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A list of the finalists and a biography of the Halberg Award Winners from 1980 - 1989
1980 Finalists
Graeme Crosby (motorcycling), Anthony Cuff (cycling), Richard Hadlee (cricket), Geoff Howarth (cricket), Lorraine Moller (athletics), Mark Todd (equestrian).
1980 Halberg Award Winner - Richard Hadlee (1980s Decade Champion)
There seemed hardly to have been a cricket record for bowlers that Richard Hadlee did not break, nor hardly a year during his 17-year test career that he did not destroy the hearts of batsmen. Hadlee was from a famous cricketing family, his father Walter captained the renowned 1949 team in England, and cricket was his passion. Hadlee at his prime was the world’s finest fast bowler, notwithstanding the successes of various speedsters from the West Indies, and could truthfully be regarded as one of the world’s best all rounders. He retired in 1990, and was knighted for his services to cricket, but his feats on the cricket grounds of the world will long be remembered and lauded. His greatest feat in a single test was his 9-52 against Australia in Brisbane in 1985, and perhaps his greatest in a 10-year career with Nottinghamshire was 1000 runs and 100 wickets in the 1984 season. Statistically, his greatest feat was his world record 431 test wickets, but perhaps what will live in the memory is not so much the figures, but the figure - the athletic run, the economy and precision of movement in delivery then, inevitably, an appeal or an arm raised in acknowledgement of another victim.
1981 Finalists
Bruce Compton (racing), Graeme Crosby (motorcycling), Richard Hadlee (cricket), Lorraine Moller (athletics), Graham Mourie (rugby), Allison Roe (athletics).
1981 Halberg Award Winner - Allison Roe
Allison Roe had run for New Zealand on the track and run for New Zealand at the world cross-country championships, but until 1980, she had never run a marathon. She soon made up for lost time, much to the delight of New Zealanders who revelled in her successes. Within a year of taking up the longest footrace, Roe was the first woman home in the most celebrated and durable marathon of them all, the Boston. And if that wasn’t enough, a few weeks later she attacked the roads and bridges of the New York marathon, and won that as well, in a time considered then to be the world’s best. The constant pounding on roads led to injury and in an effort to get back to full running fitness, Roe took up bike racing, with some success. It wasn’t enough though, and her golden year was behind her.
1982 Finalists
Anne Audain (athletics), Davis Cup Team (tennis), Rowing Eight, National Soccer Team, Allison Roe (athletics), Glenn Turner (cricket).
1982 Halberg Award Winner - New Zealand Rowing Eight
When a New Zealand rowing eight competes overseas, it seems to have an unreasonable weight of public expectation riding with it. Could the glory days of the early 70s be repeated? They could. The crew coached by Harry Mahon and comprising Mike Stanley, Tony Brook, Herb Stevenson, David Rodger, Roger White-Parsons, Chris White, Les O’Donnell, George Keys and cox Andrew Hay, went to Lucerne with confidence and hope. In their heat, they drew the Soviet Union, one of the favourites, and the New Zealanders’ simple strategy was to apply the pressure from 1000 metres. It worked. In the final, the New Zealand crew again stepped up the tempo at the halfway mark but so did the East Germans and in a desperate row to the line, the New Zealanders held out by less than a boat length. A New Zealand rowing eight was again the best in the world.
1983 Finalists
Neroli Fairhall (archery, paraplegic sports), Richard Hadlee (cricket), Chris Lewis (tennis), Rowing Eight, Rowing Four, Stu Wilson (rugby).
