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57 winter sports heroes honored with the highest possible award by Federal President Steinmeier

2022-06-02T09:15:32.534Z


57 winter sports heroes honored with the highest possible award by Federal President Steinmeier Created: 2022-06-02 11:04 am By: Andreas Knobloch Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awards the silver laurel leaf to Olympic and Paralympic athletes in Bellevue Palace. The photo shows only a part of the winners. © Wolfgang Kumm / picture alliance/dpa Anyone who wins a medal at the Olympics


57 winter sports heroes honored with the highest possible award by Federal President Steinmeier

Created: 2022-06-02 11:04 am

By: Andreas Knobloch

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awards the silver laurel leaf to Olympic and Paralympic athletes in Bellevue Palace.

The photo shows only a part of the winners.

© Wolfgang Kumm / picture alliance/dpa

Anyone who wins a medal at the Olympics also receives a high award personally from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Berlin - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded the German medal winners at the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing with the Silver Laurel Leaf.

"They have become role models, especially for children and young people to do the same," said the 66-year-old on Monday in Bellevue Palace in the direction of the athletes: "This laurel leaf is also a thank you for that."

Olympic heroes: German winter athletes win a total of 46 medals

The German Olympians had won a total of 27 medals in China, while the disabled athletes won 19 medals.

Steinmeier particularly emphasized the circumstances of the games: "They took place in the shadow of the threatening war in Ukraine - and the Paralympics then even after the start of the brutal Russian attack," he said.

During a ceremony in Bellevue Palace on Monday, the head of state awarded the 26 male and 31 male athletes the Silver Laurel Leaf, the highest state recognition for top performance in German sport.

“Sport does not live in a vacuum and does not live in an ideal world.

The sport must not pretend that everything is fine, not even for the duration of an international championship," said Steinmeier: "The exclusion of the athletes from Russia and Belarus also happened at the instigation of many other athletes."

Winter sports heroes: On the ski slopes, in the ice rink or on the cross-country ski run - these 57 have been awarded

  • ski jumping:

  • Katharina Althaus, 

    Oberstdorf


    silver normal hill

  • Markus Eisenbichler,

     Siegsdorf


    bronze ski jumping team

  • Karl Geiger,

     Oberstdorf


    Bronze Ski Jumping Large Hill


    Bronze Ski Jumping Team

  • Stephan Leyhe,

     Hinterzarten


    bronze ski jumping team

  • Constantin Schmid,

     Oberaudorf


    bronze ski jumping team

  • Nordic combination:

  • Manuel Faißt,

     Oberried


    silver team, large hill / 4x5 km cross-country skiing

  • Eric Frenzel,

     Flossenbürg


    silver team, large hill / 4x5 km cross-country skiing

  • Vinzenz Geiger,

     Oberstdorf


    Gold individual, normal hill / 10 km cross-country skiing


    Silver team, large hill / 4x5 km cross-country skiing

  • Julian Schmid,

     Oberstdorf


    silver team, large hill / 4x5 km cross-country skiing

  • Biathlon and cross-country skiing:

