The Westpac Halberg awards recognise New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

's top sporting achievements.

The annual award was started in 1949 by NZ Sportsman magazine founder Jack Fairburn. The original inscription on the trophy was Fairburn’s words: "The New Zealand Sportsman’s Trophy to be awarded annually to the New Zealand athlete whose personal performances or example, has had the most beneficial effect on the advancement of sport in the country". Awarding of the New Zealand Sportsman’s Trophy ceased along with publication of NZ Sportsman in 1960.

The trophy was restarted by The Halberg Trust (named for athlete Sir Murray Halberg

Murray Halberg

Sir Murray Gordon Halberg, ONZ, MBE is a former New Zealand middle distance runner who won the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 1960 Olympics. He also won gold medals in the 3 miles events at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games...

), which amended the wording of the inscription in line with the manner in which it granted the Award. The Awards are presented at a dinner which traditionally rotates between the New Zealand cities of Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

, Christchurch

Christchurch

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

, Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

 and Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, and which in recent years has been broadcast live on television. The award was expanded to include Westpac Sportswomen of the year, Westpac Team of the year, SPARC Coach of the year as well as the Lion Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and Leadership Awards. The award was eventually renamed in Murray Halberg's honour, and since then the supreme award has been known as the Halberg award.

The Awards help the Halberg Trust to raise funds, which are then used to provide opportunities for young people with disabilities to be active in sport or active leisure pursuits of their choice.

