AIPS Sport Media Awards 2022 Continental rankings unveiled: Meet the best performers in Europe

The AIPS Sport Media Awards are proud to announce the continental rankings for Europe. To know more about the continental rankings, click here https://www.aipsmedia.com/aips/pages/articles/2023/33924.html

 

Remember that these continental rankings are the results of the submissions the International Sports Press Association received in the registration process. Please note that some rankings, according to how they performed, might contain more or less than 10 works.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY SPORT ACTION

1. John Walton (UK), Flying into the crowd - PA Media
2. Andy Couldridge (UK), Derek Chisora v Kubrat Pulev - Reuters
3. Xavier Bonilla (Spain), Thanks halo - Xavi Bonilla / DPPI
4. Armin Durgut (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Mostar Old Bridge diving - Associated Press
5. Martin Rickett (UK), Splashdown - PA Media
6. David Ramos (Spain), Colorful jump - Getty Images
6. Jesus Robledo Blanco (Spain), Eyes - Jesus Robledo (Instagram)
8. Jan De Meuleneir (Belgium), The birds - Cyclingtips.com
9. Alexey Filippov (Russia), Biathlon - RIA Novosti
9. Hannah Mckay (UK), Balance beam - Reuters
9. Erwin Scheriau (Austria), Cool down - APA - Austria Presseagentur

 

PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO

1. Oliver Scarff (UK), Anita Alvarez Rescue - AFP
2. Dario Belingheri (Italy), Cycling and its beauties - Getty Images
3. Mykola Synelnykov (Ukraine), Stop War - Uspa.com.ua
4. Roman Vondrouš (Czech Republic), Olympic biathlon - Czech News Agency
5. Bartlomiej Zborowski (Poland), Sunrun - Bartlomiej Zborowski Instagram
6. Peter Pobyjpicz (Germany), Coming home Munich Olympia 1972: Euro 2022 - Leicamonochrom.art
7. Michal Cerveny (Czech Republic), Mountain Bike World Cup 2022 - MTBS.cz
8. Victor Fraile (Spain), AFC Champions League 2022: Match Storm Day - Power Sport Images
9. Patrick Mccann (UK), The Horse - Racing Post
10. Christian Bruna (Austria), Much more than a race - EPA - European Pressphoto Agency
10. Felix Sanchez Arrazola (Spain), World Record - Soycorredor.es

 

VIDEO ATHLETE PROFILE

1. Nikolaus Mahatsek, Nikolaus Strecha (Austria), MAXimum Verstappen: The Flying Dutchman - ServusTV
2. Nicolas Delloye (France), Donovan Carrillo: First Mexican Olympic figure skater in 30 years - Olympic Channel
3. Nuria Ruano (Spain), France’s Martin Fourcade: Legends live on - OlympicChannel.com
4. Nicklas Vinde (Denmark), Handball diaries: Nora M?rk - DAZN
5. Abby Newbery (UK), Fighting for me - BBC
6. Stanimira Atanasova (Bulgaria), "Run, not walk": The example of 83-year-old Petar Velichkov - bTV Media Group
7. Rossella Grasso, Ciro Cuozzo, Antonio Lamorte (Italy), Being Diego Armando Maradona Jr, the story of Pibe de Oro’s first born - Il Riformista
8. Heidi Iro, Lukas Geller (Austria), Anton Palzer: Breaking the cycle - Eurosport 1
9. Nenad Kostić (Serbia), Exclusive Nikola Jokić interview - TV Arena sport
10. Diogo Oliveira (Portugal), Reportv: "Pure Gold" - Sport TV Portugal

 

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

1. Louis Myles (UK), Croatia: Defining a nation - FIFA+
2. Benjamin Unger (Germany), Olympics 1972: The GDR and the terror - NDR
3. David Tryhorn (UK), The Figo affair: The transfer that changed football - Netflix
4. Christoph Nahr (Germany), My Games: Munich 72 - ARD German TV
5. Mariano Amiune (Spain), 72: A Gathering of Champions - Olympic Channel
6. Kata Olah (Hungary), Conquering time, Agnes Keleti - Makabor Studio
7. Rebeca Arevalo (Spain), A brilliant curling - Olympic Channel
8. Dario Mehmedovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Rođeni - RTV FBiH
9. Jürgen Schmidt (Germany), Horst Eckel: The Last Hero of Bern - Südwestrundfunk
9. Nick Golüke (Germany), Felix Neureuther: Playing with fire: Who still needs this Olympia? - NGLOW Film and New Media Gmbh
9. Claire Ryan (UK), Rob Burrow: Living with MND - BBC
9. Nicklas Vinde (Denmark), Handball Diaries: Kielce - DAZN

