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2004
Staffordshire's Midlands heroes of sport announced! |
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Staffordshire's sporting greats tasted glory at the BBC Midlands Sports
Awards, with Lee Pearson taking 'the daddy' of all the awards - the
Sports Personality of the Year.
See who else was among the prizes! |
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Lee
Pearson, Staffordshire's own Triple Paralympic Dressage Gold medallist,
pipped some big names to the Sports Personality title.
The likes of Olympic medallists Kelly Sotherton and Mark Lewis Francis
were among the nominees but our very own Lee was the public choice,
after Midlands Today viewers and website users were invited to vote
for their favourite.
What else was up for grabs?
Leek-born
Lee also plucked the Disabled Sportsman of the Year award,
while Paul Bailey, a clay-pigeon shooter from nearby
Cheddleton was one of the nominees.
Find
out more about Lee Pearson - and hear his interview
Find out more
about Paul Bailey
From marathons
to martial arts...
Ray
Edensor from Stafford (AKA The Running Paramedic) picked up
the Special Achievement Award for his sporting efforts in aid
of charity.
Sarcha
Zablocki from Stoke-on-Trent was among the runners-up, after
she became the first special needs student to achieve a black belt
in Tae Kwondo.
Click
to read more about Ray's feats
Hear
Sarcha's story
Sportsman...
Darts
'legend' (perhaps for once not too strong a word) Phil Taylor
was nominated in the Sportsman Award, but Olympic double medallist
Leslie Law from Worcestershire eventually landed the title.Check
out Phil's achievements
Sportswoman...
Kelly
Sotherton was named Sportswoman of the Year, beating our own Emma
Shaw, from Great Haywood near Rugeley, who has risen to become
another of Staffordshire's growing ranks of equestrian greats.
Scott
Mansell, an 18 year old racing driver from Tamworth was named
Young Sports Person of the Year, while 13-year-old Dannielle Wyatt was presented with the BBC Radio
Stoke award for her cricketing prowess.
Unsung Hero too
There was also an award for those who quietly get on with the
job of ensuring that our sportsmen and women can compete.
Of the five nominees, Edith Hemmings was selected for
her efforts at Stone Wheelers Cycling Club and Jane Bagnall
from Uttoxeter, was chosen for her work with blind golfers.
The dynamic duo are both 90 years old, but impressed the nominations
panel with their comittment to helping their specialist sport.
However, this year’s Unsung Hero is Walter Dimmock from
Wolverhampton.
Highlights of the evening will be shown in a special thirty-minute
programme on BBC1 at 7pm on Wednesday 8th December
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Stoke and Staffordshire
Cheapside
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 1JJ
tel: (+44) 01782 221281
e-mail: stoke@bbc.co.uk
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