TOP 10 FINALISTS EUROPE
With just 10 days to go until the inaugural AIPS Sport Media
Awards ceremony on January 21 in Lausanne, AIPS is honoured to publish the Top
Ten finalists from each continent. The
Awards submissions included an inspiring level of journalistic content from across
five continents, confirming that the quality of sports storytelling is present
worldwide.
The first edition of the AIPS Awards received an outstanding
total of 1273 submissions from 119 nations around the globe. In submitting
their work for consideration for the eight categories, colleagues from across
the globe engaged in a dialogue of sporting excellence. Such dialogue is
crucial in highlighting the importance of sport media and the need to invest in
its culture and independence.
The continental sections of AIPS have worked hard to ensure
that they are duly represented in the Awards. Hence to further highlight the
international reach and unique ties that the association has around the world,
below are the Top 10 finalists, in alphabetical order, of the AIPS Sport Media
Awards from EUROPE.
AUDIO**
Dario Ricci,
Franco Nones: per tutto l'oro ...del fondo (Franco Nones, at walking pace),
Radio24 IlSole24Ore (Italy)
Dario Ricci, Più
veloci della luce: Simone e Ivan Origone, i fratelli-jet,
Radio24-IlSole24Ore (Italy)
Fernando Evangelio Beamud, This is Fútbol Especial Mundial 2018, Cadena Cope (Spain)
Franci Pavser,
Luka Doncic - Na poti med zvezde (Luka Doncic - Becoming star), Radio
Slovenija (Slovenia)
Isabelle Langé, La
boite a souvenirs de Laurent Blanc (The souvenir box of Laurent Blanc),
RTL (France)
Jonathan Rowe, The
coach, The Cycling Podcast (United Kingdom)
Jose David Isabel Lopez, Crendes, pioneras del fútbol femenino (Crendes, the pioneers of
women's football), ElEnganche - SpainMediaRadio (Spain)
Matthias Steiner, Die
Rollstuhl Basketball Weltmeisterschaft, ARD Radio / Norddeutscher
Rundfunk (Germany)
Pirmin Styrnol/Jürgen Schmidt, Horst Eckel - Für immer ein Held von Bern (Horst
Eckel - Forever a hero of Bern), SWR2 (Germany)
Ronald Mcintosh,
Ronald McIntosh Audio Showreel, demonstrating storytelling through broadcast
commentary and reportin, BT Sport, Showtime, IAAF, ITV, IMG, BBC (United
Kingdom)
Ronny Blaschke,
Triumph und Trauer (Triumph and Grief), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany)
Slavko Jeric, The
Story of Goran Dragic: From Footballer to Basketball Star, RTV Slovenija
(Slovenia)
BLOG
Anastasia Solovyeva,
The Gold of the North. Overview of the FIS Ski FlightWorld Championships in
Oberstdorf, Sportsru (Russia)
Daniel Etchells,
Esports' debut at Ashgabat 2017 marks new chapter for AIMAG, and perhaps sport
as we know it, insidethegames.biz (United Kingdom)
Liam Morgan, Liam
Morgan: esports should be nowhere near the Olympics but it is too late because
the train has already left the station, insidethegames.biz (United
Kingdom)
Lucian Oprea,
Tenis Total: Simona Halep, Campioana La Roland Garros (Total Tennis: Simona
Halep, Roland Garros Champion), Lucianopreasport (Romania)
Miriam Terruzzi, A
voce alta, a occhi chiusi, E mi alzo sui pedali (Italy)
Miriam Terruzzi,
Spirito del Lupo (Spirit of the Wolf), E mi alzo sui pedali (Italy)
Nick Butler, Nick
Butler: There is a gap between the values sport has, wants to have and should
have, insidethegames.biz (United Kingdom)
Stefan Nestler,
Everest-Ski-Permit – eine Farce! (Everest Ski Permit - a farce!),
Abenteuer Sport - Blog der Deutschen Welle (DW) (Germany)
Ubaldo Scanagatta,
Serena…Ramos aveva ragione! Osaka, che campionessa! (Ramos was right in
Serena’s controversy! Osaka, what a champion!), Ubitennis.com (Italy)
Vasily Konov,
Футбол на краю света (Football on the edge of the world), R-Sport
(Russia)
PHOTOGRAPHY-PORTFOLIO
Adam Pretty,
Budapest World Swimming Championships, Getty Images (Germany)
Alexey Filippov,
Pyeong Chang 2018, Sputnik (Russia)
Brian Carlin, The
toughest conditions call for the toughest men and women..., Volvo Ocean
Race (Spain)
Franck Fife,
Desert, AFP (France)
István Mirkó,
Hátsó Füves (Backyard Goals), Magyar Idők (Hungary)
Kirill Kudryavtsev,
No name Games, AFP (Russia)
Matthias Hangst,
24th European Athletics Championships, Getty Images (Germany)
Patrick B. Kraemer,
Aquatics, Magicpbk/EPA/Keystone (Switzerland)
Tibor Illyes,
Backlight, Hungarian News Agency (Hungary)
Yan Han, Sports
moment, beautiful, touching, Xinhua News Agency (United Kingdom)
PHOTOGRAPHY-SPORT ACTION
Alexander Hassenstein,
Start, Getty Images (Germany)
Alexey Filippov,
Fourcade, Sputnik (Russia)
Aniko Kovacs, The
third hand, Hungarian Handball Federation (Hungary)
