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Wanted: More names for SP Sports
Awards
By WENDY KATUSELE
PNG Sports Federation
secretary-general Sir John Dawanincura (right) has called on
national sports federations to co-operate and nominate their
outstanding athletes, teams or administrators for the 2007 SP
Sports Awards.
Sir John said nominations had been poor since the launching of the
annual event on January 27.
“Nominations have been received by the organising committee but
that they are not enough,” he said and expressed his concern that
national sports federations were not doing participating by
sending in their nominations.
The annual awards night, usually held in Port Moresby, will be on
May 26.
This year major sponsors and SP Brewery company have injected an
additional K11,000 towards the sponsorship package for prizemoney
alone. This is a total of K45,500 - a 30% increase compared with
last year.
The increase sponsorship means that the 13 awards categories,
except for the newly introduced national performance award, would
receive an additional K500. The gold category winners will receive
K4,500, the silver winner gets K3,000 and the bronze winner gets
K2,000.
At close of business last Friday, the PNG Sports Federation had
received 27 nominations for the various SP Awards, but the
organising committee had anticipated far more, especially if all
the sports federations have sent in nominations.
Said Sir John: “The SP Sports Awards are recognized as among the
best in the South Pacific region. We therefore need to maintain
its prestigious status and, most importantly, we need to
acknowledge the many sportsmen and women’s sporting achievements
in 2006 at the national and international levels”.
The Awards nominations close in two weeks time but Sir John is
reminding provincial sports offices, district sports offices,
mining towns and the public to assist in nominating sporting
figures who they believe had excelled in their respective sports
in the past 12 months.
“We have worked hard with major sponsor SP Brewery to make this
year’s awards presentation even bigger and better with the
increase in prizemoney, and the addition of the new category the
national performance award,” Sir John said.
The SP Sports Awards nominations close March 30.
 
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