Guardian Sport received five top prizes at the prestigious SJA British Sports Journalism Awards on Monday evening.
The Guardian’s chief sports writer, Barney Ronay, won two prizes, named both columnist of the year and popular culture commentator of the year. Donald McRae also won two awards: as best feature writer and specialist correspondent of the year, both of which he also won in the previous year’s event.
Suzanne Wrack was named best women’s sport journalist for the second time in succession, having won the inaugural prize in the category last year.
Jonathan Liew was recognised with a silver award in the columnist category, having won the title for the previous three years. Tom Jenkins won a bronze award for news picture of the year, and Scott Murray was given a bronze award for summariser of the year. Ronay also won a silver award as specialist correspondent for his Olympics writing.
Billed as “the Oscars of the industry” and held at London’s Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel, the ceremony was hosted by the Talksport presenter Jim White.
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In other notable awards, Kelly Cates of the BBC and Sky Sports was named presenter of the year, beating her colleagues on the new‑look Match of the Day, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman, to the honour. Roy Keane was pundit of the year.
