They are named in honor of Giuseppe Sciacca, an Italian architecture student that died in a parachuting accident in 1986.
The awards are given to athletes that have been deemed to have made an enormous positive contribution in the field of sports.
The award winners are chosen by the votes of a panel of international journalists, that come from dozens of different countries from around the world.
Athletes from all of the different sports worldwide, and from all of the different categories (men's, women's, paraplegic, etc.
It was won by Martino Borghese, a Swiss-Italian football player.