Hamilton Trophy

Inaugurated in 1960, the CWF Hamilton Trophy is Gliding New Zealand’s oldest trophy. It is awarded each year to a New Zealander operating in New Zealand for the most meritorious flight which is a New Zealand gliding record.

Winners

2023 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2022 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2021 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2020 Terry Delore
2019 Max Stevens
2018 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2017 Terry Delore
2016 Terry Delore
2015 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2014 Abbey Delore & Enya McPherson
2013 Peter Chadwick
2012 Alan Belworthy
2011 Max Stevens
2010 Terry Delore & John Kokshoorn
2009 Jenny Wilkinson
2008 Steven Care
2007 Murray Wardell
2006 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2005 Jenny Wilkinson
2004 Grae Harrison & Theo Newfield
2003 Nick Reekie
2002 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
2001 Theo Newfield
2000 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
1999 Theo Newfield & Alistair Malcolm
1998 Terry Delore
1997 Terry Delore
1996 Terry Delore & Derek Kraak
1995 Terry Delore
1994 Ian Finlayson
1993 Ray Lynskey
1992 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
1991 Ray Lynskey
1990 Bill Walker & Terry Delore
1989 Bill Walker & George Taylor
1988 Yvonne Loader
1987 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
1986 Yvonne Loader
1985 Yvonne Loader
1984 Terry Delore
1983 Dick Georgeson
1982 Richard Halstead
1981 Richard Halstead
1980 Ivan & Roy Evans
1979 Dick & Helen Georgeson
1978 Bruce Drake, David Speight & Dick Georgeson
1977 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
1976 Dick Georgeson
1975 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
1974 Peter Lyons
1973 Ann Johnson
1972 Dick Georgeson
1971 H Thompson & William van Alphen
1970 Frank Gatland
1969 Ian Pryde
1968 Ann Johnson
1967 Doug Yarrall
1966 Tony Fowke
1965 Dick Georgeson
1964 Dick Georgeson
1963 Carita Roake
1962 Dick Georgeson
1961 Not awarded (no NZ gliding records set)
1960 Dick Georgeson