Winners

Year	Supreme Award	Sportsman of the Year	Sportswoman of the Year	Team of the Year	Coach of the Year
2010	All Whites	Richie McCaw Richie McCaw Richard Hugh "Richie" McCaw is a New Zealand rugby union player, and is the current test captain. He plays in the openside flanker position for the New Zealand, Crusaders and Canterbury rugby teams...	Valerie Adams	All Whites	Ricki Herbert Ricki Herbert Ricki Lloyd Herbert, CNZM is a New Zealand former association football player who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain...
2009	Valerie Adams	Mahé Drysdale Mahe Drysdale Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale, MNZM ) is a New Zealand rower and five-time World Champion single sculler. The name Mahé came from the largest island in the Seychelles....	Valerie Adams	Eric Murray Eric Murray (rower) Eric Murray is a New Zealand rower. He has won four World Rowing Championships gold medals. The first was as a member of the New Zealand coxless four at 2007 World Rowing Championships. Murray then went on to become a member of the double gold medal-winning coxless pair with fellow coxless four...  and Hamish Bond Hamish Bond Hamish Bond is a New Zealand Olympic rower.Bond was a member of the gold medal-winning coxless fours at the 2007 World Rowing Championships. Prior to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Bond was officially named as New Zealand's 1000th Olympian but later corrected to 1002 after a miscount...	Richard Tonks Dick Tonks Richard William Tonks is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
2008	Valerie Adams	Scott Dixon Scott Dixon Scott Ronald Dixon, MNZM is a New Zealand motor racer who became the most successful all-time driver in the Indy Racing League championship in the United States when he won the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in August 2009. This took his total to 21 wins...	Valerie Adams	Caroline Caroline Evers-Swindell Caroline Meyer formerly known as Caroline Evers-Swindell is a former New Zealand rower. She is 179 cm tall and 80kg. She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Georgina Earl...  and Georgina Evers-Swindell Georgina Evers-Swindell Georgina Earl, formerly known as Georgina Evers-Swindell is a former New Zealand rower. She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Caroline Meyer, and is a double Olympic gold medalist, having won at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008...	Kirsten Hellier Kirsten Hellier Kirsten Louise Hellier is a former javelin thrower, who represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth and the Olympic Games. She set her personal best in 1994 with the old javelin type...
2007	Valerie Adams	Mahé Drysdale	Valerie Adams	Men's Coxless Four	Kirsten Hellier
2006	Mahé Drysdale	Mahé Drysdale	Valerie Adams	All Blacks All Blacks The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....	Graham Henry Graham Henry Graham Henry is a New Zealand Rugby Union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks. He played rugby union for Canterbury and cricket for Otago in the Plunket Shield. Henry was heavily criticized following the All Blacks quarterfinal exit at the 2007 Rugby World...
2005	Michael Campbell Michael Campbell Michael Shane Campbell, CNZM is a New Zealand golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He is a member of the European Tour.Ethnically, he is predominantly Māori, from the Ngati...	Michael Campbell	Kate McIlroy Kate McIlroy Kate McIlroy is a New Zealand athlete. She won the World Mountain Running title in 2005 and was named New Zealand Sportswomen of the Year at the 2006 Halberg awards. McIlroy converted to track in a bid to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but sustatined a leg injury and was unable recover in time...	George Bridgewater George Bridgewater George Bridgewater, MNZM, is a New Zealand rower who currently competes in the pair at international level with Nathan Twaddle. The pair won bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...  & Nathan Twaddle Nathan Twaddle Nathan Twaddle, MNZM is a rower from New Zealand and Olympic medallist. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in the coxless pair rowing with his partner George Bridgewater and came out with a bronze medal....	Richard Tonks
2004	Sarah Ulmer Sarah Ulmer Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, ONZM is the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold. She won a gold medal and set world records at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens,....	Hamish Carter Hamish Carter Hamish Clive Carter ONZM is a New Zealand triathlete. He won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, his second Olympic games. Carter also competed on the International Triathlon Union World Cup circuit as a professional for many years, culminating in a silver medal in 2006 before...	Sarah Ulmer	Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell	Richard Tonks
2003	Silver Ferns Silver Ferns The New Zealand national netball team, commonly known as the Silver Ferns, represent New Zealand in international netball. The team take their nickname from the Silver Tree Fern , which is an iconic emblem for many New Zealand sports teams. The Silver Ferns were formed in 1938 as a representative...	Ben Fouhy Ben Fouhy Ben Fouhy is a New Zealand flatwater canoer who has been competing since the early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the silver in the K-1 1000 m event at Athens in 2004....	Irene van Dyk Irene van Dyk Irene van Dyk, MNZM is one of the world's best-known netball players and the most capped player of all time....	Silver Ferns	Ruth Aitken Ruth Aitken Ruth Ellina Aitken, ONZM is a New Zealand former international-level netball player and former head coach of the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns...
