Jelena is a female basketball player, who is involved in and plays for the National Basketball Federation of North Macedonia. She has been recognised for her numerous achievements and is a great inspiration for young girls in the country. She was a captain of the Senior National team of Macedonia and is also a youth coach working with young girls on a local level to continue searching for their goals and reaching their full capacities.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is a crossbench peer and legendary Paralympian wheelchair racer - one of the most successful British athletes of all time.
Over an international career spanning 19 years she won 11 Paralympic Gold medals, held over 30 world records and won the London Marathon six times.

A very distinguished Portuguese television presenter with a health and
well-being blog called “Simply Flow”.

Narcisa Lecusanu is a former handballer who played for the Romanian national team. She received a silver medal in the 2005 World Championship.

In 2011 she was the technical director of the national women's handball team of Romania.

Silver medalist at the 2019 World championship. (Biathlon)

Sara Isakovič is the most successful Slovenian swimmer, winner of the silver Olympic medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which was the highlight of her sports career. After completing her career, she found her mission in researching brain function and performance in psychology.

Zorana Arunovic is a Serbian shooter. At the recently finished European Games in Minsk, she won two medals and was the most successful athlete of the Serbian team. She is the current Vice-Champion of the World and the first athlete from Serbia to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Kaltrina Zeka (Kosovo) is a karate athlete.

Ivan Klepić (Bosnia) works for the Bosnian Ministry of Culture & Sports. He is the European champion in Karate in the +84kg category.

Janine Flock is an Austrian Olympic skeleton racer, silver medal at the 2016 World Championship.

The two times World Cheerleading Championship winners Finnish Cheerleading Team is represented by Rosanna Toivonen, one of the captains.

Olympic bronze medallist in triple jumping and Chair of the NOC Athlete’s Entourage Commission.

Tomislav is a Macedonian tennis player who has been awarded first place in the ATP F10 Georgia and has participated in Wimbledon Junior and Roland Garros Junior Grand Slam. This year he is joining the EWoS Ambassadors team for North Macedonia, aiming to reach out to young athletes & inspire them to realise their goals and continue to be successful as they learn and grow. He is a local hero that continues to empower young children with all kinds of disabilities, physical and mental, to continue to work towards their dreams.

Brigita Langerholc is a Slovenian athlete. She performed for Slovenia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and 2008 in Beijing.

Dejan is a Macedonian handball player for Telekom Veszprém and the North Macedonian national team. He is a great handball player that is an inspiration to a lot of young people in the country, giving them something to look up to as well as to fight for. He has reached great success through his hard work, training and for never giving up. This year we are proud to have him as an Ambassador who will spread the message of the be active campaign on a local, regional, national and international level.

Andrej Hauptman is a Slovenian former professional road racing cyclist. He was a member of Slovenian Olympic team at Summer Olympic games 2000 in Sidney and 2004 in Athens.

Jana Dukátová won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships: 3 golds (C1: 2010; K1: 2006; K1 team: 2011), 4 silvers (K1: 2010, 2011, 2017; K1 team: 2009) and a bronze (K1 team: 2014). She also won the overall World Cup title 4 times in the K1 class (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013). At the European Championships she won a total of 14 medals (4 golds, 5 silvers and 5 bronzes).

A popular tv-chef who also participated in dutch gameshows.

Karl Izzo is the Head Coach of Malta’s national waterpolo team and Director of the World Waterpolo Coaches Association.

Paralympic medalist in wheelchair tennis.

European sabre champion at the 2020 European Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships. (Fencing)

Patricia Matos is a Portuguese sports journalist. She has been a journalist for TVI since 2007. She was part of TVI24's initial project, where she presented weekend afternoons and after hours. She later became the face of Diário da Manhã .

Olympic medalist in short track ice skating.

Bronze medalist at the 2019 European championship. (Boxing)

Born in Santo Domingo, May 26, 1993, Ray Derley is a Spanish athlete who competes in artistic gymnastics and who specializes in floor and jump tests.

