Trophy Rankings

Vitalist of the year

Every year all Vitalis members can vote for whom they think deserves the title 'Vitalist of the year'. They can nominate someone for all kinds of reasons. Someone may have made a lot of personal progress, or is always present and enthusiastic at training. From the three nominees with the most votes, the WPC will choose the final winner. The prize will be awarded during the annual Vitalis gala. 

VIP-klassement

The translation of VIP is roughly 'personal improvement achievement'. The VIP ranking was created by members of NSAV 't Haasje, student athletics association in Nijmegen. The athlete who improves his/her personal best the most in one discipline, in comparison with the previous year, will win the VIP trophy. This does not mean that necessarily the best Vitalis athlete will win this trophy, but whoever achieved the biggest improvement in a specific year will. This torphy will be awarded during the Vitalis gala in the fall.

The rules: participating in a track or indoor competition will grant you 1 point. This counts per competition and not for each individual discipline. So let's say you participate in three different disciplines during the same competition, based on this rule you will only get 1 point in total. Improving your PR will grant you 2 extra points; matching your PR will grant you 1 extra point. The total points of every competition will be accumulated and counted to determine the VIP trophy winner at the end of the year based on the highest total score. 

Gouden Spike Bokaal

The 'Gouden Spike Bokaal' translates to 'Golden Running Spikes Trophy' and is awarded to whichever Vitalis member has accomplished the most extraordinary achievement during the year. Did you for example break the clubrecord for the high jump, or improve your 5000 meter PR by 5 minutes, or did you perhaps finish a marathon? Then you could just happen to be in the run for the Gouden Spike Bokaal. The WPC calculates and discusses internally who they think deserves the Gouden Spike Bokaal most that year, but of course this remains a secret until the trophy is awarded during the yearly Vitalis gala!

MLA-klassement

This ranking will not be awarded in 2021 due to the limited amount of competitions due to COVID

As the name in Dutch implies, the 'MLA-klassement' is the ranking for middle/long distances. It does not mean that only runnings in the middle/long distances group can participate in this ranking, every member of Vitalis can compete for this trophy!

For track competitions only your best achievement for each distance counts towards this ranking, regardless of how many times you have raced that specific distance over the year. For each distance, whoever has the best achievement will receive 1 point, the second best will receive 2 points, etc. All track competitions throughout 2018 count towards this ranking. Don't forget to send in your achievement to the WPC, this can be done here on our website at the section 'Competitive' --> 'Send in results'.

Similarly, at the selected road races whoever has the best achievement will receive 1 point, the second best will receive 2 points, etc. The NET time is used to determine position, only in case of the exact same time will the race ranking determine position.

You have to participate in at least 4 competitions, of which at least 1 road and 1 track race to be included in the final ranking (if you run the same distance on the track multiple times it will count as 1 race). The winner at the end of the year will have the least amount of points at a minimum of 4. Only the 4 best achievements will count towards the final ranking when someone participates in more than 4 different races/distances. In case of a tie, the final winner will be decided based on interdependent results.