Top honors go to Fourie du Preez for the second time in his career, joining a small  elite group led by Naas Botha(4), who won this award more than once.

Du Preez – who won the award for the first time in 2006 – claimed the Super 14 and Currie Cup titles with his province as well as helping the Springboks to the No 1 world ranking in conjunction with the Tri-Nations title and victory in the 2009 Lions Series.

“It’s a tribute to the sustained excellence of Fourie’s play that he was chosen by the media for this prestigious award. There are very few players in world rugby who can claim to be as influential as he is.”

 

The awards go to:

 

SA Rugby Player of the Year – Fourie du Preez

SA Players’ Player of the Year – Morné Steyn

Young Player of the Year – Heinrich Brüssow

 

Team of the Year – Springboks

Coach of the Year – Peter de Villiers (Springboks)

 

Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year – Luke Watson (Western Province)

First Division Player of the Year – Allister Ketteldas (Pumas)

 

Lions Series Provincial Player of the Year – Heinrich Brüssow (Free State Cheetahs)

Lions Series Test Player of the Year – Morné Steyn (Blue Bulls)

 

Super 14 Player of the Year – Morné Steyn (Bulls)

Vodacom Cup Player of the Year – Jonathan Mokuena (GWK Griquas)

  

Try of the Year – Jaque Fourie (Gauteng Lions) in the Second Test in the Lions Series in Pretoria on June 27

 

SA U20 Player of the Year – Lionel Cronje

  

Springbok Sevens Player of the Year – Frankie Horne

  

SAA Club Champs Player of the Year – Dustin Jinka (Hamiltons Club)

SA Rugby Women’s Rugby Achiever of the Year – Saloma Booysen (Eastern Province)

Marriott Refereeing Achievement of the Year – Jonathan Kaplan

Coca-Cola Craven Week Player of the Tournament – Andile Jho (Border)

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