Friday, January 22, 2010

一月二十二日(ichigatsu nijyuni nichi): January 22

There was the 59th Japan Sports Award (日本スポーツ大賞:nihon supotsu taisho) Ceremony in Tokyo yesterday. The award was established by the Yomiuri Newspaper (読売新聞:yomiuri shimbun) in 1951. This award is given to those who played the active part in sports in the previous year.
The Grand Prix winner is Mr. Kohei Uchimura (内村航平), 21 years old who became the youngest champion of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London last year at the age of 20.
The special award winner is World Baseball Classic Team, SAMURAI JAPAN and the director Mr. Tatsunori Hara (原辰徳) received the award.
The encouragement award winner is Mr. Ryo Ishikawa(石川遼), 18 years old who became the youngest leading money winner golfer.
Congratulations!

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