Sportsman of the year 1956 (Germany)
The best German athletes of 1956 were honored on December 18th in the Liederhalle Stuttgart . The election was organized for the 10th time by Internationale Sport-Korrespondenz (ISK). Although the Olympic Summer Games in Melbourne only ended on December 8, the election had to be carried out in a rush, a total of 342 sports reporters and editors cast their votes. There was no separate evaluation of athletes, the best woman in the evaluation was “Sportswoman of the Year”. The best non-Olympic athlete was the motorcycle racer Wilhelm Herz , who finished 11th with 57 votes.
The event began with a minute's silence for the fatally injured Werner Haas , who was 1953 Sportsman of the Year . For the first time, a donated badge of honor was awarded to the "Sportsman of the Year", which was also subsequently given to the previous overall winners Gottfried von Cramm , Georg Meier , Herbert Klein , Paul and Ria Falk , Karl Kling , Heinz Fütterer and Hans Günter Winkler . Winkler was also the second athlete, after Gottfried von Cramm ( 1947 and 1948 ), to be named "Sportsman of the Year" twice in a row.
Ranking list
| Athlete | sport | Points | Successes in 1956 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hans Günter Winkler | Show jumping | 1350 | Olympic gold medal in individual and with the team |
| 2. | Ursula Happe | Swimming | 1044 | Olympic gold medal in the 200m breaststroke |
| 3. | Helmut Bantz | Apparatus gymnastics | 498 | Olympic gold medal in horse jumping |
| Christa Stubnick | athletics | 498 | Olympic silver medal in 100-meter and 200-meter races ; with 11.5 s European record over 100 m and with 23.5 s European record over 200 m | |
| 5. | Karl-Friedrich Haas | athletics | 409 | Olympic silver medal in the 400-meter run |
| 6th | Ossi Reichert | Alpine skiing | 230 | Olympic champion in giant slalom |
| 7th | Wolfgang Behrendt | Boxing | 184 | Olympic champion in bantamweight |
| 8th. | Martin Lauer | athletics | 163 | Fourth place in the 110-meter hurdles and fifth place in the pentathlon at the Summer Olympics |
| 9. | Manfred Germar | athletics | 124 | Olympic bronze medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay |
| 10. |
Two-person kayak ( Scheuer , Miltenberger ) |
Canoeing | 119 | Olympic gold medal over 1000 m |
A total of 52 athletes were named.
literature
- Pforzheimer Newspaper . No. 294 . J. Esslinger GmbH & Co. KG, Pforzheim 1956.
- Reutlinger General-Anzeiger . No. 294 . Reutlinger General-Anzeiger Verlag, Reutlingen 1956.
- Winkler again "Sportsman No. 1". In: Sport-Illustrierte . No. 1/1957, pp. 8-9.