Move over, Anna. Step aside, Jennie.
Page 2 has crowned its Hottest Female Athlete for 2004 -- and it
isn't 2002
champion Anna Kournikova or 2003
winner Jennie Finch. Nope, the new woman on the throne is soccer star
Heather Mitts, a defender for the U.S. National Team and the Philadelphia
Charge of the WUSA.
After one week of competition, featuring nearly 1.2 million
votes, Mitts emerged as the third different winner in the three years of
Page 2's polling. Mitts garnered 30 percent of the more than 268,000 votes
cast in the final to edge out figure skater Jamie Salé, snowboarder
Gretchen Bleiler, Kournikova and Finch, who was given a bye into the final
round because of her status as defending champion.
"I was completely shocked that I won," Mitts told Page
2 in
10 Burning Questions after her victory. "I figured I'd be lucky
to finish in the top five, no joke."
The competition started with 24 female athletes, and voting is
currently open in the 24-man field for 2004's
Hottest Male Athlete.
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