Best female athlete ESPY Award - wikipedia Best female athlete ESPY Award Best Female Athlete ESPY Award Awarded for best female athlete Location Los Angeles ( 2017 ) Presented by ESPN First awarded 2000 Currently held by Simone Biles ( USA ) Website www.espn.co.uk/espys/ The Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Outstanding Female Athlete ESPY Award, has been presented annually at the ESPY Awards since 1993 to the female voted to be, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, the best athlete in a given calendar year. Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously of fans ; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts ; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected 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. Five athletes, American soccer player Mia Hamm, Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam, American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, American tennis player Serena Williams, and American mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey have won the award twice. Hamm was honored in 1998 and 2000, Sörenstam in 2005 and 2006, Vonn in 2010 and 2011, Williams in 2003 and 2013, and Rousey in 2014 and 2015. Sörenstam and Monica Seles are the only honorees not to represent the United States at the time of their win. Of the winners, six have played basketball, the most of any sport ; the only other sports with multiple individuals awarded are tennis and gymnastics. Contents 1 List of winners 2 Statistics 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References List of winners Year Image Athlete Nation represented Sport Ref ( s ) 1993 Monica Seles Yugoslavia Tennis 1994 Julie Krone United States Thoroughbred horse racing 1995 Bonnie Blair United States Speed skating Rebecca Lobo United States Basketball 1997 Amy Van Dyken United States Swimming 1998 Mia Hamm United States Soccer 1999 Chamique Holdsclaw United States Basketball 2000 Mia Hamm ( 2 ) United States Soccer 2001 Marion Jones United States Track and field 2002 Venus Williams United States Tennis 2003 Serena Williams United States Tennis Diana Taurasi United States Basketball 2005 Annika Sörenstam Sweden Golf 2006 Annika Sörenstam ( 2 ) Sweden Golf 2007 Taryne Mowatt United States Softball 2008 Candace Parker United States Basketball 2009 Nastia Liukin United States Gymnastics Lindsey Vonn United States Alpine skiing 2011 Lindsey Vonn ( 2 ) United States Alpine skiing 2012 Brittney Griner United States Basketball 2013 Serena Williams ( 2 ) United States Tennis 2014 Ronda Rousey United States Mixed martial arts 2015 Ronda Rousey ( 2 ) United States Mixed martial arts 2016 Breanna Stewart United States Basketball 2017 Simone Biles United States Gymnastics 2018 Chloe Kim United States Snowboarding Statistics Winners by sport contested Sport contested Winners ( awards ) Winners ( individuals ) Basketball 6 6 Tennis Gymnastics Alpine skiing Association football Golf Mixed martial arts Track and field Softball Speed skating Swimming Thoroughbred horse racing Snowboarding Winners by nation represented Nation Winners ( awards ) Winners ( individuals ) United States 22 17 Sweden Yugoslavia See also Best Male Athlete ESPY Award Notes ^ Jump up to : Felt, Hunter ( 13 July 2017 ). `` ESPY Awards 2017 : Simone Biles and Russell Westbrook win Best Athletes -- as it happened ''. 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Jump up ^ Tourtellotte, Bob ( 14 July 2011 ). `` Mavericks, Nowitzki shine at Espy Awards ''. Reuters. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017. Jump up ^ `` Miami Heat, LeBron James score big at the ESPYs ''. Reuters. 12 July 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017. Jump up ^ Grant, Ethan ( 18 July 2013 ). `` ESPY 2013 Winners : Robin Roberts, LeBron James and Athletes Who Stole the Show ''. Bleacher Report. Jump up ^ Zucker, Joseph ( 17 July 2014 ). `` ESPY 2014 Winners : Awards Results, Recap, Top Moments and Twitter Reaction ''. Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017. Jump up ^ Nathan, Alec ( 16 July 2015 ). `` ESPY Awards 2015 Results : Analyzing LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Other Winners ''. Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2017. Jump up ^ Evans, Jayda ( 13 July 2016 ). `` Storm rookie Breanna Stewart wins ESPY, demands equality for pro female athletes ''. The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2017. Jump up ^ `` 2018 ESPY Awards : Winners list ''. References Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com at the Library of Congress Web Archives ( archived 2002 - 02 - 23 ) Best Female Athlete ESPY Award winners 1993 : Seles 1994 : Krone 1995 : Blair 1996 : Lobo 1997 : Van Dyken 1998 : Hamm 1999 : Holdsclaw 2000 : Graf 2001 : Jones 2002 : V. Williams 2003 : S. Williams 2004 : Taurasi 2005 : Sörenstam 2006 : Sörenstam 2007 : Mowatt 2008 : Parker 2009 : Liukin 2010 : Vonn 2011 : Vonn 2012 : Griner 2013 : S. 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Question: who won the espy for best female athlete
Answer: Simone Biles