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Swiss television has honored the best athletes of the last 70 years. Federer and Schneider clear at the gala.
Roger Federer was named the best Swiss athlete of the last 70 years at the Sports Awards in Zurich. The Basel tennis star received almost half of all votes in the special election and thus prevailed well ahead of Olympic champions Dario Cologna (12.8 percent) and Pirmin Zurbriggen (11.9) .
Federer has been the biggest star in Swiss sport for a good 20 years and probably the best ambassador for the country. Since his professional touring debut in Gstaad in July 1998, he has accumulated and excited 103 titles.
Vreni Schneider was honored as the best Swiss female athlete since 1950 at the television gala “Sports Awards – the best of 70 years”. The 56-year-old Glarusan, who received more than 40 percent of all votes, won the special election, clearly ahead of Erika Reymond-Hess, another great alpine icon and orientation Simone Niggli-Luder.
From 1988 until her retirement in 1995, “Gold-Vreni” was named Athlete of the Year five times, more often than any other Swiss woman. With three World Cup titles, Olympic gold medals and World Cup victories overall, 55 races won, and exactly 100 podium places at the World Cup, she remains the most successful female ski racer in our country. country.
Jean-Pierre Egger was named the best Swiss coach of the last 70 years. The 77-year-old Neuchatel won the election against Karl Frehsner (alpine skiing) and Arno Del Curto (ice hockey).
Egger has brought countless sports greats to the limelight over the past decades. The origin of his successful coaching activity was the collaboration with the three-time world champion shot putter Werner Günthör.
The winner in the “Paralympic Athletes” category is Heinz Frei. The 62-year-old wheelchair athlete prevailed ahead of Edith Wolf-Hunkeler and Marcel Hug. Frei won 15 gold medals at the Paralympic Games and was named Swiss Disabled Athlete of the Year ten times between 1987 and 2009.
Two years after being named Team of the Year, the Swiss national ice hockey team was honored again. As a 2018 World Cup finalist, ice hockey players surpassed the 2009 U-17 world champions and the 2014 Davis Cup heroes in the “Best Team” category.
Due to the crown pandemic, for the first time in the history of the Swiss athletes’ elections, not the best athletes of the year, but the best of all time, will be honored at the award ceremony that has been held since 1950.
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