Following an awards ceremony in London on 9th December, GB Climbing Team Member, BMC Ambassador and Silver medallist in the 2014 Boulder World Cup series Shauna Coxsey placed 2nd behind dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin in the BT Sport Action Woman of the Year awards.
Ten elite female athletes from various disciplines were nominated for the award and a public vote selected the winner.
Commenting on her Facebook page, Shauna thanked her supporters: "Overwhelmed! Second place at the BT Sport Action Woman of the Year awards. Thank you so much to everyone who voted. Amazing! It's such an honour to represent our sport at such a prestigious event."
Congratulations Shauna!
Watch The Action Woman of the Year Awards on BT Sport 1 on Wednesday December 10th at 7.30pm
For more information on the award, follow this link.
Shauna Coxsey has just returned from a fruitful trip to La Pedriza, Spain, where she climbed two 8B boulders and an 8B+ in the space of just four climbing days.
As well you might but I've a suspicion that more people in Britain love horses and have a good idea of what dressage is than give a toss about competitive climbing.
In what discipline? 100m? It's a shame the write up about her on the BT Sport website is so full of stereotypical punter language. I think it's about time the non-climbing community are actually taught what climbing is. Rather than this perception that its extremely dangerous and and that you must be holding on by your 'fingernails' in order for it to be hard.
Dressage is easy to understand - a posh person puts on somewhat antiquated and uncomfortable looking clothing, sits on a horse and tries to make it dance. Other people assess the quality of the horses moves. This subjective judgement is then used to pick a winner.
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