Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former
Australian rules football
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er and, after retirement, artist. He played for the
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCrac ...
and
Port Adelaide Football Club
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL), and also for the
Port Adelaide Magpies
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the ...
in the
South Australian National Football League
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...
(SANFL). A
Brownlow Medal
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winner and
Australian Football Hall of Fame
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inductee, Wanganeen was appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural captain upon entry into the AFL in
1997
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* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
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and is the first
Indigenous Australian
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footballer to win the Brownlow Medal and reach the 300-game milestone at senior VFL/AFL level.
Since retirement, Wanganeen has taken up painting, exploring his
Kokatha identity in his artwork. He was an ambassador for the
Adelaide Fringe
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in 2019.
Early life and education
Gavin Adrian Wanganeen was born on 18 June 1973
in
Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with a population of 25,591 as of the 2021 census. The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier (volcano), Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about ...
to a footballing family; his great-grandfather had played for the local team,
Koonibba Football Club, at the
Koonibba Mission, near
Ceduna, on the west coast of
South Australia
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. His family, who are
Kokatha people,
moved from Mount Gambier to
Port Lincoln
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for a few years. When Wanganeen was five, they moved again to
Salisbury
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, a northern suburb of Adelaide.
Wanganeen played junior football for
Adelaide
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-based
South Australian Amateur Football League
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club
Salisbury North, and attended Salisbury East High School.
At the age of 14, Wanganeen joined the Port Adelaide Under-17s side in the SANFL.
Football career
Port Adelaide: 1990
Wanganeen made his senior SANFL debut with Port Adelaide in 1990 at only 16 years of age, one of the youngest ever drafted.
[ The 1990 SANFL season was the last year that the competition was the highest level of football in South Australia. He played 24 matches and kicked 46 goals, winning the SANFL Rookie of the Year award, starring in Port Adelaide's ]1990 SANFL Grand Final
The 1990 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Glenelg Football Club, held at Football Park on Sunday 7 October 1990.The Advertiser (Adelaide) newspaper 8 October 1990, p ...
win kicking two goals.[Argent, P. "Now an immortal", '' Koori Mail'', 16 June 2010, p. 85.]
Essendon: 1991–1996
Wanganeen's potential was identified early by Essendon, and after losing another South Australian star, Craig Bradley
Craig Edwin Bradley (born 23 October 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer and first-class cricketer. He is the games record holder at Carlton in the AFL/VFL, and in elite Australian rules football (the AFL/VFL, SANFL and WAFL).
Earl ...
, to Carlton, Bombers coach Kevin Sheedy was determined to secure Wanganeen. As he recalled in an interview for '' The Football Record'':
We always knew he was an exciting talent. We had spotted him very early and watched his progress through the Port Adelaide Reserves to the seniors and knew he would make the grade at AFL level. A lot of people told us he would not shift from Adelaide, but I suppose that only made us all the more determined to get him across.
After doing a deal with Melbourne, Essendon secured Wanganeen with Pick number 12 in the 1989 VFL Draft. Wanganeen debuted for the club in 1991, Round 2 in a win against Richmond.
Essendon came from the clouds in 1993
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* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
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to win their 15th VFL/AFL premiership with a team that became known as the "Baby Bombers". Wanganeen enjoyed a special year individually, with his fearless attacking approach from defence typical of Essendon's play that season. He would end up winning the first of his five All-Australian
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perfo ...
jumpers, then followed by winning the 1993 Brownlow Medal, polling 18 votes (which included four counts of three votes late in the season) to edge out Carlton's Greg Williams (who would win his second Brownlow the following season), and North Melbourne's Wayne Carey
Wayne Francis Carey (born 27 May 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
A dual-premiership captain at North Melbourne ...
. He was the first Indigenous Australian
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footballer to win the Brownlow Medal.
At 20 years of age, Wanganeen was the youngest winner of the League's best and fairest award since Fitzroy's Denis Ryan in 1936.
He was also a key player in South Australia's State of Origin Carnival Championship, and Essendon's Premiership win that year. In 2002
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, Wanganeen was voted the 19th best Essendon player of all time in the "Champions of Essendon" list.
