18th Lower Saxony Sports Awards
The canoe racer Paulina Paszek, the swimmer Sven Schwarz and the women’s soccer team from VfL Wolfsburg have won the Lower Saxony athletes’ elections 2022 of the LandesSportBund (LSB) Lower Saxony. A total of 26,315 votes were cast online and by voting cards, of which 9186 for the athletes, 8609 for the athletes and 8520 for the teams. There were plenty of sporting highlights in 2022: the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the European Championships in Munich or the European Basketball Championships, but also many world championships and German championships. The nominated athletes and teams have once again demonstrated their top sporting performances and are therefore also outstanding representatives of the sporting state of Lower Saxony in 2022. Around 250 people took part in the honoring event in the GOP Varieté Hanover – including many young talents from the LOTTO Sports boarding school at the Olympic base in Lower Saxony.
The result consists of the public vote and the vote of an expert jury.
Election results in detail:
Sportswomen (votes 9186)
Paulina Paszek 25.29%
Club: Hanoverian Canoe Club from 1921 eV
Sport: canoe racing
Successes:
- German Championships 2022 1st place | K1 200m
- European Championship 2022 3rd place | K2 500m with Jule Hake
- World Championship 2022 2nd place | K2 500m with Jule Hake
Paulina Paszek came to Germany in 2020 and has been competing for Germany since 2021. Her trainer is Jan Francik. Paulina Paszek is on course for the Olympics – Paris 2024 is her declared goal. She wants to qualify both in K1 and in the team in K2.
Julia Krajewski 21.69%
Club: RFV Lingen
Sport: Eventing
Name: Neele Eckhardt-Noack 19.05%
Association: LG Goettingen
Sport: track and field triple jump
Jolyn Beer 16.21 %
Club: SV Lochtum/SB Freedom
Sport: sport shooting
Pauline Starke 12,74%
Club: Judo Team Hannover
Sport: Judo
Athlete (votes 8609)
Sven Schwarz 32.12%
Club: Waspo 98 Hanover
Sport: swimming
Successes:
- World Cup 2022 Berlin 3rd place | 1500 m freestyle
- European Championship 2022 5th place | 800 m freestyle
- German championship 2022 1st place | 800 m freestyle
1st place | 1500 m freestyle
Sven Schwarz, swimmer at Waspo 98, is coached by Emil Guliyev. He has his sights firmly set on his goal: the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Jakob Thordsen 17.61%
Club: Hanoverian Canoe Club from 1921 e. V
Sport: Canoe racing
Jannik Heiland 17.22%
Club: Riding and Driving Club Dachtmissen eV
Sport: Vaulting
Mario Stevens 16,58 %
Club: Lastrup riding and driving club
Sport: show jumping
Igor Wandtke 16.47%
Club: Judo Team Hanover
Sport:Judo
Teams (votes 8520)
VfL Wolfsburg – Football Women 29.04%
The Wolfsburg team can look back on a very successful year, in which they not only celebrated the DFB Cup victory, but were also able to look forward to winning the championship after a strong season. The team also caused a sensation internationally: In the Champions League, head coach Tommy Stroot’s team reached the semi-finals.
Successes:
- DFB Cup Winner 2022
- German champion 2022
Braunschweiger Tanz Sport Club – A standard formation 23.46%
TV Jahn Schneverdingen – Fistball Women 17.61%
Waspo 98 Hannover – men 16.54%
Hannoverscher Yacht-Klub – boat class: Flying Dutchman 13.35%
More information on the previous athletes’ elections since 2004: https://www.lsb-niedersachsen.de/themen/ehrungen
The jury members were: Jonas Freier (Madsack Media Group), Leonard Hartmann (Braunschweiger Zeitung), Hauke Richters (Nordwest Zeitung), Hans-Joachim Zwingmann (Association of German Sports Journalists), Sabrina Ilski (RTL Nord), René Schweimler (passenger television) , Reinhard Rawe (CEO LSB), Frank Handwerk (ipr advertising agency) Sönke Burmeister (Lower Saxony Lottery Sports Foundation), Nils Hilmer (Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport), Frank Ritter (Ritter Gent Collegen -lawyer), Dr. Ulrike Brunke (Toto-Lotto Niedersachen GmbH), Prof. Dr. Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (President LSB), Dr. Boris Ulrich (Head of OSP Lower Saxony) and Carsten Klinge (LSB competitive sports)
The laudations were given by Dr. Anja Scheffer for Sportsman of the Year, Lower Saxony’s Minister of the Interior and Sports, Daniela Behrens, for Team of the Year and LSB President André Kwiatkowski for Sportswoman of the Year.
