It's a no contest.
Sizzling Sarah has to win the supreme title at the Halberg sport awards in Auckland tonight.
I know people are saying the 12 finalists make up the best field yet and that any one of half a dozen could be named overall winner, but for me Sarah Ulmer is in a class of her own.
And it's not only because she is a double gold medallist, firstly in the women's individual pursuit at the World Cup and later in the same event at the Athens Olympics and both of them in world record times.
It's also because of the way in which she has handled the media and public adulation which has followed her successes.
Never has there been even a hint of ego.
Rather she has kept her feet very firmly on the ground, constantly flashing that now famous smile of hers and answering questions in her typical down-to-earth fashion.
As a role model to aspiring champions you wouldn't get any better than our Sarah, would you?
Another Athens Olympic gold medallist in Hamish Carter would be my pick to win the Sportsman of the Year category and I'd give the man in charge of the world-championship Black Sox men's softball team, Don Tricker, the Coach of the Year trophy.
Who though to be Team of the Year?
The Black Sox softballers, bowlers Sharon Sims and Jo Edwards and the New Zealand sevens rugby team all won world titles and, of course, the Evers-Swindell rowing sisters grabbed Olympic gold in Athens.
The photo-finish camera will be working overtime there but, for the sake of argument, I'll plump for the Evers-Swindell sisters.
Sarah looks a wheel in for top award
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