Monday December 17th, 2001

Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher was named Sportsman of the Year by the European Sports Writers Union on Monday.

The German Ferrari driver won nine Grands Prix on his way to his fourth world title in 2001. Poland's world champion ski jumper Adam Malysz was second in the poll, while Austrian skier Hermann Maier was third.

Last season Maier won World Cup titles in every discipline he competed in - downhill, super-G and giant slalom, equalling Ingemar Stenmark's 1978/79 record of 13 wins in a single season. The world champion gymnast Svetlana Khorkina took the Sportswoman of the Year prize.

Croat World Cup overall ski champion Jana Kostelic was second, while Ukraine's Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, who beat Marion Jones to win the world 100 metres championship in Edmonton earlier this year, was third.

Published at 15:40:55 GMT

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