Danish Sports Name of the Year
Sports Name of the Year of Denmark (Danish: Årets Sportsnavn) is an award given to the best Danish sportsperson or team of the given year by the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark and daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten. It was first awarded in 1991. The winner gets 50,000 Danish kroner.
List of laureates
Year | Winner | Sport |
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1991 | Mette Jacobsen | |
1992 | Jesper Bank, Jesper Seier, Steen Secher | |
1993 | Denmark women's national handball team | |
1994 | Denmark women's national handball team (2) | |
1995 | Mette Jacobsen (2) | |
1996 | Bjarne Riis | |
1997 | Wilson Kipketer | |
1998 | Eskild Ebbesen, Thomas Ebert, Victor Feddersen, Thomas Poulsen | |
1999 | Camilla Martin | |
2000 | Denmark women's national handball team (3) | |
2001 | Thomas Bjørn | |
2002 | Tom Kristensen | |
2003 | Nicki Pedersen | |
2004 | Eskild Ebbesen (2), Thomas Ebert (2), Thor Kristensen, Stephan Mølvig | |
2005 | Tom Kristensen (2) | |
2006 | Mikkel Kessler | |
2007 | Mads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Hansen | |
2008 | Denmark men's national handball team | |
2009 | Lotte Friis | |
2010 | Caroline Wozniacki | |
2011 | Jeanette Ottesen | |
2012 | Lasse Norman Hansen | |
2013 | Maja Jager | |
2014 | Camilla Pedersen |
References
- Official website of National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark
- "Årets Sportsnavn" [Sports Name of the Year]. Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- "Wozniacki blev "Årets Sportsnavn"" [Wozniacki became "Sports Name of the Year"]. Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). 8 January 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
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