Tonight's that night! At a star-studded ceremony at the Kia Oval, the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards, in association with The Sunday Times announced their 2025 winners. This year is the second year of the awards' partnership with headline sponsor, Charles Tyrwhitt.
Commenting on the event, Charles Tyrwhitt’s Chief Marketing Officer, Joe Irons, said:
“We’re proud to be back as sponsors of the 2025 Sports Book Awards. As a menswear brand with deep roots in the world of sport through our partnerships with England Rugby, Fulham FC, the New York Jets, and most recently, the NY Yankees and The British & Irish Lions – this event is one we’re especially excited to support.
Sports books have a unique way of capturing the highs and lows that define the games we love – and this year’s line-up is incredibly competitive. We were excited to see which stories won the awards and delighted to celebrate with the writers behind them.”
Fourteen Awards were presented, celebrating a wide array of talent in sports and sports writing in the grand ceremony hosted by well know sports radio and television broadcaster and journalist Mark Pougatch.
Firstly we of course want to give our congratulations to this year's winner of The Vikki Orvice Award for Women’s Sports Writing, in association with LoveReading - Khalida Popal. Named to honour the late trailblazing sports journalist, the Vikki Orvice Award showcases the outstanding contributions made to women's sports writing and celebrates the voices that inspire progress and change. Khalida Popal's inspirational My Beautiful Sisters is a story of survival, sisterhood and resistance in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. My Beautiful Sisters was doubly celebrated, claiming the prestigious Overall Sports Book of the Year.
The category of Autobiography of the Year is voted for each year by the public. This year it was awarded to Sir Chris Hoy with his powerful memoir All That Matters. It was a hotly contested category with Jimmy Anderson and Katerina Johnson-Thompson placing second and third respectively.
This year's Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Roddy Bloomfield. Working at publisher Hodder & Stoughton, Bloomfield is a much-respected figure in British Sports Publishing renowned for the central role he has played in shaping the way sports stories are told, read and remembered. The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Roddy Bloomfield by The Times cricket correspondent Michael Atherton, with a heartfelt tribute from Sir Alex Ferguson.
The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards in association with the Sunday Times 2025 winners are:
The Vikki Orvice Award for Women’s Sports Writing, in association with LoveReading & overall Sports Book of the Year
My Beautiful Sisters by Khalida Popal
Charles Tyrwhitt Autobiography of the Year, in association with the Sunday Times
All That Matters by Sir Chris Hoy with Matt Majendie
Children’s Sports Book of the Year, supported by National Literacy Trust & Waterstones
The Life-Changing Magic of Skateboarding by Sky Brown & Illustrated by Shaw Davidson
SBI UK Cricket Book of the Year
Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes by David Kynaston & Harry Ricketts
Football Book of the Year
States of Play by Miguel Delaney
Golf Book of the Year, in association with Golf’s Greatest Holes
The Tiger Slam by Kevin Cook
The JP Marland Charitable Trust Illustrated Book of the Year
One Shilling by Matthew Caldwell & Alan Dein
Francis Clark Financial Planning International Sports Book of the Year
Searching for Novak by Mark Hodgkinson
Charles Tyrwhitt Rugby Book of the Year, in association with the Rugby Union Writers' Club
Obsessed by Johnny Sexton with Peter O'Reilly
Kicking Goat Sports Entertainment Book of the Year
The Good, the Bad & the Rugby - Unleashed by Alex Payne, James Haskell & Mike Tindall
Sports Performance Book of the Year
Trails and Tribulations by Susie Chan
Pinsent Masons Sports Writing Award
These Heavy Black Bones by Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell
Lifetime Achievement Award
Roddy Bloomfield
For more information about the Sports Book Awards 2025
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