Performance of the Year: a blazing 9.58 seconds by Usain bolt to take the men’s 100m at the World Championships in Berlin is TEENage’s best sports performance of the year. With archrival Tyson Gay and team-mate Asafa Powell trailing in his footsteps, Bolt took the event in a world record time erasing his previous best, exactly one year to the date he became the world’s fastest man. Bolt in his record shattering form shaved 0.11 seconds of his previous record to further establish himself as the fastest man alive.

Team of the Year: Without doubt our team of the year goes to the mighty Barcelona. 2009 was a year when Barcelona in their quest to conquer the world won the Champions League title, the Spanish la Liga, the Copa Del Rey, the SuperCopa, the World Club Cup and the EUFA Super Cup. So dominant were the Spanish team in 2009 that, they had three players shortlisted in the top five world player of the year. A title, which was eventually, won by Lionel Messi the catalyst in Barcelona’s Success.

Sports Person of the Year: The prestigious title of sports personality of the year goes to the only man to complete a Treble at the Olympics in one year and repeat the fete at the World Championships the other year, the man that ran the 100m in a record breaking 9.58 seconds and the 200m in a blistering 19.19 seconds. The only man to shave 0.11s off both his records exactly one year to the date they were set. Yes, you have guessed right TEENage’s Sports Personality of the Year is none other than the Hon Usain Bolt.

— Ian Williams