Athlete of the Year Award

This award recognises the outstanding achievement of an Athlete of the Year during 2021/22. This category is restricted to athletes who have competed at a Paralympic, World, Deaflympic, Special Olympic, INAS, European or Commonwealth Games during 2021 or a season ending in March 2022.

You can submit your nomination in a number of ways:

• Online via our Nomination Form (below)
• By sending a completed Nomination Form (Microsoft Word document) to awardsnominations@disabilitysportwales.com
• If you would like to submit your nomination as a video (for example if you'd prefer to use British Sign Language), please see Video Submission Guidance
• If you would prefer to submit your nomination as an audio file (for example you feel you communicate better with spoken language rather than written language), please see Audio Submission Guidance

Disability Sport Wales Awards Nomination Terms & Conditions apply

Download Nomination Form (Microsoft Word)

What we’re looking for:

• Evidence of achievements between 1st January 2021 – 31^st March 2022

• Medal success at International level

• Commitment to their sport outside of their medal success

• Evidence from their Welsh/UK National Governing Body of their performance within their sport/s.

Process for selection from total nominees: 

• Internal Panel will shortlist to six nominees
• Six nominees will be referred for consideration to an independent Awards Panel, who will select a category winner and two other finalists
• Should your application be shortlisted, the Nominator may be required to provide further detail to the nomination at the award panel which will take place on 25^th April 2022.
• The Winner will be announced at the DSW Virtual Awards on Friday 24^th June 2022

Online Nomination form for the Athlete of the Year Award

Video Submission Guidance

If you would prefer to submit your nomination in a video format, for example so that you can use British Sign Language, please make sure to include the same information we require in the written form. You can use the following as a checklist to help you:

• The name of the award you are nominating for (e.g. "Athlete of the Year Award")
• The name of the athlete you are nominating
• The nominee's address, post code, contact number and email address
• The nominee's date of birth
• The sport(s) the nominee competes / competed in
• The number of years they have been / were active as an athlete
• The local, regional, and/or national teams they belong to
• Any awards / recognition they received within the past 12 months. Please give details.

• Please give detail of the key achievements of the nominee in 2022 or a season ending in March 2022 (e.g. 1st January 2021 – 31^st March 2022).
• Please tell us what impact the nominee in 2021 or a season ending March 2022.
• On average, how many hours a week do they train?
• Tell us why this athlete should win the award.

• Your full name
• A contact email address and telephone number for you, as well as your post code
• Your relationship to the nominee

Please make sure to speak or sign as clearly as you can.
 

Submitting your video:

Once you are happy with your video, you can get it to us in a number of ways:

• Send us the video via WhatsApp: +44 7458 031 645. The video will be received by Claire Venn, Disability Sport Wales Business Manager.
   
• Upload it to a secure Cloud Storage service (e.g. Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc.) and share the file with awardsnominations@disabilitysportwales.com 
   
• Use a large file delivery service (e.g. WeTransfer) to send the video privately to awardsnominations@disabilitysportwales.com 

We require names, email addresses, phone numbers etc. to be included in your submission as we may need to contact you as nominator, or the nominee as part of the assessment of the Award. For this reason, your video submission will contain information that should not be publicly shared. We ask that you do not upload your nomination to public video sharing or social media websites and services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok etc.

Audio Submission Guidance

If you would prefer to submit your nomination in an audio format, for example if you are more comfortable with spoken language than written language, please make sure to include the same information we require in the written form. You can use the following as a checklist to help you:

• The name of the award you are nominating for (e.g. "Athlete of the Year Award")
• The name of the athlete you are nominating
• The nominee's address, post code, contact number and email address
• The nominee's date of birth
• The sport(s) the nominee competes / competed in
• The number of years they have been / were active as an athlete
• The local, regional, and/or national teams they belong to
• Any awards / recognition they received within the past 12 months. Please give details.

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• Please give detail of the key achievements of the nominee in 2022 or a season ending in March 2022 (e.g. 1st January 2021 – 31^st March 2022).
• Please tell us what impact the nominee in 2021 or a season ending March 2022.
• On average, how many hours a week do they train?
• Tell us why this athlete should win the award.

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• Your full name
• A contact email address and telephone number for you, as well as your post code
• Your relationship to the nominee

Please make sure to speak as clearly as you can.
 

Submitting your audio recording:

Once you are happy with your recording, you can get it to us in a number of ways:

• Send the audio file as an attachment to awardsnominations@disabilitysportwales.com
   
• Send us the audio file via WhatsApp: +44 7458 031 645. The audio will be received by Claire Venn, Disability Sport Wales Business Manager.
   
• Upload it to a secure Cloud Storage service (e.g. Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc.) and share the file with awardsnominations@disabilitysportwales.com 
   
• Use a large file delivery service (e.g. WeTransfer) to send the file privately to awardsnominations@disabilitysportwales.com 

We require names, email addresses, phone numbers etc. to be included in your submission as we may need to contact you as nominator, or the nominee as part of the assessment of the Award. For this reason, your audio submission will contain information that should not be publicly shared. We ask that you do not upload your nomination to public audio sharing or social media websites and services like SoundCloud,  Facebook, Twitter etc.