Port Adelaide return: 1997–2006
Wanganeen returned to Port Adelaide in 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
as the club's 59th captain and its inaugural captain in the AFL. He received 11 Brownlow votes for the year, but after his first season injuries conspired to minimise his impact. He relinquished the Port Adelaide captaincy at the end of the 2000 AFL season
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which saw a return to his best form. In 2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
Wanganeen was favourite to once again win the Brownlow (he finished equal second). In 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
Wanganeen won his second premiership medal in Port's first AFL premiership side. Wanganeen played his 300th AFL game in the 2006 season, but then injured his right knee in an SANFL game for the Port Adelaide Magpies
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, which led him to retire from football. Wanganeen was the first Aboriginal player to play 300 AFL games.[
]
Art
Wanganeen found a new passion following the closure of his football career and has become an accomplished visual artist
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, with two solo exhibitions by 2018 and much of his artwork decorating his home in suburban Adelaide.
His second exhibition, ''Through the Stars'',[ was part of the 2018 South Australian Living Artists Festival in Adelaide.
In April 2025, Wanganeeen partnered with Nordic Design Furniture, with his artwork hanging in their showroom on Magill Road, ]Stepney
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.
Other activities
In 2013, Wanganeen was appointed senior coach of Pulteney Grammar School
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's football team. He also had business interests, involving ownership of three Anytime Fitness centres at Modbury
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, Port Adelaide, and Essendon.
He served as a voluntary ambassador for the Australian branch of the White Ribbon Campaign
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, a men's campaign that tackles violence against women
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, and participated in the 2013 "Cycling for Culture" event to draw attention to the importance of language and culture to Aboriginal well-being, specifically to attract funds to contributing to the further development of the Kaurna language
Kaurna ( or ) is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. The Kaurna peoples are made up of various tribal clan groups, each with their own ''parnkarra'' district of land and ...
.
In February 2019, Wanganeen was appointed one of three Fringe Ambassadors for the Adelaide Fringe
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, where he appeared in conversation with Holly Ransom for the ''Fringe Talk Show''.
In 2021, Wanganeen competed on '' Australian Survivor: Brains V Brawn'' as part of the Brawn tribe. After his tribe lost the immunity challenge on day 7, Wanganeen got voted out, being the third person voted out and placing 22nd.
In May 2023, it was announced that Wanganeen would be participating in the twentieth series of ''Dancing with the Stars
''Strictly Come Dancing (widely known as Dancing with the Stars)'' is an international television franchise based on the format of the British TV series '' Strictly Come Dancing,'' itself a successor to the show ''Come Dancing'' (1950–1998) ...
''. He was paired with Megan Wragg.
Recognition and legacy
The Gavin Wanganeen Indigenous Scholarship (GWIS) was established at the University of South Australia
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in 2005 to support disadvantaged Indigenous students to complete a university degree.
The Gavin Wanganeen Medal, for the Best player under 21, was instituted at PAFC in 2006.
Personal life
Wanganeen first married Stephanie Richards, and they share a daughter and a son, Tex
Tex, TeX, TEX, may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname
* Tex Earnhardt (1930–2020), U.S. businessman
* Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer ...
, who is also a footballer.
Wanganeen married Pippa Hanson in July 2012 and they have four daughters together.
Wanganeen is the first cousin of AFL players and brothers Aaron
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and Alwyn Davey,[Flanagan, M.,]
The Davey pacesetters
", ''Real Footy'', 9 May 2007. Retrieved on 9 May 2007. and a third cousin of Rabbit Proof Fence actress Natasha Wanganeen
Natasha Wanganeen (born 20 June 1984) is an Aboriginal Australian actress. She is known for her starring role in the 2002 feature film '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'' and numerous television roles. She made her debut as co-writer and co-producer in a 2 ...
.
Football statistics
Wanganeen's football statistics between 1991 and 2006 are shown in the table below.
