April 20, 2021

2021 EUROPEAN FAIR PLAY MOVEMENT “FAIR PLAY FLAME” Award (to an athlete or a team under 18) ŽIGA LIN HOČEVAR (SLO)

Thirteen-year-old Žiga Lin Hočevar won the kayak category at the national junior championships in Tacen, Ljubljana on 13th September 2020. At home, while watching the videos, he found that the judges had not awarded him the two penalty seconds for touching the door in competition. Those two seconds would push him to a second place. The next day, he took the medal to the post office and sent it to the competitor, who at competition won second place and is also his sport friend Ate Zobec Urbančič. On Instagram he wrote next to the photo of the medal: “THIS ONE IS YOURS, YOU WERE BETTER IN THIS MATCH”.