Daily News & Analysis photographer Ramesh Nair was named Best Photographer at the Tata sports journalism annual awards on Thursday.
MUMBAI: Daily News & Analysis photographer Ramesh Nair was named Best Photographer at the Tata sports journalism annual awards on Thursday.
Dhiman Sarkar of The Hindustan Times, Kolkata, and Shailesh Chaturvedi of Daninik Hindustan, New Delhi, captured three top honours apiece - including the best writer award in their categories.
The award winners received their trophies from sports persons, including cricket and hockey legends Sunil Gavaskar and Dhanraj Pillai, multiple-time national men's table tennis champions Gautam Diwan and Kamlesh Mehta, ace woman shooter Anjali Bhagwat, cue specialists Yasin Merchant and Devendra Joshi and former national basketball captain Abbas Moontasir.
The awards were given by the Sports Journalists Federation of India.
The awards list:
Print
Marathi
News: Naresh Shelke (Sakaal, Nagpur)
Features: Sanjay Gharpure (Sakaal, Mumbai)
Best writer: Vijay Salvi (Loksatta, Mumbai)
Bengali
News: Gautam Bhattacharya (Ananda Bazar Patrika, Kolkata)
Features: Munal Chattopadhyay (Aajkal,
Kolkata)
Best writer: Gautam Bhattacharya
Hindi
News: Shailesh Chaturvedi (Dainik Hindustan, New
Delhi);
Features: Chaturvedi
Best writer: Chaturvedi
English
News
Kadambari Murali (Hindustan Times, New Delhi)
Features: Shivani Naik (Indian Express, Mumbai)
Offbeat: Shailendra Awasthi (IE, Mumbai)
Interview Q/A: Dhiman Sarkar
Best writer: Sarkar
Best headline: Hindustan Times, Mumbai
Best sports pages: Times of India, Mumbai
English magazines
Feature: Rahul Bhattacharya (Cricinfo, Mumbai)
Interview Q/A: Sharda Ugra (India Today, New Delhi)
Best writer: Sharda Ugra
Specialist writing
Cricket: Rahul Bhattacharya (Wisden Asia)
Tennis: Akshay Sawai (HT, Mumbai)
Football: Dhiman Sarkar (HT, Kolkata)
Olympic sports
Hockey: Errol D Cruz (Times of India, Pune)
Best of news agencies: Qaiser Mohammed Ali (Indo-Asian News Service, New Delhi)
Best of Internet: Deepti Patwardhan (rediff.com, Mumbai)
Photography
Portrait: Ramesh Nair (Daily News & Analysis, Mumbai)
Action on field: Prashant Nakwe (ToI, Mumbai)
Action off field: Ritesh Uttamchandani (HT, Mumbai)
Best photographer: Ramesh Nair (DNA)
Television
Best channel: Times Now, Mumbai
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