"VAN" (Sports Desk - 21.04.2026) :: The AIPS Sport Media Awards are proud to announce the continental rankings for Europe. To know more about the continental rankings.
Remember that these continental rankings are based on the information received during the registration process. Please note that some rankings, according to how they performed and how many submissions AIPS received, might contain more or less than 10 works.
Photography Sport Action
1 Ray Giubilo (Italy), It's not Halloween - Tennisitaliano.it / Sportweek
2 Valéry Hache (France), Kick - AFP
3 Tom Weller (Germany), Jump into the night - Tom Weller
4 Pawel Kopczynski (Poland), Duplantis soars on his way to more history - Reuters
5 Roman Vondrouš (Czech Republic), Touching the Star - Czech News Agency
6 Geert van Erven (Netherlands), Shocked by the anthem’s power — Italy vs Germany - Getty Images
7 Nikolaos Zagas (Greece), Stroke Sparks - Instagram
8 Dario Belingheri (Italy), Snake - Getty Images
9 Andrey Golovanov (Russia), Fencing magic - Olympic Channel
10 Erçin Ertürk (Turkey), Triple Trouble - Anadolu Agency
Photography Portfolio
1 Loïc Venance (France), Tour de France 2025 - AFP
2 Valéry Hache (France), Dakar 2025 - AFP
3 Adam Warzawa (Poland), Magic Champion - Polish Press Agency
4 Bartlomiej Zborowski (Poland), Heros - Polish Paralympic Committee
5 Julian Finney (United Kingdom), Sport Portfolio - Getty Images
6 Andrej Isakovic (Serbia), Golden Athletes - Agence France-Presse
7 Michal Cerveny (Czech Republic), Mountain bike racing 2025 - UCI - Union Cycliste Internationale, MTBS.cz, Warner Bros. Discovery
