From quiet achievers to the stars of para and able-bodied athletics, a number of Australian athletes and participants across the country have been nominated for local and state sporting awards.
On the back of his rise to the Rio Olympic Games team in 2016, South Australian Kurtis Marschall continued to raise the bar in 2017 taking another step forward in his promising pole vault career.
Marschall is one of ten finalists named for The Advertiser’s South Australian
In August this year, Marschall finished seventh in the final of the IAAF world championships in a year which also saw the 20-year-old raise his personal best to 5.73m.
Trengove too cracked the top ten in London, after placing ninth in the women’s marathon in the fastest ever performance and the highest ever placing by an Australian woman at the world titles.
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After bursting onto the Australian athletics scene after her performances at Nitro Athletics, young Queensland sprint star Riley Day has taken out Junior Sports Star of the Year at the Quest Community News and Gold Coast Bulletin Local Sports Star Awards.
The teenager from Beaudesert had a breakthrough year in 2017, taking two gold medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas, before making her Australian senior team debut at the 2017 world championships in London in the 200m.
Oboya took home two gold medals at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the 400m and the mixed 4x400m relay as she improved her PB in the past year by three seconds down to 52.69.
Holt, still just 16-years-old, avenged her Rio Paralympic silver medal at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London by winning gold medals in both the T35 100m and 200m.
Holt is also nominated for the ABC Sports Personality of the Year, as part of the annual AIS Sport Performance Awards. She shares a nomination with Sally Pearson, who was recognised after her stunning victory in the 100m hurdles at the 2017 world championships in London.
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Pearson is also one of six finalists in the Queensland Academy of
London world championships silver medallist Dani Stevens has too put her name up among the best sportspeople in Australia after receiving a nomination as one of seven finalists for the
Also nominated as part of the Sport NSW awards are wheelchair athlete Madison de Rozario (Athlete of the Year with a Disability), Erin Cleaver and Tamsin Colley (Young Athlete of the Year with a Disability).
Both Stevens and de Rozario are also nominated as finalists in the NSW Institute of
Also in the running to take out an NSWIS award will be James Turner, who is nominated for the Male Athlete of the Year after his world championships gold medal performance in the men’s T36 200m, 400m and 800m.
Also nominated for NSWIS awards is University of Sydney pole vaulter Angus Armstrong (Academic Excellence Award), para-long jumper Sarah Walsh (Personal Excellence Award), and legend of Australian para-athletics Louise Sauvage (Coach of the Year).
In Canberra, world para-athletics champion in the F38
Crombie's nomination comes as our para-athlete takes a clean sweep of the nominations in their category at the CBR Sports Awards. Crombie will be in the running for the Male Athlete of the Year – Para sports award against fellow London 2017 gold medallists, F38 javelin thrower Jayden Sawyer and T42 100m sprinter Scott Reardon.
At the Western Australian Institute of Sport,
In Tasmania, T38 1500m world para-athletics champion and Australian record holder Deon Kenzie is up for the Mercury newspaper 2017 Tasmanian Athlete of the Year.
Other community awards include:
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