Russian athlete of the year

Sport Express keep on pursuing last year's initiative of nominating Russia's sportsman of the year.

Just as before, we are assisted by Russian sports celebrities, serving on a special panel of experts, as well as ordinary fans.

RUSSIA’S BEST ATHLETES IN PREVIOUS MONTHS

January

Svetlana ZHUROVA

Speed-skating

February

Yevgeny DEMENTIEV

Skiing

March

Olesya KRASNOMOVETS

Athletics

April

Alexander OVECHKIN

Ice hockey

May

Ilya BRYZGALOV

Ice hockey

June

Nikolai VALUEV 

Boxing

July

Natalia ISHCHENKO

Synchronized swimming

August 

Arkady VYATCHANIN

Swimming

September

Maria SHARAPOVA

Tennis

October

Vladimir KRAMNIK

Chess

INTERSPORT AWARDS

Traditionally, INTERSPORT has provided awards for participants in Russia's best athlete polls. We draw lots every month to select five candidates among online voters. Alexei Avdeyev, Alexander Lugin, Marina Slukhanova, Shamil Tagirov and Andrei Fateyev turned out to be the lucky ones this month. They are going to be e-mailed for the time  and place to collect their prizes in the short term.

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