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Article: SPORTS AWARDS: Everyone's a winner.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2006
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Your guide to the winners at the 2005 Evening Telegraph Sports Awards
SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
CITY cricketing legend Ajaz Akhtar was crowned The Evening Telegraph Sports Personality of the Year at the presentation dinner at the city's Holiday Inn on Friday night.
A staggering 12,234 votes were cast by readers and Akhtar emerged victorious in the most prestigious poll of them all.
The 37 year-old has finished in the top three before, but he admitted he thought his chance had gone.
He was wrong as a glittering career has been recognised by Peterborough's sporting public.
Akhtar, the captain of Peterborough Town ...