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The international sports photography competition

April 29, 2024 - October 4, 2024
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2024 International Competition Winners
Excellence in sports photography: highlights from the 7th International Competition

The Gruissan Sport Photo Festival, a leading international sports photography event, reveals the winners of its 2024 competition.
This year, nearly 450 photographers from 52 countries participated, submitting over 3,000 photos that captured the very essence of sport and its emotions.
This rigorous selection is the result of the work of an eight-expert jury that met in Paris on October 24th.
The Awards Ceremony: an exceptional event
The Gruissan SportPhoto Festival invites the public (registration required) and professionals to a gala evening on November 22nd, 2024. The awards ceremony, with a total prize pool of 10,000 euros, will be held from 6:30 PM at the Pierre Richard Cinema in Gruissan.

Winners of the 2024 International Competition
Grand Prize

A blind framing, trying to guess where the surfer will emerge from the wave, until he appears. There he is, being propelled several meters high, suspended between sky and sea with unmatched lightness. He points to the sky as if he could touch it, a movement that seems to defy gravity, taking surfing to new heights.

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© Lilou Valero/France
 
 
Action [1st Prize]

The Dutch twin sisters Brouwer, one under water, during their performance at the duet artistic swimming at the Olympic Games of Paris 2024

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© Pim Ras, Hollande, AD Sportwereld
 
 
Action [2nd prize]

Markus Rooth of Norway, Janek Oiglane of Estonia, Lindon Victor of Grenada, Rik Taam of Netherlands and Karel Tilga of Estonia compete in men’s athletics decathlon 110 meters hurdles during day 8 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on August 3, 2024 in Paris, France.

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© Joël Marklund Suède/Bid.
 
 
Action [3rd prize]

Racing 92's Fijian wing Vinaya Habosi tackles Bath's English wing Joe Cokanasiga on the try line during the European Rugby Champions Cup pool 2 match between Bath and Racing 92 at The Rec in Bath, south-west England on January 14, 2024.

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© Adrian Dennis UK/AFP
 
 
Unsual/humour [1st Prize]

Freestyle snowboarding through water splash

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© Kirill Umrikhin/USA
 
 
Unsual/humour [2nd Prize]

Ginni van Katwijk of the Netherlands warms up before the high diving 20m Platform Women Round 3 - 4 during the 21st World Aquatics Championships at the Old Doha Port in Doha (Qatar), February 14, 2024.

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© Andrea Staccioli/Italie
 
 
Unsual/humour [3rd Prize]

Divers warm up prior to the start of the Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games on October 19, 2023 in Santiago, Chile. The Games start on October 20, 2023.

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© Ezra Shaw USA/Getty
 
 
Extreme Sports [1st Prize]

A dive into Mexico's sacred waters is a dive into Mayan history. At the bottom, silence and darkness reign: it's the gateway to the underworld. It's time for the freediver to find the light again.

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© Fabrice Guérin/France
 
 
Extreme Sports [2nd Prize]

Surfer Jimmy Mckean turns off the bottom as a massive wall of southern ocean looms ominosuly behind him, at Shipsterns Bluff in Tasmania, Australia.

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© Ted Grambeau/Australie
 
 
Extreme Sports [3rd Prize]

Thomas Genon rides along a ridge in the Utah desert, United States.

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© JB Lieutard/France
 
 
Reportage [1st Prize]

This story about people who fallen into a difficult life situation. People who don't give up and find opportunity for a full life. Surgeries, rehabilitation, depression and despair led them to the search for another ways and other meaning for life in new circumstances. The top of the self-sacrificing desire to conquer the tragic situation for them becomes a playing in basketball. For people who braving itself and who coming to the sports ground to fight and win it’s a kind of challenge to fate.

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© Natalia Gorshkova/Russie
 
 
Reportage [2nd Prize]

In the village of Seilhac, Corrèze, the local café houses a boxing ring set up by former professional boxer Gilles Martin. His students, all former inmates in rehabilitation, alternate between working at the bar-restaurant and rebuilding their lives through sport.

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© William Dupuy/France
 
 
Reportage [3rd Prize]

Supporters passionnés de football loin du stade.

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© Justin Setterfield UK/Getty
 
 
The nominated photos - 2024 competition
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Alexis Boichard - KMSP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© AL Bello - Getty
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Etienne Garnier - L'Équipe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Adrian Dennis - AFP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Ezra shaw - Getty
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Franck Fife - AFP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Franck Seguin - L'Équipe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Grigory Sysoev
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Jeff Pachoud - AFP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Yara Nardi
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Phil Noble - Reuters
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© James Startt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Felix Favre
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© Ezra Shaw - Getty
2024 Schedule
April 29, 2024
Registration start date
October 4, 2024
Registration closing date
October 24, 2024
Judging panel vote on nominees
October 30, 2024
Publication of nominees
November 22, 2024
Award ceremony
The award ceremony will be held at a gala evening
November 22
GRUISSAN
Photo Contest 2024: Thank you to our talented participants!
Photo Contest 2024: Thank you to our talented participants!
The 2024 winners list can be viewed above
The 2024 winners list can be viewed above
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