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<\/a>Mariya Savinova - European Athlete of the Year 2011<\/p><\/div>\n
Mariya Savinova of Russia has been voted the 2011 winner of the women’s European Athlete of the Year Award presented by MONDO. The highlight of Savinova’s splendid year, in which she only lost one of her 10 outings over 800m, was without doubt her victory at the World Championships in Daegu this summer.<\/p>\n She grabbed the gold medal over two laps of the track in a stunning time of 1:55.87.<\/p>\n Not only did it smash her personal best by more than a second, it was also the fastest time by a European runner for almost nine years.<\/p>\n Other big wins in 2011 included victories at the SPAR European Team Championships in Stockholm, where she helped Russia retain its place as Europe’s top athletics nation, and the Diamond League final in Zurich.<\/p>\n Savinova will be presented with her award at the European Athletics Awards Night presented by MONDO in Arona, Spain, on Saturday 15 October alongside the men’s winner of the European Athlete of the Year award, to be announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The European Athletics Rising Star of the Year winners, David Storl of Germany and Great Britain and NI\u2019s Jodie Williams, will also be present to pick up their awards.<\/p>\n Fans, media and European Athletics Member Federations were invited to vote for the European Athlete of the Year on the European Athletics website. Along with the votes from a panel of experts, each group of voters’ results count for one quarter of the athlete’s final score.<\/p>\n The shortlist for the award was compiled by selecting the top European athlete in different events, based largely on performances at the IAAF World Championships, European Athletics Indoor Championships, European Athletics events and the series of Diamond League and European Athletics meetings. Only in very exceptional cases were two athletes from one event nominated.<\/p>\n No athlete who has previously served a two-year doping ban can be nominated for European Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n Women’s European Athlete of the Year presented by MONDO final rankings:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Mariya Savinova (RUS) 1993 Sally Gunnell GBR 2011 season: Mariya Savinova (800m)<\/strong><\/p>\n Personal bests: Mariya Savinova<\/strong> (800m)<\/strong><\/p>\n Outdoor:\u00a01:55.87\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01\u00a0WC Daegu <\/strong>4 Sep 2011<\/p>\n Indoor:\u00a01:58.10\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01\u00a0EC Torino<\/strong> 8 Mar 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia\u2019s Savinova voted 2011 European Athlete of the Year Mariya Savinova of Russia has been voted the 2011 winner of the women’s European Athlete of the Year Award presented by MONDO. The 26-year-old has become the fourth Russian woman – after her compatriots Irina Privalova, Svetlana Masterkova and Yelena Isinbayeva – to be honoured as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[6,48,621,47],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-6","tag-athlete-of-the-year","tag-europe","tag-mariya-savinova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe 26-year-old has become the fourth Russian woman – after her compatriots Irina Privalova, Svetlana Masterkova and Yelena Isinbayeva – to be honoured as the European Athletics Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n
\n2. Maria Abakumova (RUS)
\n3. Anna Chicherova (RUS)
\n4. Tatyana Chernova (RUS)
\n5. Betty Heidler (GER)
\n6. Yuliya Zaripova (RUS)
\n7. Martina Strutz (GER)
\n8. Olha Saladuha (UKR)
\n9. Olga Kaniskina (RUS)
\n10. Tiffany Porter (GBR)
\n11. Vera Sokolova (RUS)<\/p>\n
\nEuropean Athlete of the Year previous winners<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1994 Irina Privalova RUS
\n1995 Sonia O’Sullivan IRL
\n1996 Svetlana Masterkova RUS
\n1997 Astrid Kumbernuss GER
\n1998 Christine Arron FRA
\n1999 Gabriela Szabo ROU
\n2000 Trine Hattestad NOR
\n2001 Stephanie Graf AUT
\n2002 S\u00fcreyya Ayhan TUR
\n2003 Carolina Kl\u00fcft SWE
\n2004 Kelly Holmes GBR
\n2005 Yelena Isinbayeva RUS
\n2006 Carolina Kl\u00fcft SWE
\n2007 Blanka Vlasic CRO
\n2008 Yelena Isinbayeva RUS
\n2009 Marta Dominguez ESP
\n2010 Blanka Vlasic CRO<\/p>\n\n\n
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