UPU Letter Writing competition - Greek boy's letter to Roger Federer wins gold

Talking about the Olympic spirit came easy for Greece’s Marios Chatzidimou, 14. His letter to tennis champion Roger Federer captured the hearts of the international jury to win the gold medal in the Universal Postal Union's 41st International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People.

The jury complimented his simple and creative writing style. “The composition is original, very personal and stylistically creative. The modern and historic Olympic values come out very strongly,” it said.12 edition asked young people to write a letter to an athlete or sports personality they admire to tell them what the Olympic Games mean to them. 
  Kenya’s Valentine Chimba, 15, takes the silver medal with a letter to her countryman, runner David Rudisha, who holds the 800-meters world record. Ukraine’s Aliona Kuchanskaya, 15, and Trinidad and Tobago’s Chelsea Gabriella Ellise Mangarro, 11, tied for bronze with letters to Elena Yurkovskaya, a Ukrainian skier and biathlete who won several medals at the Winter Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy, and Hasely Crawford, the first Trinidadian to become an Olympic gold-medalist in 1976.

The jury also awarded special mentions to the compositions from other countries, in the following order: Russia (Ms Anastasiya Tolcheva), Brazil (Ms Joyce Lima Moreno), Indonesia (Mr Christ Soselisa), Benin (Ms Auriane Hillarie Hountogan) et Montenegro (Mr Bojan Savovic).

More than one million young people from 55 countries participated in the UPU’s 41^st International Letter-Writing Competition.

The 2013 competition asks young people to write a letter to someone to tell them why water is precious. The theme coincides with the International Decade for Action "Water for Life" 2005–2015.
Source : UPU website