2002	Tall Blacks	Craig Perks Craig Perks Craig William Perks is a professional golfer from New Zealand who played on the PGA Tour.Perks was born in Palmerston North. He played college golf at University of Oklahoma and University of Southwestern Louisiana in the United States. He turned professional in 1993 and played on the second tier...	Barbara Kendall Barbara Kendall Barbara Kendall, MBE is a boardsailor from New Zealand. Kendall was raised at Bucklands Beach and attended Macleans College...	Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell	Tab Baldwin Tab Baldwin Thomas Anthony "Tab" Baldwin ONZM is an American-New Zealand basketball coach,-History:Baldwin was born in Florida and came from Jacksonville Beach to New Zealand in 1988 to coach the Otago Nuggets....
2001	Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell	Cameron Brown Cameron Brown (triathlete) Cameron Brown is an ironman triathlete from New Zealand.He is a ten-time winner of the New Zealand Ironman held in Taupo, New Zealand...	Melissa Moon Melissa Moon Melissa Moon is a long-distance runner from Wellington, New Zealand. She is a two time World Mountain Running champion and has won 21 New Zealand athletics titles over her career. In 2001 she was named New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year...	Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell	Tab Baldwin
2000	Rob Waddell Rob Waddell Robert "Rob" Norman Waddell, ONZM, is a New Zealand rower, yachtsman and rugby union player. Waddell has one of the highest VO2 max intake levels of any athlete ever tested. He holds the fastest 2000 metre indoor rowing machine time in the world, clocking a time of 5 mins 36.6 secs...	Rob Waddell	Leilani Joyce Leilani Joyce Leilani Joyce is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from New Zealand. During her career, she won the British Open in 1999 and 2000, and finished runner-up at the World Open in 2000 and 2001....	Team New Zealand Team New Zealand Team New Zealand is a sailing team based in Auckland, New Zealand representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.Team New Zealand has become a household name in their home country following their consecutive wins in the America's Cup in 1995 and 2000...	Don Tricker Don Tricker Don Tricker is a former player and coach of the New Zealand national softball team and senior advisor of high performance coaching at the New Zealand Academy of Sport....
1999	Rob Waddell	Rob Waddell	Barbara Kendall	New Zealand Women's Cricket	Richard Tonks
1998	Rob Waddell	Rob Waddell	Barbara Kendall	Equestrian Eventing Team	Ron Cheatley
1997	Beatrice Faumuina Beatrice Faumuina Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, ONZM is a New Zealand discus thrower, a gold medallist at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics. She has represented New Zealand in three Summer Olympics...	Jeff Wilson Jeff Wilson (sportsman) -Cricket career:Wilson played his provincial cricket for Otago, as an all-rounder - both a hard-hitting batsman and a right-arm fast-medium pace bowler. His international appearances were in four games of a One Day Internationals series against Australia in the 1992-93 season, and again in an ODI...	Beatrice Faumuina Beatrice Faumuina Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, ONZM is a New Zealand discus thrower, a gold medallist at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics. She has represented New Zealand in three Summer Olympics...	All Blacks	Les Mills Les Mills Leslie Roy Mills CNZM, MBE, is a retired New Zealand athlete, who represented New Zealand at Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games over two decades. He competed in shot put, discus and weightlifting events...
1996	Danyon Loader Danyon Loader Danyon Loader ONZM is an Olympic champion, former World Record holding swimmer from New Zealand, based in Dunedin...	Danyon Loader	Barbara Kendall	All Blacks	Duncan Laing Duncan Laing Andrew James Duncan Laing, CNZM, OBE, , generally known as Duncan Laing, was a New Zealand swimming coach based in Dunedin...
1995	Team New Zealand	Jonah Lomu Jonah Lomu Jonah Tali Lomu, MNZM is a New Zealand rugby union player. He had sixty-three caps as an All Black after debuting in 1994. He is generally regarded as the first true global superstar of rugby union. He has had a huge impact on the game...	Marnie McGuire	Team New Zealand
1994	Philippa Baker Philippa Baker (rower) Philippa Baker is a New Zealand rower. Along with Brenda Lawson she finished 4th in the Women's double sculls at the 1992 Summer Olympics- External links :* at sports-reference.com...  & Brenda Lawson Brenda Lawson Brenda Lawson is a New Zealand rower. Along with Philippa Baker she finished 4th in the Women's double sculls at the 1992 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...	Danyon Loader	Sarah Ulmer	Philippa Baker & Brenda Lawson
1993	Eisenhower Trophy Team	Philip Tataurangi	Susan Devoy Susan Devoy Dame Susan Elizabeth Anne Devoy, DNZM, CBE is a New Zealand squash player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She won the World Open on four occasions.-Playing career:...	Eisenhower Trophy Team	Grant Clements
1992	Annelise Coberger	Danyon Loader	Annelise Coberger	Auckland (rugby union)	Duncan Laing
1991	Philippa Baker	Martin Crowe Martin Crowe Martin David Crowe is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985, and was credited as one of the "best young batsmen in the world". Crowe represented New Zealand from the early 1980s until his retirement in 1996 as a right-handed batsman...	Philippa Baker	Eisenhower Trophy Team	Graham Lowe
1990	Peter Blake Peter Blake (yachtsman) Sir Peter James Blake, KBE was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the Whitbread Round the World Race, the Jules Verne Trophy – setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza, and led his country to successive victories in the America’s Cup...	Peter Blake	Karen Holliday	Steinlager Crew (yachting)	Ron Cheatley
1989	Erin Baker Erin Baker Erin Baker MBE is a New Zealand triathlete.Baker is a well known, female athlete who for years dominated the Olympic distance and Ironman triathlon circuit...	Richard Hadlee Richard Hadlee Sir Richard John Hadlee, MBE is a former New Zealand cricketer who played provincial cricket for Canterbury, Nottinghamshire and Tasmania. He is the son of Walter Hadlee, and the brother of Dayle and Barry Hadlee. His former wife Karen also played international cricket for New Zealand.Hadlee was...	Erin Baker	Silver Ferns	Lyn Parker
