{"id":700941,"date":"2026-01-17T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:01:20","slug":"billy-harris-among-nominations-for-top-manx-sport-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700941\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Harris among nominations for top Manx sport award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tennis player Billy Harris and runner Christa Cain are among those shortlisted for the Isle of Man&#8217;s top sporting awards.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris, who has been been nominated for sportsman of the year, progressed to the second round of Wimbledon over the summer and competed in the opening round of the US open in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sportswoman of the year nominee Cain set several new of records on the athletics track and on the road in 2025 as well winning three gold medals at the Island Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andy Varnom of Isle of Man Sport said the shortlist &#8220;highlighted just how strong, diverse and passionate&#8221; sport was across the island.&#8221; The winners will be crowned at a ceremony in the Villa Marina on Thursday 26 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis player Billy Harris and runner Christa Cain are among those shortlisted for the Isle of Man&#8217;s top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-700941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115907505959572309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}