Wolfsburg athletes election: online voting starts – Peiner Nachrichten

The redesigned last year Athletes election of the city of Wolfsburg goes into their second round. And it is already clear: there will be three new titleholders. On Saturday night, voting on Wolfsburg’s athlete and team of the year will start until January 18, 2022 in one Online-Voting can be chosen by the citizens on the city’s website. You can vote among three candidates in each of the categories. A jury, which also includes our newspaper, made the pre-selection.

Wolfsburg athlete election: Naike Ulrich, Giovanna Scoccimarro and Vanessa Seeger nominated

Who follows on Figure skating ace Anne Sophie Schiefer (TV Jahn Wolfsburg), Wolfsburg’s ice hockey veteran Christoph Höhenleitner (Grizzlies / career ended) and the Table tennis women of the SSV Neuhaus? None of this trio made it into the closer vote this year.

This time, young boxer Naike Ulrich (AKBC Wolfsburg), judo ace Giovanna Scoccimarro (MTV Vorsfelde), who has already won the vote four times, and Sülfelder sports shooter Vanessa Seeger (USK Fallersleben) are up for election in the women’s category.

Niels Torben Giese, Mika Noodt and “Hellboy” Matthias Schlitte are available

For the men it’s going to be an internal three-way battle at VfL – but sprinter Niels Torben Giese (athletics), triathlon shooting star Mika Noodt and “Hellboy” Matthias Schlitte (arm wrestling) come from three completely different departments.

In the election for Team of the Year 2021, the VfL formation “Fearless” challenges the successful jazz and modern dance athletes, the professional teams of the Grizzlys Wolfsburg (ice hockey / German runner-up) and the VfL soccer players (German cup winners).

In this way, they can take part in the Wolfsburg athlete election

This is how it works: You can only use the link on the city’s homepage www.wolfsburg.de/sport-wahl be matched. One vote is possible per category. Whoever has the most votes after the end of the vote on January 18 wins the election. If the current Corona development allows, the winners will be officially honored in a festive setting at the event “Masters of Sports 2021” in February.

At the premiere last year it was sometimes really tight, so every vote counted: Höhenleitner had two more than men Para-Sprint-Ass Phil Grolla (VfL Wolfsburg), the VfL women had to admit defeat to the Neuhausen table tennis cracks with 25 votes.

Sportswoman of the year:

Naike Ulrich (Boxing / AKBC Wolfsburg): The AKBC U17 talent was a long way from participating in the European Championship and had to go from the 54 kilogram class to the 50 kilogram class. She convinced with strong performances at the Ruhr Games, then came third at the European Championships in Tbilisi, and convinced in the semifinals despite losing to the former European schoolchildren from Ukraine.

Giovanna Scoccimarro (Judo / MTV Vorsfelde): The MTV exceptional fighter and four-time athlete election winner can look back on an extraordinary year: She secured the ticket for the Olympics in a tough national duel, and came in fifth and narrowly missed a medal, which she then won with bronze with the mixed team reached. The year also ended with the first victory in a Grand Slam tournament, the highest tournament category in judo.

Vanessa Seeger (sport shooting / USK Fallersleben): Despite the high school-leaving stress (final grade 1.9), the Sülfeld woman quickly attacked again. The list of her successes is long: national champion with the sport pistol (and record), German champion with the air pistol (new German record) and she landed in the top 10 in four disciplines (individual and team) at the World Championships in Peru.

Sportsman of the year:

Niels Torben Giese (Athletics / VfL Wolfsburg): After moving to Wolfsburg at the beginning of the year, the Sprinter took off straight away, increasing its record significantly over the course of the year. He sprinted to the DM bronze medal in Braunschweig in 10.30 seconds and was nominated for the Olympic Games (4×100 meter relay). Bitter: He was injured in the last competition before departure and has been working on comeback in rehab ever since.

Mika Noodt (Triathlon / VfL Wolfsburg): The 21-year-old is considered a shooting star in the international triathlon scene. In the middle distance with swimming, cycling and running he was first and second at Ironman 70.3 events in Les Sables d’Olonne and on Lanzarote and shone as the best German with 11th place at the Ironman 70.3 Championships, the professional world championship .

Matthias Schlitte (Armwrestling / VfL Wolfsburg): The 34-year-old “Hellboy” of the VfL arm wrestlers won the German Top 8 in the open category, celebrated a double victory in the “Black Forest – international battle of arms” and won the “Over the Top”, VfL home game that was played in took place in the city center, 2nd place in the limit up to 80 kg.

Team of the year:

Grizzlys Wolfsburg (ice hockey): In the main round with ups and downs, the Grizzlys played really strong play-offs. After a 0-1 series deficit, Wolfsburg turned against Bremerhaven and in the semifinals against Mannheim, were only stopped in the final and runner-up. But the grizzlies have never been so close to winning the title.

“Fearless” / VfL Wolfsburg (jazz and modern dance): “Fearless”, the figurehead of the department, had to struggle with the effects of the corona pandemic for a long time in 2021, but was fully there towards the end of the year: The formation became regional champions. The runner-up and World Cup qualification followed at the Germany Cup in Dresden. At this premiere in Poland, coach Corinna Schäfer’s team recently took 11th place.

VfL Wolfsburg (women’s football): In the Bundesliga, VfL was ousted from the throne by Bayern after four championships in a row. Little consolation, but an expression of the strong season: The Wolfsburg women are the best runner-up of all time. Strong: In the DFB Cup there was the seventh triumph in a row.

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