The Bulgarian snowboarder Malena Zamfirova received the Piotr Nurowski Winter Prize in Malta, on the sidelines of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) seminar. Aged 16, she received 26% of the votes and beat the Ukrainian Yaroslav Lavreniuk (skeleton). Zamfirova obtained her first podium in the World Cup this year, in a parallel giant slalom in Krynica (Poland), where she took second place. In the Junior category, she also became world champion in team slalom.
« On behalf of the EOC, I would like to congratulate Malena Zamfirova on winning the 10th Winter Piotr Nurowski Prize, and all these five inspiring athletes who excelled on and off the competition field ", welcomed the President of the EOC, Spyros Capralos. " Many former Piotr Nurowski Award winners and finalists have gone on to achieve great things, and we look forward to following the development of these young athletes. »
Finn Sonnekalb of Germany, Flora Tabanelli of Italy, and Unai Lopez Sousa of Spain were also finalists. The five athletes who were in the running for the award received a scholarship to pursue their career.
