The AIPS Sport Media Awards are proud to announce the continental rankings for Europe.
Photography Sport Action
1 Ray Giubilo (Italy), It’s not Halloween – Tennisitaliano.it / Sportweek
2 Valéry Hache (France), Kick – AFP
3 Tom Weller (Germany), Jump into the night – Tom Weller
4 Pawel Kopczynski (Poland), Duplantis soars on his way to more history – Reuters
5 Roman Vondrouš (Czech Republic), Touching the Star – Czech News Agency
6 Geert van Erven (Netherlands), Shocked by the anthem’s power — Italy vs Germany – Getty Images
7 Nikolaos Zagas (Greece), Stroke Sparks – Instagram
8 Dario Belingheri (Italy), Snake – Getty Images
9 Andrey Golovanov (Russia), Fencing magic – Olympic Channel
10 Erçin Ertürk (Turkey), Triple Trouble – Anadolu Agency
Photography Portfolio
1 Loïc Venance (France), Tour de France 2025 – AFP
2 Valéry Hache (France), Dakar 2025 – AFP
3 Adam Warzawa (Poland), Magic Champion – Polish Press Agency
4 Bartlomiej Zborowski (Poland), Heros – Polish Paralympic Committee
5 Julian Finney (United Kingdom), Sport Portfolio – Getty Images
6 Andrej Isakovic (Serbia), Golden Athletes – Agence France-Presse
7 Michal Cerveny (Czech Republic), Mountain bike racing 2025 – UCI – Union Cycliste Internationale, MTBS.cz, Warner Bros. Discovery
