 Holmes won double gold at last year's Athens Olympics |
Britain's sporting dames Kelly Holmes and Ellen MacArthur are in line for further honours after being nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards. Double Olympic gold medallist Holmes has been short-listed for the World Sportswoman of the Year prize.
Record round-the-world yachtswoman MacArthur is among the nominees as Alternative Sportsperson of the Year.
Other British nominations include Amir Khan, Paula Radcliffe and the England cricket team.
Khan, the Olympic lightweight boxing silver medallist is up for Newcomer of the Year while both Radcliffe and the cricket team are nominated for the Comeback of the Year.
Dressage rider Lee Pearson, who won three Paralympic golds in Athens, is among the contenders for World Sportsman of the Year with a Disability. Radcliffe's Olympics ended in despair when she dropped out of both the marathon and the 10,000m but bounced back 11 weeks later to win the New York Marathon.
The England cricket team were nominated for emerging from years of disappointment with eight successive Test match victories.
Holmes' rivals for her award include Russian pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva and Sweden's Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Carolina Kluft.
Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova, Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam and Holland's Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel, the most successful cyclist in Olympic history, make up the list.
MacArthur faces competition five rivals including South African explorer Mike Horn, the first man to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle by foot and kayak.
The European Ryder Cup team have been short-listed as World Team of the Year for their record-breaking victory over the United States at Oakland Hills last September.
They will be up against Argentina's Olympic basketball champions, the Boston Red Sox baseball team, Champions League winners FC Porto, Formula One champions Ferrari and Euro 2004 winners Greece.
The only category without British interest is Sportsman of the Year Award which will be contested by Michael Phelps, Hicham El Guerrouj, Lance Armstrong, Roger Federer, Michael Schumacher and Valentino Rossi.
The winners will be named on 16 May in Estoril.
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