Germany’s "Sportsman of the Year" is the weightlifter Matthias Steiner. Triple European table tennis champion Timo Boll finished second at the ceremony held in Baden-Baden.
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24Dec
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16Dec
The storybook scenario was quite simple for the Men’s Singles final at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau on Sunday 14th December 2008.
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16Dec
Guo Yan, often the bridesmaid and no place for her in the Chinese team at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, won the Women’s Singles title at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau on Sunday 14th December 2008 and in so doing collected US$38,000 and is now the proud owner of a Volkswagen Scirroco Saloon car.
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16Dec
The twelve month reign of Ma Lin came to an end on the afternoon of Sunday 14th December 2008. At the semi-final stage of the Men’s Singles event at the Volkswagen Pro Grand Finals in Macau, the man who had captured the title in Beijing in December 2007 was beaten by Chinese national team compatriot Ma Long.
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14Dec
Playing in typically elegant style with seemingly more time to execute his art than any other player, Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus beat Hong’s Jiang Tianyi in five games to join the illustrious Chinese trio of Ma Lin, Ma Long and Wang Hao in the semi-finals of the Men’s Singles event at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau.
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14Dec
China’s Guo Yue, the no.2 seed, and Singapore’s Feng Tianwei, the no.4 seed, emerged victorious in the lower half of the draw at the quarter-final stage of the Women’s Singles event at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau on the evening of Saturday 13th December 2008.
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14Dec
China’s Ma Lin and Ma Long emerged successful in their all China quarter-final duels at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau on the afternoon of Saturday 13th December 2008.
However, the manner of their victories was in quite different mode.
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13Dec
Four Chinese players in the top half of the draw in the Men’s
Singles event at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau and,
following the opening round matches on Friday 12th December 2008, there
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13Dec
Last place on the list of qualifiers and within in one match of notprogressing past the first stage of proceedings on the opening day ofplay at the Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals, Chinese Taipei’s 19 yearold Chiang Hung-Chieh, emerged as the Under 21 Men’s Singles championin the Macau Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion, late in the afternoon ofFriday 12th December 2008.
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13Dec
On the opening day of play in the Under 21 Men’s Singles event atthe Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals in Macau, Portugal’s MarcosFreitas had started proceedings all guns blazing.
He had overwhelmed Singapore’s Ma Liang.
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