The Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) is glad to announce that the next 30 high hockey athletes have been shortlisted to win the FIH Greatest Participant, FIH Greatest Goalkeeper and FIH Rising Star Awards of the 12 months:
FIH Participant of the 12 months Award – Nominees:
Girls: Gu Bingfeng (CHN), Yibbi Jansen (NED), Nike Lorenz (GER), Stéphanie Vanden Borre (BEL), Xan de Waard (NED)
Males: Thierry Brinkman (NED), Joep de Mol (NED), Hannes Müller (GER), Harmanpreet Singh (IND), Zach Wallace (ENG)
FIH Goalkeeper of the 12 months Award – Nominees:
Girls: Cristina Cosentino (ARG), Aisling D’Hooghe (BEL), Nathalie Kubalski (GER), Anne Veenendaal (NED), Ye Jiao (CHN)
Males: Pirmin Blaak (NED), Luis Calzado (ESP), Jean-Paul Danneberg (GER), Tomás Santiago (ARG), PR Sreejesh (IND)
FIH Rising Star of the 12 months Award – Nominees:
Girls: Claire Colwill (AUS), Zoe Díaz (ARG), Tan Jinzhuang (CHN), Emily White (BEL), Linnea Weidemann (GER)
Males: Bautista Capurro (ARG), Bruno Font (ESP), Sufyan Khan (PAK), Michel Struthoff (GER), Arno Van Dessel (BEL)
The listing of nominees was established by an Professional Panel* composed of gamers, coaches and officers chosen by every of their Continental Federations. The skilled panel was supplied entry to match knowledge from all worldwide matches held in 2024, together with Take a look at Matches, the FIH hockey Professional League, FIH Hockey Nations Cups, FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers and the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 earlier than establishing the ultimate listing of nominees.
The voting course of is now open! Nationwide Associations – represented by their respective nationwide groups’ captains and coaches -, followers, gamers, coaches, officers and media can register their vote till 11 October.
The votes of the Professional Panel depend for 40% of the general outcome. These from Nationwide Associations depend for an extra 20%. The followers and different gamers (20%) in addition to the media (20%) will make the remaining 40%.
Followers and gamers can forged their vote right here.
Media can forged their vote right here.
Just one vote per Award is accepted.
*Professional Panel:
Europe: Janne Müller-Wieland (GER) and Simon Mason (ENG)
Asia: Tahir Zaman (PAK) and Ms Deepika (IND)
Pan America: Soledad Iparraguirre (ARG) and Craig Parnham (USA)
Africa: Sarah Bennett (ZIM) and Ahmed Youssef (EGY)
Oceania: Amber Church (NZL) and Adam Webster (AUS)
Record of Awards:
FIH Participant of the 12 months (Girls and Males)
FIH Goalkeeper of the 12 months (Girls and Males)
FIH Rising Star of the 12 months (Girls and Males)
FIH Coach of the 12 months (Girls and Males)**
FIH Umpire of the 12 months (Girls and Males)***
** Not for vote – The Professional Panel will determine the winners of the FIH Coach of the 12 months Awards
*** Not for vote – The FIH Umpiring Committee will determine the winners of the FIH Umpire of the 12 months Awards