The World Press Photo Contest awards the best images in news photography. This year 5,775 photographers from 128 countries submitted 82,951 images to the renowned contest. A jury of 18 judges selected 41 winners in these eight categories: contemporary issues, daily life, general news, long-term projects, nature, people, sports, and spot news. Each category is divided into winners for single images and also stories. Below are the winners from the nature and sports categories.

Nature

Single Images

1. A massive shelf cloud moves towards Bondi Beach. (Rohan Kelly/The Daily Telegraph)

© Anuar Patjane Floriuk - Whale Whisperers

2. A humpback whale and her newborn calf swim near Roca Partida, the smallest island of the Revillagigedo archipelago, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. During the mating season, the island waters are home to a large population of humpback whales, and are a popular diving destination. (Anuar Patjane Floriuk)

Colima Volcano in Mexico shows a powerful night explosion with lightning, ballystics and some incandescent rockfalls. Photo taken on dec. 13 at 22:24 hours, 12.5 km away from the crater near a lagoon named Carrizalillos on Comala municipality in the state of Colima. Colima Volcano had a period of enormous activity on july of 2015, at least 700 inhabitants were evacuated from their settlements. The volcano mantains activity with 3 to 6 explosions by day. Lightning on Colima Volcano explosions became common on last months. This particular lightning is more than 600 meters long, so the big light made clear some details of the south portion of volcano. It's an 8 seconds shot, time enough to catch the explosion and the lightning. Photo: Sergio Velasco

3. Colima Volcano erupts with rock showers, lightning, and lava flows. The volcano, which is one of the most active in Mexico, showed an increase in activity from July onwards. (Sergio Tapiro)

Sergio Velasco Garcia

Stories

1. Tough Times for Orangutans

A young male Sumatran orangutan threatens another male, in Batang Toru Forest. Male orangutans are intolerant of other males, and compete for territory and females. (Tim Laman for National Geographic)

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A young male Bornean orangutan climbs 30 meters up to the crown of a fruiting strangler fig tree to feed, deep in the rainforest in the Gunung Palung National Park. (Tim Laman for National Geographic)

Tim Laman

Unflanged male orangutan in a strip of remaining forest along the edge of the Mangkutup River, seen through the smoke of forest fires. Forest away from the river has burned. Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia Island of Borneo World Press Photo 2016 Contest

An orangutan is forced out to a small strip of forest along a river’s edge, by fires burning behind him. (Tim Laman for National Geographic)

Tim Laman

2. Ivory Wars

Michael Oryem, 29, poached elephant with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), operating mainly in the Garamba National Park in DRC. He says he was asked by LRA leader Joseph Kony to take ivory to him in Darfur, Sudan, and that the LRA trades the ivory to the Sudanese Army. Oryem defected from the LRA and helped take Ugandan forces through the border into the Central African Republic to retrieve a stash of ivory he had previously hidden. He is carrying two of the six tusks he hid. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images Reportage for National Geographic) Rangers exhibit their riding skills as they return to base at Zakouma National Park, Chad, after weeks on elephant patrol. The park lost nearly three quarters of its elephants in the decade up to 2011, due to raids by Janjaweed rebels and poachers from Sudan. Since then—with the park under new management—Zakouma rangers, helped by intelligence from nomad groups, have eliminated poaching almost completely. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images Reportage for National Geographic) Ugandan soldiers cross a river while on patrol against the Lord’s Resistance Army close to the border of the DRC. They are on the tracks of an Lord’s Resistance Army contingent which has come from the Garamba National Park in the DRC, where they were poaching elephant. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images Reportage for National Geographic) A shipping container stands open in the port at Lome, Togo, after customs officers had seized four tonnes of illegal ivory, found using new container-scanning technology. DNA evidence linked the ivory to an elephant massacre perpetrated by Seleka rebels in Dzanga Bai, Central African Republic, in 2013. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images Reportage for National Geographic)

3. Chameleon Under Pressure

Panther chameleon, Furcifer pardalis, orange form from northern Madagascar, now very rare in the wild due to intense collecting for the pet trade. Two males fighting. Controlled conditions in a large voliere at Madagascar exotique.

