TALENTS WANTED
We are looking for the region’s most talented young athletes in the following sports:
(3x3), beach volleyball, BMX, boxing, judo, climbing (speed or bouldering), athletics, wrestling, swimming, skateboarding, acrobatics, table tennis, urban dance, water polo
Do you live and breathe your sport? Are you a top-class talent keen to exchange ideas with outstanding athletes from other sports and showcase your discipline to a wide audience?
Then join the TalentTeamRuhr 22/23!
Here, you’ll become the face of your sport at the Ruhr Games and act as a young ambassador for your discipline.
You’ll take part in photo and video shoots, networking events, workshops and press engagements, and meet other professionals from the worlds of sport, media and politics.
You’ll also have the chance to win one of two young talent awards worth €2,500 each.
Interested? Aged between 14 and 21 and from the region?
Then don’t hesitate – apply now between 25 April and 14 May 2022.
Talent Team Ruhr
Young talents from the region represent the RUHR GAMES and their sports disciplines or art forms in public and share their personal stories. With their passion, they inspire many young people and highlight the enormous potential of the Ruhr region. With TalentTeamRuhr, the Regionalverband Ruhr has been promoting young sporting and artistic talent since 2018, giving them a stage for their dreams and goals and supporting them with thematic inspiration.
TALENT TEAM RUHR 2024/2025
Lars Kindermann
BMX-Freestyle
Residence: Hattingen
Instagram: lars.kindermannbmx
Club/Team/Cade: Woodstyle e.V. // NK1 - BMX Freestyle Bundeskader
Simeon Artz
Urban Dance
Residence: Krefeld
Instagram: simeon.omesiri
Club/Team/Cade: Area - Urban Dance Company
Nanna Nimue Kirchner
Singing
Residence: Bochum
Instagram: nannanimue
Club/Music school: Thealozzi, Kultur und Theaterhaus Bochum e.V.
Talent Team Ruhr 2019 - 2025
Wasserball
2019
Karate
2019
Basketball
2019
Skateboard
2019
Handball
2019
Schwimmen
2019
Fußball
2019
BMX
2019
Ringen
2019
Fechten
2019
Judo
2019
Volleyball
2019
Kanu-Polo
2019
Tischtennis
2019
Leichtathletik
2019
Klettern
2019
Ringen
2021
Schwimmen
2021
Urban Dance
2021
Sportakrobatik
2021
Klettern
2021
Judo
2021
Skateboard
2021
Fußball
2021
Handball
2021
Wasserball
2021
Leichtathletik
2021
BMX
2021
Beachvolleyball
2021
Tischtennis
2021
Basketball
2021
Boxen
2021
Digital Art
2023
Boxen
2023
Leichtathletik
2023
Judo
2023
Basketball
2023
Beachvolleyball
2023
Ringen
2023
BMX
2023
Urban Dance
2023
Klettern
2023
Schwimmen
2023
Rap
2023
Wasserball
2023
Tischtennis
2023
Calisthenics
2025
BMX
2025
Gesang
2025
Urban Dance
2025
Best Development Award
The Regionalverband Ruhr and Pro Ruhrgebiet e.V. took the Ruhr Games 25 as an opportunity to honour the special sporting developments and careers of former Ruhr Games ambassadors. Forty-five athletes from the TalentTeamRuhr cohorts of 2019–2023 had the chance to win the Best Development Award, which includes a prize of €1,500. Award winners: Svenja Müller (beach volleyball), Yannik Flohé (sport climbing), Cameroon Collins (urban dance), Aaron Bellscheidt (wrestling), Franziska Schuster (athletics), Wim Verdonschot (table tennis).