8 Aleksandra Szmigiel (Poland), World Athletics Championships - Reuters
9 Dario Belingheri (Italy), African Soul Ride - Getty Images
10 Alexander Hassenstein (Germany), Biathlon World Championships Lenzerheide - Getty Images
Video Short Feature
1 Clement Repellin (France), Ferrari aux quatre coins du monde/Ferrari: the machine around the globe - Canal+
2 Daniel Nilsson (Sweden), The shortest season - Offside Magazine
3 András Killyéni (Romania), A Polish Hero of Borșa - Sport History Horizon
4 Mariano Amiune (Spain), Tara & Hunter Woodhall: Two Golds, One Love | Wait for it: Paris 2024 - Olympic Channel
5 Daniel Sannum Lauten (Norway), Johannes Klæbo: Beyond the Finish Line - TV 2
6 Benoit Durand (France), The second life of Tifany - France Télévisions
7 Márton Farkas (Hungary), Dream Big, Little Village! - MTVA / M4 SPORT
8 Stuart Pollitt (United Kingdom), Unstoppable Determination - Restless Films
9 Antonio García (Spain), Homeless World Cup. Footballs' home. - TBS
10 Yena Lee (France), Hype for the hoops - MZDN
Video Athlete Profile
1 Guillaume Priou, Laurie Delhostal (France), Laure ! Laure ! Laure ! - Chengyu Prod/Canal+
2 Marc Sauvourel (France), Samir Nasri, rebel - CANAL PLUS
3 Jürgen Schmidt, Laura Trust (Germany), Being Franziska van Almsick - ARD-Mediathek
4 Marine Clerc (France), Ksenia Chasteau - Rebonds ("Rebounds") - CANAL + FRANCE
5 Andreia Figueiroa (Portugal), The Giant of Nazaré - Sport Tv
6 Clement Repellin (France), Little Big Fred - Canal+
7 Leon tom Gerntke (Germany), Rosalin Kuiper: Ocean Mum mit Herz & Segel - ARD / Norddeutscher Rundfunk
8 Pierre Esquer (France), Loïs Boisson: Resilience - Amazon Prime Video
9 Máté Szabó (Hungary), Mesél a Pálya (Tales of the Court) - Sport TV, Hungary - AMC Networks Central Europe Kft.
10 Steve Bower (United Kingdom), The BIG Interview: Micky van de Ven - IMG/Premier League
Video Documentary
1 Fabien Douillard (France), Crash – Peloton Under Pressure - L'Equipe Explore
2 Marie Lasserre, Katrin Hafemann (Germany), My Father, HSV and the Nazis – Football Under Fascists - NDR Fernsehen/ ARD Mediathek
3 Mariano Amiune (Spain), Ian Brackley (UK), Tom Daley: 1.6 seconds - Olympic Channel, Warner Bros Discovery
4 Etienne Pidoux (France), L'Odyssée du Top 14 - CANAL +
5 Theo Lee Ray (United Kingdom), Beacon of Hope: The Grenfell Athletic Story - TNT Sports / Warner Bros. Discovery
6 Christoph Nahr (Germany), Rise and Fall of 1860 Munich - Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARD
7 Antonio Nieto Moreno (Spain), Losing to Nadal - LA COPRODUCTORA
8 Balazs Makrai (Hungary), Ferenc Szőnyi - TransCanada Ultra - MindfreeK Productions Kft.
9 Christian Prates (Austria), Matthias Walkner - My Longest Stage - ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
10 Adéla Paclíková (Czech Republic), Who has the ball? And go towards luck - Czech TV
Writing Best Colour Piece
1 Christine Thomas (France), Mystery of Everest: who will find the Kodak Vest Pocket? - L'Equipe Explore
2 Gaétan Scherrer (France), Bradley Wiggins, of gold and misery - L'Equipe Magazine
3 Adam Leventhal (United Kingdom), Guinea stadium disaster special report: ‘This door here, it’s the door to hell’ - The Athletic
4 Natalie Berry (United Kingdom), In the Shadow of the Mountain - The Fence
5 Andy Mcgrath (United Kingdom), The Fully Circle - Alvento
6 Nicolas Herbelot (France), Le couple Woodhall, Deux de l'Olympe / The Woodhall couple, two of Olympus - L'ÉQUIPE
7 Sid Lowe (United Kingdom), Santi Cazorla and Real Oviedo pull off the most romantic of returns to La Liga - The Guardian / ESPN
8 Tom Williams (United Kingdom), Inside Nabil Bentaleb’s incredible comeback after cardiac arrest: ‘It’s not about how you fall, but - The Athletic
9 Matthias Fiedler (Germany), Der Feind in meinem Kopf / The Enemy in My Head - DER SPIEGEL
10 Lars Spannagel (Germany), How Samuel Fitwi became a wunderkind at 27 - DIE ZEIT
Writing Best Opinion Column
1 Francesco Caremani (Italy), Sinner, Italy’s Un-Italian Champion - https://www.today.it/
2 Igor Rabiner (Russia), No pity for Promes. Pity for the people who made him their first idol - Sport-Express
3 Orfeo Suárez (Spain), The new King Louis joins the Revolution / El nuevo rey Luis se apunta a la revolución - El Mundo
4 Jean-Michel Brochen (France), Sa Libertade - L'EQUIPE Le Magazine
5 Philippe Dewitte (Belgium), I have to say goodbye, or perhaps farewell. Or maybe not. - Sudinfo
6 José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain), Sport to remember the Holocaust - MARCA
7 Iván Vargas (Spain), The sreets of Vallecas no longer smell of football - JotDown Sport
