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Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stefanos Tsitsipas Among Top 20 European Athletes for 2019


Greek athletes Giannis Antetokounmpo and Stefanos Tsitsipas were included on the list of the top 20 European athletes for 2019, as compiled by sportswriters from the European press agencies.
The winner of the award for the best European sportsman/sportswoman for 2019 is Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain. Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal took second place, and Austrian alpine ski racer Marcel Hirscher came in third.
The Greek Freak took ninth place, with 46 votes, while young tennis sensation Stefanos Tsitsipas came in twentieth, with 17 nods.
A total of twenty-six press agencies took part in the poll, including AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE (France), AGERPRES (Romania), ANADOLU AJANSI (Turkey), ANP (Netherlands), ANSA (Italy), APA (Austria), ATHENS NEWS AGENCY (Greece), BELGA (Belgium), BTA (Bulgaria), CTK (Czech Republic), DPA (Germany), EFE (Spain), ELTA (Lithuania), HINA (Croatia), LUSA (Portugal), MNA (Malta), MOLDPRES (Moldova), MTI (Hungary), SID (Germany), STA (Slovenia), STT (Finland), TANJUG (Serbia), TASR (Slovakia), TASS (Russia), UKRINFORM (Ukraine) and PAP (Poland).
The list of the top 20 European athletes for 2019 is as follows:
1. Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain) – Formula 1, 151 points.
2. Rafael Nadal (Spain) – tennis, 140
3. Marcel Hirscher (Austria) – alpine skiing, 76
4. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – tennis, 71
5. Sifan Hassan (Holland) – track and field, 69
6. Virgil van Dijk (Holland) – football, 61
7. Karsten Warholm (Norway) – track and field, 47
– Marc Marquez (Spain) – motoGP, 47
9. Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) – basketball, 46
10. Johannes Tingnes Boe (Norway) – biathlon, 44
11. Therese Johaug (Norway) – Nordic skiing, 43
12. Dina Asher-Smith (Great Britain) – track and field, 32
13. Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) – swimming, 31
14. Mariya Lasickiene (Russia) – track and field, 27
15. (Tie) Adam Peaty (Great Britain) – swimming, 22
– Luka Doncic (Slovenia) – basketball, 22
– Johannes Klaebo (Norway) – Nordic skiing, 22
18. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) – football, 19
19. Niklas Kaul (Germany) – track and field, 18
20. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) – tennis, 17

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