U.S. Paralympian Tatyana McFadden has won the 2015 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award at a glittering ceremony in Shanghai, China, for her achievements in 2014 in both track and field and cross-country skiing.

In her first full season in snow sports, McFadden won silver in the 1-kilometer cross-country sprint at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games and 32 days later won the London Marathon.

With further wins in Boston, Chicago and New York, she repeated her feat of 2013, when she became the first athlete ever to win all four major world marathons in a calendar year.

On the track she also set new world records over 1,500-meter and 5,000 T54 to cap a memorable year.