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This is Sun&#8217;s second China Laureus honor after taking the award in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Sun won the award alongside table tennis player\u00a0<strong>Ding Ning\u00a0<\/strong>who was the female recipient of the award.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased to win the trophy and I hope to express my gratitude to my family and my coach,&#8221; said Sun. &#8220;Representing all the other excellent athletes, I&#8217;d like to take the award as great encouragement. I need to start from zero every time when I walked out the podiums.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sun was the gold medalist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-wins-second-gold-of-meet-in-200-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">200<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-grabs-gold-in-400-free-final-at-fina-world-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\">400 free <\/a>at the World Championships in Budapest this year. Sun also won the award for the most popular male athlete of 2017 at the awards show.<\/p>\n<p>Ding was the World Champion in the women&#8217;s singles and doubles at the World Championships in Dusseldorf this year.<\/p>\n<p>15-year-old swimmer\u00a0<strong>Li Bingjie\u00a0<\/strong>was presented as the Rookie of the Year as she swam to bronze in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-lowers-400-free-championship-record-at-world-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\">400<\/a> and silver in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-wins-third-straight-800-free-world-title-leah-smith-bronze\/\" target=\"_blank\">800 free<\/a> at the same Budapest World Championships. Li also broke the Asian Record in both events and anchored China to silver in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-anchors-usa-to-fourth-straight-800-free-relay-world-title\/\" target=\"_blank\">4&#215;200 free relay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese national synchro team won the team of the year for their history-making performances at the World Championships where they won the gold medal in the combination team event.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Global Times\u00a0<\/em>in China contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s\u00a0Sun Yang\u00a0was named as the best male athlete of 2017 on the China Top Ten Benefitting Laureus Sport for Good award ceremony on Wednesday. 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