LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - World highway competition champion and
most successful British Tour de France supplement Mark Cavendish beat
distance curtain Mo Farah and golfer Rory McIlroy to win the
Sportsman of a Year endowment from Britain's Sports Journalists'
Association (SJA) on Wednesday.
Cavendish surfaced a check of some-more than 800 sports writers, who
also named Rebecca Adlington, a 800 metres freestyle world
swimming champion, as Sportswoman of a Year.
Cavendish's achievements on a highway were recognized after
he won a immature jersey for best competitor during a Tour de France
in July, when he also won 5 stages to take his career tally
in a competition to 20.
He also became Britain's initial masculine highway universe champion
since 1965 when he triumphed in Copenhagen in September.
"We've determined Britain as a widespread force in world
cycling," Cavendish pronounced after his feat in Denmark.
Farah, who took a 5,000 universe pretension after agonisingly
missing out on a 10,000 bullion in Daegu, finished second, with
U.S. Open leader McIlroy third in a check that has been in
existence given 1949.
World champion triathlete Helen Jenkins and manoeuvre Hayley
Turner finished second and third in a women's check behind
Adlington.
The 22-year-old combined a 800 metres universe pretension to her
400/800 Olympic double during a Beijing Olympics.
Adlington's endowment will go some approach to creation adult for her
absence from a BBC Sports Personality of a Year award
shortlist that contained 10 group and no women.
Ironman triathlete Chrissie Wellington unsuccessful to make either
short list, though a year that enclosed winning a Hawaii world
title for a fourth time and also violence her possess Iron distance
world record during Roth, Germany, warranted her a Pat Besford Award
for Outstanding Performance.
Taekwondo world champion Sarah Stevenson won a SJA
Committee Award
England's cricketers, who rose to series one in a world
test rankings and defended a Ashes by defeating Australia,
were a exile winners of a team-of-the year award.
They kick Europe's Solheim Cup-winning women golfers and
world champion rowing span Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins.
(Editing by Mitch Phillips; to query or criticism on this story
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