WRAP UP! 2023 Queensland Sport Awards

Almost 600 guests in the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre’s Plaza Ballroom celebrated the winners announced in 12 Award categories:

The Courier-Mail Channel Seven Queensland Sport Star of the Year
Mollie O’Callaghan OAM OLY (Swimming)

Queensland Government Athlete with a Disability of the Year
Curtis McGrath OAM (Para-canoe)

The Courier-Mail Channel Seven Queensland Junior Sport Star of the Year
Flynn Southam (Swimming)

Queensland Sport Team of the Year
Australian Women’s 4x200M Freestyle Relay Team (Swimming)

rebel Queensland Junior Sport Team of the Year
Queensland 17 and Under Netball team

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Queensland Sport Event of the Year
FIFA Women’s World Cup Quarter Final, Australia v France (Football)

QUT Sport Innovation of the Year
JBird III Race Yacht, Ian and Annika Thomson (Sailing)

Queensland Government Sport Queensland Sport Coach of the Year
Billy Slater (Rugby League)

Brisbane City Council Queensland Sport Volunteer of the Year
Brent Brown (Hockey)

Konica Minolta Queensland Sport Officiator of the Year
Belinda Sharpe (Rugby League)

Gallagher Queensland Sport Administrator of the Year
Kevin Hasemann (Swimming)

The Queensland Government-sponsored Service to Sport Awards were presented to:

June Bothwell OAM (Netball)

Lyn Hill (Hockey)

Karen Macleod OAM (Swimming)

Graham Burns (Basketball) and

Mark Browning (AFL)

These Awards recognise outstanding contributors to Queensland sport, with each recipient investing countless hours in their chosen sport over several decades and across numerous roles across court, field and pool.

Champion surf life saver Trenor Hendy AM was honoured as the 23^rd ‘Legend of Queensland Sport’, while Jodie Purves (Cricket), Tracey Freeman PLY (Athletics), Sam Trimble MBE (Cricket), John Lang (Rugby League) and John McCoy OAM (Sport Media) were inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame, which is proudly supported by The Courier-Mail, Channel Seven and the Queensland Government.