Crystal Wing Awards

The Crystal Wing Awards (Slovak: Krištáľové krídlo) in Slovakia are annual awards that recognise personal accomplishments in the areas of social, cultural, economic and public life.^[1] The 20th edition of the awards, conceived by Mária Vaškovičová, was held in January 2017.^[2]

Crystal Wing Awards Krištáľové krídlo
Country	Slovakia
Presented by	Krištáľové krídlo s. r. o.
First award	1997
Website	kristalovekridlo.sk

Categories and awards

Philanthropy

• 2015 – Miroslava Hunčíková^[3]
• 2016 – Ondrej Vrábel^[2]
• 2017 – Marek Machata^[1]
• 2019 – Eva Klikáčová^[4]
• 2021 – Eva Gažová ^[5][6]

Sport

• 2015 – Matej Tóth^[3]
• 2016 – Ladislav Škantár and Peter Škantár^[2]
• 2017 – Peter Hámor [sk]^[1]
• 2019 – Petra Vlhová^[4]
• 2021 – Štefan Svitko^[7]
• 2024 – Martin Vaculik^[8]

Journalism and Literature

• 2015 – Veronika Šikulová [sk]^[3]
• 2016 – Daniel Hevier [sk]^[2]
• 2017 – Dagmar Mozolová^[1]
• 2018 – Etela Farkašová^[9]
• 2019 – Rudolf Dobiáš^[4]
• 2020 – Marián Andričík^[10]

Economy

• 2015 – Jozef Barcaj^[3]
• 2016 – Štefan Máj^[2]
• 2017 – Vladimír Bakeš^[1]
• 2020 – Branislav Cvik and Ľubomír Vančo^[6]

Music

• 2015 – Štefan Kocán [sk]^[3]
• 2016 – Dalibor Karvay^[2]
• 2017 – Rastislav Štúr^[1]
• 2020 – Juraj Griglák^[6]

Rock pop jazz

• 2015 – Szidi Tobias^[3]
• 2016 – Igor Timko^[2]
• 2017 – Celeste Buckingham^[1]
• 2020 – Sima Martausová^[6]

Medicine and science

• 1997 – Eva Siracká
• 1998 – Miroslav Urban
• 1998 – Alica Kapellerová
• 1998 – Milan Zaviačič
• 1999 – Lev Bukovský
• 1999 – Jozef Mašura
• 2000 – Hedviga Zajacová, Pavel Traubner, Jaroslav Siman, and Štefan Luby
• 2001 – Ján Slezák and Ivan Kraus
• 2002 – Daniel Ježová
• 2003 – Ján Danko
• 2004 – Ivan Hulín
• 2005 – Silvia Pastoreková
• 2006 – Martin Mistrík
• 2007 – Karol Pieta
• 2008 – Mária Šustrová
• 2009 – Ján Breza
• 2010 – Mária Frankovičová
• 2011 – František Simančik
• 2012 – Oľga Červeňanová
• 2013 – Marián Janák
• 2015 – Igor Lacík^[3]
• 2016 – Michal Mego^[2]
• 2017 – Lukáš Plank^[1]
• 2018 – Michal Hulman
• 2019 – Róbert Hatala ^[4]
• 2020 – Boris Klempa, Pavol Čekan
• 2021 – Peter Šimko
• 2022 - Richard Imrich^[11]
• 2024 – Jurai Payer^[12]

Visual arts

• 2015 – Ivan Pavle^[3]
• 2016 – Palo Macho^[2]
• 2017 – Juraj Čutek^[1]
• 2019 – Ján Ťapák^[13]
• 2020 – Oto Bachorík ^[6]

Acting

• 2015 – Ladislav Kaboš [sk]^[3]
• 2016 – Zuzana Mauréry^[2]
• 2017 – Tomáš Maštalír^[1]
• 2019 – Miroslav Dvorský^[13]
• 2020 – Juraj Kukura^[6]
• 2021 – Sláva Daubnerová ^[14]

Innovation and Startups

• 2019 – Tomáš Brngál^[13]
• 2020 – Radoslav Danilak^[15][6]
• 2021 – Martin Herman ^[16]

Special Crystal Wing Award

• 2019 – The extraordinary award for lifetime achievement was given to the doctor Kristína Križanová^[13]
• 2020 – Jozef Ciller and Ivan Vulev^[6]
• 2023 – Marika Gombitová^[17][18]