8 Aleksandra Szmigiel (Poland), World Athletics Championships – Reuters
9 Dario Belingheri (Italy), African Soul Ride – Getty Images
10 Alexander Hassenstein (Germany), Biathlon World Championships Lenzerheide – Getty Images
Video Short Feature
1 Clement Repellin (France), Ferrari aux quatre coins du monde/Ferrari: the machine around the globe – Canal+
2 Daniel Nilsson (Sweden), The shortest season – Offside Magazine
3 András Killyéni (Romania), A Polish Hero of Borșa – Sport History Horizon
4 Mariano Amiune (Spain), Tara & Hunter Woodhall: Two Golds, One Love | Wait for it: Paris 2024 – Olympic Channel
5 Daniel Sannum Lauten (Norway), Johannes Klæbo: Beyond the Finish Line – TV 2
6 Benoit Durand (France), The second life of Tifany – France Télévisions
7 Márton Farkas (Hungary), Dream Big, Little Village! – MTVA / M4 SPORT
8 Stuart Pollitt (United Kingdom), Unstoppable Determination – Restless Films
9 Antonio García (Spain), Homeless World Cup. Footballs’ home. – TBS
10 Yena Lee (France), Hype for the hoops – MZDN
Video Athlete Profile
1 Guillaume Priou, Laurie Delhostal (France), Laure ! Laure ! Laure ! – Chengyu Prod/Canal+
2 Marc Sauvourel (France), Samir Nasri, rebel – CANAL PLUS
3 Jürgen Schmidt, Laura Trust (Germany), Being Franziska van Almsick – ARD-Mediathek
4 Marine Clerc (France), Ksenia Chasteau – Rebonds (“Rebounds”) – CANAL + FRANCE
5 Andreia Figueiroa (Portugal), The Giant of Nazaré – Sport Tv
6 Clement Repellin (France), Little Big Fred – Canal+
7 Leon tom Gerntke (Germany), Rosalin Kuiper: Ocean Mum mit Herz & Segel – ARD / Norddeutscher Rundfunk
8 Pierre Esquer (France), Loïs Boisson: Resilience – Amazon Prime Video
9 Máté Szabó (Hungary), Mesél a Pálya (Tales of the Court) – Sport TV, Hungary – AMC Networks Central Europe Kft.
10 Steve Bower (United Kingdom), The BIG Interview: Micky van de Ven – IMG/Premier League
Video Documentary
1 Fabien Douillard (France), Crash – Peloton Under Pressure – L’Equipe Explore
2 Marie Lasserre, Katrin Hafemann (Germany), My Father, HSV and the Nazis – Football Under Fascists – NDR Fernsehen/ ARD Mediathek
3 Mariano Amiune (Spain), Ian Brackley (UK), Tom Daley: 1.6 seconds – Olympic Channel, Warner Bros Discovery
4 Etienne Pidoux (France), L’Odyssée du Top 14 – CANAL +
5 Theo Lee Ray (United Kingdom), Beacon of Hope: The Grenfell Athletic Story – TNT Sports / Warner Bros. Discovery
6 Christoph Nahr (Germany), Rise and Fall of 1860 Munich – Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARD
7 Antonio Nieto Moreno (Spain), Losing to Nadal – LA COPRODUCTORA
8 Balazs Makrai (Hungary), Ferenc Szőnyi – TransCanada Ultra – MindfreeK Productions Kft. (https://mindfreek.hu/en/index.html)
9 Christian Prates (Austria), Matthias Walkner – My Longest Stage – ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
10 Adéla Paclíková (Czech Republic), Who has the ball? And go towards luck – Czech TV
Writing Best Colour Piece
1 Christine Thomas (France), Mystery of Everest: who will find the Kodak Vest Pocket? – L’Equipe Explore
2 Gaétan Scherrer (France), Bradley Wiggins, of gold and misery – L’Equipe Magazine
3 Adam Leventhal (United Kingdom), Guinea stadium disaster special report: ‘This door here, it’s the door to hell’ – The Athletic
4 Natalie Berry (United Kingdom), In the Shadow of the Mountain – The Fence
5 Andy Mcgrath (United Kingdom), The Fully Circle – Alvento
6 Nicolas Herbelot (France), Le couple Woodhall, Deux de l’Olympe / The Woodhall couple, two of Olympus – L’ÉQUIPE
7 Sid Lowe (United Kingdom), Santi Cazorla and Real Oviedo pull off the most romantic of returns to La Liga – The Guardian / ESPN
8 Tom Williams (United Kingdom), Inside Nabil Bentaleb’s incredible comeback after cardiac arrest: ‘It’s not about how you fall, but – The Athletic
9 Matthias Fiedler (Germany), Der Feind in meinem Kopf / The Enemy in My Head – DER SPIEGEL
10 Lars Spannagel (Germany), How Samuel Fitwi became a wunderkind at 27 – DIE ZEIT
Writing Best Opinion Column
1 Francesco Caremani (Italy), Sinner, Italy’s Un-Italian Champion – https://www.today.it/
2 Igor Rabiner (Russia), No pity for Promes. Pity for the people who made him their first idol – Sport-Express
3 Orfeo Suárez (Spain), The new King Louis joins the Revolution / El nuevo rey Luis se apunta a la revolución – El Mundo
4 Jean-Michel Brochen (France), Sa Libertade – L’EQUIPE Le Magazine
5 Philippe Dewitte (Belgium), I have to say goodbye, or perhaps farewell. Or maybe not. – Sudinfo
6 José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain), Sport to remember the Holocaust – MARCA
