IAPA awards: return of presenter Mark Durden-Smith

Mark Durden-Smith

Mark Durden-Smith will return this year by popular demand to present the IPAF Summit and International Awards for Powered Access in Berlin, Germany.

The UK-based television presenter hosted last year’s awards and Summit in London, having also entertained viewers in the 2021 virtual IAPA awards and Summit, hosted online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a sport and lifestyle presenter, Durden-Smith’s versatility has seen him front everything from sports coverage to reality contests, cookery programmes and morning magazine TV shows.

Well-known to sports fans, he has led ITV’s Premiership and World Cup rugby coverage, as well as anchoring the channels’ annual Boat Race broadcast.

Durden-Smith has also presented the gameshow Freeze Out, the BBC London Radio Breakfast Show, The National Lottery’s Millionaire Manor and Design Wars. He’s also hosted American Princess, a primetime reality show for NBC in the US, and written a regular column in Metro, published in London, UK.