Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis win top Lauerus awards Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica poses with the award for Laureus World Sportsman of the Year. JAMAICAN sprint star Usain Bolt and British athletics queen Jessica Ennis won the top prizes as athletics dominated the Laureus World Sports Awards. Bolt was crowned the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the third time at the gala awards function in Rio de Janeiro following his triple gold-medal winning performance at London 2012, where he won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay crowns. Bolt pipped a star-studded field of nominees which included British Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi, British distance runner Mo Farah and German F1 ace Sebastian Vettel. The winners of the awards are chosen by the Laureus World Sports Academy, a jury made up of 46 sports stars. Ennis, who delighted her homeland with victory in the Olympic heptathlon last year, won the World Sportswoman of the Year Award. "It is so surreal to stand here in front of all these amazing sportsmen and sportswomen," Ennis said. Europe's golfers won the Team of the Year prize following their remarkable fightback to beat the United States in the Ryder Cup at Medinah. British tennis star Andy Murray was named the top breakthrough athlete after his US Open and Olympic triumphs while hurdler Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic got the comeback of the year award. Retired US swimmer Michael Phelps was honoured with the first ever Laureus Exceptional Achievement Award after becoming the most decorated Olympian in history in London. Phelps quit swimming after the London Games where he took his career tally to 22 medals, including 18 golds. "It has been an amazing career and it is crazy to think that it is over," Phelps said in accepting the award. But I've done everything that I wanted to do in sport. I wanted to change swimming and take it to a level, and I have. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner was the winner in the action category after becoming the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound. Brazil's Paralympic swimmer Daniel Dias won the disability award.