1983 Halberg Award Winner - Chris Lewis
At the age of 18, Auckland tennis player Chris Lewis won Junior Wimbledon and was runner-up in the junior event at the United States Open. Big things were predicted and big things were delivered and Lewis became New Zealand’s most successful tennis player since Anthony Wilding of the pre-World War I era. Lewis began his 1983 Wimbledon campaign by beating the ninth seed, Steven Denton, then followed that with wins over Australian Brod Dyke, American Mike Bauer, Nigerian Nduka Odizor and Mel Purcell of the United States. Lewis was into the semifinals of the world’s premier tennis tournament. There, Lewis’s superior fitness that was legend on the tennis circuit enabled him to outlast South African Kevin Curren to win 6-7 6-4 7-6 6-7 8-6. Lewis lost in straight sets in the final to John McEnroe, but his skill and fitness had taken him further than any New Zealander since Wilding.
1984 Finalists
Russell Coutts (yachting), Susan Devoy (squash), Ian Ferguson (canoeing), Richard Hadlee (cricket), National Men’s Softball Team, Mark Todd (equestrian).
1984 Halberg Award Winner - Ian Ferguson
From a remarkably small base with limited resources, canoeists were the flagbearers of New Zealand sport through the 80s. Pre-eminent among them was Ian Ferguson, who in four years made the remarkable transformation from being one of the small band of New Zealanders at the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics to being one of the standout winners at the Los Angeles Olympics four years later. First it was the K1 500 metres that he dominated, then the K2 500 with Paul MacDonald. Two golds in one day. A day later, he was back in a kayak again as part of the New Zealand K4 that won the 1000 metres. World championship gold medals followed and in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics, Ferguson and MacDonald successfully defended their K2 500 metres title. Ferguson was a classic example of fierce determination and competitive will.
1985 Finalists
Ian Ferguson, Paul MacDonald (canoeing), John Reid (cricket), National Netball Team, National League Team, Mark Sorenson (softball), Susan Devoy (squash).
1985 Halberg Award Winner - Susan Devoy
International women’s squash has had two supreme champions, utterly dominant in their eras. The first was Australian Heather McKay and the second was New Zealander Susan Devoy. Devoy was as close to unbeatable as any sport has seen, winning a string of world and other major titles, including the British Open eight times in nine years. Devoy won the world title four times and may have won it a fifth but for her commitment to a walk through New Zealand in aid of victims of muscular dystrophy. Devoy retired from squash in 1992, her competitors acknowledging that at last they would have a chance to win something. Her commitment to sport has been unwavering and she now serves as the Chairman of the Halberg Trust. She was knighted in 1998 for her services to sport and the community.
1986 Finalists
Erin Baker (triathlon), Susan Devoy (squash), Ian Dickison (bowls), Stephanie Foster (rowing), Richard Hadlee (cricket), Anthony Mosse (swimming).
1986 Halberg Award Winner - Richard Hadlee(see 1980 bio)
1987 Finalists
Sportsman: Richard Hadlee (cricket), John Kirwan (rugby), Paul MacDonald (canoeing), Ross Norman (squash).
Sportswoman: Erin Baker (triathlon), Susan Devoy (squash), Margaret Forsythe (netball), Tinks Pottinger (equestrian).
Team: Admiral’s Cup Crew (yachting), All Blacks (rugby), Kiwis (league), National Netball Team.
Coach/Official: Michael Fay (yachting), Tony Gordon (league), Brian Lochore (rugby), Lois Muir (netball).
1987 Halberg Award Winner - World Champion All Blacks
When the International Rugby Board deliberated over the worth of introducing a World Cup, no country fought harder for it than New Zealand. It was fitting, then, that the first cup was staged in New Zealand and Australia and even more fitting that it was won by the All Blacks. The concept of six test matches in a month was new to all rugby countries and the All Blacks showed the way, with skilled planning by their coach, Brian Lochore, and expansive and visionary play by the team. From the opening rounds, it was apparent that the New Zealanders were playing at a different level to everyone else. Their success, and the manner in which it was achieved, set higher standards for international rugby.
1988 Finalists
Sportsman: Ian Ferguson (canoeing), Grant Fox (rugby), Bruce Kendall (yachting), Mark Todd (equestrian).
