Best Sports Photograph
Alex Coppel
Herald Sun
Alex Coppel has won the Best Sports Photograph Quill for his image of Geoff Huegill coming up for air during his 100m Butterfly win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. It was the only time the swimmer came up for air during the event, and Coppel successfully captured the moment.
Judges Citation
The judges congratulated Alex for producing a technically brilliant image of the relationship between swimmer and water, as Geoff Huegill leaves the rest in his wake.
Winning Entry
Entrant's Statement
Geoff Heugill’s time to win Gold at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi came with much anticipation in the news headlines. He had succeeded in one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time, and the world was watching him compete.
Geoff came up for air once during his entire event, and I set out to capture this as he sped past me. The dance of water past his head and down his spine reveals his ability to control all those elements that once stood in his way.
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