Cedric Dubler, who set a Personal Best in winning the decathlon, won the Betty Cuthbert Award for Best Single Performance at the meet. His score of 8,393 has qualified Cedric for the World Athletics Championships in July.

The night, hosted by Olympian Tamsyn Lewis Manou, also featured four Olympians inducted into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame; Olympic champion Steve Hooker, dual Olympian Joanna Nixon, Australia’s first female track and field athlete to make an Olympic final Doris Carter and Olympic bronze medallist Hector Hogan.

Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Nicola McDermott won the Marjorie Jackson Award for Female Able Bodied Athlete of the Year, for her efforts clearing 2.02m in the Olympic high jump final to break the Australian Record for the second time within six months.

While Ash Moloney, who became the first Australian Olympian to win a medal in the decathlon (bronze, Tokyo 2020) at 21 years of age, won the John Landy Award for Male Able Bodied Athlete of the Year.

Also applauded were the 13 Olympians automatically selected to the Australian Team for the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA. They include Cedric, Nicola, Peter Bol (800m), Catriona Bisset (800m), Liz Clay (110m Hurdles), Nina Kennedy (Pole Vault), Kurtis Marschall (Pole Vault), Oliver Hoare (1500m), Jessica Hull (5000m), Matt Denny (Discus), Jack Rayner (10,000m), Jemima Montag (20km race walk) and Declan Tingay (20km race walk).

Paralympian Madison de Rozario won the Bruce McAvaney Award for Performance of the Year after her triumph in the women’s T53/54 marathon. The 27-year-old won gold by the smallest of margins to cement her place in Paralympic folklore, and became the first Australian female to win the women’s wheelchair marathon at the pinnacle level.

Dual Paralympic gold medallist Vanessa Low has for the second year running won the Amy Winters Award for Female Para Athlete of the Year, having leapt to glory with a World Record of 5.61 in the women’s long jump T61 in Tokyo.