Leon Draisaitl is Germany’s “Sportsman of the Year”

This is the result of an online vote by 960 sports journalists, which was announced on Sunday evening at the awards ceremony in Baden-Baden. They only took part with very few invited guests and no audience ZDF Presenters Katrin Müller-Hohenstein and Rudi Cerne presented the award at the end of a sporting year with numerous cancellations of major events. “It’s pretty unusual for a team athlete to dominate as an individual athlete.” Leon draisaitl Draisaitl refined his successful year in 2020. Never before had an ice hockey player been named “Sportsman of the Year” in the history of the election since 1947. Draisaitl stood out and performed like no German before him in the last NHL season. As the most valuable player and top scorer in the world's best league, the 25-year-old has now succeeded decathlete Niklas Kaul. Draisaitl (1768 points) won by a significant margin ahead of javelin thrower Johannes Vetter (649 points), who came close to the world record with 97,76 meters. Triathlete Jan Frodeno came third (517). It was “a great award as an overarching event for all sports,” Draisaitl had said before the award ceremony, without knowing that he would be the winner. He is aware that “it is quite unusual for a team athlete to dominate as an individual athlete.” Bayern also won this title The track and field athlete beat her competitors by a much narrower margin than Draisaitl in the men's race (898 points). Golfer Sophia Popov (781), who was the first German to win a major tournament at the British Open, came in second. Three-time track cycling world champion Emma Hinze (746) came third. When voting for “Team of the Year”, there was no way around the triple winner FC Bayern Munich under coach Hansi Flick. With 1763 points, the Bayern footballers won the award for the first time since 2013, when they also achieved the triple of German championship, DFB Cup victory and Champions League title. The tennis double Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies came second after their second French Open coup in a row (1126) ahead of the bobsleigh team led by Francesco Friedrich (839).

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Leon Draisaitl is Germany’s “Sportsman of the Year”

NHL star Leon Draisaitl as the first ice hockey player, long jumper and last year's winner Malaika Mihambo and the all-winners from FC Bayern Munich are the "Sportsman of the Year" 2020.

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