Sportsman of the year 1954 (Germany)
The best German athletes of 1954 were honored by Kurt Dobbratz on December 12th in the Hotel Kaiserhof in Karlsruhe . The election was organized for the 8th time by the Internationale Sport-Korrespondenz (ISK). A total of 324 sports reporters and editors cast their votes, which was a new high in the number of votes. There was no separate evaluation of athletes, the best woman in the evaluation, Ursula Happe , was named “Sportswoman of the Year”.
Ranking list
| Athlete | sport | Points | Successes in 1954 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Heinz Fütterer | athletics | 3124 | A world record of 10.2 seconds in the 100-meter run and a European record of 20.8 seconds in the 200-meter run |
| 2. | Fritz Walter | Soccer | 2316 | Captain of the world championship team |
| 3. | Hans Günter Winkler | Equestrian sport | 2020 | World champion in show jumping |
| 4th | Werner Haas | Motorsport | 1407 | World champion in the 250 cm³ class |
| 5. | Ursula Happe | Swimming | 917 | European champion over 200 m breaststroke and bronze medal over 100 m butterfly |
| 6th | Gundi Busch | figure skating | 725 | World and European champion |
| 7th | Heinz Neuhaus | Boxing | 725 | GDR champion in the 100 meter run and 200 meter run |
| 8th. |
Motorcycle team Wilhelm Noll / Fritz Cron |
Motorsport | 513 | World champion in the sidecar class |
| 9. | Fritz Thiedemann | Equestrian sport | 499 | Winner of the German Jumping Derby |
| 10. | Sepp Herberger | Soccer | 463 | National coach of the national soccer team , world champion (" Miracle of Bern ") |
literature
- Pforzheimer Newspaper . No. 289 . J. Esslinger GmbH & Co. KG, Pforzheim 1954.
- Reutlinger General-Anzeiger . No. 289 . Reutlinger General-Anzeiger Verlag, Reutlingen 1954.