 

VIDEO SHORT FEATURE

1. Pedro Temboury Entrena (Spain), Drop in with Marcelo Lusardi - Olympic Channel
2. Daniel Lacko (Croatia), Athlete's Heart: Paula Novina - Hrvatska radio televizija / Croatian National Television
3. Don Riddell (UK), Afghan women footballers who fled Taliban want to be a voice for the voiceless - CNN
4. Nuria Ruano (Spain), Kevin Rolland: France’s spectacular freestyle skier - OlympicChannel.com
5. Nick Hope (UK), Leah Hayes: Records, representation and life as an Alopecia role-model - Fina YouTube Channel
6. Matthew Kynaston (UK), Maram, a butterfly moving between flowers - The National
6. Andrew Binner (UK), Nimroy Turgott: Jamaica didn't win a medal, but we won a lot of hearts - Olympics.com (Digital)
8. Jürgen Schmidt (Germany), Markus Wasmeiers and his recipe for success: Double Olympic champion in 1994 - ARD-Sportschau
8. Ayhan Kasikci (Turkey), Istanbul bosphorus triathlon race 2022 - Ayhan Kasikci
10. Aziza Nait Sibaha (France), Tajara2i (Dare!) - France24
10. Olga Sheiko (Belarus), Top-sportsmen are not needed - Belsat TV

 

WRITING BEST COLOUR PIECE

1. Bernt Jakob Oksnes, John Rasmussen, Jorun Gaarder and Oyvind God? (Norway), A sick skiing nation - Dagbladet
2. Matt Rendell (UK), Juan Jose Florian: Colombia's Para-cycling 'superhero' and his dramatic life story - BBC
3. Riath Al-samarrai (UK), They put me on suicide watch... I went to the station to step in front of a train: The harrowing tes - Daily Mail
4. Dariusz Faron (Poland), First victory, then psychiatric hospital - Wirtualna Polska
5. Matthias Fiedler (Germany), Bremse im Kopf - Der Spiegel
6. Chris Howells (UK), Five Nations 1972: A championship abandoned & an emotionally charged return in Dublin - BBC Sport
7. Andreea Giuclea (Romania), The Summer of David Popovici - DoR (Decât o Revistă)
8. Flavia Cappellini (Italy), First flight - The Gaza Sunbirds cycling team - Rouleur
9. José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain), Children rescued by a balloon - MARCA
10. Duncan Mackay (UK), Emil Zatopek still haunted by Russians half a century after paying the prize for standing up to them - Insidethegames.biz
10. David Álvarez (Spain), Ukraine football war - El País
10. Xabier Fortes López (Spain), “I was shocked to see my knee cut from side to side” - Diario AS

 

WRITING BEST COLUMN

1. Emma Smith (UK), Thank you, Jake! Why Daniels' decision to come out can change football for the better - Goal.com
2. Michael Aylwin (UK), No fix in sight as rugby edges closer to harsh truth hardwired into collision sports - The Guardian
3. Isabelle Westbury (UK), The inevitability of conflicts of interest in a culture of one-and-done - The Telegraph
4. Michael Pavitt (UK), Valieva is a teenager at centre of scandal but focus should really be elsewhere - Insidethegames.biz
5. Oliver Brown (UK), No more excuses: Sport must finally turn its back on Putin - The Daily Telegraph
6. Piers Edwards (UK), 'Where is the response to security issues in African football?' - BBC
7. Steven Price (UK), Nottingham Forest's spending is the cost of entry into the Premier League - Forbes
8. Petz Lahure (Luxembourg), A steak with a kick - Tageblatt
9. Jean-Michel Brochen (France), The unbearable and the lightness- L'EQUIPE
10. Suzanne Wrack (UK), I cried when England won. It’s been a long journey for women’s football, and for me - The Guardian

 

