\n Veteran forward Jack Gunston has claimed the Peter Crimmins Medal\n <\/p>\n
Jack Gunston celebrates a goal during Hawthorn’s preliminary final against Geelong on September 19, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
WEEKS before his 34th\u00a0birthday, veteran forward Jack Gunston has been rewarded for a career-best season with a second Peter Crimmins Medal at Crown Palladium on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gunston became a two-time All-Australian in August and now a two-time best-and-fairest winner after polling 157 votes to hold off half-back Karl Amon (140) and Dylan Moore (136) in a tight count.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After winning his first Peter Crimmins Medal in 2020, Gunston booted 73 goals from 23 appearances in 2025 to help Hawthorn reach a preliminary final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To make that output even more impressive, Gunston wasn’t picked in Hawthorn’s 23 in the first two rounds and was left in Melbourne for the trip to the Northern Territory in round 10.<\/p>\n
Gunston booted multiple goals 20 times this year, slotting a career-high seven goals twice, plus a bag of six, and five in the semi-final win over Adelaide at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n
Amon finished on the podium for the first time in his career after an ultra-consistent campaign by the 30-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Karl Amon celebrates a goal during Opening Round, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Moore finished on the podium again, ahead of 2024 Peter Crimmins medallist Jai Newcombe, who was named the best finals player.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jack Ginnivan was recognised for a brilliant return to form after a slow start with equal fifth spot alongside Blake Hardwick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Josh Battle was named the most courageous after securing a maiden All-Australian blazer in his first season at Waverley Park.<\/p>\n
In voting, coaches gave one vote to players who played their role or beat their opponent, two to those who had a significant influence on the game and three to the best player or players on the ground.<\/p>\n
2025 Peter Crimmins Medal<\/p>\n
1. Jack Gunston \u2013 157 votes
2. Karl Amon \u2013 140
3. Dylan Moore \u2013 136
4. Jai Newcombe \u2013 126
=5. Blake Hardwick \u2013 120
=5. Jack Ginnivan \u2013 120
7. Josh Battle \u2013 119
8. Jarman Impey \u2013 108
9. Nick Watson \u2013 102
=10. Lloyd Meek \u2013 99
=10. Mabior Chol \u2013 99<\/p>\n
2025 Peter Crimmins Medal club award winners
Most Improved: Josh Ward
Most Courageous: Josh Battle
Best Clubman: Will Day
Community Leadership Award: Luke Breust
Lethal Award: Jack Gunston
Most Promising: Calsher Dear
Best Finals Player: Jai Newcombe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran forward Jack Gunston has claimed the Peter Crimmins Medal Jack Gunston celebrates a goal during Hawthorn’s preliminary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-189777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}