Gallery: Check out some of the Sony World Photography Awards finalists

One of the finalists of the sport category took this photo of India's national champion skateboarder Shradda

The finalists of the Sony World Photography Awards have been announced.

There are 30 finalists in total, with three finalists in each of the ten categories.

Those categories include Environment, Portraiture, Wildlife and Nature and Sport.

Over 419,000 images from over 200 countries and territories were submitted, with the 10 category winners to be announced in April.

Here are some of the incredible finalists.

Teenage gymnast Achta Derib practices at a school on the outskirts of N'Djamena in Chad

A finalist in the Sport category, photographer Antonio López Díaz, followed the story of four young gymnasts from Chad in Central Africa.

The gymnasts won scholarships to train in Spain, with the goal of representing Chad at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Although they didn't qualify, they did get fourth place as a team at the 18th African Gymnastics Championships.

Their success led to the creation of Chad's first gymnastics federation.

In this photo gymnast Achta Derib practices a gymnastics pose at a school in Toukra, on the outskirts of N'Djamena, Chad.

Another teenage champion features in Sport finalist Chantal Pinzi's photo.

Shradda Gaikwad is a national champion skateboarder in India.

She first picked up a board at 12 years old, after delivering lunch to her father who worked as security guard in a sports store.

She is now a national gold medallist.

In the photo at the top of this page, Shradda is performing a "fly out indy grab" from the bowl at Pune's park, dressed in a white saree.

A female bear and her two cubs, napping on a snow hill from the Wildlife and Nature category

These snowy photos were taken by two of the finalists of the Wildlife and Nature category.

In Kevin Shi's photo series Nowhere To Go, he followed polar bears facing challenges from rising Arctic temperatures.

Every year the bears gather near Churchill in Canada, waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze so they can walk onto the ice.

Here a female polar bear and her cubs nap to conserve their energy.

Look closer and a snowy mound becomes a musk ox covered in snow in this photo by finalist Pascal Beaudon

In Pascal Beaudenon's photo, what at first glance looks like a snowy rock or mound is actually a musk ox covered in snow.

Musk oxen are large mammals that have been around since before the ice age!

They have an amazing ability to thrive in extreme winter weather.

Photographer Pascal Beaudenon has been observing musk ox during the winter months in the Dovrefjell-Suundalsfjella National Park in Norway.

The oxen were reintroduced to Norway from Greenland in the 1950s.

This portrait by finalist Raúl Belinchón honours the volunteers who helped clean up after Spain's floods

In the Portraiture finalists, another teenager takes centre stage.

Fourteen-year-old Marcos travelled with his father from Madrid to Catarroja in the Valencia region in Spain to help with the clear up after the devastating floods in October last year.

Photographer Raúl Belinchón took photos of young volunteers on their way home.

His photos pay tribute to the caring "Mud Angels".

Armed with mops, buckets and brushes, they cleaned houses, streets and bought clothes for those who had lost everything.