Shanks won in 2009, after winning the gold medal in the 3km individual pursuit at the world cycling championships.
She was only the second woman to win the award. Tania Murray (athletics) won in 1990, after winning the gold medal in the high jump at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
Hall won the award in 2010, after winning a gold medal at the Winter Paralympics.
Bond has won the award twice, in 2008 and 2011, after winning gold medals at the world rowing championships. He stroked the four in 2007 and was in the winning pair with Eric Murray in 2010.
Two of the finalists for Otago coach of the year, Raylene Bates (athletics) and Mark Elliott (triathlon and cycling), will also be in official positions in London.
The guest speakers at the dinner will be siblings Barbara and Bruce Kendall, who have both won Olympic gold medals in boardsailing.
Barbara Kendall has the complete set from the five Olympic Games in which she competed.
She won a gold medal in Barcelona, in 1992, a silver medal in Atlanta, four years later and a bronze medal in Sydney, in 2000.
Bruce Kendall won a bronze medal in Los Angeles, in 1984 and a gold in Seoul, in 1988.
The annual awards dinner will again be organised by Sport Otago, which has held the event since 1990.
The dinner will be held at Forsyth Barr Stadium. The event is usually held at the Dunedin Town Hall but that venue is being refurbished. There will be 330 guests at the dinner.
The junior section has been split into male and female sections, because of the high calibre of junior athletes across all sports in Otago.
Special awards include the services to sport award, given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to sport over their lifetime, and the innovation in sport award, made to an individual or organisation that has made a major impact on the sporting community through outside-the-square thinking and taking on new challenges.
The finalists for the innovation award are the Winter Games, the Moro Marathon (organised by the Caversham Athletics Club), and the New Zealand Masters Games, which are held in Dunedin every two years.
Profits raised from the awards will be used by Sport Otago to advance junior sport in the province. The dinner will no longer be linked to the Halberg Trust.
The awards selection panel is Dr Dave Gerrard (sports medicine specialist), John Brimble (Sport Otago chief executive), Hayden Meikle (Otago Daily Times sports editor) and Alistair McMurran (ODT sports writer).
Otago Sports Awards
The finalists
Sportswoman: Fiona Bourke (rowing), Alison Shanks (cycling), Nicky Samuels (triathlon).
Sportsman: Hamish Bond (rowing), Adam Hall (skiing), Sean Becker (curling).
Junior sportswoman: Courtney Kerin (canoe and kayak), Rebecca Sinclair (snow sports), Sophie Williamson (cycling).
Junior sportsman: Andrew Whyte (athletics), Michael Collins (rugby), Byron Wells (snow sports).
Team: Otago Goldrush (basketball), Laughton sisters (surf life-saving), Otago men's cross-country team (athletics).
Coach: Raylene Bates (athletics), Tom Willmott (snow sports), Mark Elliott (cycling, triathlon).
