For­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain Chris Gayle and sprint queen Veron­i­ca Camp­bell Brown were named 2010 Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year at the RJR Sports Foun­da­tion Awards Cer­e­mo­ny held at the Ja­maica Pe­ga­sus Ho­tel on Fri­day evening. Gayle be­came the first crick­eter since Court­ney Walsh in 2000 to win the cov­et­ed prize for his high­est Test score of 333 runs in the first Test against Sri Lan­ka last No­vem­ber. Gayle's knock off 437 balls in­clud­ed a record 34 fours and nine six­es and as chair­man of the se­lec­tion com­mit­tee, Mike Fen­nell, told the Sun­day Ob­serv­er, "it was the per­for­mance of the year."

Camp­bell Brown added the 100m World In­door ti­tle to her list of achieve­ments in 2010 and was al­so the fastest woman of the year over the dis­tance af­ter clock­ing 10.78 sec­onds at the Pre­fontaine Clas­sic, for which she al­so copped the Peo­ple's Choice Per­for­mance Award-an ac­co­lade vot­ed on by mem­bers of the pub­lic. Gayle was un­able to col­lect his prize as he is cur­rent­ly in Aus­tralia play­ing in the Big Bash 20/20 tour­na­ment. In ho­n­our of the 50th an­niver­sary of the event, Life­time Achieve­ment Awards were pre­sent­ed to mul­ti-Olympic Games and World Cham­pi­onships medal-win­ning sprint­er Mer­lene Ottey and Box­ing Hall of Fame in­ductee Mike Mc­Cal­lum, who be­tween them have won 20 Sports­man and Sports­woman ti­tles.