Sportswoman: Erin Baker (triathlon), Susan Devoy (squash), Tracey Fear (netball), Tinks Pottinger (equestrian).
Team: Lynley Hannen, Nikki Payne (rowing), All Blacks (rugby), Paul MacDonald, Ian Ferguson (canoeing), Auckland Rugby Team.
Coach/Official: Bill Garlick (canoeing), Tony Gordon (league), Lois Muir (netball), Alex Wyllie (rugby).
Personality: Mark Todd (equestrian).
1988 Halberg Award Winner - Mark Todd
If anyone deserves the title of master horseman, it is Mark Todd. Such is his skill and understanding, he seems to create an immediate and natural affinity between rider and any horse he mounts, sometimes three or four in the one competition. Todd was twice a champion at Badminton, the Wimbledon of three-day eventing, but his even more remarkable feat, one that took him beyond the notice of equestrian followers, was his successive gold medals in 1984 and 1988 on Charisma in the Olympic three-day event. Such a double had been achieved only once before, in 1928 and 1932, when neither the Olympics nor their equestrian events were on such a grand scale as the Games were to become. Todd and other New Zealand riders from their English bases led the world in the harshest and most gruelling of equestrian competitions.
1989 Finalists
Sportsman: Bob Charles (golf), Chris Dickson (yachting), Richard Hadlee (cricket), Mark Todd (equestrian).
Sportswoman: Erin Baker (triathlon), Belinda Caldwell (tennis), Susan Devoy (squash), Jan Higgins (golf).
Team: All Blacks (rugby), Auckland (rugby), National Netball Team, Women’s Road Relay Team (athletics).
Coach/Official: Graham Lowe (league), Alex Wyllie (rugby), Maurice Trapp/Bryan Williams (rugby), Lyn Parker (netball).
1989 Halberg Award Winner - Erin Baker
When the sport of triathlon developed and expanded through the 80s, New Zealanders of determination and perseverance developed with it. Foremost among them was Erin Baker, who had entered her first triathlon in Australia in 1984 in the hope of winning a return air ticket to New Zealand. Her new career blossomed with a world title in her first year, 1985, and a series of successes that made her the dominant female triathlete of her era. In 1989, when she remained unbeaten, she was voted Triathlete of the Year in the United States, the first time the award had gone to a non-American. Baker continued competing and winning world titles, plus the demonstration triathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 1990, and ended her career with the world duathlon title in 1991.
1980 Halberg Award Winner - Richard Hadlee (1980s Decade Champion)
Allison Roe had run for New Zealand on the track and run for New Zealand at the world cross-country championships, but until 1980, she had never run a marathon. She soon made up for lost time, much to the delight of New Zealanders who revelled in her successes. Within a year of taking up the longest footrace, Roe was the first woman home in the most celebrated and durable marathon of them all, the Boston. And if that wasn’t enough, a few weeks later she attacked the roads and bridges of the New York marathon, and won that as well, in a time considered then to be the world’s best. The constant pounding on roads led to injury and in an effort to get back to full running fitness, Roe took up bike racing, with some success. It wasn’t enough though, and her golden year was behind her.
When a New Zealand rowing eight competes overseas, it seems to have an unreasonable weight of public expectation riding with it. Could the glory days of the early 70s be repeated? They could. The crew coached by Harry Mahon and comprising Mike Stanley, Tony Brook, Herb Stevenson, David Rodger, Roger White-Parsons, Chris White, Les O’Donnell, George Keys and cox Andrew Hay, went to Lucerne with confidence and hope. In their heat, they drew the Soviet Union, one of the favourites, and the New Zealanders’ simple strategy was to apply the pressure from 1000 metres. It worked. In the final, the New Zealand crew again stepped up the tempo at the halfway mark but so did the East Germans and in a desperate row to the line, the New Zealanders held out by less than a boat length. A New Zealand rowing eight was again the best in the world.
