The SA Sports Awards are presented annually with the prime objective of celebrating sporting excellence and rewarding sporting achievements in and outside the arena of sports.
The awards have been announced in 2004 in partnership between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and several other stakeholders and sponsors.
SA Sports Awards 2022: Nominees, Winners, List, Wiki
Nominees:
- Sports Star of the Year Award
- Individual Sports Awards
- Steve Tshwete Life Time Achievement Awards
- Ministers Excellence Awards
Olympic 200m breaststroke champion and record holder Tatjana Schonemaker was the biggest winner at the SA Sports Awards ceremony on Saturday night as she walked away from the coveted Sports Star and Sportswoman of the Year awards.
The 24-year-old Schoenemaker, who won a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan, beat strong competition in both categories.
Winners:
The other major winner on the night at the International Convention Center (ICC) in Durban was Springbok winger Makazol Mpimpi who was named Sportsman of the Year.
During a period in which the athletes were judged, Mapimpi helped the Springboks to the World Cup title in Japan with victories over England and a hard-fought 2–1 series win over the British and Irish Lions.
In other categories, Peter du Preez, who won gold in the men’s H1 cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
List:
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# |
Year
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 |
Title
Sportsman of the Year Sportswoman of the Year |
Winner
Chad le Clos Caster Semenya Luvo Manyonga Wayde van Niekerk Ashleigh Moolman Cameron van der Burgh Mapaseka Makhanya Vernon Philander |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2018 | Sportsman of the Year | Chad le Clos |
| 2. | 2018 | Sportswoman of the Year | Caster Semenya |
| 3. | 2017 | Sportsman of the Year | Luvo Manyonga |
| 4. | 2017 | Sportswoman of the Year | Caster Semenya |
| 5. | 2016 | Sportsman of the Year | Wayde van Niekerk |
| 6. | 2016 | Sportswoman of the Year | Caster Semenya |
| 7. | 2015 | Sportsman of the Year | Wayde van Niekerk |
| 8. | 2015 | Sportswoman of the Year | Ashleigh Moolman |
| 9. | 2014 | Sportsman of the Year | Chad le Clos |
| 10. | 2014 | Sportswoman of the Year | Ashleigh Moolman |
| 11. | 2013 | Sportsman of the Year | Cameron van der Burgh |
| 12. | 2013 | Sportswoman of the Year | Mapaseka Makhanya |
| 13. | 2012 | Sportsman of the Year | Vernon Philander |
| 14. | 2012 | Sportswoman of the Year | Caster Semenya |
Wiki:
South African Sportsperson of the Year are annual sporting awards given to best South African athletes.
Paralympian Pieter “Supa Piet” du Preez was was named Sportsman of the Year with a Disability at the South African Sports Awards.
Du Preez won the gold medal in the men’s H1 cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympic Games last year. The quadriplegic has been nominated five times for the award and this is the first time he gets to take it home.
| Year | Sportsman of the Year | Sportswoman of the Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Sport | Winner | Sport | |
| 2004 | Roland Schoeman | Swimming | Hestrie Cloete | Athletics |
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