All Blacks win supreme Halberg Award

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 6:35a.m.

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Rugby World Cup champions the All Blacks have added another trophy to their cabinet - the supreme Halberg Award.

The All Blacks beat out their skipper, Richie McCaw, champion shot putter Valerie Adams and disabled swimmer Sophie Pascoe for the major prize, when the country's premier sporting awards were announced in Auckland on Thursday night.

The supreme award is presented to one of the winners of four major categories at the Halberg Awards and the All Blacks had earlier been named Team of the Year.

McCaw, who played through the World Cup with a foot injury and finished the tournament with a New Zealand record 103 caps, got the Sportsman of the Year accolade.

Adams was honoured as Sportswoman of the Year after going through 2011 unbeaten and claiming her third world title.

Pascoe, who grabbed two gold medals in world record time at the Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships, won the newly introduced Disabled Sportsperson of the Year award.

The All Blacks were represented in other categories as well, with Sir Graham Henry getting the nod for coach of the year.

The final whistle, which ended a tense World Cup final in which the All Blacks just held out France 8-7, was deemed New Zealand's favourite sporting moment of the year, the only award to be decided by public vote.

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10 Feb 2012 12:37p.m.

Marty wrote:

Chris you have lost your funny bone. People are what they are and may be the best rugby players but speaking in front of people is difficult. I take it you are a very experienced expert speaker and are a regular speaker at Toastmasters, Lions club etc and you could offer to coach the rugby players in the art of public speaking. By the way Valerie was very good but you could pick at her as well and say she appears somewhat shy. I had no problem with any of them.

10 Feb 2012 10:27a.m.

Chris wrote:

Thought the right people won the awards and great to see people being recognised. The humour during the event was very disappointing taking away from the importance of the event. Valarie was well prepared thanking people in a meaningful way and is a true professional. The All Blacks including Richie made a mess of the speaches and very bad form to be so poorly prepared. They must have known they were required to speak and someone should have taken leadership in preparing the speaches - we should do better than this.....

10 Feb 2012 10:03a.m.

Rose and vince wrote:

Congratulations to the All Blacks as a team, Richie McCaw and Sir Graham Henry on their achievement at the Halberg Awards. These people make one proud to be a New Zealander. Good luck to you all for the coming rugby season