of five World Drivers' Championships by winning the drivers' title for the sixth time in a season that went down to the wire. The biggest competition came from the McLaren Mercedes and Williams BMW teams, but Schumacher held them off to clinch the title.

Annika Sorenstam: In the 2003 season, Annika Sorenstam won the LPGA Championship and the Women's British Open, becoming only the sixth player to complete the LPGA Career Grand Slam. She had five other victories worldwide, set or tied a total of 22 LPGA records and earned her sixth Player of the Year award.

#6 2005 - Roger Federer and Kelly Holmes

Roger Federer: In 2004, Roger Federer won three Grand Slam singles titles and ascended to the number 1 ranking. The Swiss won three ATP Masters Series 1000 events, one of which was on clay in Hamburg, and the other two were on hard surfaces at Indian Wells and in Canada. He also took the ATP 500 series event at Dubai and wrapped up the year by winning the year-end championships for the second time. For the first time in his career, he finished the year ranked No. 1 in the world.

Kelly Holmes: Kelly Homes participated in the 800m and 1500m categories at the Athens Olympics in 2004. She became the seventh British woman to win an athletics gold medal at the Olympics. In the 1500m category, she completed the race in 3 minutes 57.90 seconds to win the gold, in the process setting a new British record for the distance.

#7 2006 - Roger Federer and Janica Kostelic

Roger Federer: Roger Federer lost in the semifinals of the first two Grand Slam tournaments at the beginning of 2005 but he quickly reestablished his dominance on grass, winning Wimbledon. At the US Open, Federer defeated Andre Agassi in the latter's last Grand Slam final. Even though he only won two of the four Majors, he managed to maintain his position as World No. 1 comfortably, registering a supreme 81-4 record in the year.

Janica Kostelic: At the Alpine World Ski Championships in 2005, ski racer Janica Kostelic bagged gold medals in three categories - Slalom, Downhill and Combined.

#8 2007 - Roger Federer and Yelena Isinbayeva

Roger Federer: Roger Federer won three Grand Slam singles titles and reached the final of the other in 2006. He became the first man to reach all four finals in a calendar year since Rod Laver in 1969. He finished the year as World No. 1 for the third successive year, posting a 92-5 record for the season.

Yelena Isinbayeva: Legendary pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva won gold medals at the World Indoor Championship held in Moscow, the World Cup held in Athens, the World Athletics Final held in Stuttgart and the European championships in Gothenburg. She also set a new world record of 4.91 metres at an indoor meeting in Donesk, Ukraine.

#9 2008 - Roger Federer and Justine Henin

Roger Federer: In 2007, Roger Federer reached all four Grand Slam singles finals, winning three of them. Federer made five ATP Masters Series 1000 finals in 2007, winning two, and he finished as the year-end World no. 1 for the fourth time in a row. This was also the fourth time in succession that Federer had clinched the Sportsman of the Year award.

Justine Henin: In 2007, Justin Henin won two out of the four Grand Slams. The Belgian ended the year ranked World No. 1 for the third time in her career. She lost just four matches all year, finishing with a 63–4 record for the season, and defeated Serena Williams at the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

#10 2009 - Usain Bolt and Yelena Isinbayeva

Usain Bolt: At the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008, Usain Bolt won the gold medal in both the 100m and 200m categories. He won the 100m race with a new world record timing of 9.69s. In the 200m category too the Jamaican set a new world record, winning gold in 19.30s. He became the first person to break wto world records in one Olympic.

Yelena Isinbayeva: In 2008, during the indoor season, Yelena Isinbayeva set her 21st world record, clearing 4.95 metres in Ukraine. A few weeks later, in Spain, Isinbayeva won the World Indoor Championship. It was her third consecutive World Indoor title. At the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, Isinbayeva needed two vaults to prolong her Olympic title reign and went on to finish the competition with 5.05m, a world record at the time, her 24th world record.

#11 2010 - Usain Bolt and Serena Williams

Usain Bolt: At the 2009 World Championships in August, Bolt recorded the fastest ever pre-final performance of 9.89 seconds. At the finals Bolt improved his world record with a time of 9.58 s to win his first World Championship gold medal. This was the largest ever margin of improvement in the 100m world record since the beginning of electronic timing.

Serena Williams: In 2009 Serena won two out of the four Grand slams - the Australian Open and Wimbledon. She also regained her World No. 1 ranking. Serena became the all-time career prize money leader in women's sports in the same year.

#12 2011 - Rafael Nadal and Lindsey Vonn

Rafael Nadal: 2010 proved to be a brilliant year for Nadal as he regained his World No. 1 spot. He won three Grand Slams in the year - the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open - to become the first man in history to hold Major titles on three different surfaces. Nadal also became only the sixth player in history to complete the career Grand Slam when he defeated Novak Djokovic in the US Open final. In addition, Nadal also won three Masters 1000 tournaments during the year.

Lindsey Vonn: At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn participated in five events out of which she won the gold medal in one event - downhill - and the bronze in another (super G).

#13 2012 - Novak Djokovic and Vivian Cheruiyot

Novak Djokovic: Djokovic won 10 tournaments in 2011, including Grand Slam tournament victories at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Djokovic also captured a record-breaking five ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, and set a new record for the most prize money won in a single season on the ATP World Tour (12 million dollars). Djokovic finished the season with a 70–6 record and the year-end ranking of World No. 1.

Vivian Cheruiyot: Kenyan long distance runner Vivian Cheruiyot won the World Cross Country Championship held in Spain. Also, at the World Championship in Daegu, South Korea that same year, she came first in both 5000m and 10,000m categories.

#14 2013 - Usain Bolt and Jessica Ennis

Usain Bolt: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the men’s 100m and 200m race at the 2012 Beijing Olympics, to replicate his feat from four years ago in Beijing. He won the 100 metres gold medal with a time of 9.63 seconds, thereby setting a new Olympic record for that distance.

Jessica Ennis: British track and field athlete Jessica Ennis won the gold medal in heptathlon at the 2012 London Olympics with a British and Commonwealth record score of 6,955 points, beating silver medalist Lilli Schwarzkopf by 306 points and bronze medalist Tatyana Chernova by a further 21 points. She also won the silver medal in pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships held in Istanbul that year.

#15 2014 - Sebastian Vettel and Missy Franklin

Sebastian Vettel: Sebastian Vettel won his fourth straight Formula One World Championship last season, joining legends Juan Manuel Fangio, Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost in the list of drivers who have won the championship a minimum four times. Vettel is just 26 years old and is the youngest ever four-time champion. In 2013 he won 13 Grands Prix, including a record nine straight victories.

Missy Franklin: Aged just 18, American swimer Missy Franklin became the first woman in history to win six gold medals at a single World Championships - three individual and three relay. She refuses prize money and endorsements so that she can maintain her amateur status in college.

#16 Players with highest number of awards

Here is the list of all the winners of the Sportsman of the Year award:

Roger Federer (4 times)

Usain Bolt (3 times)

Michael Schumacher and Tiger Woods (2 times each)

Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Lance Armstrong and Sebastian Vettel (1 time each)

List of winners of the Sportswoman of the Year award:

Serena Williams and Yelena Isinbeyeva (2 times each)

Marion Jones, Cathy Freeman, Jennifer Capriati, Annika Sorenstam, Kelly Holmes, Janica Kostelic, Justine Henin, Lindsey Vonn, Vivian Cheruyiot, Jessica Ennis and Missy Franklin (1 time each)