TRAVIS BOAK has been awarded the Peter Badcoe VC Medal for the third time, after the Power's ANZAC Round clash with the North Melbourne.
The Badcoe Medal is voted on by journalists and media personalities covering the match and is awarded to the player who best demonstrates the ANZAC spirit and qualities of skill, courage in adversity, self-sacrifice, teamwork and fair play during the game.
Major Peter Badcoe VC served in the Vietnam War and is the last South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross - the military’s highest honour for bravery.
He was one of Australia's greatest war heroes, a highly-decorated soldier whose acts of bravery and courage saw him awarded the medal for three separate acts during the Vietnam conflict.
Major Badcoe died on a battlefield in Vietnam on April 7, 1967 - his last action on that day seeing him single-handedly try to stop a Vietcong machine gunner from firing on allied South Vietnamese troops.
Boak was the clear winner of the Peter Badcoe VC Medal for 2019 with a total of 18 votes, followed by Sam Gray and North’s Ben Cunnington on 7.
TOTAL VOTES
Boak – 18
Cunnington – 7
S Gray – 7
Howard – 2
Rozee – 1
Ebert - 1
ALL THE VOTES
Brad Sewell – ABC Grandstand
3 – Boak
2 - Cunnington
1 – S Gray
Warren Tredrea - FIVEaa
3 – Boak
2 - Cunnington
1 – S Gray
Cameron Ling – Channel 7
3 – Boak
2 – S Gray
1 – Ebert
Lee Gaskin – AFL.com.au
3 – Boak
2 - Cunnington
1 – S Gray
Reece Homfray – the Advertiser
3 – Boak
2 - Howard
1 – Cunnington
Nathan Brown – Triple M
3 – Boak
2 – S Gray
1 – Rozee
Past Winners:
2004: Josh Carr (Port Adelaide)
2005: Warren Tredrea (Port Adelaide)
2006: Brendon Lade (Port Adelaide)
2007: Chad Cornes (Port Adelaide)
2008: Kane Cornes (Port Adelaide)
2009: Lenny Hayes (St. Kilda)
2010: David Rodan (Port Adelaide)
2011: Michael Rischitelli (Gold Coast Suns)
2012: Josh Kennedy (Sydney)
2013: Hamish Hartlett (Port Adelaide)
2014: Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
2015: Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
2016: Joel Selwood (Geelong)
2017: Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide)
2018: Joel Selwood (Geelong)
2019: Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
