Jenny Macklin announces the 2008 Commonwealth Sports Awards winners

 ‘We have some amazingly talented sports people in our local community and I was thrilled to be able to recognise their ability and hard work’, Ms Macklin said.

 

Ms Macklin presented the awards to recipients at a special ceremony at the Centre in Ivanhoe.

 

‘I was very pleased to see the wide range of people represented, with both young and old receiving awards’.

 

The event was particularly special for young all-rounder and mad Collingwood supporter Dimitri Panotis who was lucky enough to meet Bill Duckworth, a dynamo at the East Ivanhoe Bowling Club and a Collingwood player in the 1940s.

 

The awards recognise outstanding individual or team achievement and participation.

 

‘It’s great to see our community come together and celebrate the sporting heroes of our local community’, Ms Macklin said.

 

‘I would also like to thank 1956 Olympic wrestler, Mr Noel Granger, who spoke at the awards, as well as the fantastic Viewbank Secondary College Stage Band, who performed on the night’.

Eleven awards were presented on the night:

-       Jessica Aldridge (taekwondo)

-       Stanley Blight (Ivanhoe bowling club)

-       Olivia Bontempelli (Eltham Wildcats Basketball Club)

-       Brad Carter (Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar)

-       Bill Duckworth (East Ivanhoe bowling club)

-       Matthew Haynes (Ivanhoe Grammar School)

-       Matthew Sterrenberg (Ivanhoe Grammar School)

-       Antra Svarcs (Melbourne Canoe Club)

-       Dimitri Panotis (Ivanhoe East Primary School)

-       Haris Stamboulidis (Ivanhoe East Primary School)

-       Rosanna Bowling Club