00:00Is Colombia just about football? Of course not.
00:04Here we have world champions, historical records, and stars from the major leagues.
00:08and athletes who are conquering stages where Colombia had never reached in multiple sports.
00:13This year there are 16 nominees in the senior category of the Spectator's Sportsman of the Year award.
00:18And these are their logos.
00:19Let's start with Ángel Barajas, who continues to make history in artistic gymnastics.
00:23In 2026 she won 7 medals at the World Cups, including 2 golds on parallel bars.
00:29His greatest performance came at the Rotterdam World Championships, where he finished fifth in the all-around competition.
00:34Seventh on the horizontal bar and helped Colombia qualify for the first time for a world team final.
00:39Another Colombian who shone on one of the world's most important sporting stages was Cristian González.
00:44The New England Patriots cornerback established himself as one of the NFL's great defensive figures,
00:50in which he ended up playing in the Super Bowl.
00:52In speed skating we have a true medal-winning machine, Colin Castro.
00:56At the World Championships in Asunción, he won 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and broke 2 world records in the 500 and 1000 meters.
01:02Adding other tournaments, such as the South American, Pan American and Central American Games,
01:07She won 18 international medals in 4 major competitions, 10 of them gold.
01:13Skating also has other candidates.
01:15Santiago Vázquez is also in the speed category.
01:17At the World Championship in Asunción, he won a gold medal and a silver medal.
01:21and set a new record in the 200 meters head-to-head race.
01:24Meanwhile, in figure skating we have Brian Carreño,
01:28who won his seventh world title in Asunción,
01:31This time in solo dance, Senia, seven-time world champion.
01:35In weightlifting, one of the great figures of Colombian sport appears,
01:40Jason López, who that year, at the World Limbo Championship in China,
01:44He made history again.
01:45He won gold in the snatch with 178 kilos, setting a new world record.
01:49And the silver medal in the Olympic total with 387 kilos,
01:53a champion who continues to break records while changing categories.
01:56Nicolás Echavarría stood out in golf,
01:58who achieved one of the most important Colombian victories of the year in March,
02:02by winning his third PGA Tour title,
02:05the most important circuit in this sport.
02:08And of course, Luis Díaz couldn't be missing,
02:10Guajiro continued to shine with Bayern Munich,
02:13one of the most important clubs in Europe.
02:15In 2026 he won the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the German Super Cup.
02:20He was a key player with the best attacking trio in the world,
02:23of the league and cup double with goals, assists and decisive performances.
02:27He didn't do as well as we expected at the World Cup.
02:29But his performance at club level cannot be ignored.
02:32In athletics there are three outstanding names.
02:35There's Flor Demis Ruiz, who had a historic season
02:37in which he made a South American record throw.
02:40She also finished third in the Diamond League Grand Final in Brussels,
02:43where he secured his qualification for the 2027 World Cup.
02:46He also won bronze at the Ultimate World Championships in Budapest,
02:49a competition reserved for the elite of athletics.
02:52However, besides Ruiz,
02:54Colombian athletics had more protagonists,
02:56like Natalia Linares,
02:57who made history in March by winning the bronze medal
03:00from the long jump at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Poland.
03:03In the world of speed there is a man impossible to ignore, Ronald Longa.
03:07The man from Chocó ran the 100 meters in just 9.85 seconds
03:11during the Pan American Championship in Medellín.
03:14South American and Colombian record.
03:16He became the fastest man in South American history.
03:19In the uncle with the compound bow we have Pablo Gómez,
03:22who starred in one of the biggest surprises of 2026
03:25when he won the World Cup in Madrid.
03:27In the final he defeated the world number one.
03:30A historic victory.
03:31Meanwhile, in track cycling we had Stephanie Cuadrado,
03:35who continues to establish herself as one of the best sprinters on the planet.
03:40Santiago Vitrago appears in road cycling.
03:42The Bogota native stood out in the Tour of Spain
03:45and ended up winning the mountain classification.
03:48In underwater activities,
03:50Pablo Aguirre conquered the world.
03:51At the world finswimming championships,
03:54from South Korea,
03:54won the gold medal in the 50-meter freediving event
03:57with a time of 16.05 seconds.
04:00The final was decided by just 4 hundredths of a second.
04:03And to close, we leave you with David Alonso.
04:05The Colombian had several wins and podium finishes in Moto2 this year
04:08and confirmed his arrival in MotoGP in 2027
04:11with a satellite team from Honda.
04:13A Colombian who is about to compete
04:16in the premier category of world motorcycling.
04:1816 names, 16 nominations, world champions,
04:22continental records, international titles
04:25and figures from the world's leading sports leagues.
04:28They all represent the best of Colombian sport in 2026
04:31And they all have arguments for aspiring
04:33to the Spectator's Sportsman of the Year,
04:35which will be delivered on December 10th.
04:38Who do you think deserves to win?
04:41Who do you think deserves to win?