8 Runar Gilberg (Norway), Too Good to Be True? - Kondis
9 Evgenii Sliusarenko (Russia), She has the medal, but no money. The Winter Games champion has been unable to receive her victory bo - Sovsport.ru
10 Igor Sergeyev (Russia), Football’s Magic Tricks: How to Buy Stars and Keep UEFA Happy. Prestige by Igor Sergeev - Sports
Audio
1 Adam Leventhal, Abi Paterson (United Kingdom), The story of the Guinea stadium disaster - The Athletic
2 Ronny Blaschke (Germany), Tribunes of Terror – The Stadium under National Socialism - Deutschlandfunk Kultur
3 Valentina Clemente, Dario Ricci (Italy), The NBA and the fight for civil rights - Radio24-IlSole24Ore - Italy
4 Moritz Cassalette (Germany), Robert Enke - Norddeutscher Rundfunk
5 Carys Wall, Jac Phillimore (United Kingdom), Bill Walton's The Grateful Team - Bespoken Media
6 Kreisz Bálint, Miklós Szűcs (Hungary), The day that changed the Olympic Movement forever - Újratöltve Magazine #4 (Refilled Magazine #4) - MTVA (Nemzeti Sportrádió)
7 Romain Donneux (France), Dans les coulisses de la lutte antidopage - L'Equipe
8 James Montague (United Kingdom), Ghost Cities FC - BBC World Service
9 Silvana Strieder (Austria), Hidden Dangers of Sports Concussions - Silvana Strieder
10 James Corbett (Ireland), The Fall Out (Black Stars Podcast episode 5) - Goal.com
10 Vojtěch Jírovec, Zdenek Tomášek (Czech Republic), Praha Berlín Waršava - Česká televize (Czech TV)
Young Reporters Broadcasting
1 Charlie Courrent (France), Alexandre Müller, Fire in his belly - L'Equipe
2 Megan Leybourne (Austria), 20 Years of Red Bull Racing – From a Party Team to a World Champion Team - ORF
3 Andreu Rauet Munté (Spain), Laporta Gate - The Reus Case 2 - Tinkle Consultants
4 Raphael Späth (Germany), FIFA Opens Doors for Afghanistan’s Female Footballers in Exile - Deutschlandfunk
5 Pierre Pillet (Switzerland), The Samer, against winds and tides - Léman Bleu
6 Andrii Nikitonok (Ukraine), An interview with the fencer Anna Maksymenko - DeTalks
7 Nagy Benjámin (Hungary), “I became an Olympic champion swimmer, even though I was afraid there might be sharks in the water" - Eurosport Hungary
8 Solène Anson (France), Tennis de table : tous à vos raquettes ! - France Télévisions
9 Jana Van Nieuwenborgh (Belgium), Soy Lago - Ep.7: Surviving & Driving - Soy Lago
10 Kreisz Bálint (Hungary), Meet with Joulupukki - Sport traditions in Lapland and charity importance guided by the real Santa - MTVA (Nemzeti Sportrádió)
Young Reporters Writing
1 Louis Boulay (France), Loïs Boisson : The first day of the rest of her life - L'Equipe
2 Sabina Aliyeva (Belarus), Die Zerrissenheit der Aryna Sabalenka/Tennis ace Aryna Sabalenka: Enormously powerful on the court, - Tribuna.com
3 Ainhoa Serrano (Spain), Paternain: three passports, one green card and an unexpected bronze medal - Royal Spanish Athletics Federation
4 Paola Arrigoni (Italy), The Woodhalls: Nozze d'Oro - La Gazzetta dello Sport
5 Gabriele Ragnini (Italy), How to play football in Greenland, the most contested land on earth - La Gazzeta dello Sport
6 Thibault Le besne (France), Secret Services at the World Cup: What Scouts Are Looking For in Chile - LOFT : Stories in the Locker Room
7 Dávid Póczik (Hungary), Szoboszlai csapatkapitánya volt, 22 évesen nemet mondott a megélhetési focira – interjú - Csakfoci.hu
8 Jamie Barton (United Kingdom), Pain, pressure and PTSD: Inside youth baseball's UCL injury crisis - CNN
9 Nischal Schwager-Patel (Switzerland), How cancer diagnosis reinvigorated Gabriela Dabrowski: “Something had to shake me” - Olympics.com
10 Ervin Ang (United Kingdom), The dangerous and dark world of betting: “I lost a lot of money because of you!” - CLAY Tenis
Young Reporters Photography
1 Matteo Arnoul (Italy), Defeat - FISU
2 Will Palmer (United Kingdom), Ripped with Glory - Will Palmer Photography / www.will-palmer.co.uk
3 Anthony Hanc (United Kingdom), To Infinity and Beyond - Anthony Hanc
4 Niklas Härtig (Germany), In flight: The moment between doubt and triumph - Rhine-Ruhr 2025
5 Ömer Taha Çetin (Turkey), ForFinal - Anadolu Agency
6 Dilara Irem Sancar (Turkey), Breathe Break - Anadolu Agency
7 Ricardo Arturo Hernández (Spain), Absolute cinema: Frozen in Flight - Mundotaekwondo.com
8 Tom Weller (Germany), Double Gymnastics - Tom Weller
9 Annabel Lee-ellis (United Kingdom), Noah Lyles, World Athletics Championships 2025, Tokyo National Stadium - World Athletics Media Academy
10 Tamas Horvath (Romania), Duel for the Nation - HTphotography.ro
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