Bay of Plenty kayaking sensation Lisa Carrington has been named a Maori world champion in the Trillian Trust Maori Sports Awards overnight.

Lisa Carrington. Photo: file.

Lisa accepted the award at the 24th awards ceremony, hosted by Te Tohu Taakaro o Aotearoa Charitable Trust, at Vodafone Events Centre in Auckland on Saturday night.

Twenty-six world champions – as individuals or team members – as well as the winners of 10 categories were recognised for their achievements, while rugby league player Stacey Jones and golfer Philip Tataurangi were inducted into the Maori Sports Hall of Fame.

All recipients and winners were in contention for the supreme award in honour of the event's founder Albie Pryor.

Waitakere duo multiple world champion wood chopper Jason Wynyard and his son, national basketball star Tai Wynyard, are the first ever joint winners of the supreme Albie Pryor Memorial Maori Sports Person of the Year award.

The most recognised axe man in the world today, Jason Wynyard accepted the individual world champion award, another as a Maori in a world champion team, as well as the coveted Senior Maori Sportsman of the Year title – while 16-year-old Tall Blacks member Tai Wynyard won Junior Maori Sportsman of the Year.

Maori radio programme producer Waatea 603AM broadcast live from the event, while national indigenous broadcaster Maori Television is screening delayed highlights on Thursday, December 11, from 8.30pm.

The 2014 Maori Sports Awards winners and recipients are:

TE WHARE MATAPUNA O TE AO MAORI – Maori Sports Hall of Fame

Stacey William Jones ONZM (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi) of Auckland – rugby league Philip Mikaera Tataurangi (Ngati Kahungunu) of Auckland – golf

INDIVIDUAL MAORI WORLD CHAMPIONS

Adam Tuwhitu Lowe (Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngapuhi) of Invercargill – wood chopping, power sawing

Alannah Rihari (Ngapuhi) of Kerikeri – crossfit

Jason Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi, Tainui) of Waitākere, Auckland – wood chopping, power sawing

Lisa Carrington (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngati Porou) of Ohope, Bay of Plenty – canoeing

Sonia Manaena (Ngati Porou, Ngai Tahu) of Invercargill – powerlifting

MAORI IN WORLD CHAMPION TEAMS NZ Rowing:

Caleb Shepherd (Ngati Porou); Fiona Bourke (Ngati Kahungunu); Fin Howard (Ngai Tai)

NZ Under-23 Rafting: Dale Thomas (Te Arawa, Ngati Pikiao); Taylor Taute-Hohepa (Te Arawa); Toni White-Waerea (Te Arawa, Ngati Pikiao); Kayla Pene (Te Arawa, Ngati Rangiwewehi)

NZ Para-Cycling: Emma Foy (Ngapuhi)

NZ Women's Sevens: Gayle Broughton (Ngati Ruahine, Ngati Ruanui); Sarah Goss (Ngati Kahungunu); Carla Hohepa (Tainui, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Tuwharetoa); Huriana Manuel (Ngapuhi); Kayla McAlister (Te Ati Awa); Tyla Nathan-Wong (Ngapuhi); Alexis Tapsell (Ngati Pikiao); Portia Woodman (Ngapuhi); Katrina Whata-Simpkins (Te Arawa); Alley Chelsea (Ngati Maru); Jordan Webber (Ngati Ranginu); Shiray Tane (Ngati Maniapoto)

NZ Power Sawing: Jason Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi, Tainui); Adam Tuwhitu Lowe (Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngapuhi)

Natural Bodybuilding Mixed Pairs – Pro Figure: Teneka Hyndman (Ngati Tawharetoa)

NGA KAIWHIWHI MO NGA KARAHIPI – Maori Sports Awards Scholarships

Manukau Institute of Technology: Clayton Strickland (Ngai Tai, Whakatohea) of Mangere College; Maihi Barbarich (Ngapuhi) of Te Kura Maori o Nga Tapuwae

Skills Active Aotearoa: Koroheke Moana-Taniwha (Waikato) – waka ama, ki-o-rahi, rugby league

MAUI TIKITIKI-A-TARANGA – Maori Sports Administrator of the Year (Joint Winners)

Trina Tamati (Ngati Kahungunu) of Auckland – rugby league nines Heather Skipworth QSM (Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu) of Napier – Iron Maori

TE TOIHUAREWA – Disabled Maori Sports Person of the Year

Emma Foy (Ngapuhi) of Cambridge, Waikato – para-cycling

TE ARATIATIA – Maori Sports Umpire/Referee of the Year

Glen Warrick Jackson (Ngai Tahu) of Tauranga – rugby

NGA IKA A WHIRO – Maori Sports Team of the Year

Maori All Blacks

TE REO O TE PARA WHAKAWAI – Maori Sports Media Award of the Year

Rewa Harriman (Te Whakatohea, Te Mahurehure), Te Kaea – Sports Reporters (Maori Television/Te Reo) – Maori All Blacks Tour

TE MARU O TUMATAUENGA – Maori Sports Coach of the Year

Stacey William Jones ONZM (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi) of Auckland – rugby league

TE TAMAHINE-A-PAPATUANUKU – Junior Maori Sportswoman of the Year

Tyla Nathan-Wong (Ngapuhi) of Auckland – rugby sevens

TE TAMA-A-RANGINUI – Junior Maori Sportsman of the Year

Tai Hikuroa Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi, Tainui) of Waitakere, Auckland – basketball

HINEAHUONE – Senior Maori Sportswoman of the Year

Fiona Bourke (Ngati Kahungunu) of Cambridge – rowing

TE TAMA-A-TANENUIARANGI – Senior Maori Sportsman of the Year

Jason Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi, Tainui) of Waitakere, Auckland – wood chopping, power sawing

RONGOMARAEROA – Albie Pryor Memorial Maori Sports Person of the Year (Joint Winners)

Jason Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi, Tainui) of Waitakere, Auckland – wood chopping, power sawing

Tai Hikuroa Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi, Tainui) of Waitakere, Auckland – basketball

For more information about the Maori Sports Awards, click here.