The Best Male Track Athlete ESPY Award was presented annually between 1993 and 2006 to the male track and field athlete, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. Beginning in 2007, this award was combined with the parallel Best Female Track Athlete ESPY Award into the single Best Track and Field Athlete ESPY Award.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter was exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter were conferred in June and reflected performance from the June previous.[1]
List of winners
edit| Year | Athlete | Nation represented | Event(s) contested[2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Kevin Young |  United States
|
400-metre hurdles |
| 1994 | Michael Johnson | United States
|
200 metres, 400 metres, 4 × 400-metre relay |
| 1995 | Dennis Mitchell | United States
|
100 metres, 4 × 100-metre relay |
| 1996 | Michael Johnson | United States
|
200 metres, 400 metres, 4 × 400-metre relay |
| 1997 | Michael Johnson | United States
|
200 metres, 400 metres, 4 × 400-metre relay |
| 1998 | Wilson Kipketer |  Denmark
|
800 metres |
| 1999 | Maurice Greene | United States
|
100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100-metre relay |
| 2000 | Michael Johnson | United States
|
200 metres, 400 metres, 4 × 400-metre relay |
| 2001 | Maurice Greene | United States
|
100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100-metre relay |
| 2002 | Maurice Greene | United States
|
100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100-metre relay |
| 2003 | Tim Montgomery | United States
|
100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100-metre relay |
| 2004 | Tom Pappas | United States
|
Decathlon |
| 2005 | No award presented | ||
| 2006 | Justin Gatlin | United States
|
100 metres, 200 metres |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
- ^ Events listed are those contested in at least one major competition during the period in consideration of performance during which the award was presented.
References
edit- Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2002-02-23)