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Fifty-one illustrious years, hundreds of famous local faces. The Marlborough Sports Awards has gone from strength to strength throughout its long, colourful history. Some famous Marlburians who have been honoured at the awards include WRC Rally co-driver, John Kennard, All Black, Anton Oliver, and Olympic Gold winning rower Joseph Sullivan who has been awarded Marlborough Sportsperson of the Year three times. Introduced in 1967, the first awards were held at the Centennial Stadium while the Blenheim Round Table was still in its ‘apprentice’ table status which is why the Sports Awards are 51 years old this year. “In those days, table members cooked the food
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Blenheim Round Table members Chris Black and Matt Brown with Olympic middle distance runner Nikki Hamblin at last year’s Marlborough Sports Awards.
and served the meals to the table, too,” says Chris Black, Round Table’s Marlborough Sports Awards organiser. “The event used to be much longer, the awards ceremony has been known to last more than four hours.“
“We have definitely streamlined the award process over the last few years, the cooking is probably better too,” he says. The awards have always had strong community support, and this year is no exception. This year’s
event takes place at Marlborough Convention Centre on November 20 and has guest speaker, threetime Sportsperson of the Year, Joseph Sullivan and TV One newsreader Peter Williams will MC.
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1967: Alan Sutherland (rugby) 1968: Alan Sutherland (rugby) 1969: Geoff Hocquard (wood-chopping) 1970: Alan Sutherland (rugby) 1971: Susanne Bishell (equestrian) 1972: David Neal (rugby) 1973: Marlborough rugby team 1974: Richard Taylor (athletics) 1975: Debbie Looms (table-tennis) 1976: Lance Cairns (cricket) 1977: John Woodley (motorcycling) 1978: Chris Moran (disabled sport) 1979: Brian Ford (rugby) 1980: Dianne Erikson (badminton) 1981: Graeme Miller (cycling) 1982: Tony Brook (rowing) 1983: Allan Miller (cycling)
1984: Susan Stewart (diving) 1985: Elliot Boult (golf) 1986: David Hocquard (wood-chopping) 1987: Elliot Boult (golf) 1988: John Dodson (rifle-shooting) 1989: Simon Wilson (cricket) 1990: Sandy Marshall (rifle-shooting) 1991: Brendan Neylon (cycling) 1992: Bill Stevenson (rifle-shooting) 1993: Anton Oliver (rugby) 1994: Ben Lucas (disabled sport) 1995: Ray Lynskey (gliding) 1996: George Crosby (squash) 1997: David Shepherd (rowing) 1998: Lloyd Gallop, Andre Smith, Bob Downling, Kevin Greenwood (bowls) 1999: Robin Reid (cycling)
2000: Jason Allen (cycling) 2001: Mark Inglis (cycling) 2002: Rob Hellstrom (rowing) 2003: Justin Leov (mountainbike) 2004: Robin Reid (cycling) 2005: Jason Allen (cycling) 2006: Duncan Grant (rowing) 2007: Duncan Grant (rowing) 2008: Joseph Sullivan (rowing) 2009: Duncan Grant (rowing) 2010: Sean O’Neill (rowing) 2011: Joseph Sullivan (rowing) 2012: Joseph Sullivan (rowing) 2013: Megan Craig (squash) 2014: Sophie MacKenzie (rowing) 2015: Sophie MacKenzie (rowing) 2016: John Kennard (motorsport)
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Have a look at Marlborough's Wikipedia page, under the heading 'Events and Points of Interest' you will find Blues, Brews and BBQ's - the first weekend of February. For more than twenty years, this has been true, but it may be that Blenheim's Wikipedia page needs to be updated. The festival started in Blenheim in 1992, the brainchild of Peter Baker, Tony Troon, Mark Peters, Bill Brook and Alan Corski. The combination of boutique beer, gourmet barbecue, and toe-tapping Blues music proved to be a popular one for Marlburians, the event selling out consistently in its first decade of life. Competitions for best BBQ, best leaner, best dressed and more recently, best homebrew beer always had a large variety of entries and most Blenheim locals will
Blues, Brews & BBQ’s organisers Graham Boone and Tony Troon at A&P park in 1993.
have fond memories of baking in the often 30-degree sun wandering from beer tent to beer tent. Like all good things, it couldn't last forever and the event came under fire from many angles. With increased rules and regulations along with dwindling num-
bers and profits, the event’s feasibility has become questionable. Nevertheless, many great memories, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were made in Marlborough for the community from this event that was once a staple of Blenheim summer.