Two Days Left For the Voting on the IWGA Athlete/Team of the Year 2013
Life Saving and Flying Disc in the lead
COLORADO SPRINGS (22/01/2014). Two days before the end of the voting of the IWGA Athlete of the Year/Team of the Year, the race is still open. Until Friday supporters can still help their favorite athlete(s) win by participating in the voting on the website: www.theworldgames.org.
Looking at the individual athletes, we see three candidates in front. The four-time gold medal winner in Life Saving from Cali 2013, Marcel Hassemeier from Germany, is now leading with more than 16,000 votes. Second is the Mongolian Sumo wrestler Gankhuyag Naranbat (11,615). The third place currently goes to Regina Jacques from the USA (Water Skiing) with 10,119 votes. In the team ranking the gold medalists in Flying Disc from the USA is still edged in front with 14,854 votes. They are closely followed by the women from Chinese Taipei, gold medalists in Tug of War (13,626 votes). The mixed team in Korfball from the Netherlands is placed more than some distance behind them (3,526 votes).
However, nothing has been decided yet, because the friends of their sport or of a specific team or athlete can still cast their vote on a daily basis. Those who know how to mobilize their supporters can still come out on top. But it is time to hurry: Voting closes on January 31st.