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Winners announced for 2015 Sportswomen of the Year Awards

 
©Sky Sports / Andrea Southam
©Sky Sports / Andrea Southam

The winners of the 2015 Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year Awards in association with Vitality were announced at a star-studded ceremony in London on Friday night.

The prestigious Awards, now in their 28th year, celebrate the outstanding contribution to sport made by elite performers, coaches, administrators, community volunteers and inspirational female figures.

Broadcast live on Sky Sports 1 and Sky 1, the awards were hosted by Sky Sports News HQ presenter Kate Abdo and Sky’s F1 correspondent Natalie Pinkham. Presenters of the seven awards included former Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion Christine Ohuruogu, ex-England footballers Jamie Redknapp and Jamie Carragher, and TV presenter Ade Adepitan.

Other well-known guests from the world of sport included: Charlotte Edwards, Carl Froch, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Damon Hill, Steph Houghton, Tracey Neville, Heather Stanning, Amy Williams and Jonny Wilkinson.

The winners were:

The Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Year: Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Vitality Team of the Year: The England Women's Hockey Team

Young Sportswoman of the Year (under 21): Dina Asher Smith

Disability Sportswoman of the Year: Jordanne Whiley

The Helen Rollason Award for Inspiration: Annie Zaidi

Lifetime Achievement Award: Enid Bakewell

Community Award: Liverpool Homeless Football Club

©Sky Sports / Andrea Southam
©Sky Sports / Andrea Southam

Speaking after her victory, Jessica Ennis-Hill (pictured above), who previously won the Sportswoman of the Year award in 2012, said: "I'm so honoured to win this award. This time last year I never thought I would be here in this room with these amazing women, who have achieved so much and are changing so much in sport.

“It’s really emotional standing here, especially when I think back to the year I have had. It has been incredibly hard: adjusting to life as a mum, having all those amazing experiences and reaching the top of my career. “I don’t see myself as ‘Supermum’. I am a new mum and I am doing what I love, doing an amazing sport. ‘Supermums’ are mums who do so much more than I do.”