BOXER Muhammad Ali and weightlifter Rebekah Tiler were both winners for Keighley in the inaugural Provident Bradford Sports Awards.

Ali, who was not able to be present at the Bradford Hotel due to a Great Britain training camp, took the student sport sportspersons' award.

Tiler picked up the young female sportsperson award, while Pete Softley, fixtures secretary and chairman of the Bradford & Calderdale Keybury Junior Football League, which covers Keighley, won the outstanding contribution volunteer award.

Ali, one of the brightest young talents in the United Kingdom, was a silver medallist in the European Boxing Championships, and also competed in the European Games and the AIBA World Championships.

Bradford Police and College Boxing Academy, where Ali has developed his successful amateur career, won the student sport club-team award.

Tiler won gold at the Commonwealth Youth Games and took a gold and two silvers at the European Youth Championships in 2015, but said that the sports award was another highlight.

She said: "I'm just speechless. The other finalists were amazing and there is so much talent in this city, so I'm truly honoured.

"It was a brilliant year for me, and hopefully 2016 can be even better.

"I've got the European Championships in April and then it's about qualifying for the Olympics."

Among the shortlist that Rebekah defeated was Keighley's Leah Moorby, who was a bronze medallist at the Junior European Taekwondo Championships and has now won a British title three years in succession.

Softley said: "I am just very proud to be from Bradford and I feel very humble.

"Next season we want to run the league out of a central hub so that all of the football is free."

Horizon Taekwondo Academy, who have training bases in Keighley and Silsden, won the non-professional club or team award in the senior achievers' category.

Coach Natalie Kidd said: "The secret of our success is hard work, determination and the parents' support, so this is for the parents who back our students 100 per cent.

"We're not just a taekwondo club, we're a family. We all look after each other, and that's what makes us unique.

"This award means everything to us. This recognises everything that we've put into place is working and we're now getting rewards for that hard work."

Among the runners-up were shooter Michelle Smith from Keighley. The former Commonwealth Games silver medallist was a ladies' finalist at the British Air Gun Championships at Bisley after only six training sessions, and won the British Ladies' Air Rifle Championship and, for the fourth time, the Lord Roberts Trophy for the British Long Range Championship.

Runners-up in the over-18 disability sportspersons' award were powerlifters James Crossley, from East Morton, and Chris Woodhead, from Haworth.

James won two silvers and a bronze at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, where Chris won four bronzes.

Both train with Bradford Disability Sport and Leisure, who won the Special Recognition award.

Haworth Primary School were runners-up in the active school award.

They are a West Yorkshire Sport Centre of Excellence for PE and school sport, and both of these are embedded in all aspects of school work, with regular after-school clubs adding to the benefits for pupils.