Best Record-Breaking Performance ESPY Award

Best Record-Breaking Performance ESPY Award
Awarded forbest record-breaking performance
LocationLos Angeles (2017)
Presented byESPN
First awarded2001
Currently held byCaitlin Clark (USA)
Websitewww.espn.co.uk/espys/

The Best Record-Breaking Performance ESPY Award has been presented since 2001 to the amateur or professional sportsperson, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to have, in a single play, game, or season, completed the best record-breaking (and -setting) performance, irrespective of the nature of the record broken.

Between 2001 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been undertaken exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices nominated by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.[1]

In 2024, Caitlin Clark became the first female athlete to win this award.[2]

  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
  2. ^ Cottongim, Nick (July 12, 2024). "Caitlin Clark, First Woman To Win Best Record-Breaking Performance ESPY Award". 93.5/107.5 The Fan.