ACES Awards

The Sportstar Aces Awards 2021 will celebrate the consistency of performance and the impact of sports stars in the decade between 2011 and 2020.

The unprecedented nature of the last year left us with little sporting action to make a true assessment of performance. Hence, we at Sportstar, in consultation with our esteemed jury, decided to honour the best performers of the past decade.

There will be 11 awards under the Popular Choice category that will be open for public voting. These votes will help our jury members gauge the mood of the nation and help them select the winners.

There will be 12 Jury awards and a special recognition award under a new category called Sports for Good, where we will recognise the work of organisations/individuals who have used sports for the betterment of society.

Relaunched in 2019, the second edition of the Aces awards in January 2020 saw Kapil Dev honoured with the lifetime achievement award, while P. V. Sindhu was named the Sportstar of the Year. Australian batsman Steve Smith bagged the Chairman's Choice Award for his remarkable performance in the Ashes.

Swashbuckling Indian opener Rohit Sharma was chosen as the Sportsman of the Year (Cricket) for a hugely successful 2019, when he finished the top run-scorer at the World Cup. Smriti Mandhana emerged the Sportswoman of the Year (Cricket). The Indian cricket Test team was declared the Team of the Year, while badminton ace Pullela Gopichand and chess guru R. B. Ramesh shared the Coach of the Year accolade.

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