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Geoff Christian Medal

Australian rules football award

Geoff Christian Medal
Summary

Australian rules football award

The medal features an image of sports broadcaster [[Geoff Christian]], after whom it is named.

The Geoff Christian Medal, commonly referred to as the Christian Medal, is an Australian rules football award given to the best player in the Australian Football League (AFL) from one of the two teams based in Western Australia, the Fremantle Football Club and the West Coast Eagles. First awarded during the 1999 season, the award is named after and struck in honour of Geoff Christian (1934–1998), a sports writer and broadcaster who served as chief football writer for The West Australian between 1961 and 1988, before being posthumously inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

Votes for the medal are awarded by ABC Radio commentators on a 3–2–1 basis at the end of each match. The award has been won multiple times by eight players, Matthew Pavlich, Paul Hasleby, Nat Fyfe, Lachie Neale, Andrew Brayshaw and Caleb Serong of Fremantle, and Daniel Kerr and Matt Priddis of West Coast. Fyfe has won the medal five times, the only player to do so.

List of winners

:Votes tallies prior to 2002 are unknown.

YearNameClubVotes
1999Adrian Fletcher–
2000Troy Cook
Paul Hasleby
–
2001Ben Cousins–
2002Matthew Pavlich22
2003Peter Bell28
2004Paul Hasleby (2)27
2005Matthew Pavlich (2)26
2006Chris Judd18
2007Daniel Kerr26
2008Matthew Pavlich (3)29
2009Aaron Sandilands25
2010Beau Waters19
2011Matt Priddis28
2012Daniel Kerr (2)24
2013Nat Fyfe31
2014Matt Priddis (2)38
2015Nat Fyfe (2)33
2016Lachie Neale38
2017Nat Fyfe (3)24
2018Lachie Neale (2)23
2019Nat Fyfe (4)26
2020Nat Fyfe (5)20
2021Andrew Brayshaw30
2022Andrew Brayshaw (2)–
2023Caleb Serong38
2024Elliot Yeo32
2025Caleb Serong (2)–

References

References

  1. Wheeldon, Clint (2011). [http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/05/3310269.htm West Coast Eagle's [sic] Matt Priddis wins Christian medal] – [[720 ABC Perth]]. Published 5 September 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  2. [http://www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/s1919369.htm Christian Medal 2007] – [[720 ABC Perth]]. Published 26 October 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  3. Bryans, Aaron. (19 August 2019). "Fyfe wins fourth Geoff Christian Medal".
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