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Wednesday 11 December 2024
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Sevens star secures supreme sports award STEPHEN STUART Risealeaana Pouri-Lane capped a huge 2024 by winning the NZCT Sportsperson of the Year award on Friday night for the second time. The 24-year-old couldn’t be at the Sport Tasman function as she was with her Black Ferns side in Cape Town for the second round of World Rugby Sevens series. So her mother Lealofi Pouri-Lane accepted both the sportsperson and Bowater Toyota Sportswoman of the Year awards on her behalf.
Collingwood’s best foot forward Page 18 Lealofi Pouri-Lane accepting the NZCT Sportsperson of the Year Award on behalf of her daughter Risealeaana who was on Black Ferns Sevens duty in South Africa. Photo/Evan Barnes ShutterSport.
The Motueka local Lealofi broke out her own award-winning dance moves on the way to the stage at the Rutherford Hotel. “I am Samoan and we like to celebrate. That’s how we celebrate and it brings the house down. It gets a bit boring if you just go up and get the award,” explains Lealofi. Risealeaana won her second successive Olympic Sevens gold medal earlier this year in Paris and in a recorded video says her success is not only of her own doing, but many others.
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