50th Texaco Sportstars shortlist announced
DUBLIN, IRELAND 21 November 2007 – With just three weeks to go until the longest running sports sponsorship in Ireland celebrates its 50th anniversary, the shortlist of twenty sports from which this year’s 50th Texaco Sportstars of the Year Award winners will be selected has been announced.
Amongst the sports that have made it through to the final shake-up are cricket, motor sport, snooker and sailing. Other sports featuring on the shortlist are athletics, boxing, camogie, cycling, gaelic football, golf, greyhound racing, hockey, horse racing, hurling, rowing, rugby, soccer, swimming, ladies football and equestrian.
Chosen by a panel of national sports editors, the winners to whom awards will be presented this year will be announced in two weeks time. This will be followed by the awards ceremony to be held in Dublin on Wednesday, 12 December at which An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD will officiate.
Also presented on that evening will be the Texaco Hall of Fame Award, which goes to a prominent sports personality from the past, and the Texaco Special Achievement Award which is presented annually to a prominent person from the world of sport, who is not eligible to receive a Texaco Sportstars Award. The winners of these two awards will be announced shortly.
Enda Riney, Country Chairman for Chevron, which owns the Texaco brand, said ”The shortlist of sports from which this year’s 50th Texaco Sportstars winners will be chosen is one which reflects the wide spectrum of sporting pursuits in which Irish sports men and women now excel through team and individual performances. In this, our 50th anniversary year, we are delighted that their success has made it possible for our judges to compile such a comprehensive shortlist in which most of our popular sports are represented”.
Chevron Corporation is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We have approximately 58,000 employees, and our subsidiaries conduct business in more than 180 countries. We operate across the entire energy spectrum — producing and transporting crude oil and natural gas; refining, marketing and distributing fuels and other energy products and services; manufacturing and selling petrochemical products; generating power; and developing and commercializing the energy resources of the future, including biofuels and other renewables. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.
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Notes to editors
1) There are approximately 230 Texaco-branded service stations in Ireland and more than 1,300 across Europe. Chevron (Ireland) Limited also provides aviation refueling services at Dublin and Shannon Airports, has an extensive commercial and industrial fuels business and holds an equity stake in four fuel storage facilities in the Republic of Ireland. For more information, visit www.texaco.ie
2) For further information on this award, contact Don Hall, Hall PR on 01 660 9377 or email don@hall.ie. For more information on Chevron (Ireland) Ltd, contact Daniel Schraibman on 0044 207 719 4459 or email danielschraibman@chevron.com
