WARSAW, December 26, 2019 - The winner of this year’s edition of the Polish Press Agency poll for the best European sportsman/sportswoman of 2019 is formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain. Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal took the second place, and Austrian alpine ski racer Marcel Hirscher was third.

The 62nd edition of the poll was organized by the most prestigious European Press Agencies. 

Twenty six agencies in total took part in the poll: 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 top twenty athletes according to Polish Press Agency:

1. Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain)      - Formula 1                        151 pts.

2. Rafael Nadal (Spain)                     - tennis                               140

3. Marcel Hirscher (Austria)               - alpine skiing                     76 

4. Novak Djokovic (Serbia)                - tennis                                71

5. Sifan Hassan (Netherlands)           - athletics                            69

6. Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands)          - football                               61

7. Karsten Warholm (Norway)           - athletics                              47

   Marc Marquez (Spain)                   - motoGP                              47

9. Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece)  - basketball                         46

10. Johannes Tingnes Boe (Norway)  - biathlon                            44

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11. Therese Johaug (Norway)             - nordic skiing                       43

12. Dina Asher-Smith (Great Britain)   - athletics                             32 

13. Katinka Hosszu (Hungary)            - swimming                           31

14. Mariya Lasickiene (Russia)            - athletics                             27

15. 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)                 - athletics                           18

20. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)          - tennis                              17  

         
Previous winners

1958 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak (Poland/athletics)

1959 Wassiliy Kuzniecov (USSR/athletics)

1960 Yuriy Vlasov (USSR/weightlifting)

1961 Valery Brumel (USSR/athletics)

1962 Valery Brumel

1963 Valery Brumel

1964 Lidia Skoblikova (USSR/speed skating)

1965 Michael Jazy (France/athletics)

1966 Irena Szewińska (Poland/athletics)

1967 Jean-Claude Killy (France. alpine skiing)

1968 Jean-Claude Killy

1969 Eddy Merckx (Belgium/cycling)

1970 Eddy Merckx

1971 Juha Vaeaetaeinen (Finland/athletics)

1972 Lasse Viren (Finland/athletics)

1973 Kornelia Ender (GDR/swimming)

1974 Irena Szewińska (Poland/athletics)

1975 Kornelia Ender

1976 Nadia Comaneci (Romania/artistic gymnastics)

1977 Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR/athletics)

1978 Vladimir Jashchenko (USSR/athletics)

1979 Sebastian Coe (Great Britain/athletics)

1980 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR/swimming)

1981 Sebastian Coe

1982 Daley Thompson (Great Britain/athletics)

1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova (Czechoslovakia/athletics)

1984 Michael Gross (BRD/swimming)

1985 Siergiey Bubka (USSR/athletics)

1986 Heike Drechsler (GDR/athletics)

1987 Stephen Roche (Ireland/cycling)

1988 Steffi Graf (BRD/tennis)

1989 Steffi Graf

1990 Stefan Edberg (Sweden/tennis)

1991 Katrin Krabbe (Germany/athletics)

1992 Nigel Mansell (Great Britain/Formula 1)

1993 Linford Christie (Great Britain/athletics)

1994 Johan Olav Koss (Norway/speed skating)

1995 Jonathan Edwards (Great Britain/athletics)

1996 Svetlana Mastierkova (Russia/athletics)

1997 Martina Hingis (Switzerland/tennis)

1998 Mika Haekkinen (Finland/Formula 1)

1999 Gabriela Szabo (Romania/athletics)

2000 Inge de Bruijn (Netherland/swimming)

2001 Michael Schumacher (Germany/Formula 1)

2002 Michael Schumacher

2003 Michael Schumacher

2004 Roger Federer (Switzerland/tennis)

2005 Roger Federer and Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia/athletics)

2006 Roger Federer

2007 Roger Federer

2008 Rafael Nadal (Spain/tennis)

2009 Roger Federer

2010 Rafael Nadal

2011 Novak Djokovic (Serbia/tennis)

2012 Sebastian Vettel (Germany/formula 1)

2013 Sebastian Vettel

2014 Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain(formula 1) 

2015 Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

2016 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/football)

2017 Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain/formula 1)

2018 Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

2019 Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain/formula 1)