The Asian Sports Award (ASA) is a recognition programme conceived by Stropt and Sports Limited (HK) in collaboration with the Asian Sports Press Union (ASPU). Its aim is to honour, champion and promote the world-class sports heroes of Asia. They named Liu Xiang and Nicol Ann David as the recipients of the inaugural Asian Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards.[1][2]
Asian Sportsman of the Year Award Winner edit
Asian Sportswoman of the Year Award Winner edit
- 2007:
Nicol Ann David Event: Squash
Asian Team of the Year (Men) Winner edit
- 2007:
Lee Ho-Suk, Ahn Hyun-Soo, Seo Ho-Jin, Song Suk-Woo Event: Short track speed skating
Asian Team of the Year (Women) Winner edit
Lifetime achievement award edit
- 2007:
Ramanathan Krishnan Event: Tennis
Asian Sportsman of the year edit
- 2007:
Shahid Afridi Event: Cricket
References edit
- ^ "China's Liu Xiang and Malaysia's Nicol David named top Asian athletes". International Sports Press Association. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
- ^ "Nicol David Voted Asian Sportswoman of the Year". Asian Squash Federation. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-24.