  • Victoria Carl,

     Zella-Mehlis


    Gold cross-country team sprint


    Silver cross-country 4x5 km relay

  • Katharina Hennig, 

    Sonthofen


    Gold cross-country skiing team sprint


    Silver cross-country skiing 4x5 km relay

  • Sofie Krehl,

     Bolsterlang


    silver cross-country skiing 4x5 km relay

  • Katherine Sauerbrey,

     Oberhof


    silver cross-country skiing 4x5 km relay

  • Martin Fleig,

     Gundelfingen


    silver biathlon 10 km

  • Denise Herrmann

    , Ruhpolding


    Gold Biathlon 15 km


    Bronze Biathlon 4x6 km relay

  • Vanessa Hinz,

     Schliersee


    Bronze Biathlon 4x6 km relay

  • Franziska Preuss,

     Ruhpolding


    Bronze biathlon 4x6 km relay

  • Vanessa Voigt, 

    Floh-Seligenthal


    Bronze Biathlon 4x6 km relay

  • Linn Kazmaier,

     Lenningen


    Gold cross-country skiing 10 km


    Silver cross-country skiing 15 km


    Bronze cross-country skiing sprint


    Silver biathlon 12.5 km


    Silver biathlon 6 km

  • Florian Baumann

    , Beuren


    Gold cross-country skiing 10 km


    Silver cross-country skiing 15 km


    Bronze cross-country skiing sprint


    Silver biathlon 12.5 km


    Silver biathlon 6 km

  • Marco Maier

    , Blaichach


    silver biathlon 6 km


    silver cross-country sprint

  • Leonie Maria Walter,

     Freiburg im Breisgau


    Gold biathlon 10 km


    Bronze biathlon 12.5 km


    Bronze biathlon 6 km


    Bronze cross-country skiing 15 km

  • Pirmin Strecker,

     Kirchzarten


    Gold biathlon 10 km


    Bronze biathlon 12.5 km


    Bronze biathlon 6 km


    Bronze cross-country skiing 15 km

  • Anja Wicker,

     Stuttgart


    Bronze biathlon 10 km

  • Alpine skiing and cross-country skiing:

  • Emma Aicher,

     Schönau am Koenigssee


    Silver Alpine Skiing Parallel Mixed Team

  • Lena Dürr, 

    Garmisch-Partenkirchen


    Silver Alpine Skiing Parallel Mixed Team

  • Julian Rauchfuss,

     Fischen


    Silver Alpine Skiing Parallel Mixed Team

  • Alexander Schmid,

     Fischen


    Silver Alpine Skiing Parallel Mixed Team

  • Linus Straßer,

     Kirchberg


    Silver Alpine Skiing Parallel Mixed Team

  • Anna-Lena Forster,

     Freiburg im Breisgau


    Gold Slalom


    Gold Super Combi


    Silver Downhill


    Silver Super G

  • Daniela Maier,

     Furtwangen


    Bronze Ski Cross

  • Anna-Maria Rieder,

     Oberammergau


    Bronze Slalom

  • Andrea Rothfuss,

     Kernen in the Remstal


    bronze giant slalom

  • Tobogganing and skeleton:

  • Tobias Arlt,

     Piding


    Gold Tobogganing Doubles


    Gold Tobogganing Team Relay

  • Tobias Wendl,

     Bischofswiesen


    Gold tobogganing doubles


    Gold tobogganing team relay

  • Natalie Geisenberger,

     Miesbach


    Gold Tobogganing Singles


    Gold Tobogganing Team Relay

  • Johannes Ludwig,

     Walsrode


    Gold Tobogganing Singles


    Gold Tobogganing Team Relay

  • Sascha Benecken,

     Suhl


    silver tobogganing doubles

  • Toni Eggert,

     Ilsenburg


    silver tobogganing doubles

  • Anna Berreiter,

     Bischofswiesen


    silver sledding single seater

  • Christopher Grotheer,

     Schleusingen


    Gold Skeleton

  • Axel Jungk,

     Dresden


    Silver Skeleton

  • Hannah Neise,

     Pittenhart


    Gold Skeleton

  • bob

  • Candy Bauer,

     Marienberg


    Gold Foursome

  • Francesco Friedrich,

     Pirna


    Gold Fours


    Gold Twos

  • Thorsten Margis,

     Halle (Saale)


    Gold Fours


    Gold Twos

  • Alexander Schüller,

     Steina


    Gold Quad

  • Florian Bauer,

     Munich


    Silver Fours


    Silver Twos

  • Johannes Lochner,

     Schönau am Koenigssee


    Silver Fours


    Silver Twos

  • Christian Rasp,

     Berchtesgaden


    silver four

  • Christopher Weber,

     Dortmund


    silver foursome

  • Alexandra Burghardt,

     Altötting


    silver twos

  • Mariama Jamaica,

     Berlin


    silver twos

  • Deborah Levi,

     Frankfurt am Main


    Gold Twos

  • Laura Nolte,

     Dortmund


    gold twos

  • Christoph Hafer,

     Bad Feilnbach


    Bronze twos

  • Matthias Sommer,

     Bochum


    bronze double

  • Source: Bundespraesident.de

Winter athletes proud of their awards - numerous photos on Instagram

The winter sports enthusiasts were more than proud of the honor and shared some photos on social media.

Skier Lena Dürr showed the Zoll Ski Team in uniform:

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Ski jumper Markus Eisenbichler, who won bronze with the team, posted the photo with him and Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his page and wrote: "Thank you for this special award":

The Silver Laurel Leaf is the highest award in sport and has been awarded since 1950.

The athletes, said Steinmeier, are "role models not only for the desire to become top athletes and medal winners".

The honorees encouraged "a great many" to "look for fun and self-realization in sport" - and "last but not least, advertised our country to the whole world".

(ank with SID and dpa)

Source: merkur

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