He was awarded a bronze medal at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a gold medal at the 2015 Baku European Games. Both of these awards were for floor events

Taybe Yusein is the leader of the national women's wrestling team in Bulgaria. She is 2018 World Cup champion in the 62kg category. She was the number one athlete in Bulgaria in 2018.

Old top olympic athlete and now Fitness coach who has a very famous Dutch program to get older people moving in the morning.

An adapted swimming athlete holding a remarkable record.
He was won the European Champion title four times, has been awarded European Vice Champion seventeen times and has won ten bronze medals.

He won the title of World Runner-up five times and was considered one of the three best adapted swimmers in 2016 by the Portuguese Swimming Federation. He won the Best Swimming Athlete Award by the same Federation in 2017 and 2018.

Former Portuguese athlete and Olympic champion, one of the best of his
generation, known across the world for long distance athletics.
Lopes excelled in track, road and cross-country events.

Otylia is a former swimmer, a two time silver medalist at the Olympics, two times World Champions, five times European champion, three-time world record holder.

Benjamin Savšek (born 24 March 1987) is a Slovenian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2002.
He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C1: 2017), three silvers (C1: 2014, 2015, C1 team: 2018) and three bronzes (C1: 2013, C1 team: 2014, 2015). He also won seven medals at the European Canoe Slalom Championships (4 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes).

Zofia is a windsurfer, Olympic medalist in London 2012 in RS: X class (bronze medal). She's also won medals at the World and European championships.

Andreas Onea´s career highlight was the bronze medal in Swimming at the Paralympics in Rio. As #BeActive Ambassador he wants Austrians to be fitter, more self-confident and happier: "Being active means development; it´s the foundation of our lives."

Georgie Twigg MBE was an International field hockey player, having played at international level from 2010 through to 2016, retiring officially from hockey in 2018. She played as a midfielder for both England and Great Britain.

Baris Telli (Turkey) is a National Football Player, EURO 2024 Ambassador.

A powerlifter, Justyna is a Paralympic silver medal in the Beijing 2008 Olympics, she is medalist in both the World and European championships.

David Andrew Smith MBE took up Paralympic Rowing in 2009 after representing Great Britain in able-bodied Karate between 1993-1999 and Bobsleigh from 2002-2006. During this time, he also worked with the British Ski Teams as a national assistant coach.

Sergey Bubka is multiple Gold medal winner in the World Championship and Olympic Games, in pole vault. He is an IAAF Hall of Famer, a l'Equipe Champion des Champions, a Marca Leyenda.
He was the first pole vaulter ever to clear 6.10 meters.

Yannick AGNEL is a former French swimmer specializing in sprint and middle-distance (100 to 400 meters) freestyle swimming events.

He won 2 gold medals during the London 2012 Olympic Games in 200-meters freestyle and in the 4×100-meters freestyle relayb. He also became two-time World champion in 2013. On August 7, 2016, at the end of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, he announced his retirement from competitive swimming. He remains the World record holder for male 400-meters freestyle in short course and the European record holder for male 800-meters freestyle also in short course.

Nela Bunčić is a fitness enthusiast who is using social media to motivate people to be physicaly active and live a healthy lifestyle. A few years ago she started with active running with a goal to run her first half marathon. Today she ran more than 30 half marathons including the famous New York Marathon.

Nemanja Majdov is a Serbian judo player. He is the holder of Master's title - black belt 3rd Day. In 2017, at the World Championship held in Budapest he became a World Champion. At recently finished World Judo Championship in Japan he won bronze medal and continued his road to Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

A former World Cup alpine ski racer from Croatia, who specialized in the slalom and combined races, but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers
able to score points in all disciplines.His main accomplishments include a 2003 World Championship gold medal in slalom, an Olympic silver medal in slalom in 2010, Olympic silver medals in

After becoming blind, Jorge Pina was forced to leave professional boxing and
reshape his life. When the doctors gave him the news, he asked, "Can I run?"
and soon began training. Since, he has participated in the Beijing Paralympic
Games in 2008, in London in 2012 and the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.

Nuno Delgado is a former judoka. He has become known for winning Portugal's first Olympic medal in judo after he won the bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. He was also a senior European champion.

