National & International Sports Awards

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9 minutes ago, wumo26 said:

Oh well, I hope Sacoor has enjoyed his career so far because he has now been hit by the infamous Totallympics curse/jinx. 

 

 

The what?

[Wumo 3,002]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

The what?

 

Well to be honest, it's mostly heywoodu's live comments which sometimes backfires the athletes competing. 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

58 minutes ago, wumo26 said:

 

Well to be honest, it's mostly heywoodu's live comments which sometimes backfires the athletes competing. 

 

 

That happens like once in thirty times  

[Wumo 3,002]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

That happens like once in thirty times  

 

With your daily post frequency, many athletes are in danger. 

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Aaand it's time for the 2019 Collare d'oro, an important Italian sport honor. I don't wrote about paralympic athletes, sport club, coaches and all other category, I guess that no anyone cares

 The athletes that was awarded:

 

• Arianna Fontana (Short track)
• Giulia Ciavarella, Rae Lin D'Alie, Giulia Rulli (Basket 3x3)
• Francesco Molinari (golf)
• Giorgio Avola, Andrea Cassara, Mara Navarria, Alice Volpi, Alessio Foconi, Daniele Garozzo (fencing)
• Filippo Mondelli, Andrea Panizza, Luca Rambaldi, Giacomo Gentili (rowing)
• RuggeroTita and Caterina Marianna Banti (sailing)
• Francesco Bagnaia (moto 2)
• Kiara Fontanesi (motocross)
• Francesca Lollobrigida (roller skating)
• Alessia Zecchini (freediving)

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Serbia sports awards.The winners:

 

• Best male - Novak Djokovic (Tennis)        AGAIN (7x)
• Best female - Tijana Boskovic (Volleyball)
• Best male team - Basketball 3x3
• Best female team - Volleyball team
• Best young athlete - Nadica Bozanic (Taekwondo)
• Best coach - Zoran Terzic (Volleyball)

Edited December 21, 2018 by dareza

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1 minute ago, dareza said:

Serbia sports awards.The winners:

 

• Best male - Novak Djokovic (Tennis)        AGAIN (7X)
• Best female - Tijana Boskovic (Volleyball)
• Best male team - Basketall 3x3
• Best female team - Volleyball team
• Best young athlete - Nadica Bozanic (Taekwondo)
• Best coach - Zoran Terzic (Volleyball)

 

Volleyball, volleyball and again volleyball, basketball, tennis and taekwondo. Im really suprised

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1 hour ago, dareza said:

Serbia sports awards.The winners:

 

• Best male - Novak Djokovic (Tennis)        AGAIN (7x)
• Best female - Tijana Boskovic (Volleyball)
• Best male team - Basketball 3x3
• Best female team - Volleyball team
• Best young athlete - Nadica Bozanic (Taekwondo)
• Best coach - Zoran Terzic (Volleyball)

 

It must be interesting in the team awards category in Serbia

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

RTÉ Irish Sports Awards, the main awards were as follows:

 

Award	Winner	Achievements
Sportsperson of the Year	Johnny Sexton (Rugby Union)	World Rugby Player of the Year; Six Nations Grand Slam; European Club rugby title with Leinster
Young Sports person of the Year	Rhys McClenaghan (Artistic Gymnastics)	Gold medal at European Championships; Gold medal at Commonwealth Games
Team of the Year	Irish Women's National Team (Field Hockey)	World Cup Final
Manager / Coach of the Year	Graham Shaw (Head Coach of the Irish Women's National Hockey Team)	Led Irish team to a first-ever World Cup Final
Hall of Fame Inductee	Ray Houghton (Football)	Scored possibly 2 of the biggest goals in Irish football history: Scored the winning goal v England @ Euro 1988 Scored the winning goal v Italy @ the 1994 World Cup

 

 

And although there is no gender categories at the RTÉ Sports awards, the Irish Times / Sports Ireland Awards has tonight crowned Kelly Harrington as Irish Sportwoman of the Year. This is probably the most prestigious women's sport award in Ireland.

