ATHLETE OF THE YEAR VOTING OPEN
The online voting for The World Games Athlete of the Year 2018 has now been opened! A record number of candidates, 25, are competing for the title. Last year, Sport Climbing World Record holder and The World Games 2017 champion, Reza Alipourshenazandifar (IRI) won the Athlete of the Year title with 90,790 votes just before Powerlifter legend Larysa Soloviova (UKR) with 90,036 votes.
The 25 candidates from 25 The World Games sports have been proposed by their international federations based on extraordinary achievements in 2018 or for several years. Everyone can now vote once per day during January for their candidate online.
After the first round, lasting until 15th January, the ten athletes or teams with the highest ranking will move into the final. These candidates will take the votes already cast into the final round. The winner will then be determined on 31st January at midnight UCT.
Vote now!
All The World Games Athlete of the Year 2018 candidates in alphabetical order (by surname):
Tove Alexandersson (SWE) Orienteering
Rudi Browning (AUS) Air Sports
Burkina Faso, Women’s team (BUR) Floorball
Marina Chernova &Georgii Pataraia (RUS) Gymnastics
Nour El Tayeb & Ali Farag (EGY) Squash
Renato Filippin (SUI) Aikido
Dominique Fontenette (USA) Flying Disc
Janja Garnbret (SLO) Sport Climbing
Germany Men’s Canoe Polo team (GER) Canoe
Greece Women’s team (GRE) Beach Handball
Ke Leng (CAM) Boules Sports
Sara Lopez (COL) Archery
Luca Lucaroni (ITA) Roller Sports
Sananzade Orfan (UKR) Kickboxing
Anna Poliakova (RUS) Sumo
Sandra Sanchez (ESP) Karate
Petra Senanszky (HUN) Underwater Sports
Suzanne Struik (NED) Korfball
Switzerland Men’s U23 team (SUI) Tug of War
Patrick Thomas (GER) Fistball
Jennifer Thompson (USA) Powerlifting
Maximiliano Ulloa (USA) Ju-jitsu
USA Men’s team (USA) Lacrosse
Svetlana Vinnikova (RUS) Muaythai
Dmitry Zharkov & Olga Kulikova (RUS) DanceSport
The 25 candidates from 25 The World Games sports have been proposed by their international federations based on extraordinary achievements in 2018 or for several years. Everyone can now vote once per day during January for their candidate online.
After the first round, lasting until 15th January, the ten athletes or teams with the highest ranking will move into the final. These candidates will take the votes already cast into the final round. The winner will then be determined on 31st January at midnight UCT.
Vote now!
All The World Games Athlete of the Year 2018 candidates in alphabetical order (by surname):
Tove Alexandersson (SWE) Orienteering
Rudi Browning (AUS) Air Sports
Burkina Faso, Women’s team (BUR) Floorball
Marina Chernova &Georgii Pataraia (RUS) Gymnastics
Nour El Tayeb & Ali Farag (EGY) Squash
Renato Filippin (SUI) Aikido
Dominique Fontenette (USA) Flying Disc
Janja Garnbret (SLO) Sport Climbing
Germany Men’s Canoe Polo team (GER) Canoe
Greece Women’s team (GRE) Beach Handball
Ke Leng (CAM) Boules Sports
Sara Lopez (COL) Archery
Luca Lucaroni (ITA) Roller Sports
Sananzade Orfan (UKR) Kickboxing
Anna Poliakova (RUS) Sumo
Sandra Sanchez (ESP) Karate
Petra Senanszky (HUN) Underwater Sports
Suzanne Struik (NED) Korfball
Switzerland Men’s U23 team (SUI) Tug of War
Patrick Thomas (GER) Fistball
Jennifer Thompson (USA) Powerlifting
Maximiliano Ulloa (USA) Ju-jitsu
USA Men’s team (USA) Lacrosse
Svetlana Vinnikova (RUS) Muaythai
Dmitry Zharkov & Olga Kulikova (RUS) DanceSport
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