Cricket of the Year: Jonathan Trott (England)
Test Player of the Year: Alastair Cook (England)
ODI Player of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
ICC Emerging Player of the Year: Devendra Bishoo (West Indies)
Best T20 performance of the year: Tim Southee (New Zealand)
Spirit of Cricket Award: India
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The eigth LG ICC awards ceremony was held in London, England on 12 September 2011. The ceremony features 10 individual awards that over the years have honoured some of the biggest names in men’s and women’s international cricket and will be voted upon by a strong panel of former players, respected members of the media and an elite umpire and match referee. International Cricket Council has been hosting ICC Awards since 2004 and now is in its eigth year. The earlier ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007, 2009), Dubai (2008) and Bengaluru (2010).
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Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke wins the British Open Championship 2011. With this victory, Clarke becomes the oldest winner of the Open Since Argentina’s Roberto de Vicenzo won aged 44 in 1967.
The British Open championship is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only “major” held outside the USA. It is the third major to take place each year, following The Masters and the U.S. Open.
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The 22-year-old, Ireland’s Rory Mcllroy won his first Major golf title, and became the youngest US Open winner in 88 years. Mcllroy became the youngest major winner since Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters and the youngest US Open winner since Bobby Jones in 1923. His triumph also marked the fifth Major in a row without an American winner.
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World champion Viswanathan Anand won the Leon Masters rapid chess title after defeating Spain’s Alexei Shirov at Leon. This was Anand’s record eighth triumph at the annual rapid chess destination. Anand’s previous triumphs came in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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Sukanya Roy won the crown at the prestigious Spelling Bee championships in Maryland, U.S. the 14-year-old is the fourth Indian-origin student in a row to bag top honours at the event, for correctly spelling the tongue twister ‘cymotrichous’.
The teenager earlier participated in the 2009 and 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bees, tying for the 12th place in 2009 and 20th place in 2010. This is the ninth time in 13 years that an Indian American has been declared a Spelling Bee champion, reflecting the dominance of the community students in the competition.
China’s Ding Ning and Zhang Jike won the women’s and men’s singles title respectively in the table tennis World Championship in Rotterdam, Netherlands on May 14, 2011. Top seeds Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia from China swept over their teammates Ding Ning and Guo Yan 4-0 to defend their title in the women’s doubles. In mixed doubles, Zhang Chao and Cao Zhen of China beat compatriots Hao Shuai and Mu Zi.
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The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics took place in Daegu, South Korea from 27th August 2011 to 4th September 2011. US topped the medal tally with 25 Gold followed by Russia, Kenya and Jamaica at 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively. China ranked 7 with only 4 medal including one gold. India could not win any medal. Tintu Luka reached the semifinal of the 800m race in which she came 6th and could not qualify for the final although she registered her season’s best timing and qualified for the 2012 London Olympics. Vikas Gowda managed to throw the discus to 64.05m giving him 7th place in the overall discus throw competition. Mayookha johny reached the final of the long jump event.
The official logo of the IAAF world Championship encompasses the new IAAF competition logo and the colourful LOC local Element. Daegu 2011 will be the first-ever IAAF World Championships to use the new IAAf World Athletics Series competition logo.
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XXIII Winter, 2018 will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, between 9th and 25th February 2018. Pyeongchang won the right to host the 2018 Games after winning the majority votes at a International Olympic Committee’s 123rd session in Durban, South Africa defeating Annecy (France) and Munich (Germany) in the bidding process.
Winter Olympics Games will also be the first time the Winter Olympics Games held in Asia (Except Russia) since the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics which occur every four years was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924 while most recent winter Olympics took place in 2010 Vancouver (Canada), and the next in 2014 will be hosted by Sochi, Russia.
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The 18th FIFA World Under 20 World Cup 2011 tournament was played in Colombia and it was won by Brazil for the Fifth time and the first time since 2003 in UAE. Brazil was defeated by Ghana in the 2009 finals. Brazil is the second most successful team in the junior football world cup as Argentina is the most successful team winning it for the times. The FIFA Under 20 World Cup, until 2005 known as the FIFA World Youth Championship is organized by FIFA. The Championship has been awarded every two years since the first tournament in 1977 held in Tunisia.
A corresponding event for women’s teams, the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, began in 2002 with the name “FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship”. The age limit for the women’s competition was changed to 20 beginning with the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Championship, and the competition was renamed as a “World Cup” in 2007 in preparation for the 2008 event.
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