30 January 2024
Competition
The SPORTEL Awards Jury is responsible for judging the various programs in competition. It is composed of people from the world of sports and media. Many personalities from the world of sports and the media have served as members of the SPORTEL Awards Jury over the past 30 years.
A leading French discus thrower, Mélina is an Olympic vice-champion and two-time world medalist. Her career longevity is impressive: for 25 years in the French Team, she has taken part in 9 world finals and is preparing for her 7th Olympic Games, those of Paris 2024. One of a kind! She has also collected a record 38 national titles!
Mother of two daughters and coached by her partner, Loïc Fournet, Mélina is committed to the question of maternity for sportswomen, media coverage of women's sport and the fight against doping.
Representative of the Monegasque Olympic Committee
Member of the Board of Directors of the Monegasque Ski Federation for about thirty years, Mr Robert Colle was President from 1998 to 2005. He was part of the Monegasque Olympic Committee delegation at the Salt Lake City and Turin Olympic Games. Since 2005 he has been Vice-President of the Federation.
Mr Robert Colle was Secretary General of the Ministry of State and then Secretary General of the Government of the Principality of Monaco from 2005 to February 2022.
Stephane Le Goff has a postgraduate degree in political science and is passionate about sport. He was a Grand Reporter for Canal + for over 30 years, from 1989 to 2018. An assiduous sportsman, he has made it his mission to shed light and to challenge preconceived ideas about a multitude of sporting disciplines. He has made around fifty documentaries, some of which have won awards.
Stéphane Le Goff has received two "Micros d'Or" awards for best documentary. His film "Anger within", on the life of Jonah Lomu, the All Blacks iconic player, was used by World Rugby to promote rugby around the world. He also won an award at the Monaco SPORTEL in 2019.
A respected Grand Reporter, he has covered a dozen Olympic Games, but also a dozen World Cups in many sports (rugby, football, skiing...), the Copa America and the US Open. Stephane Le Goff is now a volunteer on the boards of several sports associations.
Ruth Gbagbi, from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, is a taekwondo athlete, competing in the under 67 kilos category. As a double Olympic medallist, world champion in 2017 and 2023, number 1 in the world taekwondo rankings in 2020, six-time African champion and four-time Grand Prix winner, she has shown an exceptional skill in her sport. She has been honored as an Officer of the Ordre National du Mérite and recognized as a Champion of Peace by Peace and Sport. Her career is an example of the determination and courage that led her to realize her dreams and inspire others.
The highlight of Ruth Gbagbi's career came at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she became the first female Olympic medalist in Côte d'Ivoire's history. This achievement was followed by a gold medal at the World Championships the following year, marking the first world title for Côte d'Ivoire. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, she added a second Olympic medal to her list of achievements. Now, she's aiming for Olympic gold at the Paris Games in 2024. In addition to her exploits on the field, Ruth Gbagbi is socially committed, sharing the values of sport to inspire young people and women to pursue their dreams.
Richard Pelham has been working in journalism for forty-four years and thirty-five years as Chief Sports photographer at The Sun Newspaper, Britain’s biggest Newspaper Online and Print.
He covered eight FIFA World Cup Final and the Severn Olympic Games.
He won Sports Photographer Of The Year seven times.
Author of A life behind The Lens which won the Sports Book Prize Renaud de Laborderie at SPORTEL Awards & The Daily Telegraph illustrated Book.
Tessa Worley is a member of the French Alpine Ski Team for nearly two decades from 2005 to 2023.
She has been a member of the Grand Bornand ski club and the Bataillon de Joinville (army of champions) since 2008.
Throughout her career, Tessa amassed an impressive collection of distinctions and titles, underlining her status as one of the world's top alpine skiers. She achieved a remarkable total of 16 World Cup victories and was on the podium 36 times, proving her consistency and excellence in the discipline.
Tessa's achievements came in the form of two individual world champion titles in giant slalom, which she won in 2013 and 2017.
In addition to her world championship victories, Tessa Worley also secured two giant slalom crystal globes that she won in 2017 and then once again in 2022.
Olivier Henry is an iconic figure in the world of advertising and marketing in France. With 27 years of experience, Olivier is a multi-award-winning French entrepreneur. Since 2022, he has been the Creative Director at Publicis Sport.
His achievements have been consistently recognized with prestigious awards such as Cannes Lions, Clio Awards, Epica Awards, Grand Prix Stratégie, Club des Directeurs Artistiques (DA), and many more.
In addition to his remarkable agency career, Olivier Henry has been teaching for 13 years at ECV Paris, where he shares his expertise and shapes the next generation of creatives
Olivier has also been invited to serve as a jury member at Cannes Lions, specifically in the "Entertainment for Sport" category, as well as in various national and international festivals.
Representative of the Representative of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee
Perrine Laffont is the first French skier to win an Olympic gold medal in the moguls race. The achievement came in Pyeongchang in 2018, when she was just 19 years old. Since then, she has been crowned world champion in the same discipline in Almaty in 2021, after winning in parallel moguls in 2017 and 2019.
The skier from Ariège also holds 43 World Cup podiums, including 26 victories, and is a 5-time winner of the World Cup moguls circuit.
Originally from Lavelanet, Perrine trained with her parents at the Monts-d'Olmes ski resort. Perrine Laffont quickly stood out from the crowd, winning the World Junior Championships in 2013, at the age of 14, before repeating in 2015 and 2016.
Her first Olympic Games appearance came in 2014, in Sochi. At the age of 15, Perrine Laffont qualified for the final and finished 14th in the moguls. It was four years later, in Pyeongchang, that the French skier achieved a clear round and finished 1st in the final, 9 hundredths ahead of Canadian Justine Dufour-Lapointe, the defending champion. She brings France a second women's medal in this event, 12 years after Sandra Laoura in Turin.
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