The boxing world champion Tina Rupprecht, the Olympic Canute Noah Hegge and the football team of TSV Schwaben Augsburg secured the titles.

On Wednesday evening it was time again, in the congress at the park at the city's sports gala the best of the best. A total of 109 active people received from Mayor Eva Weber Your documents for outstanding sporting achievements. The title « Athlete, athlete and team of the year » also awarded the Augsburg-Allgäu Sports press Association. These are the award winners:

Team of the year: The footballers of TSV Schwaben Augsburg

For a long time, the 1st men's team of TSV Schwaben Augsburg was no longer one of the top-class football greats in the Fuggerstadt. But that is the past, in addition to the professionals of the FCA and the second team of Oberhauser, the TSV 1847 Swabia has with the Ascent to the regional league Bavaria in 2024 established as the third force in the Augsburg football scene.

The high -altitude flight started eleven years ago when Jürgen Reitmeier was elected department head. The soccer -loving entrepreneur brought his great knowledge and personal commitment into the division. He not only brought good footballers to Stauffenbergstrasse, but also committed former professionals such as Sören Dreßler, Halil Altintop or Janos Radoki as a coach – the cornerstone for later success. In 2017, the Swabia knights rose to the Bayernliga, which they belonged to until the summer of 2024.

But that was not yet the end of the table, as the third in the table, the Swabians rose to the fourth -class regional league Bavaria last summer and play a good role there at the moment. The former Bundesliga professional Matthias Ostrzolek, who has already celebrated the title Team of the Year with the FCA, pretends the sporty direction with his assistants Roland Bahl, Marco Zupur and goalkeeper coach Claus Zerbe. The head of the whole is sports director Max Wuschek, to whom the sporting director Benedikt Schmoll and Manuel Rotter are at the side. As department head, Dr. Christian Kreikle.

Until the merger with the BCA 1969, TSV Schwaben in football still acted at eye level with the FCA and also knocked on the gate to the upper house before the Bundesliga foundation in 1963. Now the club is at least back in the regional league, and the team has already acclimatized well there. Matthias Ostzrolek's team is currently in a secure midfield with ninth.

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Athlete of the year: The Olympic bronze medalist Noah Hegge

Born in Augsburg, Noah Hegge, he gathered medals in international competitions at a young age and was European and Vice World Champions with the kayak juniors in 2016. His international breakthrough in the adult area came in 2022, when the sports soldier at the Canal Lalom home championship at the Augsburg ice channel 2022 team-gold, together with his teammates Hannes Aigner and Stefan Hengst. In 2024 at the summer games in France, Hegge paddled to his first Olympic precious metal. In his special discipline in kayak, he only took ninth place, but in the new Olympic discipline Kajak Cross he took his second chance and drove to bronze. In addition to the canoe sport, the 25-year-old athlete from Kanu Schwaben Augsburg also proves a lot of entrepreneurship. With his brothers Samuel and Jonas Hegge, the coffee and hat lover founded the AWHU label, with which he markets a small model line and also organized events.

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Athlete of the year: The multiple world champion in boxing, Tina Rupprecht

For the Augsburg native, a “life dream” fulfilled on November 23, 2024. With her victory in the association fight against Japanese Eri Matsuda in Heidelberg, the Augsburg nuclear weight (up to 46.3 kilos) won Three world championship titles in one fell swoop. Namely that of the three large associations WBC, WBO and WBA. Never before had a German professional owned these three significant World Cup belts among women or men.

In addition, the 31-year-old boxer received the respected belt of the box magazine The Ring. It is only awarded if the two best boxers in the world competed against each other from the point of view of the specialist journalists of the American “Box-Bible”. From a German perspective, this award has only been assigned to boxing legend Max Schmeling in 1930. In addition to the boxing career, the top athlete, who works as a secondary school teacher in Zusmarshausen