Jerring Award

The Jerring Award (Swedish: Jerringpriset or "Radiosportens Jerringpris") is a prize established by Radiosporten, the sport section of Sveriges Radio, voted by its radio audience who choose the Swedish athlete or team that has made the best sport performance of the year. The prize is named after Swedish radio personality Sven Jerring. It is also called "the prize of the people", since it is the radio audience who vote. There has around 2010-2019 been criticism on the fact that there has been campaigns within sports with many amateurs, so that golf and horse jumping has been awarded.

Jerring Award
Henrik Stenson winning the award of 2013 in January 2014
Date1979 (1979)-
LocationStockholm
CountrySweden
Presented bySveriges Radio

The first prize was awarded in 1979, and the winner was the alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark, and the person who has been awarded the most times is the biathlete Magdalena Forsberg, with four awards.

All winners
Annika Sörenstam has received the prize twice, in 1995 and 2003
Magdalena Forsberg has received the most Jerring Awards with four, in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001

Wins per sport
Wins Sport Years won
6 Biathlon 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2018
5 Athletics 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006
5 Cross-country skiing 1984, 1985, 1987, 1993, 2008
4 Alpine skiing 1979, 1980, 1991, 1992
3 Football 1982, 1994, 2007
3 Golf 1995, 2003, 2013
3 Horse show jumping 2011, 2016, 2017
3 Swimming 2010, 2014, 2015
2 Orienteering 1981, 2019
1 Tennis 1983
1 Wrestling 1986
1 Speed skating 1988
1 Ski jumping 1989
1 Handball 1990
1 Speedway 2005
1 Ski mountaineering 2019
1 Ski orienteering 2019
1 Skyrunning 2019

See also

References
  1. Jonathan Kvarnström (19 January 2015). "Sarah Sjöström tog hem Jerringpriset" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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