From soccer genius Lionel Messi to sprint king Usain Bolt, a shimmering array of the world's greatest sports stars are in the race for top honours at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards — also called the 'Oscars of Sport' — to be presented in Berlin tomorrow.The women's category features iconic names like tennis queen Serena Williams and track and field's "Pocket Rocket" Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce among others. In the men's category, three-time winner Bolt and five-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi, are joined by tennis No.1 Novak Djokovic, triple Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton along with first time nominees Stephen Curry, star of NBA's Golden State Warriors, and golf's world No.1 Jordan Spieth, who has also been nominated in the 'Breakthrough of the Year' category.In the quintet, Messi is perhaps the biggest star to have never won this coveted trophy even though he has beennominated in five previous editions. In World Team of the Year category, the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team has been nominated for the second straight year along with Rugby world champions the All Blacks, Champions League winners FC Barcelona, NBA champions Golden State Warriors, the British Davis Cup team and the US women's football team, which won its third World Cup.The Breakthrough of the Year category has British boxer Tyson Fury and golfer Jason Day among the nominees.The Laureus World Comeback of the Year nominations features among others, American swimming sensation Michael Phelps. Also there among the nominees is Kenyan middle-distance runner David Rudisha, who returned from three years of injuries and poor results to win his second 800m World Championship gold medal. Nominations for the Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability include two former winners — Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias and France's Marie Bochet, the 2014 winner, who had her second clean sweep of all five events at Paralympic World Skiing Championships.