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Adam Leventhal (born 13 November 1979, in London) is an English television presenter, journalist and Watford F.C. supporter.

He started his career in 1995 at Capital Radio, London working on the award-winning Capital Gold Sportstime. Initially working in production and editing, he moved on to live football reporting and soon became an established member of the Capital Sport team.

He studied Broadcast Journalism at Nottingham Trent University.

In 2002, he worked for Arsenal F.C., commentating and reporting on every home and away domestic and European match, while producing and presenting exclusive content for Arsenal.com. He spent 8 years at Capital covering FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro, UEFA Champions League, Premier League and Wimbledon Championships.

In 2003 he joined Sky Sports News. Initially he covered all sports as a key member of their reporting team. In 2006, he started a specialist correspondent role in cricket, covering tours in India, the West Indies, Sri Lanka, Australia and South Africa.

While on tour he reported on major news stories, including the death of Bob Woolmer at the Cricket World Cup in 2007 and the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008.

In 2010 he became a presenter on Sky Sports News.

In 2019 he joined The Athletic. He won best audio documentary awards in 2022 (Kanjuruhan Stadium Disaster in Indonesia) and 2023 (Turkey Earthquakes "Football on the Fault Line" coverage) at the British Sports Journalism Awards, alongside producer Adonis Pratsides.

Away from sports journalism, Leventhal has a strong association with music radio, having presented and produced radio programmes on the Emap network (Kiss 100 London and Radio Aire Leeds) and also Ministry of Sound Radio.

While at university he won two BBC Student Radio Awards in consecutive years for 'Best Show' and 'Best Specialist Music Programme'.

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