7 Iván Vargas (Spain), The sreets of Vallecas no longer smell of football – JotDown Sport
8 Runar Gilberg (Norway), Too Good to Be True? – Kondis
9 Evgenii Sliusarenko (Russia), She has the medal, but no money. The Winter Games champion has been unable to receive her victory bo – Sovsport.ru
10 Igor Sergeyev (Russia), Football’s Magic Tricks: How to Buy Stars and Keep UEFA Happy. Prestige by Igor Sergeev – Sports
Audio
1 Adam Leventhal, Abi Paterson (United Kingdom), The story of the Guinea stadium disaster – The Athletic
2 Ronny Blaschke (Germany), Tribunes of Terror – The Stadium under National Socialism – Deutschlandfunk Kultur
3 Valentina Clemente, Dario Ricci (Italy), The NBA and the fight for civil rights – Radio24-IlSole24Ore – Italy
4 Moritz Cassalette (Germany), Robert Enke – Norddeutscher Rundfunk
5 Carys Wall, Jac Phillimore (United Kingdom), Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team – Bespoken Media
6 Kreisz Bálint, Miklós Szűcs (Hungary), The day that changed the Olympic Movement forever – Újratöltve Magazine #4 (Refilled Magazine #4) – MTVA (Nemzeti Sportrádió)
7 Romain Donneux (France), Dans les coulisses de la lutte antidopage – L’Equipe
8 James Montague (United Kingdom), Ghost Cities FC – BBC World Service
9 Silvana Strieder (Austria), Hidden Dangers of Sports Concussions – Silvana Strieder
10 James Corbett (Ireland), The Fall Out (Black Stars Podcast episode 5) – Goal.com
10 Vojtěch Jírovec, Zdenek Tomášek (Czech Republic), Praha Berlín Waršava – Česká televize (Czech TV)
Young Reporters Broadcasting
1 Charlie Courrent (France), Alexandre Müller, Fire in his belly – L’Equipe
2 Megan Leybourne (Austria), 20 Years of Red Bull Racing – From a Party Team to a World Champion Team – ORF
3 Andreu Rauet Munté (Spain), Laporta Gate – The Reus Case 2 – Tinkle Consultants
4 Raphael Späth (Germany), FIFA Opens Doors for Afghanistan’s Female Footballers in Exile – Deutschlandfunk
5 Pierre Pillet (Switzerland), The Samer, against winds and tides – Léman Bleu
6 Andrii Nikitonok (Ukraine), An interview with the fencer Anna Maksymenko – DeTalks
7 Nagy Benjámin (Hungary), “I became an Olympic champion swimmer, even though I was afraid there might be sharks in the water” – Eurosport Hungary
8 Solène Anson (France), Tennis de table : tous à vos raquettes ! – France Télévisions
9 Jana Van Nieuwenborgh (Belgium), Soy Lago – Ep.7: Surviving & Driving – Soy Lago
10 Kreisz Bálint (Hungary), Meet with Joulupukki – Sport traditions in Lapland and charity importance guided by the real Santa – MTVA (Nemzeti Sportrádió)
Young Reporters Writing
1 Louis Boulay (France), Loïs Boisson : The first day of the rest of her life – L’Equipe
2 Sabina Aliyeva (Belarus), Die Zerrissenheit der Aryna Sabalenka/Tennis ace Aryna Sabalenka: Enormously powerful on the court, – Tribuna.com
3 Ainhoa Serrano (Spain), Paternain: three passports, one green card and an unexpected bronze medal – Royal Spanish Athletics Federation
4 Paola Arrigoni (Italy), The Woodhalls: Nozze d’Oro – La Gazzetta dello Sport
5 Gabriele Ragnini (Italy), How to play football in Greenland, the most contested land on earth – La Gazzeta dello Sport
6 Thibault Le besne (France), Secret Services at the World Cup: What Scouts Are Looking For in Chile – LOFT : Stories in the Locker Room
7 Dávid Póczik (Hungary), Szoboszlai csapatkapitánya volt, 22 évesen nemet mondott a megélhetési focira – interjú – Csakfoci.hu
8 Jamie Barton (United Kingdom), Pain, pressure and PTSD: Inside youth baseball’s UCL injury crisis – CNN
9 Nischal Schwager-Patel (Switzerland), How cancer diagnosis reinvigorated Gabriela Dabrowski: “Something had to shake me” – Olympics.com
10 Ervin Ang (United Kingdom), The dangerous and dark world of betting: “I lost a lot of money because of you!” – CLAY Tenis
Young Reporters Photography
1 Matteo Arnoul (Italy), Defeat – FISU
2 Will Palmer (United Kingdom), Ripped with Glory – Will Palmer Photography / www.will-palmer.co.uk
3 Anthony Hanc (United Kingdom), To Infinity and Beyond – Anthony Hanc
4 Niklas Härtig (Germany), In flight: The moment between doubt and triumph – Rhine-Ruhr 2025
5 Ömer Taha Çetin (Turkey), ForFinal – Anadolu Agency
6 Dilara Irem Sancar (Turkey), Breathe Break – Anadolu Agency
7 Ricardo Arturo Hernández (Spain), Absolute cinema: Frozen in Flight – Mundotaekwondo.com
8 Tom Weller (Germany), Double Gymnastics – Tom Weller
9 Annabel Lee-ellis (United Kingdom), Noah Lyles, World Athletics Championships 2025, Tokyo National Stadium – World Athletics Media Academy
10 Tamas Horvath (Romania), Duel for the Nation – HTphotography.ro
