Voting Criteria for the Major Award Categories

The criteria for the supreme Halberg Award is:

The Halberg Award will be awarded to the individual athlete, athlete in a team, or team whose achievement represented excellence in sport at the highest level.

This criteria is in turn applied to the Sportsman, Sportswoman, Disabled Sportsperson & Team awards (which are all eligible for the supreme Halberg Award), as well as the Coach award.

Regarding the criteria, the Voting Academy consider:

1. Regarding the achievement:
a. was it in that sport’s ‘pinnacle event’ (eg Olympics, Paralympics, Football World Cup)
b. was it a world record, or world ranking or recognition (eg ‘World Player of the Year’).
c. the quality of the field / competition.

2. The global nature of the sport.