{"id":7714,"date":"2016-12-10T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2016-12-10T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:24:09","slug":"laura-kenny-named-sunday-times-sportswoman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/laura-kenny-named-sunday-times-sportswoman-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kenny named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, (Online): Four-time Olympic gold medallist Laura Kenny has been named the 2016 Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year.<br \/>\nThe Great Britain hockey side who won gold at Rio 2016 have been named Team of the Year.<br \/>\nCyclist Kenny won team pursuit and omnium gold during the summer.<br \/>\nThe 24-year-old beat fellow cyclist Sarah Storey, who has won 14 Paralympic gold medals and Jade Jones, who successfully defended her Olympic taekwondo title, to the prize.<br \/>\nNicola Adams (boxing), Charlotte Dujardin (equestrianism) Johanna Konta (tennis) were the other nominees.<br \/>\nThe other awards handed out were:<br \/>\nOlympian of the Year: Helen Glover &amp; Heather Stanning (rowing)<br \/>\nParalympian of the Year: Kadeena Cox (athletics &amp; track cycling)<br \/>\nYoung Sportswoman of the Year: Siobhan-Marie O&#8217;Connor (swimming)<br \/>\nHelen Rollason Award for Inspiration: Hannah Francis (a teenage eventing rider, who died in August after losing her battle with a rare bone cancer)<br \/>\nLifetime Achievement Award: Professor Celia Brackenridge (researcher and activist)<br \/>\nCommunity Award: Kirsty Cameron (founder of Ladies Leisurely Cycles Facebook group)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, (Online): Four-time Olympic gold medallist Laura Kenny has been named the 2016 Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year. The Great Britain hockey side who won gold at Rio 2016 have been named Team of the Year. Cyclist Kenny won team pursuit and omnium gold during the summer. The 24-year-old beat fellow cyclist Sarah Storey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laura Kenny named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/laura-kenny-named-sunday-times-sportswoman-of-the-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laura Kenny named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON, (Online): Four-time Olympic gold medallist Laura Kenny has been named the 2016 Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year. 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