1988	Mark Todd Mark Todd (equestrian) Mark James Todd, CBE is a New Zealand horseman noted for his accomplishments in the discipline of eventing, voted Rider of the 20th Century by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, Mark James Todd, CBE (born 1 March 1956) is a New Zealand horseman noted for his accomplishments in the...	Mark Todd	Susan Devoy	Paul MacDonald Paul MacDonald Paul MacDonald MBE is a New Zealand sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. He is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most successful international athletes and holds innumerable international speed records in canoeing.Competing in three Summer Olympics, MacDonald won...  & Ian Ferguson	Lois Muir Lois Muir Dame Lois Joan Muir, DNZM, OBE is a New Zealand netball coach and administrator, and a former representative netball and basketball player. Muir represented New Zealand in two sports, playing with the Tall Ferns from 1952–1962 and the Silver Ferns from 1960–1963. She later became head coach of the...
1987	All Blacks	Richard Hadlee	Susan Devoy	All Blacks	Brian Lochore Brian Lochore Sir Brian James Lochore, ONZ, KNZM, OBE is a former rugby union footballer and coach who represented and captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. He played at number 8 and lock, as well as captaining the side 46 times...
1986	Richard Hadlee
1985	Susan Devoy
1984	Ian Ferguson
1983	Chris Lewis
1982	New Zealand Rowing Eight
1981	Allison Roe Allison Roe Allison Pamela Roe, MBE is a former long-distance athlete from New Zealand. In 1981 she won both the Boston and New York Marathons in course record times...
1980	Richard Hadlee
1979	Ivan Mauger Ivan Mauger Ivan Mauger, OBE, MBE, is a retired motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six World Championships, a feat only equalled by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden...
1978	Gary Hurring Gary Hurring Gary Norman Hurring is a former swimmer from New Zealand, who won the gold medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in the men's 200 metres backstroke...
1977	Ivan Mauger
1976	John Walker
1975	John Walker
1974	Richard Tayler
1973	Glenn Turner Glenn Turner Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel....
1972	New Zealand Rowing Eight
1971	New Zealand Rowing Eight
1970	Harry Kent Harry Kent (cyclist) Harry Dale Kent is a former racing cyclist from New Zealand.At the 1970 British Commonwealth Games he won the gold medal in the men's 1 km time trial. He also finished 4th in the sprint and 6th in the 10 mile scratch race....
1969	Chris Bouzaid
1968	Mike Ryan Mike Ryan (athlete) Michael Robert Ryan is a former long-distance runner, who was born in Scotland. He won the bronze medal for New Zealand in the men's marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico....
1967	Denny Hulme Denny Hulme Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....
1966	Roy Williams Roy Williams (athlete) Roy Williams is a retired track and field athlete from New Zealand, who won gold in the decathlon at the 1966 Empire Games, but was overlooked for the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games....
1965	Wilson Whineray Wilson Whineray Sir Wilson James Whineray, KNZM, OBE is a former business executive and the longest-serving captain of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. Rugby writer T.P. McLean considered him the All Blacks' greatest captain.He first played for the All Blacks in 1957...
1964	Peter Snell Peter Snell Sir Peter George Snell, KNZM, MBE is a former New Zealand athlete, now resident in Texas, United States. He had one of the shortest careers of world famous international sportsmen, yet achieved so much that he was voted New Zealand’s "Sports Champion of the Century"...
1963	Bob Charles Bob Charles (golfer) Sir Robert James Charles, ONZ, KNZM, CBE is a New Zealand professional golfer whose achievements over five decades rank him among the most successful left-handed golfers of all time, being the first lefty to win a golf major, winning more than 70 titles, and beating his age twice during a...
1960	Peter Snell
1959	Don Clarke Don Clarke Donald Barry Clarke was a New Zealand rugby union player who played 89 times as a New Zealand international from 1956 until 1964...
1958	Murray Halberg Murray Halberg Sir Murray Gordon Halberg, ONZ, MBE is a former New Zealand middle distance runner who won the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 1960 Olympics. He also won gold medals in the 3 miles events at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games...
1957	Philippa Gould Philippa Gould Philippa Mary Gould is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won the bronze medal in the women's 110 yards backstroke...
1956	Norman Read Norman Read Norman Richard Read was a New Zealand racewalker.Born in England, Read emigrated to New Zealand in 1953. The self-proclaimed "Pommie-Kiwi" competed for New Zealand in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the 50 kilometre walk where he won the gold medal. He was not originally...
1955	John Reid John Richard Reid John Richard Reid was a New Zealand cricketer who captained New Zealand in 34 Tests. He was the country's first cricketing leader to achieve victory, both at home against the West Indies in 1956 and the first away win, against South Africa in 1962...
1954	Bob Charles
1953	Barry Browne
1952	Yvette Williams Yvette Williams Yvette Winifred Williams, CNZM, MBE is a retired athlete from New Zealand, the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal. She won her Olympic gold medal in the Long Jump event in 1952 held at Helsinki.Williams was inducted into the New Zealand Hall of Fame in 1990...
1951	Ron Jarden Ron Jarden Ronald Alexander Jarden better known as Ron Jarden was a New Zealand rugby union footballer, businessman, and sharebroker. Jarden played club rugby for Victoria University in 1949, and was selected to play provincial rugby for Wellington that year...
1950	Yvette Williams
1949	Bert Sutcliffe Bert Sutcliffe Bert Sutcliffe MBE was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949, which included four fifties and a century in the Tests, earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year...

