Sportsman of the year 1959 (Germany)

The best German athletes of 1959 were honored in December in the Tellkampfschule in Hanover . The election was organized for the 13th time by the Internationale Sport-Korrespondenz (ISK). 431 German sports journalists (both from the Federal Republic and the GDR ) took part in the election, placing the athlete Martin Lauer in first place. Lauer received 3912 points and was named first by 320 journalists. The best woman in the ranking was the figure skater Marika Kilius in 13th position (as a pair skater together with Hans-Jürgen Bäumler ), who was thus named Sportswoman of the Year. The Germany eight was honored as Team of the Year .

Individual athletes

	Athlete	sport	Points	Successes in 1959
1.	Martin Lauer	athletics	3912	World records over 110 m hurdles and 200 m
2.	Rudi Altig	Cycling	2795	Track world champion in the single pursuit of amateurs
3.	Carl Kaufmann	athletics	1932	European record over 400 m
4th	Täve Schur	Cycling	1397	Road world champion of the amateurs
5.	Manfred Germar	athletics	0856	German champion over 100 m and 200 m
6th	Philipp Prince	Apparatus gymnastics	0842	European championship third in all-around
7th	Paul Schmidt	athletics	0814
8th.	Bubi Scholz	Boxing	0763	Defense of the European middleweight title
9.	Uwe Seeler	Soccer	0671	Top scorer in the Oberliga Nord
9.	Heinz Pfeiffer	Cycling	0671	World champion in single art cycling

13.	Kilius / Bäumler	figure skating	0581	European champion in pair skating

The second-best result among the women was achieved by the canoe athlete Rosemarie Bisinger , who was in 19th place with 337 votes, while the third-best was the swimmer Wiltrud Urselmann with 224 votes (in the overall ranking 26th).

Teams

	athlete	sport	Points	Successes in 1959
1.	Germany eighth	rowing	0755	European champion
2.	National Hockey Team	hockey	0427
3.	National athletics team	athletics	0420
4th	National handball team	Handball	0400
5.	Eintracht Frankfurt	Soccer	0129	German champions
6th	TSV 1860 Munich	athletics	0128
7th	National soccer team	Soccer	0076
8th.	Germania Düsseldorf	rowing	0070	European champion in four with helmsman
9.	EV Füssen	ice Hockey	0046	German champions

literature

Germany's number 1, 2, 3…. In: Sport-Illustrierte . No. 1/1960. Pp. 10-11.

Remarks

↑ Each journalist awarded a total of 55 points, ten of them to the athlete he considered the best, nine to the second best in his opinion, and thus up to tenth place. For the teams there were three votes for the best rated team, two for the second best and one for the third best.

[1] Each journalist awarded a total of 55 points, ten of them to the athlete he considered the best, nine to the second best in his opinion, and thus up to tenth place. For the teams there were three votes for the best rated team, two for the second best and one for the third best.