With 30 awards given out and a fundraiser for The Baobei Foundation, the 8th F45 and That’s Shanghai Sports Awards saw Shanghai's finest athletes gathering together at Camel Sports Bar and Kitchen on February 8 to support the city's sports community.
From Gaelic football to softball, rugby to touch football, triathlon training and underwater hockey, all types of good sports came together to celebrate and donate (check out the photos here).
A huge thank you to everybody who made it a night to remember!
Here we present all of our winners from the evening…
Adult Categories
Best Newcomer
People’s Choice: Nicole, SWIFC (Women’s Football)
Gold: Hungover Games
Coach of the Year
People’s Choice: Saulo Melo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (Warzone)
Bronze: Bobby Fang, Coco (Softball)
Silver: Stefanie Candela, Warzone, Golden Gloves
Gold: Igor Valentic, FitFam
International Performance
People’s Choice: Team World, Shanghai Hockey Club (beat all-Chinese Team Shanghai)
Gold: Silver Dragons, Rugby (beat the Chinese national team at Hong Kong 10s)
Team of the Year
People’s Choice: Shanghai Elite Triathlon Club
Bronze: Shanghai Dolphins (Rugby)
Silver: Sea Dragons (Water Polo)
Gold: Pink Dragons (Rugby)
Lifetime Achievement
People’s Choice: Andy Scott, Cricket
Better known to his teammates as 'Tank,' (he is a Yank) he has been involved with Shanghai Cricket Club since he started playing the sport here in 2006.
Gold: Tim Anderson, Softball
As a commissioner, player, umpire and savvy vet, he has governed the 300+ member Shanghai Softball League for 14 seasons.
Personality of the Year
People’s Choice: Andrea Speranza, Yeyu, Azzuri (Football)
Bronze: Jay Jay Jiang (Boxing)
Silver: Edita Wu (FitFam)
Gold: Hazel Zheng (Underwater Hockey)
Outstanding Amateur Sports Club
Adriana Sports
U18s Categories
U18s Coach of the Year
People’s Choice: Danny Howe, SUIS GB (Basketball)
Bronze: Carl Edwards, Dulwich Pudong (Football)
Silver: Mark Glover, BISS Puxi (Volleyball)
Gold: Chris Barry, WISS (Football)
U18s Personality of the Year
People’s Choice: Jean (Table Tennis)
Bronze: Maja Magnusson (Football)
Silver: Ben Cook (Football, Volleyball, Swimming, Tennis)
Gold: Diksha Rout (Tennis)
U18s Team of the Year
People’s Choice: SUIS GB Judo Squad
Bronze: NAIS Pudong Tigers 7 A-side Football
Silver: WISS Tigers HS Girls Basketball
Gold: Dulwich Pudong Varsity Volleyball
Giving Back to the Community
To match our passionate community spirit for sports, we added in a charity raffle and rally for The Baobei Foundation. On the night of the event, proceeds were raised to help The Baobei Foundation provide both life-saving surgeries and post-surgical rehabilitation to abandoned Chinese orphans with disabilities and severe medical conditions. Thanks to all for supporting the cause and for participating in a great celebration of sport!
And Last But Not Least...
A big thank you to our title sponsor, F45 Fitness, the host with the most Camel Sports Bar and Kitchen, and lucky draw prize sponsors Untour Food Tours, Floatasian, Cages, Homeslice, Columbia Clinic, Wheat, Spinback, Zenergy, Papps, Absolute MMA, Le Cafe des Stagiaires, Egg, Little Creatures, D.O.C., Hooked and Saucepan.
Click here for a full photo gallery of the 2018 That's Shanghai & F45 Sports Awards
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