The nominees for election as junior athletes not only impressed in their parade disciplines across the board in the past sports year, but also overcame the first major hurdle on the way to this honor on an interdisciplinary basis. Rarely has the competition among the highly talented been as large and diverse as it is at the moment. Among other things, German champions in sailing and World Cup participants in trampolining did not make it onto the list of candidates. So these five athletes and duos remain the hottest contenders for the title.
Kieran Holthues and Vincent Kuhn (RV Munster): They were the terror of the regatta courses. In Germany, all the competitors only knew the U-19 two from hearsay, he was rarely if ever seen on the water. Every race in which Kuhn and Holthues competed, they drove from the front, internationally there was little missing from the really big coup. Third place was enough at the U-19 World Cup in Varese.
Voting for Münster’s athletes of the year 2022: all nominees
Mareet Maidhof and Josefine Meiser (VC Olympia): In Bottrop, the duo from Münster secured silver at the German Beach Volleyball Championships for the U18s – a strong performance, and yet only the prelude to the really big coup. Because only a few weeks later, the Münster M-Class in the Baltic Sea resort of Laboe made the national competition look really old: The team also reached the final in the U-19 competition and also secured second place in the older age group.
ArminPakiz (TV Wolbeck): When the Wolbecker looks back on 2022, he also thinks of the narrow defeat against the later German champion at the U-21 Judo DM in Frankfurt an der Oder. That annoyed the student of the Annette-Gymnasium. He doesn’t like to lose and hasn’t had much practice at it. In his age group, the 16-year-old is at least hard to beat, in Leipzig he became the undisputed German champion of the U18s.
Carlotta Schuenemann (BZ Munster): The 18-year-old graduated from high school in St. Mauritz, which is well worth seeing, easily boxed her way to the title at the German U19 championships – and looking back, she is particularly annoyed by Alicante’s World Cup silver medal. There could have been more – and that should be made up for in the coming year.
