F4 driver Calvin Ming and top female hockey player Marzana Fiedtkou copped the top awards on Tuesday evening when the National Sports Commission hosted the annual Awards and Dinner for 2017 at the Pegasus Hotel.

Ming was named Senior Sportsman-of-the-Year, while Fiedtkou collected the female equivalent. On the junior side, athlete Compton Caesar and boxer Keevin Allicock were declared joint winners in the Male category, while athlete Chantoba Bright won the Female segment.

Other awardees were:

Most Improved Association– Guyana Hockey Board

Association of the Year– Athletics Association of Guyana

Female Sport Personality– Latisha Mokutnauth

Male Sport Personality– Norman ‘Juice Man’ Welch

Male Coach– Esaun Crandon

Female Coach– Candacie McKenzie

Male Sport Official– Philip Fernandes

Female Sport Official– Dion Cush-Barnwell

Sportsman PWDs– Ganesh Singh

Sportswoman PWDs– Faith King

Sports Team– Guyana Under-19 cricket team

Journalist (Print)– Zaheer Mohamed

Journalist (TV)– Akeem Greene

Journalist (Online)– Royston Alkins

Photographer– Adrian Narine

Commonwealth gold medallist, Triple Jumper Troy Doris, received a special award, while Minister of Social Cohesion with responsibility for Sport, Dr. George Norton, delivered the feature address.