The National Football Team, discus thrower Robert Harting and ex -Skifahrerin Maria Hoefl-Riesch is Germany’s athlete of the year 2014. During the World Cup and the Alpine Queen were considered favorites, the choice Harting is surprising.
Alpin icon Maria Hoefl-Riesch, discus Dominator Robert Harting and the football World Cup Germany coach Joachim Löw is Germany’s “Sportsman of the Year” in 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 on Sunday at the 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 on Neuner traces
The 30-year-old courtier-Riesch, their career in March for gold in the super combined of Sochi as the most successful Alpine German Olympic history had finished, 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 2012 cases at their third choice.
While Höfl-Riesch had applied before the election as one of the favorites and the first place the footballers had been widely expected, the latest award Harting but was somewhat 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.
Harting personality decisively
In contrast, the end of September was of Germany’s top athletes to “Champion of the Year” crowned Nordic combined Eric Frenzel in Sochi Olympic champion Felix Loch toboggan-Star who 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.
Harting, that is after a cruciate ligament injury in rehab, the personality is likely to have 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.
Only small DFB delegation in Baden-Baden
In the “Teams” distanced Loew’s soccer all rivals and continued their marathon ceremony 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 Kurhaus. – 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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