In this Aug 23, 2020 photo, Bayern Munich's Canadian midfielder Alphonso Davies celebrates with the trophy after the UEFA Champions League final football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon. (MIGUEL A LOPES / POOL / AFP)

TORONTO - Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies and Super Bowl winner Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who skipped the 2020 NFL season to work on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic, were named co-winners of the Lou Marsh Trophy for Canada’s athlete of the year on Tuesday.

Alphonso Davies won five trophies with his German club during a stellar year in which he became the first Canadian to win a Champions League men’s title

A panel of sports journalists from across the country voted on the award, which is named after a former Toronto Star sports editor, with Davies and Duvernay-Tardif each receiving 18 votes.

The other finalists were Jamal Murray of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and soccer players Christine Sinclair and Kadeisha Buchanan.

Davies, a 20-year-old left back, won five trophies with his German club during a stellar year in which he became the first Canadian to win a Champions League men’s title.

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Guard for the Kansas City Chiefs Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (left) looks on during Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on Feb 2, 2020. (TIMOTHY A CLARY / AFP)

“I am truly honoured and humbled to have been selected as the co-winner for the 2020 Lou Marsh Trophy,” Davies, who was born in a refugee camp in Ghana and moved to Canada when he was five, said in a Canada Soccer news release.

“Canada welcomed me and my family and I am grateful for the opportunity to realize my dream of being a professional football player and representing Canada on the world stage.”

Duvernay-Tardif, a medical school graduate, won a Super Bowl in February as the starting right guard with the Kansas City Chiefs and in July announced he would sit out a season in favour of working as an orderly at a long-term care facility.

“Humbled to win the Lou Marsh Award with @AlphonsoDavies one of the greatest athletes Canada has ever produced,” Duvernay-Tardif wrote on Twitter.