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Everyone who was ever honored and the television audience were looking for the best Swiss athletes of the last 70 years. They found it in Roger Federer and Vreni Schneider.
Tennis player Roger Federer and skier Vreni Schneider with the winning trophies for best Swiss athlete of the last 70 years and best Swiss athlete of the last 70 years.
Photo: Ennio Leanza (Keystone)
On behalf of the national ice hockey team, Raphael Díaz accepts the award as the best team of the last 70 years. Díaz was captain in 2018 when Switzerland won silver at the World Cup in Denmark.
Photo: Ennio Leanza (Keystone)
Tennis player Dominic Stricker was honored as Best Talent Sport.
Photo: Valeriano Di Domenico (Freshfocus)
So who should be awarded prizes when a sports year is like this, the crown pandemic determines the calendar? SRF’s Plan B was called: Honoring the Most Successful in the 70’s, since the awards ceremony began. As difficult as the task seemed, the choice came as no surprise: Vreni Schneider, the ski star of the 1980s and 1990s with three Olympic victories, world championship titles and overall world cup victories, outshined them all, of course, like Roger Federer, the Swiss athlete of the century that followed. 20 Grand Slam titles have not played a game for almost a year and, as usual, he eloquently told about his knee injury at the gala performance without an audience.
Roger Federer’s acceptance speech.
Video: SRF
In the other categories, two legendary dinosaurs in their field were honored with Jean-Pierre Egger (best coach) and Heinz Frei (best Paralympic athlete). Egger led Werner Günthör to success, but he also supported Simon Ammann and Matthias Sempach. Frei, for his part, has won 15 Olympic medals since 1984 and also wants to start in Tokyo. The team of the last decades was the national ice hockey team (Silver World Cup 2018), the best sports talent Dominic Stricker, who won the French Open in juniors.