At the age of 18, Auckland tennis player Chris Lewis won Junior Wimbledon and was runner-up in the junior event at the United States Open. Big things were predicted and big things were delivered and Lewis became New Zealand’s most successful tennis player since Anthony Wilding of the pre-World War I era. Lewis began his 1983 Wimbledon campaign by beating the ninth seed, Steven Denton, then followed that with wins over Australian Brod Dyke, American Mike Bauer, Nigerian Nduka Odizor and Mel Purcell of the United States. Lewis was into the semifinals of the world’s premier tennis tournament. There, Lewis’s superior fitness that was legend on the tennis circuit enabled him to outlast South African Kevin Curren to win 6-7 6-4 7-6 6-7 8-6. Lewis lost in straight sets in the final to John McEnroe, but his skill and fitness had taken him further than any New Zealander since Wilding.
From a remarkably small base with limited resources, canoeists were the flagbearers of New Zealand sport through the 80s. Pre-eminent among them was Ian Ferguson, who in four years made the remarkable transformation from being one of the small band of New Zealanders at the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics to being one of the standout winners at the Los Angeles Olympics four years later. First it was the K1 500 metres that he dominated, then the K2 500 with Paul MacDonald. Two golds in one day. A day later, he was back in a kayak again as part of the New Zealand K4 that won the 1000 metres. World championship gold medals followed and in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics, Ferguson and MacDonald successfully defended their K2 500 metres title. Ferguson was a classic example of fierce determination and competitive will.
International women’s squash has had two supreme champions, utterly dominant in their eras. The first was Australian Heather McKay and the second was New Zealander Susan Devoy. Devoy was as close to unbeatable as any sport has seen, winning a string of world and other major titles, including the British Open eight times in nine years. Devoy won the world title four times and may have won it a fifth but for her commitment to a walk through New Zealand in aid of victims of muscular dystrophy. Devoy retired from squash in 1992, her competitors acknowledging that at last they would have a chance to win something. Her commitment to sport has been unwavering and she now serves as the Chairman of the Halberg Trust. She was knighted in 1998 for her services to sport and the community.
When the International Rugby Board deliberated over the worth of introducing a World Cup, no country fought harder for it than New Zealand. It was fitting, then, that the first cup was staged in New Zealand and Australia and even more fitting that it was won by the All Blacks. The concept of six test matches in a month was new to all rugby countries and the All Blacks showed the way, with skilled planning by their coach, Brian Lochore, and expansive and visionary play by the team. From the opening rounds, it was apparent that the New Zealanders were playing at a different level to everyone else. Their success, and the manner in which it was achieved, set higher standards for international rugby.
If anyone deserves the title of master horseman, it is Mark Todd. Such is his skill and understanding, he seems to create an immediate and natural affinity between rider and any horse he mounts, sometimes three or four in the one competition. Todd was twice a champion at Badminton, the Wimbledon of three-day eventing, but his even more remarkable feat, one that took him beyond the notice of equestrian followers, was his successive gold medals in 1984 and 1988 on Charisma in the Olympic three-day event. Such a double had been achieved only once before, in 1928 and 1932, when neither the Olympics nor their equestrian events were on such a grand scale as the Games were to become. Todd and other New Zealand riders from their English bases led the world in the harshest and most gruelling of equestrian competitions.
When the sport of triathlon developed and expanded through the 80s, New Zealanders of determination and perseverance developed with it. Foremost among them was Erin Baker, who had entered her first triathlon in Australia in 1984 in the hope of winning a return air ticket to New Zealand. Her new career blossomed with a world title in her first year, 1985, and a series of successes that made her the dominant female triathlete of her era. In 1989, when she remained unbeaten, she was voted Triathlete of the Year in the United States, the first time the award had gone to a non-American. Baker continued competing and winning world titles, plus the demonstration triathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland in 1990, and ended her career with the world duathlon title in 1991.