Actor Dwayne Johnson accepted the award on behalf of Vitali Klitschko, who remained in his native Ukraine Amethyst Tate is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in June 2022.

Vitali Klitschko was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1971, Wladimir five years later in Kazakhstan. Their father was a Soviet air force officer from Ukraine and their mother Russian.

Vitali Klitschko is a former WBO world heavyweight champion boxer. Klitschko is the mayor of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, and brother to fellow heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko.