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Category archive: Awards news

2 Jan
2012

Entries for SJA Sports Journalism awards now open

Sir Michael Parkinson makes the presentation to Martin Samuel, who has been named Sports Writer of the Year four times

Entry forms for the Sports Journalists’ Association 2011 British Sports Journalism Awards, including the British Sports Photography Awards, are now available online

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11 Dec
2011

Sportswomen on Rand’s standard for 50 years

Mary Rand

NORMAN GILLER reflects on the outstanding talent of the sports journalists’ first Sportswoman of the Year, and embarks on another publishing venture in fear of the men in the white coats

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9 Dec
2011

Coe announces SJA partnership with Laureus

All aboard with  Coe in the right lane

Wednesday’s SJA British Sports Awards also saw the announcement, via video link from Lord Coe, of a partnership with Laureus, the worldwide sports charity organisation

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9 Dec
2011

Cavendish’s talent outshines all at star-lit awards

Champion of champions: Mark Cavendish

PHILIP BARKER toured the tables at the 63rd annual SJA British Sports Awards. Photographs by STEVE ROWE

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8 Dec
2011

Wellington and the women put the boot in to the BBC

Proper recognition: Chrissie Wellington receives the SJA's Pat Besford award from our guest Mark Foster

JANINE SELF reports on the 63rd annual SJA British Sports Awards, where Mark Cavendish, Rebecca Adlington and Jonathan Trott, on behalf of the England cricket team, took the leading honours and Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington made the headlines. Photographs by STEVE ROWE

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7 Dec
2011

Adlington and Cavendish take SJA’s top honours

World champion swimmer Rebecca Adlington with the SJA's Sportswoman of the Year trophy which she previously won in 2008

World champions Rebecca Adlington and Mark Cavendish were named as Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year, with the world’s No.1 cricket team, England’s men, winning the Team of the Year trophy at the SJA’s British Sports Awards lunch staged in central London

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5 Dec
2011

SJA supports David Welch Student Sportswriter Award

David Welch

Open to school pupils and university students aged between 16 and 25 and who are in full-time education, the winner of the David Welch Student Sportswriter of the Year Award will get a week’s unpaid work experience on the sport desk at the Daily Telegraph, the newspaper where Welch was an influential sports editor for 20 years

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29 Nov
2011

#SJA2011 recognises top sportswomen

World-class: Jessica Ennis, with the SJA's Sportswoman of the Year trophy she retained 12 months ago

Sir Michael Parkinson, the President of the Sports Journalists’ Association, will announce to a 400-seat sell-out gathering under the chandeliers at the Grand Connaught Rooms who has been voted by the SJA members to receive the prestigious sportswoman’s trophy, which was first presented in 1959

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17 Nov
2011

#SJA2011 sold out! Few individual tickets left

The stage is set for a sell-out SJA British Sports Awards on December 7

The 2011 SJA British Sports Awards, to be staged at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on December 7, has sold out all available tables

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11 Nov
2011

Thanks to members for Sports Awards contributions

Alastair Cook: in contention as Sportsman of the Year and for the Team title

This year, the SJA’s website has carried a broader selection of articles on the achievements of the leading candidates than ever before, thanks to contributions from a number of members

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