Sportsperson of the Year (Slovakia)

Michal Martikán, quadruple winner of the award

Sportsperson of the Year (Slovak: Športovec roka) is a trophy awarded to the best Slovak athletes by the Club of Sports Journalists of the Slovak Syndicate of Journalists. The trophy was founded in 1993, following the annual award Czechoslovak Sportsperson of the Year, which was finished after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

So far the individual trophy has been awarded to 8 different athletes, among which there were 6 men and 2 women (as of 2008). The most successful athletes were Martina Moravcová (swimmer), who achieved it 6 times, and Michal Martikán (whitewater canoer), who won 4 times. The team trophy has been achieved by teams of 5 different sports disciplines (as of 2008). The most successful were K4 kayakers, who received it 6 times, and ice hockey players, who won 5 times.

Individual awards

  Sportsmen   Sportswomen

Team awards

2015

01 ! Peter Sagan	02 ! Matej Tóth	03 ! Marián Hossa
4th Erik Varga	5th Marek Hamšík	6th Veronika Velez-Zuzulová
7th Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	8th Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková	9th Matej Beňuš
10th Štefan Svitko

See also

• Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia)

References

• "Športovcom roka 2007 Michal Martikán". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press, a. s. 2007-12-20. 
• "Športovec roka 2008: Prvenstvo pre Martikána a štvorkajak". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press, a. s. 2008-12-18.