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, 1991
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, , , , 4
, 18 , , 12 , , 13 , , 155 , , 89 , , 244 , , 39 , , 38 , , 0.7 , , 0.7 , , 8.6 , , 4.9 , , 13.6 , , 2.2 , , 2.1
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, 1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
, , , , 4
, 21 , , 11 , , 17 , , 238 , , 121 , , 359 , , 55 , , 73 , , 0.5 , , 0.8 , , 11.3 , , 5.8 , , 17.1 , , 2.6 , , 3.5
, -
, scope=row bgcolor=F0E68C , 1993
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
# , , , , 4
, 22 , , 5 , , 3 , , 267 , , 146 , , 413 , , 69 , , 30 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 12.1 , , 6.6 , , 18.8 , , 3.1 , , 1.4
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, 1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
, , , , 4
, 22 , , 12 , , 9 , , 286 , , 101 , , 387 , , 82 , , 42 , , 0.5 , , 0.4 , , 13.0 , , 4.6 , , 17.6 , , 3.7 , , 1.9
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, 1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
, , , , 4
, 23 , , 10 , , 10 , , 267 , , 124 , , 391 , , 60 , , 27 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 11.6 , , 5.4 , , 17.0 , , 2.6 , , 1.2
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, 1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, , , , 4
, 21 , , 14 , , 8 , , 242 , , 111 , , 353 , , 64 , , 43 , , 0.7 , , 0.4 , , 11.5 , , 5.3 , , 16.8 , , 3.0 , , 2.0
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, 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
, , , , 1
, 20 , , 14 , , 6 , , 219 , , 129 , , 348 , , 49 , , 28 , , 0.7 , , 0.3 , , 11.0 , , 6.5 , , 17.4 , , 2.5 , , 1.4
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, 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
, , , , 1
, 15 , , 8 , , 9 , , 176 , , 60 , , 236 , , 52 , , 28 , , 0.5 , , 0.6 , , 11.7 , , 4.0 , , 15.7 , , 3.5 , , 1.9
, -
, 1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
, , , , 1
, 16 , , 5 , , 4 , , 193 , , 92 , , 285 , , 59 , , 15 , , 0.3 , , 0.3 , , 12.1 , , 5.8 , , 17.8 , , 3.7 , , 0.9
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, 2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
, , , , 1
, 10 , , 6 , , 5 , , 120 , , 55 , , 175 , , 36 , , 9 , , 0.6 , , 0.5 , , 12.0 , , 5.5 , , 17.5 , , 3.6 , , 0.9
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, 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, , , , 4
, 24 , , 41 , , 22 , , 256 , , 109 , , 365 , , 75 , , 26 , , 1.7 , , 0.9 , , 10.7 , , 4.5 , , 15.2 , , 3.1 , , 1.1
, -
, 2002
The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...
, , , , 4
, 20 , , 12 , , 7 , , 201 , , 83 , , 284 , , 64 , , 21 , , 0.6 , , 0.4 , , 10.1 , , 4.2 , , 14.2 , , 3.2 , , 1.1
, -
, 2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
, , , , 4
, 25 , , 15 , , 18 , , 433 , , 91 , , 524 , , 161 , , 33 , , 0.6 , , 0.7 , , 17.3 , , 3.6 , , 21.0 , , 6.4 , , 1.3
, -
, scope=row bgcolor=F0E68C , 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
# , , , , 4
, 19 , , 24 , , 10 , , 193 , , 103 , , 296 , , 86 , , 17 , , 1.3 , , 0.5 , , 10.2 , , 5.4 , , 15.6 , , 4.5 , , 0.9
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, 2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
, , , , 4
, 23 , , 13 , , 8 , , 227 , , 135 , , 362 , , 75 , , 29 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 9.9 , , 5.9 , , 15.7 , , 3.3 , , 1.3
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, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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, 1 , , 0 , , 0 , , 0 , , 9 , , 9 , , 1 , , 1 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 9.0 , , 9.0 , , 1.0 , , 1.0
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Football honours and achievements
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
United Kin ...
Team
*AFL Premiership
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The inaugur ...
(Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
United Kin ...
): 1993
*McClelland Trophy
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The trophy was inaugur ...
(Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
United Kin ...
): 1993
* Pre-Season Cup (Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
United Kin ...
): 1993, 1994
Individual
* Champions of Essendon - No. 19
* Essendon F.C. Team of the Century - Back Pocket
Port Adelaide
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Team
*AFL Premiership
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The inaugur ...
(Port Adelaide
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): 2004
* SANFL Premiership (Port Adelaide
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): 1990
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*McClelland Trophy
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The trophy was inaugur ...
(Port Adelaide
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): 2002, 2003, 2004
* Pre-Season Cup (Port Adelaide
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): 2001, 2002
Individual
* John Cahill Medal (Port Adelaide F.C. Best & Fairest): 2003
* Port Adelaide F.C. Captain: 1997–2000
* Port Adelaide F.C Life Membership Recipient: 2006
* SANFL Rookie of the Year: 1990
Other individual awards
*Brownlow Medal
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: 1993
*All-Australian
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: 1992, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2003
* Michael Tuck Medal: 1993
*Inside Football - Player of the Year:2003
* Deadly Awards - Most Outstanding Achievement in AFL: 2004
*Indigenous Team of the Century
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- Half-Back Flank
* AFL Life Membership Recipient: 2004
See also
* Gavin Wanganeen Medal
References
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Brownlow Medal winners
All-Australians (AFL)
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John Cahill Medal winners
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