Bolt and Savigne Still Lead Prensa Latina Poll

Bolt, triple champion in the World Athletics Championship in Berlin, is currently at the top of the list to choose the best Latin American and Caribbean sportspeople, with 15 favorable votes.

The world double record-holder in 100 and 200 meters flat in Germany, is well ahead of his closest chasers: Argentinean soccer player Lionel Messi and Venezuelan baseball player Felix Hernandez.

Messi, forward player of the Spanish Barcelona soccer club, reached four votes after winning two of them from Argentinean OLE daily and Bolivian Red Patria Nueva web site, respectively.

Hernandez has won three votes, followed by Argentinean tennis player Juan Martin del Potro, his compatriot and soccer player Juan Sebastian Veron, Brazilian swimmer Cesar Cileo Filho and Cuban chess player Leinier Dominguez, all with just one vote.

Savigne is leading women's actions with ten votes.

The world triple jump champion in Berlin-2009 beat Jamaican sprinter Shelly Ann Fraser (five), who won on Thursday the vote of OLE daily, which chose Argentinean Estudiantes de la Plata among the teams on the list.

Mexican diver Paola Espinosa has won the same number of points, followed by also Jamaican sprinter Brigitte Foster Milton (4).

Brazilian soccer and volleyball teams are tied in the voting with nine points, well ahead of the Venezuelan Sub-20 soccer team and Argentinean Estudiantes de la Plata, both with two points.

The winners of the 46th poll will be announced on December 22, one day after the vote reception deadline. Bolt and his compatriot, sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown, and the Argentinean soccer team won the poll in 2008.