2000s

Decade Champion

Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell (rowing)

2009

Supreme Award	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Adams , ONZM is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion...  (athletics)
Sportsman of the Year	Scott Dixon (motor sport), Mahé Drysdale Mahe Drysdale Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale, MNZM ) is a New Zealand rower and five-time World Champion single sculler. The name Mahé came from the largest island in the Seychelles....  (rowing), Duncan Grant Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, potterty and theatre sets and costumes...  (rowing), Richie McCaw Richie McCaw Richard Hugh "Richie" McCaw is a New Zealand rugby union player, and is the current test captain. He plays in the openside flanker position for the New Zealand, Crusaders and Canterbury rugby teams...  (rugby union), Daniel Vettori Daniel Vettori Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...  (cricket)
Sportswoman of the Year	Sophie Pascoe Sophie Pascoe Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...  (swimming), Alison Shanks Alison Shanks Alison Shanks is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, specialising in individual pursuit in track cycling and individual time trial in road bicycle racing.- Biography :Born in Dunedin, New Zealand...  (cycling), Valerie Vili (athletics), Sarah Walker Sarah Walker (BMX rider) Sarah Walker is a BMX racer who was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, currently residing in Kawerau, New Zealand. She started BMXing in 1999 when she saw her brother, Matt, riding one day . And she has made her career from there ever since....  (BMX cycling)
Team of the Year	All Whites (football), Men's lightweight double scull (rowing), Men’s senior pair (rowing), Women's 420 (sailing)
Coach of the Year	Tim Carswell Tim Carswell Timothy "Tim" Christopher Carswell is a former New Zealand racing cyclist. He won two bronze medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games; one in the twenty kilometre scratch race and one in the team pursuit alongside fellow riders Brendon Cameron, Greg Henderson and Lee Vertongen.-References:...  (cycling), Ricki Herbert Ricki Herbert Ricki Lloyd Herbert, CNZM is a New Zealand former association football player who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain...  (football), Kirsten Hellier Kirsten Hellier Kirsten Louise Hellier is a former javelin thrower, who represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth and the Olympic Games. She set her personal best in 1994 with the old javelin type...  (athletics), Richard Tonks Dick Tonks Richard William Tonks is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....  (rowing)
Emerging Talent Award	Aaron Cruden Aaron Cruden Aaron Cruden is a World Cup winning New Zealand rugby union player, who currently plays for Manawatu Turbos in the National Provincial Championship, Chiefs in the Super 15 Competition and is an All Blacks international. Cruden's position is first five-eighth/fly-half...  (rugby union), Sam Meech (yachting), Robbie Manson (rowing), Sam Webster Sam Webster (cyclist) Sam Webster was the 2009 Sprint, Keirin and Team Sprint World Champion at the Junior World Champion and New Zealand national track cycling champion.-Biography:Born in Auckland, Webster attended Auckland Grammar School....  (cycling)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Kenny Smith
Leadership Award	John Anderson