Carl Recine, Pile
On, BBC (United Kingdom)
Drago Sopta,
Vrsaljko sleep, Croatia Football Federation (Croatia)
Ian Macnicol,
Honey Osrin, Zimbo (United Kingdom)
Luca Bettini,
Track European Cycling Championships, penning, BettiniPhoto (Italy)
Norbert Schmidt,
Mud Fight, Norbert Schmidt Sports Photo (Germany)
Stefan Wermuth,
European Championships Glasgow, Reuters (Switzerland)
Vincent Riemersma,
Skating Shadows, PZC (Netherlands)
VIDEO-ATHLETE PROFILE
Aljoscha Pause,
Being Mario Götze - A German Football Story, DAZN (Germany)
Anthony Audureau,
Ousmane et la lutte enchantée (Ousmane, Sandguine wrestler), Demain
Dakar (France)
Arzu Qulamov,
Ertogrul, Kapaz TV (Azerbaijan)
Badih Chayban / Michael Linch, Under siege in Syria, this gymnast dreams of opening
his own gym, Olympic Channel (Spain / United Kingdom)
Efe Unur, Sepp
Blatter, TRT World (Turkey)
Elías Israel Garzón,
Los ocho apellidos vascos de Julen Lopetegui, Sportyou/20minutos (Spain)
Emanuela Audisio,
Pelé's last show, 3D Produzioni (Italy)
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza / Greg Groggel / Peter Berg, The People’s Fighters: Teofilo Stevenson and the Legend of Cuban
Boxing, Olympic Channel (Spain)
Josef Opfermann,
Amanda Reiter: Running against the prejudices, Norddeutscher Rundfunk
(NDR) (Germany)
Martin Unger, 20
years Hermann Maier, ORF - Austrian National TV (Austria)
VIDEO-DOCUMENTARY
Alan Golding, The
Rugby Codebreakers, BBC Wales (Hoi Polloi Pictures Production) (United
Kingdom)
Andy May, The
Forgotten War, BT Sport (United Kingdom)
Anthony Edgar, ONE
SHOT - Photographing the Olympic Games, The Olympic Channel/NBC Sports
(Switzerland)
Emanuela Audisio,
1968 - Sport & Revolution, 3D Produzioni (Italy)
Gyula Czinke, The
Marvellous Defender - Vitéz Olivér Halassy, GreenScreen Production Inc.
(Hungary)
Jan Pokorny,
Ostrava Golden Spike 2018, ZlataTretra.cz (Czech Republic)
Patrick Sung,
Strákarnir okkar (Our boys): Iceland and the World Cup, CNN.com (United
Kingdom)
Richard Szentes,
Men against Nature, Echo TV (Hungary)
Stuart Pollitt, Race
and Pace - The West Indians in East Lancashire, BBC North West (United
Kingdom)
Vladimir Pajić,
250 stepenika (250 steps), Sportnetwork / PGM Network (Serbia)
WRITING-BEST COLOUR PIECE
Achim Dreis,
"Wir helfen ihnen, sie helfen uns" (“We help them and they help us”),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) (Germany)
Antje Windmann,
Der Mensch im Trikot, DER SPIEGEL (Germany)
Christof Gertsch, Mikael Krogerus, 9.79 / Der gefallene Star (The fallen star),
Das Magazin/Tamedia (Switzerland)
David Ruiz De La Torre, Las raíces italianas de Messi: En un pueblo italiano, al pie de las
montañas... (Messi's Italian roots: in an Italian village, at the foot of the
mountains), MARCA (Spain)
Filippo Maria Ricci,
A trip to Liberia into the President's house, SportWeek/Gazzetta dello
Sport (Italy)
Fritz Neumann,
Sexual Abuse in Skiing: 'The Coaches Divided Up the 15- to- 20-Year-Old Girls'
("Sie haben sich die, Der Standard (Austria)
James Montague,
Leading Serbia at World Cup, Nemanja Matic Has One Foot Rooted at Home,
New York Times (Serbia)
José Ignacio Pérez Hernández, "Yo jugué al fútbol en Auschwitz" ("I
played football in Auschwitz"), MARCA (Spain)
Sergio Heredia,
¿Qué significa Messi? (What does Messi mean?), La Vanguardia (Spain)
Zsuzsa Dr. Csisztu,
Egy erős nő - A Strong Woman - portrait about Kati Szabó, former Four Time
Gymnastic Olympic Champio, Presztizs Sport Magazin (Hungary)
WRITING-BEST COLUMN
Dumitru Graur,
Tears of an old commentator, Sport in Romania (Romania)
Francesco Caremani,
C’è qualcosa che non va nel giornalismo sportivo (ma c’è futuro) (There's
something wrong with sport journalism, but there is hope), Il Foglio
(web) (Italy)
Gergely Csurka, En
edes Katinkam (My sweet Katinka), Nemzeti Sport (Switzerland)
Igor Rabiner, The
Athletes or the Slaves? Rabiner Against of Boycotting Olympics,
Sport-Express (Russia)
Jean-Michel Brochen,
Ombre et lumiere (Shadow and light), Le Magazine l'Equipe (France)
Joaquín Maroto,
Las escuchas secretas de la Guardia Civil (The secret recordings of the Guardia
Civil), AS (Spain)
Johannes Nedo, Der
den Ball frisst (Making the ball his own), Tagesspiegel (Germany)
Motez Bishara, NFL
players learning how not to go broke -- with the help of MBAs, CNN
(United Kingdom)
Oliver Brown,
Gymnast Biles' abuse scandal is lesson unlearned, The Daily Telegraph
(United Kingdom)
Sergio Heredia,
Bumerán (Boomerang), La Vanguardia (Spain)
** More than ten submissions have
received an equal number of votes and have been included in the continent's Top
Ten