Novak, Serena, All Blacks and Cruyff: Laureus Sports Awards winners

World No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic won his second straight Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award at the award ceremony conducted in Berlin on April 18, 2016. (REUTERS)

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World No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic won his second straight Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award at the award ceremony conducted in Berlin on April 18, 2016. (REUTERS)

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Serena Williams was named Laureus Sportswoman of the year, but was not present to collect her award. (File photo)

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Richie McCaw, center, captain of the All Blacks, and former rugby player Sean Fitzpatrick, right, and New Zealand's head coach Steve Hansen collect the Laureus Team of the Year award on behalf of the All Blacks. (AP)

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All Blacks player Dan Carter won the Laureus Comeback of the Year award. (File photo)

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Former Formula One driver Niki Lauda won the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award. (AP)

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American golfer Jordan Spieth won the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year award. (File photo)

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German triathlete Jan Frodeno won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year award. (REUTERS)

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Brazilian paralympic swimmer Daniel Dias won the Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award. (AFP file photo)

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2009 file photo Dutch coach Johan Cruyff looks on during a friendly soccer match of Catalunya against Argentina at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. A spokeswoman for Johan Cruyff said on Thursday Oct. 22, 2015 the Dutch football great has lung cancer. Cruyff was a smoker until undergoing an emergency heart bypass in 1991. A three-time European footballer of the year, Cruyff was synonymous with the "Clockwork Orange" Netherlands' teams of the early 1970s whose attacking brand of Total Football earned fans around the world.(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File) (AP)