International Emmy Award for Best Sports Documentary

The International Emmy Award for Best Sports Documentary is presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) to the best sports documentaries produced and initially aired outside of the United States. The award was first introduced in 2022 at the 50th International Emmy Awards.

Rules and regulations
According to the rules of the International Academy, a sport documentary is "a factual presentation dedicated to physical or mind sports activities (e.g. Team, Individual, Extreme, Esports, Intellectual, etc.), sports competitions and/or sportspersons".

In order to quality for the category, the program must be at least 20 minutes in length and it must be a single edited program, broadcast in one or more episodes. If the program is a series, two episodes must be submitted to represent the series as a whole. The program may employ partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.