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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure was named African player of the year for a third straight time on Thursday. He beat out Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel of Nigeria in the vote by Africas national team coaches. Toures fellow Ivorian Didier Drogba, the Galatasaray striker and two-time recipient, was third. "To be the winner today is unbelievable," the 30-year-old Toure said. "I am very happy and very, very proud." Toure was instrumental in helping Ivory Coast qualify for its third straight World Cup finals in Brazil, scoring four goals in the six qualifiers he played. He is also a driving force at the heart of Manchester Citys midfield and only Cameroons Samuel Etoo with four has won more African player of the year awards than Toure. In October, Toure joined a U.N. campaign against poaching, warning the slaughter of elephants threatens their very existence in Africa. Nigeria swept all of the other major honours at a gala in Lagos, the countrys seaside commercial capital. Stephen Keshi was named coach of the year after reviving the fortunes of the national team and leading the Super Eagles to their first African Cup win in 20 years. Keshi was captain of the Nigerian team that last won the African Cup of Nations in 1994. The Super Eagles won the team of the year award, and the under-17 Golden Eaglets took away the trophy for the youth team. Even Nigerian supporters were honoured, winning the award for fair play. Egypts Mohamed Aboutrika won an unprecedented fourth award for the best player based in Africa after helping Al Ahly to a record-extending eighth African Champions League title before retiring at the end of last year. Aboutrika scored in both legs of the final against South Africas Orlando Pirates. Al Ahly won Africas club of the year for the fifth time. Hydro Flask China Wholesale . He made that dream a reality Wednesday night. 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Both players struggled with their first serve, as Carreno Busta landed just 51 per cent of his to 47 per cent for Kukushkin.NAPLES, Fla. - Stacy Lewis became the first American in 21 years to sweep the three biggest awards on the LPGA Tour, which she considered more valuable than a $1 million bonus.Lewis closed with a 1-under 71 in the CME Group Tour Championship on Sunday, tied for ninth in the LPGA Tour finale. But it was enough for her to win LPGA Tour player of the year for the second time in three seasons. She also won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average and the money title.The last American to sweep the awards was Betsy King in 1993.The $1 million would have been nice, said Lewis, who was six shots out of a playoff. But those three, thats what I came here for. ... Its been hard to play the last four days, and its nice to be done. I didnt have my best stuff. Im pretty surprised to finish where I did.Two years ago, the 29-year-old Lewis became the first American since Beth Daniel to win the points-based player of the year. She added the Vare Trophy a year ago. And on Sunday, she collected all three at the same time.Inbee Park, the No. 1 in the world, was the only player who could have kept Lewis from the awards. She trailed in all of them, but struggled all week at Tiburon Golf Club and finished in a tie for 24th, four shots worse than Lewis.Lewis finished atop the money list with $2,,539,039, more than $300,000 over Park.dddddddddddd. Her scoring average was 69.532, while Park was second at 69.682. Michelle Wie was third in the Vare Trophy standings (69.818), followed by So Yeon Ryu at 69.978.It was the first time in LPGA history that four women had a sub-70 scoring average.Lewis felt as much stress this week as at any major, mainly because Park was on a roll and Lewis was struggling. She received one good omen Saturday night when her family ordered Chinese food and her father tossed her a fortune cookie.Lewis kept it in her pocket during the final day of the tournament and read it aloud to the media when she was done: Good news of long-awaited event will arrive soon.The last couple of weeks have been tough, Lewis said. The game hasnt been exactly where I wanted it to be. I figured (Park would) keep it rolling this week, and I knew I needed to find something. It was probably four of the hardest rounds of golf Ive ever played.Lewis won three times this year, though she failed to do so at a major. Still, she wouldnt trade what she ended up with.Before this week, it was good. Now its a little bit better, Lewis said when asked to measure her year. Id like to have taken a major championship. But winning these three awards makes it almost great. ' ' '