The laureates of the special trophies
In addition to the sportsman and sportswoman of the year, there were other special trophies. So got chairman Robert Weber Willibrordus received the trophy for sporting merit from the Royal Shooting Guild because he and his team have been running the guild with the famous shooting tower for more than 50 years. The youth team of the year is athletics association AVT who brought the Cup of Flanders to Heusden-Zolder. (photo above) Sports team of the year is Hebad Heusden, the mixed team of the badminton club, became national champion for the third year in a row. Still out of badminton Quinten Schepers from Smash G Athlete of the Year. He became Limburg champion in single men’s G-badminton B and Belgian champion in doubles mixed B. Promising sports girl became a skier Hope Van Hegheshe is affiliated with the Snowvalley Racing Team and won an important slalom competition in Andorra and finished second in Slovenia. Hope was present via a video because she is currently back in Andorra. Promising boy Yusuf Ozer from Husdino Gym, who was also crowned kickboxing world champion in Trier. Marleen Looswho has won dozens of badminton titles over the years, received the title of Master of the Year because she became Limburg’s doubles champion for ladies V1 and Belgian champion for singles for ladies 60+, doubles for ladies 55+ and doubles for mixed 60+. (photos Marina Poelmans)87568