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Mo Farah and Isinbayeva winners of the AIPS Europe Athletes of the year 2013

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MALTA, January 1, 2014 – For the first time in his career, Mo Farah – one of the leading figures in the athletics world and for the third time in her carreer Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the winners in the 2013 Edition of the European Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards. 
 
It was the  31st  annual poll conducted by the AIPS – EUROPE as the biggest continental section of AIPS and was established in 1977 at the AIPS Congress in Milano Marittima. ?Since 2003, the annual poll was named the Frank Taylor Trophy in honour of the former president of both AIPS and UEPS.  
 
Mo Farah, runner up in last year’s edition got a total of 58 votes ahead of Rafael Nadal (tennis) with 49 votes, Formula1 champion Sebastian Vettel with 44 votes and France football player Franck Ribery with 42 votes
   
The women's award for the Evgen Bergant Trophy was won for the third time by Russian athlete Yelena Isinbayeva with 56 votes ahead of Slovenian Tina Maze with 49 votes followed by Russian swimmer Julia Efimova with 41 votes and Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania with 36 votes. Isinbayeva won this title already in 2005 and 2008.
 
 
Bolt, Fraser-Pryce winners AIPS America Athletes of the Year Awards
The Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce were elected Best Athletes of America in 2013 by AIPS America, the American continental arm of AIPS through the vote of their national associations.
 
Bolt wins the award for the second consecutive year, while Fraser-Pryce edged out North American tennis player Serena Williams in a second round of voting following a first round tie.
 
Other male athletes who received votes were the Mexican gymnast Daniel Corral, the Colombian soccer player Radamel Falcao Garcia and the Cuban judoka Ashley Gonzalez.
 
Among the women were Colombian jumper Catherine Ibarguen and the Ecuadorian weightlifter Alexandra Escobar.
 
BEST TEAM
 
The Dominican Republic's baseball team was voted best team of 2013 ahead of the football teams of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador's champion team, Emelec.
 
BEST PRESS FACILITIES
 
The AIPS America 2013 award for the Best Press Center was the one of the Cali World Games in Colombia, ahead of the Olympic Basketball Qualifying tournament of the Americas in Caracas, Venezuela.

IAAF President starts New Year with visit to China

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XIAMEN, China – IAAF President Lamine Diack started 2014 with an extensive schedule of activities in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen, home to the Xiamen International Marathon, the first IAAF Gold Label Road Race of 2014. 

The first day of the New Year saw President Diack meet with representatives of the Chinese media, giving interviews to five major national newspapers and press agencies, as well as two national TV stations. In the afternoon of 1 January, President Diack met with Mayor Liu Keqing, the leader of the Xiamen local government and other leading Chinese politicians and sports administrators, including the President of the Chinese Athletic Association and IAAF Council Member Zhaocai Du and his long-standing friend and fellow IOC Member Dr Ching-kuo Wu, President of the International Boxing Federation. 

The race was started by President Diack, who later presented medals to the winners and also handed awards to the winners of a children’s’ painting competition which had the subject of ‘Marathon –Run for Love’. 

President Diack will leave Xiamen on Friday, traveling to Beijing and Tokyo for additional meetings, according to the IAAF. 

President Diack also has called on Chinese authorities to improve air quality in their cities, before the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, reports noticiasaominuto.com.

Bolt, Fraser-Pryce are All-Athletics Athletes of 2013

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Two Jamaican sprint sensations, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are the male and female Athletes of the Year respectively according to All-Athletics.com, the world leading track and field statistics website.

All-Athletics.com WORLD ATHLETE of the Year in 2013: 

Male: Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
Female: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica)

All-Athletics.com announced the Athletes of the Year in the different Areas, as well.

All-Athletics.com Athlete of the Year in 2013 in Africa:

Male:    Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya)
Female: Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria)

All-Athletics.com Athlete of the Year in 2013 in Asia:

Male: Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) 
Female: Hitomi Niya (Japan)

All-Athletics.com Athlete of the Year in 2013 in Europe:

Male: Bohdan Bondarenko (Ukraine)
Female: Zuzana Hejnová (Czech Republic)

All-Athletics.com Athlete of the Year in 2013 in North and Central America:

Male: Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
Female: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica)

All-Athletics.com Athlete of the Year in 2013 in Oceania:

Male: Jared Tallent (Australia) 
Female: Valerie Adams (New Zealand)

All-Athletics.com Athlete of the Year in 2013 in South America:

Male: Mauro Vinicius Da Silva (Brazil)
Female: Caterine Ibarguen (Colombia)

Notes:

– The Athletes of the Year are determined based on the All-Athletics.com Overall Rankings dated 31 December 2013.

IAAF Year-End Review: Walk Challenge

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Jared Tallent’s second triumph in the IAAF Race Walking Challenge could be said to very much a family affair.

The 2008 winner, and second last year, topped the standings in 2013 and banked a cheque for USD$30,000 thanks in part to his new coach: his wife and international race walker Claire, herself a former winner in Challenge races.

The Tallents also moved from their Australian Institute of Sport base in Canberra to Adelaide, but not from Jared’s lofty position in the Challenge.

However, when it came to really big winners, Yelena Lashmanova was the women in the money.

