- In Baden-Baden Germany were honored “Sportsman of the Year”. Have won the vote among sports journalists the DFB-Elf, winter athlete Maria Hoefl-Riesch and discus thrower Robert Harting.
- The choice of the winner of the World Cup had been expected.
- Höfl -Riesch one of the athletes who will be honored for her career-ending again.
- The award of Harting comes as a surprise.
Athlete of the Year in Baden-Baden honored
Alpin icon Maria Hoefl-Riesch, discus exceptional talent 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 about 1,200 sports journalists at the end of Sports eventful 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 is honored by career-ending
The 30-year-old courtier-Riesch, who finished 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. 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 to her decision to quit. “It was a hard decision, but I’m still the mind. It was the right thing” What role do the honors for many 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
Sportsman of the Year Welmeister, European Champion and alpine icon
Another award Harting comes since 1990 surprisingly
While Höfl-Riesch had applied before the election as one of the favorites and the first place the footballer had been widely expected, the latest award Harting but was somewhat surprising. Finally, the discus thrower in 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. In contrast, the end of September by the top German athletes to “Champion of the Year” crowned nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel was in Sochi Olympic champion Felix Loch toboggan-Star had 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. Until the end of the year, “the athlete said, alluding to his cruciate ligament injury, which he suffered in September. In Harting’s 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 in autumn a nomination for the election of “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.
DFB Elf with a lot of distance from competition
In the “teams” actually Loew’s footballers far ahead of the competition. With 1846 points the ski jumpers were in second place despite her Olympic victory, not even half as many votes 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.
“It was the cohesion, it was the team,” DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach said in retrospect to the World Cup. “In those six weeks in Brazil, we did not have an internal stress.”
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