Khalida Popal, Sir Chris Hoy and sports publisher Roddy Bloomfield are among the winners of the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards 2025.
Fourteen awards were presented at a ceremony at the Kia Oval on 1st May, with Khalida Popal’s memoir My Beautiful Sisters (John Murray), which charts Popal’s journey from Afghan national team captain to global advocate for women’s rights, named overall Sports Book of the Year.
Sir Chris Hoy won Autobiography of the Year for his memoir All That Matters (Hodder & Stoughton), written with Matt Majendie, and publisher Roddy Bloomfield was honoured with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Times cricket correspondent Michael Atherton, with tributes from Sir Alex Ferguson and Alan Shearer.
The judges described Bloomfield as “a distinguished and much-respected figure in British sports publishing, renowned for his remarkable contributions to the genre over many decades. Working at publisher Hodder and Stoughton, he has played a central role in shaping the way sporting stories are told, read and remembered, bringing the voices of athletes to life and helping to capture the drama, passion and human spirit of sport in print”.
Johnny Sexton was awarded the Rugby Book of the Year for Obsessed (Sandycove), a “compelling and candid” chronicle of a defining era in Irish rugby, while Children’s Sports Book of the Year went to The Life-Changing Magic of Skateboarding by Sky Brown and illustrated by Shaw Davidson (Magic Cat Publishing).
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