Best Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award

The Best Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Outstanding Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award, was presented annually between 2002 and 2004 athlete with a physical disability, irrespective of gender, nationality, or sport contested, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. The award was bifurcated by gender in 2005, since which year Best Female and a Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Awards have been presented.

Over the three years of the award, its voting panel was composed variously of fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities. The ESPY Awards ceremony is conducted in June and awards conferred reflected performance and achievement over the twelve months previous to presentation.