Guardian Unlimited has won two awards at the Association of Online Publishers Awards for its sports coverage and its innovation in online publishing.
The website picked up the editorial team 2005 consumer award for its sporting websites guardian.co.uk/football and guardian.co.uk/sport and the online publisher 2005 consumer award.
After a summer of nail-biting over-by-over coverage of The Ashes, the sports team was praised by the judges for its razor-journalism and a wit that "fizzes like a Shane Warne leg-break".
Guardian Unlimited won the publisher of the year award because of its clear vision its "innovation and ability to develop new revenue streams".
"The Guardian really embraced the web from the word 'Go', and continues to set precedents," the judges said.
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