Rosberg celebrates Laureus win with Beatrice Vio

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Nico Rosberg was celebrating winning the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year award this week. After receiving the award from F1 legend Emerson Fittipaldi in Monte Carlo, the world champion posed for this selfie with Italian fencer Beatrice Vio whom Rosberg described as his biggest hero of the night.
Video: Rosberg wins the Laureus 'Breakthrough' award
Vio won gold and bronze medals in fencing in Rio last year, and picked up the Laureus award for World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability on Tuesday.

Rosberg is the fifth F1 driver to be recognised at the Laureus awards, following on from Daniel Ricciardo (2015), Jenson Button (2010), Lewis Hamilton (2008) and Juan Pablo Montoya (2002).

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.