Lisa Carrington took the supreme award at tonight's 2012 Maori Sports Awards.
The Ohope Beach paddler, New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal winner in women's sprint canoeing, won the supreme Albie Pryor Memorial Sports Person of the Year award at the ceremony in Auckland tonight.
Carrington (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki) wrote her name into the history books as the first winner of the women's K1 200m title.