The Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022 Winners
It is our great pleasure to confirm the winners of the 2022 Sports Book Awards with Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding scooping both the Pinsent Masons Sports Writing Award and The Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year.
The Jamaican commentator and former cricketer expands on the game-changing distillation of the Black Lives Matter movement that he delivered live on air, in this powerful, eloquent work which combines Holding’s own testimony about racial abuse with thoughtful interviews from across the world of sport.
The Category Winners
Celebrating sport in all its richness and diversity, this year’s victors include a heart-rending account of a rugby legend’s battle with motor neurone disease, a forensic account of the making of the world’s biggest football club and a treasure trove of inspiring stories of great female athletes.
The Sunday Times Autobiography of the Year Winner 2022
The Sunday Times Autobiography of the Year Shortlist 2022
The Pinsent Masons Sports Writing of the Year Winner 2022
The Pinsent Masons Sports Writing of the Year Shortlist 2022
The Heartaches' Cricket Book of the Year Winner 2022
The Heartaches' Cricket Book of the Year Shortlist 2022
The Football Book of the Year Winner 2022, in association with the Football Writers’ Association
The Football Book of the Year Shortlist 2022, in association with the Football Writers’ Association
The Arbuthnot Latham Rugby Book of the Year Winner 2022, in association with The Rugby Union Writers’ Club
The Arbuthnot Latham Rugby Book of the Year Shortlist 2022, in association with The Rugby Union Writers’ Club
The Fitzdares International Autobiography of the Year Winner 2022
The Fitzdares International Autobiography of the Year Shortlist 2022
The Sports Entertainment Book of the Year Winner 2022
The Sports Entertainment Book of the Year Shortlist 2022
The iPRO Hydrate Sports Performance Book of the Year Winner 2022
The iPRO Hydrate Sports Performance Book of the Year Shortlist 2022
The Children's Sports Book of the Year Winners 2022, in association with the National Literacy Trust
The judges were unable to separate Danielle Brown’s Run Like a Girl and Striking Out by Ian Wright and Musa Okwonga, awarding them the accolade of Children’s Sports Book of the Year jointly.
The Children's Sports Book of the Year Shortlist 2022, in association with the National Literacy Trust
The Cycling Book of the Year Winner 2022
Unfortunately the winner of The Cycling Book of the Year, Desire, Discrimination, Determination: Black Champions in Cycling by Dr Marlon Moncrieffe, is currently unavailable from Waterstones.com.
The Cycling Book of the Year Shortlist 2022
The Illustrated Sports Book of the Year Winner 2022
Unfortunately the winner of The Illustrated Sports Book of the Year, Toon In! by Michael Payne, is currently unavailable from Waterstones.com.
The Illustrated Sports Book of the Year Shortlist 2022
This Sporting Life: Gerry Cranham Photographer by Mark Leech & Doug Cheeseman is also nominated but unfortunately is currently unavailable from Waterstones.com and therefore not listed below.
Previous Prize Winners
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