Sportswoman of the Year, makes cheeky slogan for big laughs – THE WORLD

Ironman champion Jan Frodeno and shot put world champion Christina Schwanitz have been elected in a very close decision to the athletes of the year 2015th Schwanitz was elected with only four votes ahead of the javelin thrower Katharina Molitor in the first place. The Nordic Combined won the title as Team of the Year.

The victory of Schwanitz as tight as at the World Championships in Beijing, when she and seven centimeters projection Gold won before the Chinese Gong. “I’m the only woman who would be about seven centimeters,” Schwanitz said during her acceptance speech and caused huge laughter in the hall.

This is Christina Schwanitz

“Every day that is on the not laugh, is a day wasted.” If that’s not a happy life motto. Who Christina Schwanitz knows who knows:. Better than the polynuclear putter from Chemnitz can such a slogan hardly breathe life

If Schwanitz laughs, then appears laughing her whole body. Deep, throaty, flatly. And this year the 29-year-old had truly to laugh a lot: first German world champion since 1999, the third German league titles in a row, the winner of the lucrative Diamond League Meeting series. 15 of the 20 world’s best expanses went in 2015 to the account of the athlete from the LV 90 Ore. A pleasant side effect: prize money ever flowed. How to maintain Schwanitz to say? “Audience and organizers deserve that one is everything.”

Photo: AP In Beijing in the summer of her dream come true: Christina Schwanitz crowns himself the World Champion

It was a season of superlatives for the 1.80-meter sport soldier. The talk funny Saxon also had ample reason to grieve: The patellar tendon in his left knee she badgered despite an OP, only a special treatment with radioactive liquid procured relief. But do not worry because of the crowd: “Only little I am not Chernobyl,” chuckled Schwanitz

Of herself she says now. “I’m actually my biggest enemy, “and that is not meant arrogant. It is rather an expression of great trust in their own abilities. By no means always Schwanitz has had it. Growing steadily, it is only after her move to coach Sven Lang five years ago. He has the movement of their collisions newly composed – a sometimes frustrating process (“In between I was so demoralized, I thought I’d rather go to the Hall Halma”)

But as soon allows Christina Schwanitz good mood just not spoil. Even supposedly annoying weights chiselling her displeases not. On the contrary. Her former coach once said, when she goes to the gym, the devices have sore muscles.

That’s Jan Frodeno

This man loves the excess and survived the extremes. Moreover, he is the master of it. None triathletes had ever managed to win at the Olympics gold and to get later on the desire of these athletes island’s most legendary endurance titles – and then came Jan Frodeno. 34 years old, 1.94 meters tall, a lanky with a minimum body-fat percentage of about 4.4 percent. A madman in the most positive sense, who says of himself: “I am inclined to excess.” After his Olympic victory in 2008 he won in this year’s Ironman in Hawaii and managed so before the 2008 Games Frodeno lived ascetically, eating only rice and fruit Historical.

, “That was awesome, but in the long run is not healthy,” he says. For Beijing, it was exactly the right thing: Frodeno won. Emma Snowsill then triumphed in the women. In this October, Frodeno then crowned King of Kailua-Kona and won the fifth German Ironman in Hawaii. 3.86 km swim, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running in 8:14:40 hours. Emma Snowsill, since 2013 his wife, was waiting at the finish. Frodeno kissed her baby bump and said, “. She is my pillar of strength”

With asceticism to Olympic gold, as Lebe man for Ironman victory: Since Frodeno 2013 transition to the long distance, he pulls a lot more training kilometers from, but to dispense with the calorie counting and enjoying life in Girona / Spain. More suffering, improved quality of life – a good deal, he finds

Frodeno made history in a sport that demands the body and head on the long distance unimaginable. , The fight against himself, against the clock, beat the competition, against heat, wind and waves – Frodeno has perfected it

“This ultimate suffering. the pain is not a maximum, but a slow, ever-lasting pain has indeed somewhere what, “he says and laughs. Frodenos victory has this suffering has lifted this sport into the spotlight.