Orange panther chameleons, pictured here in captivity, fight. Originally from northern Madagascar, orange panther chameleons are very rare in the wild. (Christian Ziegler for National Geographic)

Christian Ziegler for National G

Two Decary’s leaf chameleons sit in perfect camouflage in the leaf litter of a dry forest. (Christian Ziegler for National Geographic)

Christian Ziegler for National G

A dominant male of a rare turquoise form of panther chameleon displays its colors. (Christian Ziegler for National Geographic)

Sports

Single Images

BEAVER CREEK,COLORADO,USA,08.FEB.15 - ALPINE SKIING - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Birds of Prey, Alpine combined, downhill, men. Image shows Ondrej Bank (CZE). Ondrej Bank (CZE) crashed during the downhill race of the alpine combined at the FIS World Champioships 2015 in Beaver Creek. Keywords: crash. Photo: GEPA pictures/ Christian Walgram World Press Photo 2016 Contest

1. Czech skier Ondrej Bank crashes during the downhill portion of the alpine combined contest, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Bank stumbled and lost control just before the final jump. He was hospitalized with concussion and facial injuries. (Christian Walgram/GEPA pictures)

GEPA pictures

Ron Baker (31) shoots over Nick Zeisloft (2) as Hanner Mosquera-Perea (12) and Rashard Kelly (0) battle for position under basket at the NCAA 2015 Mens Basketball Tournament game with Wichita State vs. Indiana at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska, USA on March 20th of 2015. Greg Nelson executed this photograph without posing any of the subjects. World Press Photo 2016 Contest

2. Ron Baker (31) shoots over Nick Zeisloft (2), as Hanner Mosquera-Perea (12) and Rashard Kelly (0) battle for position under the basket, at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament game between Wichita State and Indiana, at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha. Wichita won 81-76. (Greg Nelson for Sports Illustrated)

Sports Illustrated

3. Members of Neptun swimming club’s synchronized swimming section perform in sailboat position, during pre-Christmas Lucia festivities. (Jonas Lindkvist/Dagens Nyheter)

Stories

1. Vetluga’s Hockey

Любительский хоккей в российской глубинке Подготовка стадиона любительского ХК "Ветлуга" к матчам, город Ветлуга Нижегородской области World Press Photo

Team coach Evgeny Solovyov prepares the stadium for a match. (Vladimir Pesnya/Sputnik)

Photo by Vladimir Pesnya

Любительский хоккей в российской глубинке Матч между юниорскими любительскими командами города Ветлуга и посёлка Шаранга, город Ветлуга Нижегородской области World Press Photo

A match takes place between junior teams from Vetluga and the neighboring village of Sharanga. (Vladimir Pesnya/Sputnik)

Photo by Vladimir Pesnya

A member of Sharanga’s junior team waits to play. (Vladimir Pesnya/Sputnik)

Photo by Vladimir Pesnya

Любительский хоккей в российской глубинке Болельщик высказывает претензии игрокам любительского ХК "Ветлуга" в перерыве матча против команды посёлка Тоншаево, город Ветлуга Нижегородской области World Press Photo

Players in the locker room of HC Vetluga at half-time. (Vladimir Pesnya/Sputnik)

Photo by Vladimir Pesnya

2. The Gris-gris Wrestlers of Senegal

Kherou Ngor, a young wrestling champion, performs a ritual with cow’s milk, to obtain strength. (Christian Bobst) A tournament in the Adrien Senghor Arena in Dakar nears its end. (Christian Bobst) BB Bismi Ndoye defeats Maraka Dji, in a fight at the Demba Diop Stadium. (Christian Bobst) People watch a match held as part of Independence Day celebrations. (Christian Bobst)

3. Ebola Survivors Football Club

Erison Turay, walks to the soccer pitch to practice with the Ebola Survivor's Soccer Club, near his house, in the city of Kenema, 190 miles east of the capital Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Last year, 38 members of Erison's family died from the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed over 11,000 across West Africa. Erison founded the Ebola Survivor's Soccer Club as a support network for survivors and a means to battle negative stigmas in the community. (Photo Credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for the New York Times) World Press Photo 2016 Contest

Erison walks to football practice. (Tara Todras-Whitehill for the New York Times)

New York Times

Erison referees a women’s match. (Tara Todras-Whitehill for the New York Times)

Bandu Turay, second to top row, fourth from right, watches her son Erison, not pictured, play soccer as others cheer for the Ebola Survivor's Soccer Club, on a field near their house, in the city of Kenema, 190 miles east of the capital Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Last year, 38 members of Erison's family died from the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed over 11,000 across West Africa. Erison founded the Ebola Survivor's Soccer Club as a support network for survivors and a means to battle negative stigmas in the community. (Photo Credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for the New York Times) World Press Photo 2016 Contest

Bandu Turay (second row from top, fourth from right), Erison’s mother, watches him play, on a field near their house in Kenema. Bandu and Erison were the only two of their immediate family to survive the Ebola epidemic. (Tara Todras-Whitehill for the New York Times)

New York Times

Women members of the club practice a sudden-death penalty shoot-out. (Tara Todras-Whitehill for the New York Times)