Getty Images’ ALAN CROWHURST was tonight named as the SJA Sports Photographer of the Year at the BT Sport-sponsored British Sports Journalism Awards dinner in London, thanks to a stunning Specialist Portfolio entry. Here’s a selection of Crowhurst’s best work
![Frankie Dettori continues to provide a terrific subject for sports photographers, especially after just winning the Derby on Gordon Horn at Epsom last June](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AC-SSP5-500x368.jpg)
![A week before Christmas, and Alan Crowhurst was on the racecourse again, taking this picture at Ascot as Harry Skelton gets unseated in a novice chase](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AC-SSP7-500x342.jpg)
![Ever vigilent, Alan Crowhurst captured this shot of champion jockey AP McCoy looking wistful from the weighing room on the day he retired from the saddle at Sandown in April](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AC-SSP4-500x470.jpg)
![You have to get up early to beat Alan Crowhurst to the best racing images, as this image, taken at dawn in March on Lambourn's gallops demonstrates](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AC-SSP9-500x329.jpg)
![Windsor races in June, and Alan Crowhurst managed to capture something of the beauty of the Sports of Kings with this picture](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AC-SSP2-500x301.jpg)
![Sometimes the pace drops for the jockeys, if not for sports photographers such as Alan Crowhurst, who is always looking for the next prize-winning image](https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AC-SSP6-500x343.jpg)
- Rights-free images from tonight’s SJA British Sports Journalism Awards, sponsored by BT Sport, are available from Getty Images.
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UPCOMING SJA EVENTS
- Mon Mar 7: SJA Diversity Forum, sponsored by BT Sport
- Wed May 11: VIP York Race Day, sponsored by Ladbrokes