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Top Rookie of 2015 | Women's EHF Champions League

by EHF Champions League

In a Facebook poll of 3,100 respondents, 29.5% chose “B - Lois Abbingh (Baia Mare)”. How we count

B - Lois Abbingh (Baia Mare)
29.5%
A - Ekaterina Ilina (Rostov-Don)
22.5%
H - Patricia Kovacs (Hypo Niederösterreich)
11%
J - Luca Szekerczes (FTC)
8.1%
C - Emma Ekenman-Fernis (Sävehof)
6.8%
D - Pauline Boegelund (FC Midtjylland)
6.7%
F - Dinah Eckerle (Thüringer HC)
4.8%
G - Alena Ikhneva (HC Vardar)
4.8%
I - Olivia Mellegard (Sävehof)
4.6%
E - Daria Dmitrieva (Dinamo-Sinara)
1.1%
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Ten candidates split this ballot so thin that Lois Abbingh's win rests on just 29.5% of the vote — meaning better than seven in ten voters picked someone else. Runner-up Ekaterina Ilina trailed by only seven points at 22.5%, and from there the field crumbled fast: Patricia Kovacs took 11%, and six more names fought over the scraps down to a final 1.1%.

Abbingh's plurality was concentrated, not broad: the Netherlands and Romania alone supplied roughly 800 of her 914 votes, close to a two-country mandate. Ilina grabbed the lead by day 4 on a wave of Russian and Ukrainian support, but Abbingh's home bases pulled her back in front by day 6, and the margin held flat near 29% for the rest of the poll's 16 days.

  • Plurality, not majority · Winner took just 29.5% of the vote in a 10-name field
  • Two countries, one winner · Netherlands and Romania alone supplied roughly 800 of her 914 votes
  • Early lead flip · Ilina led by day 4 before Abbingh reclaimed it by day 6
  • Split Sävehof vote · Teammates Ekenman-Fernis and Mellegard combined would've out-polled third place