Arthur Ashe Courage Award

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The Arthur Ashe Courage Award (sometimes called the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage or Arthur Ashe for Courage Award) is an award that is part of the ESPY Awards. Although it is a sport-oriented award, it is not limited to sports-related people or actions.

Contents 1 List of recipients 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] List of recipients

Year	Recipients	Nation represented
1993	Jim Valvano	United States
1994	Steve Palermo	United States
1995	Howard Cosell	United States
1996	Loretta Claiborne	United States
1997	Muhammad Ali	United States
1998	Dean Smith	United States
1999	Billie Jean King	United States
2000	Dave Sanders (posthumously)	United States
2001	Cathy Freeman	Australia
2002	Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, and Jeremy Glick (posthumously) [1]	United States
2003	Pat Tillman and Kevin Tillman [2]	United States
2004	George Weah [3] [4]	Liberia
2005	Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah and Jim MacLaren	Ghana and United States
2006	Roia Ahmad and Shamila Kohestani	Afghanistan
2007	Trevor Ringland and David Cullen from Peace Players International	Northern Ireland
2008	Tommie Smith and John Carlos United States	United States [edit] See also Associated Press Athlete of the Year Best Male Athlete ESPY Award Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year L'Équipe Champion of Champions Award Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year United Press International Athlete of the Year Award [edit] Notes [edit] References Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com ESPY.TV 2007 announcement   This award-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.