New Zealand's own Michelle Montague has won two awards at the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation MMA awards.

Montague was nominated for Best Female Athlete and Best Performance. She was announced a winner of both categories at a black-tie ceremony that took place online on Friday.

She beat out athletes from around the world.

IMMAF president Kerrith Brown says the purpose of the IMMAF Awards is to celebrate the achievements across amateur mixed martial arts of IMMAF athletes, coaches, officials and National Federations during the period spanning November 2019 to October 2020.

In his closing speech from Tajikistan, Brown congratulated the nominees and winners; and thanked the National Federations and Presidents, members, volunteers, athletes, staff and the Board for rising above the challenges of “a remarkably difficult year".

“Thank you for your solidarity this year and for coming together to celebrate your achievements with us at the 2020 IMMAF Amateur MMA Awards.

"We are ready to come back stronger in 2021 at every level, more transparent, better structured and excelling in all areas of sport development and governance, in every corner of the globe.

"We will continue to strive for sport recognition to build on our collective work of the last seven years.”

See below for the complete list of Award winners for each category.

WINNERS OF THE 2020 IMMAF AMATEUR MMA AWARDS

Best Female Athlete: Michele Montague (New Zealand)

Best Male Athlete: Bagdat Zhubanysh (Kazakhstan)

Best Junior Athlete of the Year: Muhammad Mokaev (England)

Best Performance: Michele Montague (New Zealand)

Most Proactive National Federation: MMA India 

Host Federation of the Year: Bahrain MMA Federation

Social Impact Award: Estonian MMA Federation

Best on Social Media Award 2020: FAMMEJL (Mexico) & National League of Mixed Martial Arts Cameroon

Best IMMAF Educator Award: OCAMM (Colombia)

Best IMMAF Mobile Application User: MMA Cymru (Wales)

Best National Federation for MMA Coaching: Mixed Martial Arts South Africa

IMMAF Anti-doping Award: Mexico FAMMEJL (Mexico)