Weatherby Award

Weatherby Award
Weatherby Award
	View of Omni Dallas Hotel, where the prize is awarded annually
Location	7834 S. Lakeshore Drive; Tempe; Arizona
Country	United States
Presented by	Weatherby Foundation International
First awarded	1956
Currently held by	Alexander Egorov
Website	Official website

The Weatherby Award is awarded annually for remarkable lifetime achievements in the field of hunting and conservation.^[1] It is considered "the Nobel Prize equivalent in hunting and conservationism" and the pinnacle to a long, successful hunting career.^[2]^[3] Although it was first awarded in 1956, the Weatherby Foundation International was only established in 1988 to honour the deceased Roy Weatherby, founder of the eponymous gun manufacturer, Weatherby, Inc. The Foundation’s mission statement is “to educate youth and the non-hunting public on the beneficial role of ethical sport hunting and its contribution to wildlife conservation, and to protect our constitutional right to do so”.^[4]

Laureates

The list of winners is available at the official Weatherby Foundation website.^[5]

Year	Winner		Country
1956		Herb W. Klein	United States
1957		Jack O'Connor	United States
1958		Warren Page	United States
1959		Berry B. Brooks	United States
1960		Elgin T. Gates	United States
1961		Julio E. Estrada	Mexico
1962		H.I.H Abdul Reza Pahlavi	Iran
1963		John B. Lagarde	United States
1964		Dr. Frank C. Hibben	United States
1965		François Edmond-Blanc	France
1966		Dr. W. Brandon Macomber	United States
1967		Dan W. Maddox	United States
1968		Weir McDonald	United States
1969		C.J. McElroy	United States
1970		George H. Landreth	United States
1971		Juan Naude Cordova	Mexico
1972		James R. Mellon II	United States
1973		Basil C. Bradbury	United States
1974		Dr. Kenneth W. Vaughn	United States
1975		No award
1976		Rudolf Sand	Denmark
1977		Valentín de Madariaga y Oya	Spain
1978		Arthur W. Carlsberg	United States
1979		Dr. Robert E. Speegle	United States
1980		Watson T. Yoshimoto	United States
1981		Dr. Carlo Caldesi Biella	Italy
1982		Glenn Slade	United States
1983		Mahlon T. White	United States
1984		Jacques Henrijean	Belgium
1985		Thornton Snider	United States
1986		Héctor Cuéllar	Mexico
1987		Dr. James E. Conklin	United States
1988		No award
1989		Donald G. Cox	United States
1990		Robert K. Chisholm	United States
1991		Gary R. Ingersoll	United States
1992		Hubert Thummler	Mexico
1993		L. Irvin Barnhart	United States
1994		Dr. Gerald L. Warnock	United States
1995		Jesús Yuren	Mexico
1996		Arnold E. Alward	Canada
1997		Ricardo Medem Sanjuán	Spain
1998		Dan L. Duncan	United States
1999		Pete Papac	United States
2000		Enrique Zamácola Millet	Spain
2001		Adrián Sada	Mexico
2002		Rex Baker	United States
2003		Mike Simpson	United States
2004		David J. Hanlin	United States
2005		Jimmie C. Rosenbruch	United States
2006		Federico Sada	Mexico
2007		Dr. Larry Rudolph	United States
2008		Alan Sackman	United States
2009		Bruce Keller	United States
2010		Tony Gioffre	United States
2011		Edward D. Yates	United States
2012		Thomas J. Hammond	United States
2013		J. Alain Smith	United States
2014		Renee Snider	United States
2015		Barbara Sackman	United States
2016		Kenneth Barr	United States
2017		Craig Boddington	United States
2018	File:JimShockey2018.jpg	Jim Shockey	Canada
2019		José Madrazo Ambrosio	Spain
2020		Alexander Egorov	Russia