Nico Rosberg has been almost completely overlooked in this year’s 68th running of the German sportsman of the year awards.<\/p>\n
At the ceremony in Baden-Baden, it was the discus thrower Robert Harting who defended his title of 2013, when then world champion Sebastian Vettel finished second.<\/p>\n
Rosberg won five grands prix for the German team Mercedes in 2014, and was in contention for his first drivers’ title until the season finale.<\/p>\n
The ‘team of the year’ award, meanwhile, was presented to Germany’s national football team, with ski jumping and volleyball teams in second and third places.<\/p>\n
And German reports say Rosberg came in a distant seventh place after around 3000 sports journalists in the country voted for the coveted ‘Sportler des Jahres’ honour.<\/p>\n
Vettel, meanwhile, did not even make the top ten.<\/p>\n
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