The Awards | World Sports Photography Awards

The Awards

The World Sports Photography Awards are intended for professional, semi-professional sport photographers and specialist sports photographic agencies. The awards are free to enter. Each photographer may submit up to 20 images.
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Each photographic entry must have been taken between January 1st 2019 and December 31st 2019. Each entry should also specify which of the 26 sports categories it is being submitted for.

Competition Closed

Categories

Here you can find all the categories you will get access to when submitting your images. Please make sure to match each of your images to an available category.

American Football

Aquatic

Athletics

Baseball

Basketball

Billiard Sports

Bowling Sports

Boxing

Bowling Sports

Boxing

Cricket

Cycling

Equestrian

Esports

American Football

Aquatic

Athletics

Baseball

Basketball

Billiard Sports

Rules

The Contest begins on November 15th 2019, and ends February 21st 2020, at 5:00 pm GMT.
The Awards are open to all semi-professional and professional photographers worldwide.
All entries must be submitted digitally on the World Sports Photography website. Email entries will not be accepted.
Each photographic entry must have been taken between January 1st 2019 and December 31st 2019.
Each entry should specify which of the 26 sports categories it is being submitted for.
A maximum of 20 images can be entered into the awards per photographer.

Entries not complying with the above rules, and/ or the Terms and Conditions of the World Sports Photography Awards will be disqualified.
An image will be rejected if, in the opinion of the judges, it appears to have been taken unlawfully.
Double exposures and other images that have been manipulated outside of the rules are not eligible.
The content of the image must not be altered. Only retouching which conforms to currently accepted standards in the industry is allowed. The WSPA board is the ultimate arbiter of these standards and may at its discretion request the original, un-retouched file as recorded by the camera.