2008

Supreme Award	Valerie Vili (athletics)
Sportsman of the Year	Tom Ashley Tom Ashley Thomas John Mitchell Ashley, ONZM is a sailor from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the men's sailboard event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, he also won the 2008 RS:X World Championships. He is the Olympic champion and the 2008 World champion...  (wind surfing), Scott Dixon Scott Dixon Scott Ronald Dixon, MNZM is a New Zealand motor racer who became the most successful all-time driver in the Indy Racing League championship in the United States when he won the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in August 2009. This took his total to 21 wins...  (motorsport), Hayden Roulston Hayden Roulston Hayden Roulston, MNZM is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team . He won the silver medal in the men's 4000 m individual pursuit and a bronze medal in the men's 4000 m team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.Roulston was a talented junior rider on both road and...  (cycling), Danny Lee Danny Lee (golfer) Danny Jin-Myung Lee is a professional golfer from Rotorua, New Zealand. Lee was born in South Korea and emigrated to New Zealand at the age of eight. His name in Hangul is 이진명. He became a naturalized New Zealander on 2 September 2008 at Rotorua, where he attended Rotorua Boys' High...  (golf), ick Willis (athletics)
Sportswoman of the Year	Sam Warriner (triathlon), Val Smith (bowls), Valerie Vili (athletics), Sophie Pascoe (swimming)
Team of the Year	Women's Double Scull (rowing), All Blacks All Blacks The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....  (rugby union), Kiwis New Zealand national rugby league team The New Zealand national rugby league team has represented New Zealand in rugby league football since intercontinental competition began for the sport in 1907. Administered by the New Zealand Rugby League, they are commonly known as the Kiwis, after the native bird of that name...  (rugby league), Men's Team Pursuit (cycling)
Coach of the Year	Stephen Kearney Stephen Kearney Stephen Peter Kearney, ONZM is a professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Parramatta Eels in the NRL as well as the New Zealand national team...  (Rugby League), Richard Tonks (rowing), Grant Beck (wind surfing), Kirsten Hellier (athletics)
Emerging Talent Award	Graham Oberlin-Brown (rowing), Chris Rahardja (Karate), Jossi Wells (Skiing), Paige Hareb Paige Hareb Paige Frances Hareb is a professional surfer from Oakura Beach, New Zealand. In December 2008 she became the first New Zealand woman to qualify for the ASP Women's World Tour....  (surfing)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Ron Shakespeare
Leadership Award	Susie Simcock

