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German decathlete Leo Neugebauer celebrates the trophy of the Sportsman of the Year 2025 during the Sportsman of the Year 2025 gala at the Kurhaus Baden-Baden. Uli Deck/dpa
World decathlon champion Leo Neugebauer and World Cup biathlon winner Franziska Preuss won the German Sportspeople of the Year awards on Sunday.
The 25-year-old Neugebauer prevailed in the sports journalists' vote ahead of swimmer Florian Wellbrock and cyclist Florian Lipowitz.
Neugebauer earned 2,343 points in the vote and was honoured at the gala at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden.
One year after Olympic silver in Paris, Neugebauer capped his sporting career to date with world championship gold in Tokyo.
He follows in the footsteps of Niklas Kaul, who also won world championship gold in 2019 and a few months later was voted Sportsman of the Year.
Swimmer Wellbrock won four open water gold medals at the swimming world championships in Singapore and received 1,377 points in the vote.
Cyclist Lipowitz, who finished the Tour de France in third place behind Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar and Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard, came third in the voting.
Preuss won the overall World Cup and also took gold in the pursuit at the biathlon world championships this year.
The 31-year-old took the title ahead of predecessor and rhythmic gymnast Darja Varfolomeev.
The team award will be announced later. Separately, Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane was named football personality of the year in Germany by Kicker magazine on Sunday.
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German decathlete Leo Neugebauer (L) is honored by his father as Sportsman of the Year 2025 during the Sportsman of the Year 2025 gala at the Kurhaus Baden-Baden. Uli Deck/dpa
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