The Best Female Track Athlete ESPY Award was presented annually between

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and

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to the female track and field athlete, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given

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. Beginning in

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, this award was combined with the parallel

Best Male Track Athlete ESPY Award The Best Male Track Athlete ESPY Award was presented annually between 1993 and 2006 to the male track and field athlete, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. Beginning in 2007, this award was combined wit ...

into the single

Best Track and Field Athlete ESPY Award The Best Track and Field Athlete ESPY Award was presented from 2007 to 2012, with the exception of 2009, to the track and field athlete, irrespective of nationality or gender, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. The award supersede ...

. Between 1993 and

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, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively ''experts''; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter was exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter were conferred in June and reflected performance from the June previous.Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in

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was given in consideration of performance betwixt February

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and June 2002.

List of winners

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References

* {{ESPYs ESPY Awards Sport of athletics awards Sports awards honoring women Awards established in 1993 Awards disestablished in 2006

List of winners

See also

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