Argentinian football player Lionel Messi poses with his Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award during the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in Paris on May 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)

PARIS - Argentina's World Cup winning captain Lionel Messi was named the Laureus Sportsman of the Year, while sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bagged the top women's honor at the awards ceremony on Monday.

Messi also received an award on behalf of the Argentina men's football team, who were named World Team of the Year after their triumph at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

The 35-year-old Paris St Germain forward has previously won the award once before, sharing it with Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton in 2020.

Messi also became the first athlete to scoop both the World Sportsman of the Year Award and the World Team of the Year Award in the same year.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce a track and field sprinter from Jamaica poses after she was award for sportswoman of the year at the Laureus Sports Awards ceremony in Paris, on May 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AP)

"I was looking at the names of the incredible legends that won the Laureus Sportsman of the Year Award before me: Schumacher, Woods, Nadal, Federer, Bolt, Hamilton, Djokovic… it really sunk in what unbelievable company I’m in and what a unique honor this is," Messi said.

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Jamaican Fraser-Pryce enjoyed an outstanding 2022, which included winning the 100m gold at the World Athletics Championships.

Laureus World Sportsman of the Year nominee Argentinian football player Lionel Messi (second right) shakes hands with Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year nominee Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz (center left) on the red carpet prior to the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in Paris on May 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)

Tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, who won the 2022 US Open and rose to number one in the ATP rankings, was named the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year.

Christian Eriksen, who recovered from the cardiac arrest he suffered at the European Championship in 2021 to return to Premier League football with Brentford and then Manchester United before competing at the World Cup with Denmark, received the Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award.

Freestyle skier Eileen Gu poses after she was presented the World Action Sportsperson of the Year Award at the Laureus Sports Awards ceremony in Paris, on May 8, 2023. (PHOTO / AP)

The Laureus World Sports Awards nominees are selected by the global media, while the winners are determined by the 71 members of the Laureus World Sports Academy. The awards have been presented annually since their inception in 2000.

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The World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award went to Catherine Debrunner and the World Action Sportsperson of the Year Award to Eileen Gu, while the Laureus Sport for Good Award belonged to TeamUp.