Best Championship Performance ESPY Award

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The Best Championship Performance ESPY Award was presented in 2001 and has been presented annually since 2004 to the sportsperson, irrespective of nationality, gender, or sport contested, adjudged to have given the best performance in a single championship game, series, or tournament played in a given calendar year; the award technically devolves on both the sportsperson achieving a performance and the performance itself.

For those team sports contested professionally in North America or collegiately in the United States, championship performances are those that occur in an ultimate game and match or ultimate series of games, whilst such performances in international team sports are those that occur in the ultimate game of a premier competition or in a world championship organized by a recognized governing body. Individual championship performances are those occurring in the ultimate game or match of a significant championship or in the series of games or matches that compose a single significant championship tournament or event (in golf and tennis, respectively, e.g., a major championship or Grand Slam tournament).

Balloting for the award is conducted over the Internet by fans from amongst between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.

1 List of winners
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] List of winners

Year of award	Athlete	Nation represented or nation of citizenship	Date(s)	Game or event	Venue	Competition, governing body, or league	Competing teams	Sport	Performance
2001	Tiger Woods	United States	15 June 2000—18 June 2000	2000 United States Open	Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, United States	PGA Tour	Not applicable	Golf	Woods finishes the tournament having taken 272 strokes, 12 fewer than par, to defeat Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez by 15 strokes and to set the United States Open record for best performance to par and the men's major championship record for margin of victory
2004	Phil Mickelson	United States	April 11, 2004	2004 The Masters Tournament	Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, United States	PGA Tour	Not applicable	Golf	Mickelson completes the final nine holes of his last round in 31 strokes, birdieing five of his last seven, to post the lowest back nine score since 1986 and to overcome South African Ernie Els by one stroke to win his first career major championship
2005	Curt Schilling	United States	4 October—27 October 2004^[1]	2004 Major League Baseball playoffs	Edison International Field in Anaheim, California, United States Yankee Stadium in New York City, New York, United States (Two games) Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, United States	Major League Baseball	Boston Red Sox Anaheim Angels (in the American League Division Series) New York Yankees (in the American League Championship Series) St. Louis Cardinals (in the World Series)	Baseball	Red Sox starting pitcher Schilling wins three games across the MLB playoffs, including the second game of the World Series, and posts 3.57 postseason earned run average whilst nursing an injured right ankle that is thrice surgically repaired during the playoffs
2006	Vince Young	United States	4 January 2006	2006 Rose Bowl	Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, United States	National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A	University of Texas Longhorns University of Southern California Trojans	American football	Young, as quarterback for the Longhorns, rushes 19 times for 200 yards and three touchdowns and one two-point conversion, completes 30 of 40 passes attempted for 267 yards, and wins the game's offensive most valuable player award