He leaves New Zealand for Europe with the New Zealand rowing squad today and was not able to attend last night's Otago Sports Awards dinner at the Dunedin Town Hall.
Bond was also named Sportsman of the Year ahead of fellow internationals Greg Henderson (cycling) and Brendon McCullum (cricket).
He had another outstanding year as stroke of the New Zealand coxless four that won a gold medal at the world championships at Munich.
The crew was named the Team of the Year at this year's Halberg Sports Awards.
Bond has retained the stroke seat for the Beijing Olympic Games.
Bond won three "red coats' in the coxless pair, coxless four and quadruple sculls at the national championships at Lake Karapiro.
Sport Otago chief executive John Brimble said "Hamish had an outstanding year and realised the promise he showed as a junior rower . . . He has displayed outstanding leadership qualities and a fierce determination to achieve".
The guest speaker at the awards dinner was Phil Kingsley-Jones, former manager of All Black great Jonah Lomu, and Dunedin cricket commentator Steve Davie was master of ceremonies for the sell-out dinner, attended by 520 guests and organised by Sport Otago. Cyclist Alison Shanks won the Sportswoman of the Year award after finishing seventh at the world championships at Manchester and backing it up with a series of top 10 performances at World Cup events in Sydney, Beijing and Copenhagen.
Shanks also won the 3000m individual pursuit at the Oceania cycling championships at Invercargill and has been selected for the Beijing Olympics.
When Shanks won the New Zealand 3000m individual pursuit title at Invercargill she broke Olympic champion Sarah Ulmer's national resident record.
The other finalists were Andrea Miller (athletics) and Suzie Bates (basketball and cricket).
Wanaka-based freestyle Skier Jossi Wells (18) won the Otago Daily Times Class Act Junior Sportsperson of the Year award, for the third successive year.
He won the silver medal in the slopestyle at the X-Games in Aspen, Colorado, the first for a New Zealander.
He backed up this performance by winning the Orange European open superpipe event and by finishing fourth in the open event at the world Superpipe championships.
The Otago Volts cricket team, which won its first major title in 20 years when it beat Auckland in the one-day final at Eden Park, was named the Aotea Electric Team of the Year. Dunedin doctor John Hellemans retained the Coach of the Year Award for the third successive year.
He coaches several elite triathletes, including Olympians Kris Gemmell and Andrea Hewitt, Otago juniors Tony Dodds and Sarah Bryant and New Zealand duathlon champion Victoria Beck.
The new Innovation in Sport award recognised the contributions of two parties for their innovation in sport.
Michael Hill, from The Hills, was honoured for his role in bringing the New Zealand Golf Open to the region and for restoring prestige to a national event that was struggling for credibility.
John and Mary Lee, from the Snow Farm-Snow Park, received the other award for their pioneering spirit in the development of snow sports in Central Otago at Cardrona, the Snow Farm and the Snow Park.
