A LPIN icon Maria Hoefl-Riesch, discus Dominator Robert Harting and the football World Cup Germany coach Joachim Löw is Germany’s “Sportsman of the Year” 2014. This resulted in the vote among 1,200 sports journalists at the end of a busy sporting year with Winter Olympics in Russia and the World Cup in Brazil.
About 700 invited guests donated to the winners at the gala in Kurhaus Baden-Baden wide acclaim. Harting won there for the third time in series, the national team of the German Football Association (DFB) was the tenth time in total at the top.
Höfl-Riesch “In those six weeks in Brazil, we did not have an internal stress.” For the second: “It was the cohesion, it was the team,” DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach said, looking back at the World Cup time honored
The 30-year-old courtier-Riesch, who had ended her career in March for gold in the super combined of Sochi as the most successful Alpine German Olympic history, stood at the Sports Award for the second time after 2010 at the top. She performed at the gala, which also IOC President Thomas Bach was in the audience, in the footsteps of Magdalena Neuner among others. The former biathlon queen belongs Höfl-Riesch to a small group of athletes who were already retired from competitive skating before the ceremony. In Neuner this had been the case in 2012 their third choice.
“This decision was well thought out,” said Riesch-Hoefl stop to her decision. “It was a hard decision, but I’m still the mind. It was the right thing”
Harting defends his title
What do the honors for many has athletes Höfl-Riesch had made it clear in advance. “That would be the perfect ending,” she said. Now he is actually. With 3147 points they won the prestigious election by a wide margin the double Olympic champion in luge, Geisenberger (1830). Third was Carina Vogt (1782). She wrote in Sochi as the first gold medalist in ski jumping Olympic history.
During Höfl-Riesch had applied before the election as one of the favorites and the first place the footballer had been widely expected, came the Winning this award Harting something surprising. Finally, the discus Star 2014 was in Zurich after his Olympic victory in 2012 and the third world title in 2013 “only” for the second time become European champions.
Winter Champs lose out
By contrast, the end of September by the top German athletes to was “toboggan-Star Felix Loch won two gold medals in Russia. However, Harting set at 2100 points only very slightly ahead Frenzel (2055) by, Loch was awarded third place in 1467 meter. “I am happy that this year has gone so well. By the end of the year,” Harting said, alluding to his cruciate ligament injury, which he suffered in September.
In Harting likely the personality played a special role. It should be taken into account in the choice. Thus the critical 30-year-old had denied a nomination in the autumn to select the “world-athletes” because he did not want to be on a list of candidates along with former doping offenders Justin Gatlin of the United States. Special moment at the award ceremony: Harting’s grandmother came on stage – and presented the trophy full of pride to her grandson
Team in 2014.? There could only be one winner
In the “Teams” distanced Loew’s soccer all rivals and continued their honor marathon after the World Cup victory in Rio. With 1846 points the ski jumpers were in second place despite her Olympic victory, not even half as many as the DFB-Elf (4660). They came for the last Bundesliga match day of the year, but only with a small delegation to the spa – the magical images of the Maracanã with Mario Gotze 1: 0-winning goal in extra time against Argentina still once lived on. Third place went to the German Volleyball (1115), which won the first medal at the world championships in 44 years with the World Cup bronze.
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