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SOYA Awards

annual sports awards in Kenya

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6392860 ↗
Source-derived summary

The SOYA Awards, also known as the Sport Personality of the Year Award, are annual national awards given for sports personalities and organisations in Kenya. The awards were initiated in 2004 by Paul Tergat. The awards for each year are held at the beginning of the next year (e.g. awards for 2008 are presented in January 2009). Winners must be a native of Kenya.

Winners by year

2004

Following are the 2004 SOYA winners.

2005

Following are the 2005 SOYA winners.

2006

Following are the 2006 SOYA winners.

2007

Following are the 2007 SOYA winners.

2008

Following are the 2008 SOYA winners.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “SOYA Awards” as annual sports awards in Kenya. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2008, 2009, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. The account is most persuasive where SOYA, Awards and annual can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as annual sports awards in Kenya. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6392860. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “SOYA Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.