Sindhu wins ESPN’s Female Sportsperson of the Year award

• World champion shuttler P V Sindhu has won the ESPN’s ‘Female Sportsperson of the Year’ award for a third consecutive time.
• Young shooter Saurabh Chaudhary bagged the honour in the male category.
• Sprinter Dutee Chand became the first winners of the ‘Courage’ award for being inspirational both on and off the field.

Below is the complete list of winners of  ESPN India Awards 2019:

The winners were selected on the basis of votes by a 16-member panel of some of the biggest names in the sports fraternity, including anchor and commentator Harsha Bhogle, the first Indian woman to win gold at a shooting World Cup, Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat, India’s first woman tennis player to have won a match in a Grand Slam singles main draw, Nirupama Vaidyanathan Sanjeev, World Championships medallists in their respective sports in Anju Bobby George (athletics) and Jwala Gutta (badminton), and senior journalist Rohit Brijnath.

G.K.HUNT

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