Alpine skiers Markus Salcher and Veronika Aigner respectively won the men's and women's awards in 2020, and there will be new victors this year with neither making a shortlist.

Natalija Eder, Janina Falk and Carina Edlinger comprise the women's shortlist.

Eder won F13 javelin and F12 shot put bronze medals at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Falk competed in the swimming pool at Tokyo 2020, while Edlinger - who has a visual impairment - won a fourth Para Nordic Skiing World Cup crystal globe this year.

Walter Ablinger, Thomas Frühwirth and Pepo Puch are on the men's shortlist.

Ablinger - who is currently recovering from a training accident - won Austria's lone gold medal at the Paralympics.

Ablinger won H3 time trial gold as well as H3 road race bronze.

Frühwirth won the silver medal in the H4 version of both of those races to also leave Tokyo with two medals.

Puch won two equestrian silver medals at Tokyo 2020.

The winners will receive their prizes at a ceremony at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna.