Helms Award
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- The "Helms Award" is also a 'Most Valued Player' award given in the Claxton Shield baseball competition
The Helms Award is an annual sporting award given to the most Outstanding Australasian Athlete.
[edit] Past winners
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- 1920 - Ivo Whitton[1] - golfer
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- 1947 - John Winter, high jump
- 1948 -
- 1949 - Sid Patterson[2] - cycling
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- 1956 - Shirley Strickland[3] - running
- 1957 - Stuart (Sam) Mackenzie - sculling
- 1958 - Herb Elliott[4] - running
- 1959 -
- 1960 -
- 1961 - Dawn Fraser[5] - swimming
- 1962 -
- 1963 -
- 1964 - Betty Cuthbert[6] - running
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- 1971 - Shane Gould[7] - swimming
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[edit] References
- ^ Whitton, Ivo Harrington (1893 - 1967) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
- ^ Australian cyclists
- ^ Western Australian Sports Federation
- ^ Western Australian Sports Federation
- ^ Fraser, Dawn - Australian Women Biographical entry
- ^ 1996 Cuthbert Ten Dollars
- ^ http://www.ausport.gov.au/tours/sportex/teachers%20notes.pdf
