Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva and Great Britain’s Mo Farah named AIPS Europe Athletes of the year
The awards which started 32 years ago is giving by AIPS Europe to outstanding sports women and men in a particular calendar year, Isinbayeva is not new to this award as this is her 3rd award while this happens to be Farah’s first ever AIPS Europe ward, Farah garnered more votes than Rafael Nadal, Franck Ribery and Sebastien Vettel.
Isinbayeva on her own part polled more votes than Ruta Meilutyte, Tina Maze and Julia Efimova
Previous winners of this award include:
MEN
Novak Djokovic (Serbia) tennis 2012, Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Formula1 2010, Roger Federer (Switzerland) tennis 2009
Rafael Nadal (Spain) tennis
2008, Michael Schumacher (Germany) 2003
To name a few
For the Women past winners include
Jessica Ennis (Great Britain) athletics 2012, Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) tennis
2006, Martina Hingis (Switzerland) tennis
1997,
Steffi Graf (Germany) tennis 1995
, and Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) tennis
1991.