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Athlete of the year. – The Austrian athletes of the year 2018 call as Marcel Hirscher and Anna Gbader the year before. Skistar Hirscher was honored for the fourth time in a row at the Sporthilfe Lottery Gala as the best national athlete. He is now the only male record holder with a total of five titles. The ladies won the snowboarder Gbader for the second time. The team of the year was RB Salzburg.
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Hirscher clearly dominated in front of tennis star Dominic Thiem during the election of members of the Association of Sports Journalists Sports Media Austria (SMA). Hirscher received 1,111 points and 122 first places. The finalist of Roland Garros and triple winner in 2018 totaled 872 points. Behind them, David Gleirscher, winner of the Olympic toboggan (316), Matthias Walkner (263), winner of the Dakar Rally, and Matthias Mayer (257), super G Olympic champion
"It was a season like nobody thought and it was the best season of my career," said Hirscher, who has won two Olympic titles this year and seventh in the Alpine Ski World Cup. He received the trophy "Hero" this year at the big sports gala that gathered nearly 1,400 guests at the Marx-Halle in Vienna. With five awards (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), the Salzburg athlete is now the most successful male athlete in the 1949 elections. Up to now, he was with the holder Hermann Maier record.
Until now, only Annemarie Moser-Pröll has been chosen in a main category. The Austrian athlete of the century was honored seven times between 1973 and 1980 as a red-white-red athlete of the year and was announced Wednesday on the Hirscher podium. "It's an incredible honor, I think it was the last time – but I've already said it," Hirscher said.
The snowboarder Gbader again "athlete of the year"
For the second time in the honor, Gbader won the Olympic gold medal in the Big Air and the final World Cup victory. "I realized my dream with gold, it's now the bonus, it's a great honor," said the Carinthian, who won the election so even more sovereign than Hirscher. She obtained 173 first places and 1,356 points. Second place went to the athlete Ivona Dadic, vice-world champion of indoor heptathlon, with 573 points. Olympic silver medalist Anna Veith (alpine skiing / 417), Vanessa Herzog (337), fourth place in speed skating and world champion Jessica Pilz (323) followed.
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Gbader won gold in the Big Air at the Pyeongchang Olympics in February and also won the World Cup title. She finished 1,356 points ahead of Ivona Dadic (athletics / 573), Anna Veith (downhill skiing / 417), Vanessa Herzog (speed skating / 337) and Jessica Pilz (climbing / 323). For the ninth time in a row, the Athlete Title of the year has been awarded to an athlete from the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV).
RB Salzburg Football Champion Team of the Year
The team trophy was due to the recent championship title and entry into the Europa League RB Salzburg semi-final reception. Thus, the title remained in the football camp. The previous year, the women's national team of the ÖFB had been rewarded. For the first time in 20 years, a club team has once again managed to rank first. "Every price is good, it's a reward for hard work," said Wolf Hannes.
The kicker won with 927 points in front of hockey men (416), winners in WM and EM gold, and double European table tennis champion Robert Gardos / Daniel Habesohn (335). Fourth place went to Peter Penz / Georg Fischler (297), who won the silver medal in doubles at the Olympic Games. Fifth place was won by the Davis Cup tennis team (260), which joined the world group.
Best athletes with disabilities
Olympic champion Luge Gleirscher won the "Climber of the Year" category, the title of the first coach of the year returning to athletics coach Gregor Högler. The titles of the disabled athletes were won by Claudia Lösch (Alpine skiing) for the seventh time and by Thomas Geierspichler (Athletics) for the fourth time. Swimmer Romana Zablatnik has been named Special Olympic Personality of the Year. Michael Strbader was honored as an athlete with a heart.
The gala brought Sporthilfe a net income of € 460,000, again benefiting the athletes.
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