Wout Wijsmans won the “Gazzetta Award 2011”. The Spiker with number seven shirt of Cuneo will enter into the playoffs with the prestigious acknowledgement of the famous Italian sport daily paper. The award was thought out in 1973 by Carlo Gobbi. After each games, the players are given a score from 1 to 6 and at the end of the regular season, Wjsmans led the pack. Allessandro Fei followed just one point behind while the rest of the top ten is as follows: Hristo Zlatanov (82), Simone Parodi (79), Osmany Juantorena (78), Jan Stokr (71), Dragan Travica, Andel Dennis, Sean Rooney and Fabricio Dias (68), Matthew Anderson (67), Cristian Savani (63), Michal Lasko (62).
PAST WINNERS
1973 Barbieri; 1974, 1975 and 1976 Karov; 1977 Lanfranco; 1978 Koudelka; 1979 Lanfranco; 1980 Nekola; 1981 Bertoli; 1982 Kim Ho Chul; 1983 Dall’ Olio; 1984 Hovland; 1985 Vullo; 1986 De Rocco; 1987 Anastasi; 1988 Conte; 1989 Quiroga; 1990 and 1991 Conte; 1992 Giani; 1993 Cherednik; 1994 Stork; 1995 and 1996 Fomin; 1997 Van der Meulen; 1998 Pascual; 1999 Sartoretti; 2000 Iakovlev; 2001 Sartoretti; 2002 Zlatanov; 2003 Wijsmans; 2004: Simeonov; 2005 Swiderski; 2006 Miljkovic; 2007 Anderson; 2008 Zlatanov; 2009 Rivaldo; 2010 Dennis; 2011 Wijsmans.
