Best Female Track Athlete ESPY Award explained
The Best Female Track Athlete ESPY Award was presented annually between 1993 and 2006 to the female track and field athlete, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. Beginning in 2007, this award was combined with the parallel Best Male Track Athlete ESPY Award into the single Best Track and Field Athlete ESPY Award.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter was exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter were conferred in June and reflected performance from the June previous.[1]
List of winners
Year | Athlete | Nation represented | Event(s) contested[2] |
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1993 | Evelyn Ashford | | 100 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay |
1994 | Gail Devers | | 100 metres, 100 metres hurdles, 4 × 100 metres relay |
1995 | Gwen Torrence | | 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay |
1996 | Kim Batten | | 400 metres hurdles |
1997 | Marie-José Pérec | | 200 metres, 400 metres |
1998 | Marion Jones | | 100 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay, long jump |
1999 | Marion Jones | | 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay, long jump |
2000 | Marion Jones | | 100 metres, 200 metres, long jump |
2001 | Marion Jones | | 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay, 4 × 400 metres relay, long jump |
2002 | Marion Jones | | 100 metres, 200 metres, long jump |
2003 | Gail Devers | | 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay |
2004 | Gail Devers | | 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay |
2005 | No award presented | | |
2006 | Allyson Felix | | 200 metres | |
See also
Notes
- Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
- Events listed are those contested in at least one major competition during the period in consideration of performance during which the award was presented.