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Both men and women have won the award, originally called "Sportsman of the Year" and renamed "Sportswoman of the Year" or "Sportswomen of the Year" when applicable. Tiger Woods, Tom Brady and LeBron James are the only individuals who have received the award more than once. Woods received his first award in 1996 as an amateur golfer, and in 2000 ...
At the end of 2000, Woods had won nine of the twenty PGA Tour events he entered and had broken the record for lowest scoring average in tour history. He was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, the only athlete to be honored twice, and was ranked by Golf Digest magazine as the twelfth-best golfer of all time. [75]
Rafer Johnson. Rafer Lewis Johnson (August 18, 1934 – December 2, 2020) was an American decathlete and film actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold at the 1955 Pan American Games. Johnson was the U.S. team's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic ...
Sports Illustrated Almanac annuals Introduced in 1991; Yearly compilation of sports news and statistics in book form; SI.com sports news web site; Sports Illustrated Australia. Launched in 1992 and lasted 6 issues ** Sports Illustrated Canada. Was created and published in Canada with US content from 1993 to 1995.
Steve Cauthen. Steve Cauthen (born May 1, 1960) is a retired American jockey. In 1977 he became the first jockey to win over $6 million in a year working with agent Lenny Goodman, [4] and in 1978 he became the youngest jockey to win the U. S. Triple Crown. Cauthen is the only jockey ever named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
Peyton Manning is Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year. Manning has led Denver to an 11-3 record this year, his second with the Broncos after missing the 2011 season with Indianapolis ...
He also won Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" [10] and was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year. In 1972 at Muirfield in Scotland, Trevino became the first player to successfully defend The Open Championship since Arnold Palmer in 1962. In a remarkable third round at Muirfield, Trevino had five consecutive ...
Nicknamed "The Flying Scot", [25] [26] Stewart received Sports Illustrated magazine's 1973 "Sportsman of the Year" award, the only auto racer to have won the title. [27] In the same year, he also won BBC Television's " Sports Personality of the Year " award, and was named as ABC 's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, which he shared with ...