Nino Schurter concludes his Instagram post for this year's Credit Suisse Sports Awards with the hashtag #mehrgehtnicht. This year is the ninth time he has been nominated for Swiss Sportsman of the Year - a long overdue title if you look back just two years. In 2016, Schurter won Olympic gold and became world champion - the Sports Award went to Fabian Cancellara. Last year, he took the overall World Cup title by winning every single race in the series. He then rounded off an already perfect season with the world championship title. That wasn't enough either, and so Roger Federer became Sportsman of the Year for the seventh time.

Could there be more?

The question of what more an athlete has to achieve to win this award is justified and just as quickly answered - nothing more is possible. At least not in terms of performance, but there are still the World Championships in Lenzerheide: at the latest when Schurter rode solo onto the home straight in front of more than 20,000 spectators, even the often emotionless media people got goosebumps. The television viewing figures were also exceptionally good.

Thanks to this event, even TV viewers with little interest in sport should now know who Nino Schurter is and what he has achieved. The overall World Cup winner has not only
become world champion in Lenzerheide. World Champion in Lenzerheide, he also made the whole sports arena shake with emotion like no other Swiss athlete has done this year. If Schurter were to be voted Swiss Sportsman of the Year, he would also be the first mountain biker to receive this honor.

On Sunday, it's up to you

The Credit Suisse Sport Awards are not a purely spectator vote. Nevertheless, the more people who vote for Schurter during the televoting on Sunday, December 9, 2018, the greater his chances of winning the well-deserved title of "Sportsman of the Year".

A pre-selection has already been made by top Swiss athletes and the sports media (sports editors, sections of the sportpress.ch association). The results of the preselections (media and top athletes) and the televoting each count for one third.


The Sport Awards will be broadcast live on SRF1, RTS Deux and RSI LA 2 on December 9 from 8.10 p.m.

Coach of the Year

The Credit Suisse Sport Awards will also honor the coach of the year, and Bruno Diethelm, a coach from the mountain bike sector, is also nominated for the award. Diethelm has been the full-time national cross-country coach for the Swiss U23 men and elite since 2012.


The choice of Coach of the Year, on the other hand, is the sole responsibility of the award winners from the sports editorial offices of the Swiss media and Swiss sports journalists (sportpress.ch). However, the top athletes from Swiss Olympic and Swiss Paralympics can also vote for their favorite here.

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