Sportsperson of the Year (Slovakia)

Michal Martikán, quadruple winner of the award

Sportsperson of the Year (Slovak: Športovec roka) is a trophy awarded to the best Slovak athletes by the Club of Sports Journalists of the . The trophy was founded in 1993, following the annual award Czechoslovak Sportsperson of the Year, which was finished after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

So far the individual trophy has been awarded to 8 different athletes, among which there were 6 men and 2 women (as of 2008). The most successful athletes were Martina Moravcová (swimmer), who achieved it 6 times, and Michal Martikán (slalom canoeist), who won 4 times. The team trophy has been achieved by teams of 5 different sports disciplines (as of 2008). The most successful were K4 kayakers, who received it 6 times, and ice hockey players, who won 5 times.

2017[]

Sportsperson of the Year - Individual Award

Peter Sagan	6th Marek Hamšík
Petra Vlhová	7th Alexander Slafkovský
Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	8th Peter Hámor
4th Ján Volko	9th Peter Gelle - Adam Botek
5th Magdaléna Rybáriková	10th Ladislav Škantár - Peter Škantár

Sportsperson of the Year - Team Award

Slovakia mixed alpine skiing team	6th Slovakia K4 kayaking team
Slovakia national under-21 football team	7th Slovakia women's shooting trap team
Slovakia canoeing 3xC1 team	8th Slovakia women's national basketball team
4th Slovakia national ball hockey team	9th Slovakia national under-18 ice hockey team HC ’05 Banská Bystrica Slovakia mixed summer biathlon team MŠK Žilina
5th Slovakia national football team

Individual awards[]

  Sportsmen   Sportswomen

Team awards[]

See also[]

• Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia)

References[]

• "Športovcom roka 2007 Michal Martikán". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press, a. s. 2007-12-20.
• "Športovec roka 2008: Prvenstvo pre Martikána a štvorkajak". Sme (in Slovak). Petit Press, a. s. 2008-12-18.