Kelly won gold at the Women's Boxing Championships in the Lightweight (-60kg) division.

 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2018 by OlympicIRL

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Slovak Athlete of the Year 2018 Results

 

 

Athlete of the Year 2018

1. Anastasiya Kuzmina  (Biathlon)

Mass Start Olympic Champion, Individual and Pursuit Olympic Silver medalist, World Cup Overall 2nd place, 4 World Cup 2017/18 stages wins.

2. Peter Sagan  (Road Cycling)

Tour de France 6th careers Green Jersey competition overall winner, Paris-Roubaix winner, 3 Tour de France 2018 stages winner.

3. Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková  (Shooting)

Trap world champion, Trap european champion, Double Trap european silver medalist, Mixed Trap World Champion, Mixed Trap European silver medalist.

4. Petra Vlhová  (Alpine Skiing)

5th at Olympic Alpine Combined, 5 World Cup 2017/18 podiums (2 world cup slalom wins, 2 second places, 1 third place)

5. Matej Tóth  (Athletics)

Silver medal at European Championsips 50km Race Walk, Dudince 50km 2018 Race Walk winner.

6. Erik Varga  (Shooting)

Trap European Champion, Trap World Championships silver medalist, Mixed Trap World Champion, Mixed Trap European silver medalist. First slovak qualified athlete for Tokyo Olympic Games.

7. Alexander Slafkovský  (Canoeing Slalom)

4 World Cup C1 podiums, 3xC1 Team event world champion for the 8th time in a row.

8. Paulína Fialková  (Biathlon)

5th at the Olympics Individual. 2nd place in World Cup 2017/18 Mass Start race in Tyumen

NOTE: (Her this month results including 3 World Cup podiums will be counted for the next year 2019 Athlete of the Year Awards)

9. Marek Hamšík  (Football)

This year he played his 103th match for Slovakia, new record holder. In Napoli he became the all time top goal-scorer of the Italian club.

10. Henrieta Farkašová  (Paralympic Alpine Skiing)

Winter Paralympics 4 Gold medals in Downhill, Super-G, Alpine Combined and Giant Slalom (9 in all her career so far), first ever paralympic athlete to made it to the top 10 in Athlete of the year awards.

 

 

Team of the Year 2018

1. Womens Biathlon Relay  (Paulína Fialková/Anastasiya Kuzmina/Terézia Poliaková/Ivona Fialková)

5th Place at Winter Olympics

2. Mixed Team Trap  (Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková/Erik Varga)

World Champions, European Championship Silver, 2 World Cup Stages winners

3. Mens C1 Team Canoeing Slalom  (Matej Beňuš/Michal Martikán/Alexander Slafkovský+Marko Mirgorodský)

World Champions 8th time in a row, European Championships (Mirgorodský instead of Beňuš) silver medalist.

 

 

Most Popular Athlete of the Year 2018 (Fans Trophy)

Peter Sagan  (Road Cycling)

 

Paralympic Athlete of the Year 2018

Henrieta Farkašová  (Paralympic Alpine Skiing)

 

Paralympic Team of the Year 2018

Shooting Mixed Team  (Veronika Vadovíčová/Radoslav Malenovský/Radoslav Morvay/Kristína Funková)

9 Different medals this year at European and World Championships + 2 new World Records.

 

Sport Legend

Stanislav Kropilák  (Basketball)

The best Slovak Basketball player of the 20th century, 3 times European Championships medalist (Silver in 1985 when he was the captain of the team, and 2 Bronze medals in 1977 and 1981) He played at 6 Europeans Championships, 2 World Championships and at 2 Olympic Games (1976 and 1980), In 1991 FIBA magazine listed him as one of the top 50 best players of all times in his post, He played 15 times for Team Europe.