Boomers star Patty Mills and World Champion freestyle skier Laura Peel have claimed top honours at the 2021 CBR Sport Awards.

Mills was named the Men’s Sport Athlete of the Year after a stellar Olympics campaign where he became the first Indigenous Australian to carry the flag into an Olympic Games opening ceremony, before leading the basketball side to an historic bronze in Tokyo.

It adds the list of recent awards won by Mills, after he was named the 2022 ACT Australian of the Year last month and also won The Don Award at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards last night.

Peel was named the Women’s Sport Athlete of the Year after winning her second world aerial skiing championship earlier this year in Kazakhstan.

It’s the second straight year Peel has won the award, backing up her brilliant year in 2020 where she won skiing’s Crystal Globe, crowned the overall champion of the aerial season.

Meanwhile, James Turner claimed the Para Athlete of the Year Award after a stunning 2020 Tokyo Paralympics campaign that saw him win gold in the 400m T36 and silver in the 100m T36.

The Olympic Rowing Men’s Quadruple Scull was named the Team of the Year after winning a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with Canberra’s Caleb Antill and Luke Letcher leading the charge.

Trudy Fajri (AFL), Carl Ruhen (boxing) and Sanjay Sharma (cricket) were named joint winners for Outstanding Service to Sport.

UC Caps young gun Jade Melbourne was named the Rising Star, while the Ministers Award for Innovation went to Canberra Region Rugby League for Canberra Region Rugby League Wheelchair Rugby League.

Full list of award winners

• Athlete of the Year – Women’s Sport: Laura Peel (Snowsport)
• Athlete of the Year – Men’s Sport: Patty Mills (Basketball)
• Athlete of the Year – Para Sport: James Turner (Athletics)
• Team of the Year: Olympic Rowing Men’s Quadruple Scull (Rowing)
• Outstanding Service to Sport – Joint winners: Trudy Fajri (AFL), Carl Ruhen (Boxing) and Sanjay Sharma (Cricket)
• Rising Star: Jade Melbourne (Basketball)
• Ministers Award – Inclusion: Canberra Region Rugby League for Canberra Region Wheelchair Rugby League
• Ministers Award – Innovation: Little Athletics ACT for Online Participation Program
• Ministers Award – Event Excellence: Table Tennis ACT for the 2020 ACT Open
• ACT Sport Hall of Fame – Full Member: Jaime Fernandez (Rowing) and Eddie Palubinskas (Basketball)
• ACT Sport Hall of Fame – Associate Member: Phil Lynch (Sport Journalist) and Ben Gathercole (Triathlon)

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