L'Équipe Champion of Champions

Champion of champions ( German Champion of Champions and Champion of Champions ) is a survey that is conducted annually by the French sports daily L' Equipe since 1946. To identify the best French athletes ( champion of champions France / Championne of championnes France, dt: champion of champions France / champion of champions France; until 2011 Champion of champions français ) of the previous calendar year, with men and women since 2012 in separate categories be awarded. Previously, men, women and teams competing in a category. ( Master of the World Champion / Champion of the World Champions, and 2011 Champion of champions Mondiaux champion of champions monde / Championne of championnes monde, dt ) held, the winners since 2012 also separately for men and since 1980 is also a choice for the World Athlete of the Year women will be chosen. As judges each act the journalists of the newspaper office. The result will be announced usually in December. As award a golden statuette is awarded, which is an abstracted athlete who stretched out both arms as a sign of victory in the air.

The determination of the winner will take place in a secret ballot. In a first round of voting, the number of participants per magazine section is reduced to 20 nominated athletes. For these select all the editorial staff of L' Équipe, lequiple.fr, L' Équipe Mag and L' Équipe 21 of the best athletes of the year. In the final round of voting, each voter voted for his five favorite athletes descending with six, four, three, two or one point. The athlete who can unite the most points, won the election.

At the last election in 2012 won at the French judoka Teddy Riner men ( 812 points ), before swimmers Yannick Agnel ( 765 ) and the pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie ( 555 ). In the women's swimmer Camille Muffat sat ( 1030 points ), before the judoka Lucie Decosse (757 ) and the basketball player Céline Dumerc (391) by. World Sportsman of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and the American tennis player Serena Williams were honored. A special award as a legend of the sport was awarded the French long-distance runner Alain Mimoun, winner of the election in 1949 and 1956.

The French soccer player Zinedine Zidane succeeded in 1998 than previously the only athlete to win both elections.

Award winners

French Sportsman of the Year ( " champion of champions France" )

The most frequently awarded cyclist Bernard Hinault (1978-1981) and the Formula 1 driver Alain Prost (1985-1986, 1989, 1993 ) with four victories. Most represented sport among the winners is the athletics ( 17 wins ), followed by cycling (14 ) and motor sports (7).

Ten times were women, six winter sports ( ski racer exception ) successfully. In 1973, the award to the late Formula 1 driver François Cevert was bestowed posthumously. With the Monegasque rally co-driver Daniel Elena (2007 and 2009) was honored the first time a non- Frenchman.

World Sportsman of the Year ( " champion of champions monde " )

The most frequently awarded the American track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the German Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher, the Swiss tennis player Roger Federer and the Jamaican track athlete Usain Bolt, who brought it to three victories. Successful nation is the United States with eleven awards. Most represented sport among the winners is the athletics ( 15 wins ), followed by tennis (6).

With the election of the U.S. Eisschnellläufers Eric Heiden in 1980 has so far been only once a winter sports fan, with the U.S. track and field athlete Florence Griffith Joyner in 1988 became the first woman victorious.

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