Kane Cornes has given out his 2020 sporting awards.
The Port Adelaide games record holder has come up with six categories to acknowledge some of the monumental moments for the year in sport.
Cornes has rated Richmond star Dustin Martin as the Sporting Man of the Year for his efforts in winning an unprecedented third Norm Smith Medal while inspiring the Tigers to a third premiership in four years.
See The Captain’s Run 2020 Sporting Awards below:
2020 Sporting Man of the Year
Dustin Martin
"For me, Dustin Martin is the Sporting Man of the Year.
"I was lucky enough to be at the Grand Final and to see his fourth goal, which was the Goal of the Year, there’s no argument about that.
"It sealed his third premiership and his third Norm Smith Medal.
"A night Grand Final in a season that we didn’t think would get underway, and to stamp himself as an absolute all-time great and achieve something that I don’t think will ever be repeated was the moment of the year.
"I thought he was the Sporting Man of the Year."
2020 Sporting Woman of the Year
Jessica Hull
"In a tough year for athletics with the Olympics cancelled, it didn’t stop one of Australia’s brightest track and field stars, Jessica Hull.
"It started on August 14, 2020 where Hull, the former Oregon Duck, broke Benita Willis’ 18-year-old Australian 5000m record, clocking 14:43.80 at the Monaco Diamond League.
"It didn’t end there. In her pet event, the 1500m, she broke another Australian record, clocking 4:00.42 in Berlin.
"2021 is an Olympic year, so remember the name Jessica Hull. The 24-year-old might just win a medal which would be remarkable."
The Next Big Thing Award
Cameron Green
"The 21-year-old 198cm colossus who Greg Chappell says is the most exciting batsman since Ricky Ponting. Watching him yesterday in Adelaide he also appears more than handy with the ball.
"It appears the Aussies have ended the long search for a world class all-rounder.
"He is Australia’s next biggest sporting star and could play 100 Test matches, provided his body holds together."
Mean Tweet of the Year
"There’s always hot competition for this award.
"This year’s winner is truly deserving and the award goes to former hockey player and three-game AFLW superstar Georgie Parker.
"Her tweet read: “There isn’t a person I want to have a beer less with than Kane Cornes”.
"Congratulations to you Georgie."
The Brain Fade Award
Novak Djokovic
"Special mention to the goat Leigh Matthews who confused Nathan Broad with Jayden Short in his Norm Smith medal voting, but the winner is Novak Djokovic who was defaulted for hitting a linesperson with a ball at the US Open."
Tool of the Year
Mark McGowan
"The COVID pandemic has bought the best out of some of our leaders, for example the NRL and AFL’s Peter V’landys and Gillon McLachlan. But it has also done the opposite for some of the country’s other leaders.
"WA premier Mark McGowan is one of the those.
"The last straw for the power-hungry premier was when he refused to attend a national cabinet meeting last week because he didn’t want to be in the same company as South Australian premier Steven Marshall.
"He was worried about getting coronavirus when there hadn’t been any cases in SA for a couple of weeks and there were zero active cases in the state."