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More
than 200 guests, including many top Midlands sporting personalities
were present at the glittering ceremony hosted by BBC Midlands
Today’s Nick Owen.
Lee, who
won three dressage gold medals at the Paralympics earlier
this year topped the voting by BBC Midlands Today’s viewers
to take the top honour. It was his second trophy of the night
having earlier collected the Disabled Sports Person Award
for the second year running.
Olympic
double medallist Leslie Law from Worcestershire landed the
Sportsman title, for taking gold in the individual Three Day
Eventing and silver in the team competition, while  Birchfield
heptathlete Kelly Sotherton (pictured right) was named Sportswoman
of the Year, following her bronze medal performance in Athens.
Scott
Mansell, an 18 year old racing driver from Tamworth was named
Young Sports Person of the Year, after becoming the youngest
driver to win the EuroBoss championship title. His successful
season included four race wins, seven pole positions and five
circuit lap records.
The Junior
Team award was collected by Church Stretton Girls Under 13s
Football Team. They are the Coca Cola English Schools Cup
Winners after beating a team from Southampton 6-1 at Chelsea.
The competition involved 1000 other schools.
Kidderminster’s
Claire Cashmore won the Young Disabled Sports Person award.
At 16, she was the youngest member of the British Paralympics
swimming squad, winning two bronze medals and setting three
British record times. Claire had to combine her training for
the games with revising for her GCSE exams at Hagley RC High
School.
The Special
Achievement Award was presented to Ray Edensor. The Staffordshire
Ambulance Service paramedic completed an amazing 20 marathons
in 20 days, even carrying a 30 pound rucksack on his back!
His gruelling journey raised £58,000 for ‘Dreams
come True’ a charity which helps terminally ill children.
 This
year’s Unsung Hero is Walter Dimmack from Wolverhampton
(pictured on the left). For the best part of 40 years Walter
has been enthusing, encouraging and educating young and old
to swim. The former building site agent has devoted his life
to helping others overcome their fear of water.
Bob Matthews
was inducted into the Midlands Sporting Hall of Fame. Bob,
a blind runner from Leamington Spa competed in his seventh
Paralympics this year at the age of 42. During his career
he has won eight golds, four silver and one bronze.
At the
ceremony, each BBC Local Radio station in the West Midlands
announced a ‘Breakthrough Award’ winner. The BBC
WM (Birmingham & the Black Country) award went to Warwickshire
and England cricketer Ian Bell and the BBC WM (Coventry &
Warwickshire) winner was Olympic archer Naomi Folkard from
Leamington Spa.
For BBC
Hereford & Worcester, the Herefordshire award went to
boxer Darren ‘Dazzo’ Williams. He’s successfully
defended the British Featherweight title three times in the
past twelve months. The Worcestershire award went to yopung
cricketer Steve Davies. He’s still to establish himself
in the County side but has already made the step up from club
cricket in Kidderminster to England Under 17s - and is the
captain the England Under 19s.
Lee Carter
picked up the BBC Radio Shropshire award. In the past twelve
months he has progressed from the terraces at Telford FC to
the boardroom, and ultimately to the Chairman’s office,
ensuring that AFC Telford lives to fight another day.
The BBC
Radio Stoke award went to 13 year old Danielle Wyatt, a schoolgirl
cricketer whose impressive year included three centuries in
successive matches for Staffordshire Under 13s. She also added
another couple of half centuries for both the Under 15s and
17s - in a season which saw her finish with a batting average
in all County games of over 40, with almost 500 runs.
The Team
of the Year award went to Warwickshire County Cricket Club
in recognition of their success in winning the Championship
title for the first time in nine years.
Full list of Winners:
World
Beaters: Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis
Junior
Team of the Year: Church Stretton Girls U13s Football Team
Young
Sports Person: Scott Mansell
Special
Achievement: Ray Edensor
Greatest
Sporting Moment: Coventry City’s FA Cup victory in 1987
BBC
Local Radio Breakthrough Awards:
· Coventry & Warwickshire: Naomi Folkard
· Herefordshire: Darren Williams
· Shropshire: Lee Carter
· Stoke: Danielle Wyatt
· WM: Ian Bell
· Worcestershire: Steve Davies
Sports
Unsung Hero: Walter Dimmack
Disabled
Sports Person: Lee Pearson MBE
Junior
Disabled Sports Person: Claire Cashmore
Team
of the Year: Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Sportswoman
of the Year: Kelly Sotherton
Sportsman
of the Year: Leslie Law
Hall
of Fame: Bob Matthews MBE
Sports
Personality of the Year: Lee Pearson MBE
The Awards
night was co-sponsored by Sport England, West Midlands and
A&H Construction of Halesowen, and supported by National
Express Coaches.
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here for picture galleries:
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ONE - WINNERS GALLERY
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TWO - GUESTS GALLERY 1
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THREE - GUESTS GALLERY 2
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FOUR - BEHIND THE SCENES
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