By taking the IAAF World Championship 20km in Moscow, the Olympic champion also headed the Challenge women’s standings and walked away, literally, with USD$90,000 in total – USD$60,000 for the World Championships win and another USD $30,000 for topping the Challenge standings.

It underlined the 21-year-old’s meteoric rise since her surprise IAAF World race Walking Cup win on home turf at Saransk two years ago.

Wallace Spearmon targets indoor season

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WACO, USA – Top USA 200m runner Wallace Spearmon has announced that he will run indoors this season, with meets in Arkansas and NYRR Millrose on his schedule so far, he informs via his Twitter.

Meanwhile, Thirty athletes have been named to Team USA for the 25th Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country race on Saturday, January 11, informs USATF. 

Former winner Bobby Mack and Chris Derrick, who finished 10th at the 2013 World Cross Country, highlight the senior men’s selections. The race will be streamed live by USATF.tv.

Kelly-Ann Baptiste hearing set for end of January

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – – World class sprinter Kelly-Ann Baptiste will know her fate at the end of January when she faces a panel set up by the National Association of Athletic Administration (NAAA) into the findings of a positive test.

The 27 year old withdrew from the 2013 World Championships due to a failed drug test taken earlier in the year. The doping hearing of sprinter Semoy Hackett will be held in New York in February.

Meanwhile, also in Trinidad & Tobago, World 400m hurdles champion Jehue Gordon took home 4 awards at the Spirit of Sports Awards (SOSA) Ceremony on Saturday, reports trinidadexpress.com. 

At the ceremony at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s, the 22 year old won the Male Athlete of the Year Award, Performance of the Year, Consistent Performer of the Year and Breakthrough Performance of the Year. 
He also received a duplex from the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) as well as a cheque for 800,000 Trinidad dollars (about 124,000 USD). 

An emotional Gordon said, “It is amazing to be here and to receive these gifts."

Shaunae Miller sets eyes on World Indoor 2014

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NASSAU, Bahamas Nineteen-year-old Bahamian Shaunae Miller, who finished 4th in the 200m at the World Champiosnhips in Moscow, is preparing for her first full season as a professional athlete, reports tribune242.com. 

The Bahamian, who is still pursuing academics at the University of Georgia, says that her training is going great and she is really excited for the indoor season in which she hopes to compete in Sopot at the World Indoors over 400m. 

The former World Youth and World Junior 400m champion says that she has stepped up her training under Coach George Cleare. 

Also in her plans for 2014 are the Carifta Games and the IAAF World Relays.

Meanwhile, also in Bahamas, Donald Thomas, who placed 6th in the World high jump final, has been named the Bahama’s Male Athlete of 2013, across all sports, by the Nassau Guardian. 
World 400mH semi finalist Jeffery Gibson was 2nd on the Guardian’s list.

Bolt gets Sports Journalists Award

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LAUSANNE – USA tennis star Serena Williams and Jamaica's athletics king Usain Bolt have been voted AIPS Best Athletes for the second year in a row.

A panel of 470 sports journalists from 96 countries voted in this year's poll. 

Six-time Olympic champion and eight-time World champion Usain Bolt received an overwhelming 1282 votes, followed by F1 master Sebastian Vettel on 499, and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo on 437.

1 – Bolt Usain
1282 (30.24%)
2 – Vettel Sebastian
499 (11.77%)
3 – Ronaldo Cristiano
437 (10.31%)

WOMEN

World No. 1 Serena Williams, who in 2013 aced her finest season statistically with a 78-4 record, and 11 titles, received 915 votes, ahead of Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayev (644) and Jamaican athletics star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (551).

1 – Williams Serena
915 (22.25%)
2 – Isinbayeva Yelena
644 (15.66%)
3 – Fraser-Pryce Shelly-Ann
551 (13.4%)

Best Team

European champions Bayern Munich who dominated football in 2013, winning their first Club World Cup title, and finishing the Bundesliga season unbeaten were the resounding winners of the Best Team award with 1707 votes, 1128 ahead of second place winner Miami Heat, two-time NBA Champions who racked up an incredible 27-game winning streak in 2013. New Zealand's All Blacks Rugby team with 14 wins from 14 matches in 2013 took third place.

1 – Bayern Munich
1707 (41.32%)
2 – Miami Heat
579 (14.02%)
3 – New Zealand All Blacks Rugby
461 (11.16%)

Best Press Facilities

This year's Best Press Facilities Award has been split into two categories:

Best One Day Sporting Event and Best Press Facilities, Major Championship.

Winner of the One Day Sporting Event award was the UEFA Champions League Final.

Winners of the second category were very close with the 2013 Moscow IAAF Track and Field Championships receiving 558 votes, the FIFA Confederations Cup (545) and FINA World Championships (486).

1 – UEFA Champions League Final
757 (23.36%)
1 – IAAF Track and Field World Championships
558 (17.22%)
2 – FIFA Confederations Cup
545 (16.82%)
3 – FINA World Championships
486 (15%)

Two Jamaican sprint sensations, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are the male and female Athletes of the Year

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Two Jamaican sprint sensations, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are the male and female Athletes of the Year respectively according to All-Athletics.com, the world leading track and field statistics website.

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