{"id":189702,"date":"2025-12-18T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189702\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:39:08","slug":"halberg-awards-finalists-revealed-athletics-and-snow-sports-star-dominate-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189702\/","title":{"rendered":"Halberg Awards finalists revealed: Athletics and snow sports star dominate nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Golfer Dame Lydia Ko was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/live-updates-the-62nd-annual-halberg-awards-from-aucklands-spark-arena\/JYEIDON3TVGN7FYJLNEPVDBADY\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/live-updates-the-62nd-annual-halberg-awards-from-aucklands-spark-arena\/JYEIDON3TVGN7FYJLNEPVDBADY\/\">awarded New Zealand\u2019s supreme sporting honour in 2025<\/a>, but she is not among the finalists for the 2026 prize.<\/p>\n<p>Sportswoman of the Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Niamh Fisher-Black (cycling road), Sammie Maxwell (cycling-mountain bike), Jorja Miller (rugby union), Alice Robinson (snow sports-alpine ski racing), Erin Routliffe (tennis), Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (snow sports-snowboarding).<\/p>\n<p>Sportsman of the Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Geordie Beamish (athletics-track), Ryan Fox (golf), Luca Harrington (snow sports-freeskiing), Hamish Kerr (athletics-field), Chris Wood (football).<\/p>\n<p>Para Athlete\/Para Team of the Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Lisa Adams (Para athletics-field), Danielle Aitchison (Para athletics), Devon Briggs (Para cycling-track), Cameron Leslie (swimming), Nicole Murray (Para cycling-track).<\/p>\n<p>Team of the Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland FC (football), Black Ferns Sevens (rugby sevens), New Zealand Black Sox (softball), New Zealand Kiwis (rugby league), Men\u2019s Team Pursuit: Nick Kergozou, Tom Sexton, Keegan Hornblow and Marshall Erwood (cycling-track), Ben Taylor and Oliver Welch (rowing).<\/p>\n<p>Coach of the Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Brendon Cameron (Para cycling-track), Hamish McDougall (snow sports-freeski), Mike Rodger (rowing), James Sandilands (athletics), Cory Sweeney (rugby sevens).<\/p>\n<p>Emerging Talent<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Lily Greenough (cycling-BMX), Finley Melville Ives (snow sports-freeski), Zoe Pedersen (swimming and surf lifesaving), Sam Ruthe (athletics), Braxton Sorensen-McGee (rugby union).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golfer Dame Lydia Ko was awarded New Zealand\u2019s supreme sporting honour in 2025, but she is not among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118773,95,16671,10779,33400,1139,19345,68793,118772,305,10136,111,139,57271,69,12860,6633,213,2737,5436,22974],"class_list":["post-189702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-63rd","tag-and","tag-athletics","tag-awards","tag-dominate","tag-dominated","tag-field","tag-finalists","tag-halberg","tag-have","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nominations","tag-nz","tag-revealed","tag-snow","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-stars","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}