European champion 2016 and 2018, World champion 2014 in the 54 kg category (Boxing)

Aged 15, he became the first Croatian gymnast to enter the individual finals of a senior world competition (Olympics, WC, SK), entering the World Cup finals in Paris. Later, at the World Cup in New York in 2005, he became the first Croatian gymnast to win an individual medal at a senior world competition. This was also the first senior medal in gymnastics for Croatia since independence. He is the first Croatian gymnast to win the World Cup competition (2005 in Ghent) and the Universiade (in Izmir).

One of the best dutch judoka's.

Tonis Niinemets wanted to become a volleyball player but now he is one of the most loved Estonian actors. Still, his dream is to try out every sports he can, right now he is working on his skills in cycling.

Martin Stefqanovski is a professional swimmer who has participated in numerous major international competitions, including the Balkan Games, European and World Championships, the World University Olympic Games and the Olympic Games.

Sašo Bertoncelj got involved in gymnastics from a very early age. He started training at the National Sports Association at the age of seven. From the very beginning, his coach was Sebastian Piletic. He has won two medals at the European Championships in 2010 and 2014, and added silver medal from the European Championship in Glasgow in August in 2018.

Anja Čarman is a Slovenian swimmer. She won several medals at European LC and SC Championships and competed at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Anja is an alumnus of swimming powerhouse The Bolles School.

Joana Bartaškienė is a sports gymnast. She is the pioneer of aerobics in Lithuania.

Gerti Shima is a professional basketball player.

Silver medal at the 2019 European Championship in Minsk and world champion at the 2019 Military World Games in China. (Judo)

Xhafer Rakipllari is a University professor.

John McAvoy (United Kingdom) is currently a triathlete however he was previously a high profile armed robber who has found redemption through the power of sport. Having broken both British and World records whilst in prison he is now forging a new life as an endurance athlete.

Tomáš Kovács, alias Tomi Kid (born 20 June 1977 in Galanta, SVK) is a former Slovak boxer.

Alexander Wieczerzak is a German judoka. He won a gold medal at the World Championships in 2017 and 2010 and is preparing with the judo team for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Maria is a European junior javelin champion. She took fourth place at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.

Jan Volko is a Slovakian sprinter.
He received the silver medal at the 2017 European Indoor Championships and the gold medal at the 2019 European Indoor Championships.

Nina is a three times world champion fencer(U23); Second place at the European Championship (Seniors); Second place at the World Championship (Team); Third place at the Georgian championship; Two time first place in the satellite tournaments; Bronze medal holder at the world cup (Senior); Silver medal holder at the world cup (U 23);.

She has won more than 30 medals at international and national level. She is also an architect.

Simone Perrotta è stato un calciatore professionista. Ha militato in diverse squadre della Serie A, vincendo una Coppa Italia. Ha giocato nella Nazionale di calcio Under 21 vincendo il titolo europeo e nella Nazionale maggiore vincendo i Mondiali del 2006 in Germania.

Jernej Slivnik is the most successful Slovenian para-alpine skier. He made his debut at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, making an excellent 12th place in the slalom, which is the best Slovenian ranking since the 1991 Paralympic Winter Games.

Professional athlete born 1996, since 2009 she has trained in professional track and field, representing North Macedonia in European and World sports events, including the Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016. She was awarded best athlete in North Macedonia 8 years in a row, from 2010 until 2019, best athlete of the city Skopje 2017,2018,2019., 9 times National Champion, 8 National Records. Drita is an athlete that inspires social cohesion within the country and is fighting for young girls, no matter what their religion or background to continue reaching their goals.

Maciej is a long and high jump athlete. He won gold in tine London and Rio Paralympics.

Eberhard Gienger is a former gymnast and world champion on high bars. He is now member of the German parliament and spokesperson of his party for sports and voluntary work.

Denislav Kodjabashev is a Paralympian Table Tennis player.

Olympic champion in heptathlon and Chair of the NOC Women in Sport Commission.

