{"id":4175,"date":"2022-11-29T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.de\/2022\/11\/29\/para-athlete-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:42:58","slug":"para-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/2022\/11\/29\/para-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Para athlete of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is what winners look like! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n\n<p>The biggest award in German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=para&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#Para<\/a>-Sport from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/deutscher-behindertensportverband-e.v.\/\">Deutscher Behindertensportverband e.V.<\/a> was awarded three times at the weekend. The brilliant monoski racer Anna-Lena Forster was chosen as the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=parasportlerin&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#parasportsperson<\/a> of 2022. The 27-year-old earned it with two gold and two silver medals at the Winter Paralympics in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=peking&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#Beijing<\/a> at the beginning of the year and four World Championship gold medals before that in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=lillehammer&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#Lillehammer<\/a>. \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n\n<p>In the men&#8217;s competition, Marco Maier was named Para-Sportsperson of the Year after winning two Paralympic silver medals in cross-country skiing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=biathlon&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#biathlon<\/a>. \ud83c\udfc5<\/p>\n\n<p>Linn Kazmeier, who at the age of 15 caused quite a stir at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=olympischen&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#Olympics<\/a> in Beijing, was the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=nachwuchssportlerin&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7002938706609217537\">#Young Sportswoman<\/a> of the Year. With 1x gold, 3x silver and 1x bronze she inspired all of Germany at the games! \u263a\ufe0f\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea<\/p>\n\n<p>The result of the vote, a combination of the evaluation of a nine-member panel of experts and almost 7,000 online votes from fans, was allowed by APA to be staged with a great stage design and matching press walls. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what winners look like! \ud83c\udfc6 The biggest award in German #Para-Sport from the Deutscher Behindertensportverband e.V. was awarded three times at the weekend. The brilliant monoski racer Anna-Lena&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}