Gazzetta Sports Award
The Gazzetta Sports Awards or the Gazzetta referendum are surveys that are carried out annually by the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport and that select the best athletes of the current calendar year.
organization
At the Gazzetta Sports Awards, the best Italian athletes have been determined in eight categories since 2015, with men, women, coaches and teams being honored in separate categories. Between 1978 and 2014, Italian athletes and world athletes were selected as winners in three categories (men, women and teams) by the Gazzetta referendum. With the introduction of the Gazzetta Sports Awards, the Gazzetta referendum only determines the world's athletes of the year. The results are usually published in December during a gala in Milan (Gazzetta Sports Awards) or in the past after Christmas in a special issue (Gazzetta referendum).
At the Gazzetta Sports Awards, the winners are determined in a multi-stage process. The newspaper editors first nominate ten candidates in each of the eight categories, which readers can vote on over the Internet until the beginning of December. In a subsequent second online audience vote, the three best-placed athletes in each category can be selected. The winners will then be chosen by a jury of experts who will include the results of the Internet voting in their decisions. The award ceremony will take place as a television gala in Milan. The winners of the Gazzetta Sports Awards will receive custom-made diamond gold rings from the Italian jewelry manufacturer Damiani.
history
According to the newspaper, the Gazzetta referendum was created “for fun” in the editorial offices when the paper was run by Gino “Gipa” Palumbo (others name Palumbo as the initiator). The discussion about the list of candidates for the categories of Italy's Sportsman of the Year ("Uomini Italia"), Sportswoman of the Year ("Donne Italia"), Team of the Year ("Squadre Italia") and World Sportsman ("Uomini mondo"), World Sportsman ( "Donne mondo") and world team ("Squadre mondo") began in autumn, while the coordination process is described as very "complex". In later years ten athletes and teams per category were available. In the election round, each La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist voted for his three favorite athletes or teams in descending order with three, two or one point. The athletes and teams that can collect the most points win the election. The results of the five best placed athletes or teams are published.
Italy's Sportsman of the Year
Gazzetta Sports Awards (from 2015)
Sportsman of the year ("Uomo dell'anno")
- 2015: Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming)
- 2016: Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming)
- 2017: Gianluigi Buffon (soccer)
- 2018: Filippo Tortu (athletics)
- 2019: Roberto Mancini (soccer)
Sportswoman of the year ("Donna dell'anno")
- 2015: Flavia Pennetta (tennis)
- 2016: Tania Cagnotto (diving)
- 2017: Sofia Goggia (Alpine skiing)
- 2018: Sofia Goggia (Alpine skiing)
- 2019: Federica Pellegrini (swimming)
Team of the year ("Squadra dell'anno")
- 2015: Juventus Turin (soccer)
- 2016: Men's national volleyball team
- 2017: Juventus Turin (soccer)
- 2018: Men's national volleyball team
- 2019: Men's water polo team
Trainer of the year ("Allenatore dell'anno")
- 2015: Antonio Conte (soccer)
- 2016: Claudio Ranieri (soccer)
- 2017: Gian Piero Gasperini (soccer)
- 2018: Massimiliano Allegri (soccer)
- 2019: Roberto Mancini (soccer)
Performance of the year ("Performance dell'anno")
- 2015: Fabio Aru (cycling)
- 2016: Niccolò Campriani (shooting)
- 2017: Andrea Belotti (soccer)
- 2018: Mauro Icardi (soccer)
- 2019: Jannik Sinner (tennis)
Disabled athlete of the year ("Atleta Paralimpico dell'anno")
- 2015: Martina Caironi (athletics)
- 2016: Beatrice Vio (fencing)
- 2017: Women's national volleyball team
- 2018: Beatrice Vio (fencing) and Oney Tapia (athletics)
- 2019: Simone Barlaam (swimming)
Achievement of the Year ("Exploit dell'anno") (awarded in 2016 under the title Discovery of the Year ("Rivelazione dell'anno"))
- 2015: Roberta Vinci (tennis)
- 2016: Gianluigi Donnarumma (soccer)
- 2017: Andrea Dovizioso (Motorsport)
- 2018: Elia Viviani (cycling)
- 2019: Charles Leclerc (Motorsport)
Fair Play of the Year ("Fair Play dell'anno") (awarded until 2016 under the title of Gentleman of the Year ("Gentleman dell'anno"))
- 2015: Valentina Diouf (volleyball)
- 2016: Tamara Lunger (ski mountaineering)
- 2017: Matteo Manassero (Golf)
Most promising talent of the year ("Promesa dell'anno")
- 2018: Francesco Bagnaia (Motorsport)
- 2019: Benedetta Pilato (swimming)
Revelation of the year ("Rivelazione dell'anno")
- 2018: Simona Quadarella (swimming)
- 2019: Matteo Berrettini (tennis)
Legends ("Legend")
- 2015: Valentino Rossi (Motorsport) and Alex Zanardi (Paracycling)
- 2016: Federica Pellegrini (swimming) and Alberto Tomba (alpine skiing)
- 2017: Francesco Totti (soccer) and Alberto Contador (cycling)
- 2018: Paolo Maldini (soccer) , Vincenzo Nibali (cycling) and Christian Vieri (soccer)
- 2019: Siniša Mihajlović (soccer)
Referendum Gazzetta (1978-2014)
The most popular awards in the referendum among the Italian men were motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi (five wins), among women the foil fencer Valentina Vezzali (six victories) and among the teams the rowers Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale and Giuseppe Di Capua as well as the national teams of men in basketball , volleyball and water polo (four wins each). The sports most frequently represented among the winners were athletics and cycling (seven wins each) for men, fencing (eleven wins) for women and football (eleven wins) for teams. With the election of the Paracycler Alex Zanardi in 2012, a disabled athlete was once victorious.
