ABC Sports Award of the Year

ABC Sports Award of the Year was one of the premier sports awards in Australia. From 1951 to 1983, it was called the ABC Sportsman of the Year Award.[1]

The award was originally voted for by Australian Broadcasting Corporation sports supervisors and the sports editors of major Australian newspapers. After 1983, members of the Australian Sportswriters' Association also voted.[2] The awards were first presented on television in 1957.[3]

Swimmer Dawn Fraser was voted as the best Australian sportsman of the 25 years in 1975 as part of the award silver jubilee celebrations.[2]

In 1993, there was a merger of the Sport Australia Awards and the ABC Sports Award of the Year with the new award known as ABC Sport Australia Awards.[4] After 1994, the new award removed the ABC from its title.[5] The award was later known as the Australian Sport Awards and ceased in 2006. The main national annual awards are Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards and the Australian Institute of Sport Awards.

  1. ^ "Sporting heroes to walk over water at awards". Canberra Times. 14 January 1990. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b Ampol Australian Sporting Records (8th rev. ed.). Sydney: Bantam. 1988.
  3. ^ "ABC TV firsts". ABC website. Archived from the original on 7 January 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Inaugural ABC Sport Awards". Sport Report. 13 (4): 3. 1993–1994.
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