Greg Rutherford and Jessica Ennis-Hill win SJA British Sportsmen and Sportswomen awards for 2015, from EME News

Greg Rutherford, photo by PhotoRun.net

Jessica Ennis-Hill, photo by PhotoRun.net

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Rutherford and Ennis-Hill

LONDON (GBR): Long Jump World champion Athletes Greg Rutherford and Jessica Ennis-Hill, world and Olympic heptathlon champion, took the major awards at SJA British Sports Awards in London. The golden duo were presented with their awards by Patrick Collins, President of the Sports Journalists’ Association, having been voted top of the poll in the Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year categories. Behind Rutherford double Tour de France winner Chris Froome, and triple Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. He is the first track athlete to win the trophy since 1998. In women ranking second female road cyclist, Lizzie Armitstead, and Lizzy Yarnold, skeleton world champion. Ennis-Hill also won the title in 2009, 2010 and 2012 and equals Paul Radcliffe’s four SJA honours. The 2015 awards were announced at a gala ceremony in central London, sponsored by The National Lottery, and attended by nearly 400 celebrity guests from sport, politics and the media. Mo Farah was 5th, Dina Asher-Smith 10th as she also got the SJA Pat Besford Award for outstanding performance of the year. Inform sportsjournalists.co.uk.

Editor’s note: Greg Rutherford and Jessica Ennis-Hill are two of the most popular athletes in British Athletics. Jessie Ennis-Hill had ana amazing year, and Greg Rutherford added the World Champs to his wins at Olympic, European and Commonwealth Games awards.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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