2007

Supreme Award	Valerie Vili (athletics)
Sportsman of the Year	Mahé Drysdale (rowing), Duncan Grant Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, potterty and theatre sets and costumes...  (rowing), Jonathan Wyatt Jonathan Wyatt Jonathan Craig Wyatt is a long-distance runner from Lower Hutt, New Zealand, who is a six-time world mountain running champion. He is also an 8 time winner of the world mountain running grand prix series. He competed in the men's 5,000 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, reaching the final, and...  (athletics), Brad Butterworth Brad Butterworth Bradley William Butterworth, OBE is a world-renowned yachtsman known for the role he played as tactician and skipper in the America's Cup for Team New Zealand and the Alinghi team of Switzerland.He was born in Te Awamutu, New Zealand in 1959...  (yachting)
Sportswoman of the Year	Nicole Begg (in line skating), Katherine Prumm (motocross), Valerie Vili (athletics), Sarah Walker (BMX class cycling)
Team of the Year	Men's Coxless Four (rowing), Women's Double Scull (rowing), Men's Pair (rowing), Emirates Team New Zealand Team New Zealand Team New Zealand is a sailing team based in Auckland, New Zealand representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.Team New Zealand has become a household name in their home country following their consecutive wins in the America's Cup in 1995 and 2000...  (yachting)
Coach of the Year	Gordon Tietjens Gordon Tietjens Gordon Tietjens, CNZM is the current coach of the New Zealand Sevens team. He is regarded as one of the most successful sevens coaches in the world....  (Rugby union), Calvin Ferguson (rowing), Chris Nilsson (rowing), Kirsten Hellier (athletics)
Emerging Talent Award	Emma Twigg (rowing), Danny Lee (golf), Edward Dawkins (cycling), Brendan Hartley (motor sport)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Merv Wallace Merv Wallace Walter Mervyn Wallace was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain. Former New Zealand captain John Reid called him "The most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern." He was nicknamed "Flip" by his teammates, because that was the strongest expletive they heard him say.Wallace...
Leadership Award	John Graham John Graham (All Black) Sir David John Graham, KNZM, CBE, ED previous president of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and a former All Black loose forward he played 22 Tests between 1958 and 1964, including 3 as captain...

2006

Supreme Award	Mahé Drysdale (rowing)
Sportsman of the Year	Mahé Drysdale (rowing), Moss Burmester Moss Burmester Moss James Burmester is a New Zealand swimmer. His specialist event is the 200m butterfly in which he holds the Commonwealth record of 1:54.35 set at the 2008 Summer Olympics...  (swimming), Kalon Dobbin(speed Skating), Richie McCaw (rugby union), Nick Willis Nick Willis Nicholas Ian Willis MNZM is a New Zealand middle distance runner. He won the silver medal in the 1500m at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing with a time of 3:34.16 minutes. He was a gold medallist in the 1500 metres at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and a bronze medallist at the 2010...  (athletics)
Sportswoman of the Year	Farah Palmer Farah Palmer Farah Rangikoepa Palmer, ONZM is a lecturer in the Department of Management at Massey University and a former captain of New Zealand's women's national rugby union team, the Black Ferns.-Career:...  (rugby union), Hannah McLean Hannah McLean Hannah McLean is a New Zealand swimming competitor. She won a bronze medal in the 200m backstroke at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.She also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games.-References:...  (swimming), Valerie Vili (athletics), Sam Warriner (triathlon)
Team of the Year	All Blacks All Blacks The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....  (rugby union), Black Ferns Black Ferns The Black Ferns is New Zealand's national women's rugby union team.- The name :The name comes from the use of the colour black and the silver fern as New Zealand sporting symbols...  (rugby union), Hamish Pepper and Carl Williams (yachting), Silver Ferns Silver Ferns The New Zealand national netball team, commonly known as the Silver Ferns, represent New Zealand in international netball. The team take their nickname from the Silver Tree Fern , which is an iconic emblem for many New Zealand sports teams. The Silver Ferns were formed in 1938 as a representative...  (netball)
Coach of the Year	Ruth Aitken Ruth Aitken Ruth Ellina Aitken, ONZM is a New Zealand former international-level netball player and former head coach of the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns...  (netball), Jan Cameron(swimming), Kirsten Hellier (athletics), Graham Henry Graham Henry Graham Henry is a New Zealand Rugby Union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks. He played rugby union for Canterbury and cricket for Otago in the Plunket Shield. Henry was heavily criticized following the All Blacks quarterfinal exit at the 2007 Rugby World...  (rugby union), Richard Tonks (rowing)
Emerging Talent Award	Nathan Cohen(rowing), Graham Oberlin-Brown (rowing), Katherine Prumm(motorcycling), Rebecca Spence (multi-sport)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Ken Elliot (golf)
Leadership Award	Tana Umaga Tana Umaga Jonathan Ionatana Falefasa "Tana" Umaga, ONZM is a New Zealand rugby union footballer and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. He played for the Hurricanes starting with the Super 12's inception in 1996 and took over the captaincy in 2003...  (rugby union)

