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SwimVortex Awards 2016: Vote In Our Readers’ Poll From The Pool & Open Water
- Updated: December 19, 2016
On the eve of the Christmas, we’ll announce the SwimVortex Awards winners for 2016: our choices and yours. This was the year of Michael Phelps and a dreamworks-style swansong, Katie Ledecky and Adam Peaty, of historic firsts for Mireia Belmonte, Sarah Sjostrom, Gregorio Paltrinieri and Dimitry Balandin, the late blooming of Katinka Hosszu, of anti-doping warriors Lilly King and Mack Horton, a year of yawning gap of ages twixt Olympic kings of the 50 and 100m freestyle, Kyle Chalmers the teenage champion, Anthony Ervin the oldest champion there ever was – and by some.
The prime candidates for swimmers of the year are Phelps, who picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BBC yesterday (here’s to hoping there more to come when it comes to lifetimes…) and Ledecky – four golds and two world records in Rio. Our panel voted is based on objective counts that place worth on solo wins, on world records and relays in the pool that counts beyond all else: this was Olympic Year and the main honours reflect that. Nothing else competes, compares.
Recall the count of those missing from the 2015 world titles – for a variety of reasons: Mireia Belmonte, Kosuke Hagino, Michael Phelps, title holders James Magnussen (AUS) and Yannick Agnel (FRA) plus Britanny Elmslie (AUS), Therese Alshammer (SWE), while doping put Park Tae-Hwan* (KOR) out but …