AUDIO

1. Moritz Cassalette, Martin Seidemann (Germany), Jan Ullrich temporary hero - Norddeutscher Rundfunk
2. Kayley Thomas (UK), Transfer: The Emiliano Sala Story - BBC Wales
3. Ronny Blaschke (Germany), Racism in professional sports - WDR5
4. Dario Ricci (Italy), In the skies for gold and for the Duce: acrobatic flight at the Berlin Games 1936 - Radio 24
5. Jose David Isabel Lopez (Spain), Uruguay no more - Audible
6. Tim Brockmeier, Phil Hofmeister (Germany), Shocking attacks on German radio commentators during UEFA Europa League semifinals - ARD Radio
7. Nina Smole (Slovenia), The current status of women in sport - Radio Slovenia
8. Dario Ricci (Italy), From the Champions Cup to the trenches: Sarajevo, the heart of Europe - Radio 24
9. Chris Brown (UK), My Defining Moments. Episode 21: Nathan Adrian - IMG Media
10. Esther Collado Beneyto (Spain), Teika's podcast - Tribuna Deportiva
10. Edward Knowles (UK), Olympic Channel Podcast: Oyuna Uranchimeg. Finding strength in adverse times - Freelance

 

YOUNG REPORTERS PHOTOGRAPHY

1. Will Palmer (UK), Over The Top... - SWpix
2. Mattia Ozbot (Italy), The Scudetto - Mattia Ozbot / CiamilloCastoria
3. Máté Ladjánszki (Hungary), Falling - Népszava
4. Tom Weller (Germany), Winners and losers - Tom Weller
5. Giovanni Zenoni (Italy), Mirroring - Instagram
6. Matteo Arnoul (Italy), Find the Puck - Eco del Chisone
7. Mateo Villalba Sánchez (Spain), Golf Portfolio - Quality Sport Images / Golffile
8. ?sa Şimşek (Turkey), Eye in the corner - Besiktas JK
9. François Greuez (France), Paris Roubaix 2022 - Sipa Press
10. Georgi Todorov (Bulgaria), Retiring on home soil - Lap.bg

 

YOUNG REPORTERS BROADCASTING

1. Philip Dirnbeck (Austria), Emotions of the Special Olympics - ORF
2. Pierre Pillet (Switzerland), The inland glacier patrol - Léman Bleu
3. Borislav Orlinov (Bulgaria), Evdokia Popadinova: Unbreakable - Max Sport
4. Alla Vas'kovs'ka (Ukraine), First "Runday" after 24th February in Lviv. How runers met the war and why they decided to continue - TV and radio company Pershyi Zakhidnyi
5. Thess Mostoles (Spain), Becoming a professional boxer with Amy Andrew - Women in Sport
6. Lada Alekseeva (Russia), Sport during the war - Match TV
7. Halit Çiçekli (Turkey), Amputee Football World Cup Final Report - TRT
8. Thomas Rathgeb (Austria), Sports during the energy crisis: Can we afford this? - ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)
9. Sol?ne Anson (France), Florian Grengbo, a model of success - France Télévisions

 

YOUNG REPORTERS WRITING

1. Jonathan Harding (UK), 'I'll die with cancer and can't change it but I can change these people's lives' - Racing Post
2. Sana Haq (UK), Meet the Black women pushing for equality in swimming - CNN
3. Martin Schauhuber (Austria), Ten heroes, five dead: How K2 was conquered in winter - Der Standard
4. Francesco Gottardi (Italy), Rowing in Venice, the pleasure of slowness - Il Foglio
5. Um-e-aymen Babar (UK), What Zidane Iqbal and the Rising Tide of South Asian Ballers Means to Me - Versus
6. Hannah Ryan (UK), The Tokyo Olympics set the record for LGBTQ+ visibility. The Beijing Games aren’t likely to break it - CNN
7. George Ramsay (UK), She apologized for verbally abusing an Olympic judge, but questions over the conduct of China’s ‘Iro - CNN International
8. Wojciech Nowakowski (Poland), Sport is not health, again - Radio GOL
9. Benjamin Church (UK), Ukraine pins hopes on national team playing on ‘football’s front line’ in World Cup quest to lift spirits - CNN
10. Kobe Tong (UK), Sport's eating disorder crisis: The time is now to treat elite athletes like human beings – GiveMeSport

 

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