2005

Supreme Award	Michael Campbell Michael Campbell Michael Shane Campbell, CNZM is a New Zealand golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He is a member of the European Tour.Ethnically, he is predominantly Māori, from the Ngati...  (golf)
Sportsman of the Year	Michael Campbell (golf), Daniel Carter (rugby union), Mahé Drysdale (rowing), Jonathan Wyatt Jonathan Wyatt Jonathan Craig Wyatt is a long-distance runner from Lower Hutt, New Zealand, who is a six-time world mountain running champion. He is also an 8 time winner of the world mountain running grand prix series. He competed in the men's 5,000 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, reaching the final, and...  (mountain running)
Sportswoman of the Year	Irene van Dyk (netball), Kate McIlroy (mountain running), Valarie Vili (athletics), Sam Warriner (triathlon)
Team of the Year	All Blacks (rugby union), George Bridgewater & Nathan Twaddle (rowing men's pair), Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell (rowing women's double scull), Nicky Coles & Juliette Haigh (rowing women's pair)
Coach of the Year	Ruth Aitken (netball), Graham Henry (rugby union), Brian McLennan (rugby league), Richard Tonks (rowing)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Fred Strachan (rowing)
Leadership Award	Don Rowlands Don Rowlands Donald David Rowlands is a former New Zealand rower.At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members Donald Adam, Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Bruce Culpan, Thomas Engel, Graham Jarratt, Edwin Smith and Bill Tinnock...  (rowing)

2004

Supreme Award	Sarah Ulmer Sarah Ulmer Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, ONZM is the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold. She won a gold medal and set world records at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens,....  (cycling)
Sportsman of the Year	Hamish Carter Hamish Carter Hamish Clive Carter ONZM is a New Zealand triathlete. He won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, his second Olympic games. Carter also competed on the International Triathlon Union World Cup circuit as a professional for many years, culminating in a silver medal in 2006 before...  (triathlon), Bevan Docherty Bevan Docherty Bevan John Docherty is a triathlete from New Zealand who twice won medals at the Olympic Games. Docherty attended Tauhara College, Taupo....  (triathlon), Ben Fouhy Ben Fouhy Ben Fouhy is a New Zealand flatwater canoer who has been competing since the early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the silver in the K-1 1000 m event at Athens in 2004....  (canoeing), Greg Henderson Greg Henderson Gregory Henderson is a professional track and road racing cyclist who rides for , but who will ride for Lotto in 2012. His career includes winning the 15 km scratch race at the 2004 world championships and, in road cycling, winning the points competition at the 2005 Tour de Georgia. He...  (cycling)
Sportswoman of the Year	Rachael Anderson (surf life saving), Angela McMillan (aerobics), Vanessa Quin (mountain biking), Sarah Ulmer (cycling)
Team of the Year	Black Sox (softball), Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell (rowing), Sharon Sims & Jo Edwards (bowls), New Zealand Sevens (rugby union)
Coach of the Year	Brendon Cameron Brendon Cameron Brendon Cameron is a former New Zealand track cyclist. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in the men's team pursuit, and followed it up four years later with another bronze medal in the same event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games...  (cycling), Chris Pilone (triathlon), Dick Tonks (rowing), Don Tricker (softball)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Heather & Jeff Robson (tennis & badminton)
Leadership Award	Sir Brian Lochore (rugby union)