Skater Patrick Chan wins Lou Marsh award
Posted December 13, 2011 11:46 am.
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World figure skating champion Patrick Chan is the overwhelming winner of the 2011 Lou Marsh Award.
The honour — decided by a panel of national sports editors, reporters and broadcasters — is given annually to Canada’s outstanding athlete by the Toronto Star.
Chan won the world championships last spring in Moscow, setting three world scoring records in the process.
The 20-year-old from Toronto won the Grand Prix Final last weekend in Quebec City to cap an undefeated season.
After a fifth-place finish at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Chan added a quadruple jump to his arsenal for 2011. He then reeled off victories at the Canadian championship — his fourth national title — the world championships, Skate Canada International, Trophee Eric Bompard, and the Grand Prix Final.
Other finalists for the Marsh honour were shot putter Dylan Armstrong, baseball’s John Axford and Joey Votto, speedskater Christine Nesbitt and Olympic show-jumping gold medallist Eric Lamaze, whose horse, Hickstead, died last month of an aortic rupture.
Votto won the honour last year.
Lou Marsh is a former Toronto Star sports editor.
