It’s time to pick your top Sporting Hero of May. Vote now for one of these three: Saracens’ fly-half Owen Farrell, Arsenal captain Per Mertesacker or tennis star Petra Kvitova. You could win an iPad Pro.
Owen Farrell
Helped Saracens to retain the Champions Cup and was named European player of the year.
It’s time to pick your top Sporting Hero of May. Vote now for one of these three: Saracens’ fly-half Owen Farrell, Arsenal captain Per Mertesacker or tennis star Petra Kvitova. You could win an iPad Pro.
Owen Farrell
Helped Saracens to retain the Champions Cup and was named European player of the year.
Age 25
From Higher End, Greater Manchester
Sport Rugby union
Saracens are becoming the ultimate team but while the collective is everything, Farrell is almost as important. The England fly-half was at the helm as Sarries beat Clermont Auvergne to become the fourth team to win back-to-back Champions Cups. He was then named European player of the year.
Telegraph Sport says: “So good has he become in the pivotal No 10 spot… Gatland should now play him at fly-half in New Zealand” Ian McGeechan
Petra Kvitova
Defied the medical odds with winning return to tennis at French Open after knife attack.
Age 27
From Bilovec, Czech Republic
Sport Tennis
Kvitova’s surgeon had rated her chances of playing again at “very low” after the knife attack last December that damaged tendons and nerves in her dominant left hand. But the two-time Wimbledon champion made an emotional and winning return to tennis at the French Open less than six months later
Telegraph Sport says: “[It] was a medical breakthrough, a personal landmark and a celebration of the human spirit” Simon Briggs
Per Mertesacker
Played key role in Arsenal’s FA Cup final triumph despite not starting a match for a year.
Age 32
From Hanover, Germany
Sport Football
Mertesacker had not started a match for more than a year, and had only 37 minutes of first-team action this season, but Arsenal’s giant German defender rose to the occasion magnificently to shackle Chelsea’s Diego Costa and shepherd Arsene Wenger’s troubled side to a 2-1 FA Cup final victory.
Telegraph Sport says: “[He] had been written off… yet here he was winning the FA Cup with an extraordinary performance’’ Jason Burt
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Entries must be received by midnight on Sunday 11 June 2017.
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1. This prize draw is open to residents of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland aged 18 years or over, except employees of Telegraph Media Group Limited and its group companies (“Promoter”), and Liontrust Asset Management PLC (“Liontrust”), their families, agents or anyone else professionally associated with the draw.
2. Details of how to enter form part of the terms and conditions. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
3. To enter this prize draw, entrants must vote for their choice of the three published Liontrust Sporting Heroes, published in The Daily Telegraph on June 3, 2017 and on telegraph.co.uk between June 2, 2017 and the closing date of this prize draw. Votes must be cast at tgr.ph/liontrust. Entrants may cast one vote only and may have only one entry in the prize draw. Once submitted, entries cannot be amended in any way.
4. One winner will be drawn at random from all valid entries received by the closing date of the prize draw
5. All entries must be received by midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2017.
6. Late illegible, incomplete, defaced or corrupt entries or entries sent through agencies and third parties will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries and proof of despatch will not be accepted as proof of receipt. The winner’s name and county can be obtained by sending a sae to Liontrust Sporting Heroes Prize Draw Winner, Telegraph Create, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT within one month after the closing date of the prize draw.
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8. The prize as described is available on the date of publication. Should the prize become unavailable, a substitute of equal value will be provided.
9. The winning entrant will win a iPad Pro 9.7 Inch Wi-Fi 32GB.
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