Macesport were once again in attendance for the 2014 Sports Journalists’ Association Awards ceremony.
The UK’s leading sports PR and sponsorship agency hosted their annual table at the SJA Awards at a gala ceremony held in central London and attended by nearly 400 celebrity guests from sport, politics and the media.
Golfer Rory McIlroy, the winner of two Majors in 2014 including the Open Championship, was announced by Sir Michael Parkinson, the President of the Sports Journalists’ Association, as the 65th winner of the SJA’s Sportsman of the Year award.
But McIlroy was denied a rare double at the SJA’s British Sports Awards when the Team of the Year prize went not to the Northern Irishman and his Ryder Cup team mates, but to Katy Mclean, Emily Scarratt, Maggie Alphonsi and the rest of the England women’s World Cup-winning rugby squad.
Jo Pavey, the European 10,000 metres champion at the age of 40, was voted by the SJA’s members as their Sportswoman of the Year.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE 2014 SJA BRITISH SPORTS AWARDS, sponsored by THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sportswoman of the Year: Jo Pavey (Athletics)
Team of the Year: England women rugby
Sportsman of the Year: Rory McIlroy (Golf)
The National Lottery Spirit of Sport Award: Dame Kelly Holmes
SJA President’s Award: Sir Chris Hoy
BT Sport JL Manning Award for services off the field of play: Welcome to Yorkshire and organisers of the Tour de France Grand Depart
SJA Committee Award: Claudia Fragapane (Gymnastics)
SJA Bill McGowran Trophy for achievement in Paralympic sport: Dan Greaves (Athletics); Kelly Gallagher with Charlotte Evans (Skiing)
SJA Peter Wilson Trophy for international newcomer: Moeen Ali (Cricket)
SJA Chairman’s Award: Lou Macari, Neil Baldwin and Peter Bowker
SJA Pat Besford Award for outstanding performance of the year: Adam Peaty (Swimming)
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