* = Winner was also recognized as a world athlete or team.
World athlete of the year
The Jamaican track and field athlete Usain Bolt (six victories) was honored most often in the Gazzetta referendum as a world athlete . In the women’s category , the Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini received the most awards (three wins). In the men, the Canadian athlete Ben Johnson (winner 1987) and the American professional cyclist Lance Armstrong (winner 1999) were subsequently found doping.
The most common sport among the winners is athletics for men (22 wins) and women (18 wins) and football (23 wins) for teams. In the 2019 election, the World Team of the Year (“Squadre mondo”) category was split into men (“Squadre uomini”) and women (“Squadre donne”) for the first time.
* = Winner was later convicted of doping.
literature
- La Gazzetta dello Sport (2012), special issue on the referendum from December 31, pp. 1–9 (available online via issuu.com ).
Web links
- Official website of the Gazzetta Sports Awards (Italian)
- Inventato nel 1978, votano i giornalisti della Gazza: da Rono-Simeoni a oggi, ecco tutti i vincitori - List of winners 1978–2018 / 19 at gazzetta.it, December 31, 2019 (Italian).
- Referendum Gazzetta, Nibali re del mondo. Maze ed Errigo le regine - 2014 winner at gazzetta.it, December 31, 2014 (Italian).
- Pennetta donna del 2015: Flavia d'Italia scelta del cuore - World Athlete 2015 at gazzetta.it, December 30, 2015 (Italian).
- Bergonzi: "Talenti senza tempo, la nostra Fede senza fine" World athlete 2017 at gazzetta.it, December 29, 2017 (Italian).
- Gazzetta Sports Awards 2018: Tortu è l'Uomo dell'anno, bis per la Goggia. ItalVolley femminile, squadra top winner 2018 at gazzetta.it, December 4, 2018 (Italian).
- Hamilton, Shiffrin, Francia: i migliori del 2018 secondo Gazzetta Weltsportler 2018 at gazzetta.it, December 31, 2018 (Italian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dal referendum di redazione del 1978 a oggi: genesi di un premio molto speciale at gazzetta.it, November 18, 2015 (accessed April 21, 2016).
- ↑ Gazzetta Sports Awards (Italian; accessed on 15 July 2016) at sportsawards.gazzetta.it.
- ↑ Premio at sportsawards.gazzetta.it (Italian; accessed July 15, 2016).
- ↑ Gazzetta Awards, eccoci ... siamo al clou! Questa sera gli 8 vincitori at gazzetta.it, December 17, 2015 (accessed: July 15, 2016).
- ↑ E 'Mourinho l'uomo del 2010 at gazzetta.it, December 31, 2010 (accessed June 15, 2015).
- ↑ a b Referendum Gazzetta, Nibali re del mondo. Maze ed Errigo le regine at gazzetta.it, December 31, 2014 (accessed June 15, 2016).
- ↑ La Gazzetta dello Sport (2012), special issue on the referendum from December 31, pp. 1–9 (accessed June 22, 2016 via issuu.com ( memento of the original from July 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).
- ↑ Referendum Gazzetta: vincono Serena e Bolt at gazzetta.it, December 30, 2013 (accessed June 15, 2016).
- ↑ Pennetta donna del 2015: Flavia d'Italia scelta del cuore at gazzetta.it, December 30, 2015 (accessed July 12, 2016).
- ↑ Article in La Gazzetta dello Sport at pressreader.com, December 31, 2019 (accessed March 23, 2020).