Tanja Mihhailova – Saar is a Russian-Estonian pop singer, dancer and actress. She represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Amazing"

World champion at the 2019 European games in Minsk and bronze medalist at the 2018 Women’s Kumite 55 kg event in Madrid. (Karate)

Mirsad Catic (Bosnia) is an executive board member for the National Olympic Committee of Bosnia.

Monika Pyrek is a pole vaulter, a medalist in the World and European Championships. She participated four times in the Olympics. She now runs the Monika Pyrek Foundation and the "Jump in Dreams" scholarship fund.

Ozan Karakus (Turkey) is the president of the Turkish Sports Industry Association.

Sandra Raju is a fitness coach and influencer, having worked as a Nike Master Trainer for years

Šárka Kašpárková is a former Czech track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump. She attended her first Summer Olympics in 1992, participating in the high jump.
She won an Olympic bronze medal for the triple jump at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Šárka became a world champion at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, her winning jump of 15.20m is a Czech record until today.

Johanny Reyes is a health and well-being manager, personal trainer and group fitness instructor for UN City Copenhagen. He is actively engaged in promoting healthy lifestyles, nutrition and exercise.

Maya Azarashvili (Georgia) is a former sprinter, especially in the 200m. She was a semi-finalist of the World Championship in 1987.

At birth, Dino was diagnosed with Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a disease characterized by multiple joint contractures. He started playing sports in 2004 to improve his health. His biggest success was winning a gold medal at the 2019 World Paragliding Championships in London. In total, he has more than 30 appearances recorded in various competitions, of which it is worth noting the 1st place at the European Paralympic Championships in Dublin in 2018 and 3rd place at the European Paralympic Championships in Reykjavik in 2009.

Marko Milič is a Slovenian former professional basketball player. After being selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1997 NBA Draft (34th overall), Milič's rights were traded to the Phoenix Suns. After seeing limited NBA duty (44 career games) during his two seasons with the Suns, he returned to Europe and played for Union Olimpija , Real Madrid, Fortitudo Bologna, Pesaro (2004 Italian Cup finalist) and Virtus Bologna. He also represented Fenerbahçe in the first part of the 1998-99 season, due to the NBA season's lockout.

Rasa Sraka Vukovic is a successful athlete and Olympian. She competed in Judo. She represented Slovenia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and 2012 in London, where she finished 7th.
At the 2005 World Cup in Cairo, she won the first medal in Slovenian judo history.

Three time European champion (2017, 2018, 2019), silver medal at the 2018 World championship, silver medal at the 2020 European championship. (Wrestling)

Roberts Radičuks is nordic walking athlete and member of Latvian Academy of Sports Education

Very talented and young skateboarder, who is set to enter her first olympics.

Monika is an athlete that has inspired a large number of girls to not be discouraged to take part in the man’s world, she is a karate champion and has reached 3rd place on a European level which was a wonderful success story for North Macedonia as well as the female population. She is an inspiration to girls, working towards gender equality in sport and paving the way for females in the sport sector.

Iulian Berco has participated in 65 marathons and ultramarathons in South Africa, New Zealand, the Europe, CIS and other regions. He has organised over 20 sport events, mostly running competitions. He has been involved in over 25 charitable fundraising actions, and in over 100 TV and radio programs.

Kakhi Kakhiashvili, a former weightlifter, won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, became European champion (1992, 1993, 1995, 1996), World Champion (1995, 1998, 1999), USSR Cup Champion 1991.

He is also a seven times World record holder, was awarded the best athlete of the year in Georgia (1992, 1993), is President of the National Weightlifting Federation (2015 to present) and is a member of the International Federation of Membership Committee.

Zan Košir has three Olympic medals, one silver and two bronze, which he won in Sochi 2014 and Pyongyang 2018.
Košir is currently one of the best snowboarders in the world. He competes in the Parallel Slalom and the Giant Slalom. He has his own team, which he also leads.

President of Turkish Sports for All Federation.

Olga Saladukha is a triple jumper. 3 times European Champion, 1 time World Champion and European Indoor Champion, and bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 2012.
Member of the NOC Executive Committee and Chair of the NOC Commission "Athlete's Entourage".

World champion kickboxing, also known as 'the king of kickboxing'.