Eric Frenzel

Eric Frenzel
Frenzel 2016 at the World Cup in Ramsau
nation	Germany
birthday	21st November 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	Annaberg-Buchholz ,  GDR
size	174 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
society	WSC Oberwiesenthal SSV Geyer (since 08/2018)
National squad	since 2003
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 7 × 6 × 2 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 4 × 11 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver team gold 2014 Sochi Single NH silver 2014 Sochi team gold 2018 Pyeongchang Single NH gold 2018 Pyeongchang team bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Single LH  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2009 Liberec team gold 2011 Oslo Single NH silver 2011 Oslo Team NH silver 2011 Oslo Team LH bronze 2011 Oslo Single LH gold 2013 Val di Fiemme Single LH bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme Team sprint gold 2015 Falun Team NH silver 2015 Falun Team sprint gold 2017 Lahti Team NH gold 2017 Lahti Team sprint silver 2017 Lahti Single NH gold 2019 Seefeld Single LH gold 2019 Seefeld Team sprint silver 2019 Seefeld Team NH  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2007 Tarvisio sprint silver 2007 Tarvisio team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 13, 2007
World Cup victories (individual)	43 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	10 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 39 20th 11  sprint 3 1 0  Mass start 1 0 0  team 7th 6th 1  Team sprint 3 2 2
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 25, 2006
Grand Prix victories (individual)	06 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall rating	02. ( 2014 , 2017 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 6th 5 6th  team 2 1 2
last change: October 27, 2019

Eric Frenzel (born November 21, 1988 in Annaberg-Buchholz , Karl-Marx-Stadt district , GDR ) is a German Nordic combined athlete . He became Olympic champion in 2014 and 2018 , individual world champion in 2011 , 2013 and 2019 and won the overall ranking of the World Cup five times from 2013 to 2017 .

Career

Eric Frenzel started for WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal until 2018 and since then for SSV Geyer . He comes from Geyer and has been skiing since 1995. He has been part of the national team since 2003. He is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr and is looked after by the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Frankenberg / Saxony. Since March 2003, he entered junior races and other events such as unterklassigen FIS races and the World Cup B to. Here he was able to continuously improve his performance and achieved very good results several times.

After a first start in the World Cup in January 2007 in Lago di Tesero (44th in the mass start), Frenzel was nominated for the first time for the Nordic World Ski Championships . In Sapporo he was 22nd in the Gundersen competition. At the subsequent Junior World Championships in Tarvisio , Frenzel won gold in the sprint, the silver medal in the relay and he was eighth in the Gundersen competition. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season , the Oberwiesenthaler was able to place in the top ten for the first time in his second World Cup race (Gundersen method) in Kuusamo, finishing fourth. In January the first victory followed in a mass start competition in Klingenthal .

At the 2009 World Championships in Liberec , he achieved the silver medal in the team competition with the German team. Two years after his first World Cup victory, he won a World Cup for the second time on January 30, 2010 in Seefeld (Gunderson method). Together with Björn Kircheisen , Tino Edelmann and Johannes Rydzek , he won the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

World Champion 2011 in Oslo

At the opening competition of the 2010/11 World Cup season in Kuusamo, Finland, Frenzel took second place, setting a new hill record in jumping on the Rukatunturi hill with 148.5 meters. On February 26, 2011 he celebrated his first great success when he became world champion in the individual of the Gundersen competition (one jump from the normal hill, 10 km cross-country skiing) at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo . Two days later he was runner-up in the German 4 × 5 kilometer relay and won the bronze medal on March 2, 2011 in the decision of the large hill followed by cross-country skiing.

World Champion 2013 in Val di Fiemme

In the winter of 2012/13 he won four competitions in Seefeld and Klingenthal in a row and took the lead in the World Cup for the first time. In addition, he was the first German combined athlete to win a home race again after five years. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he narrowly missed a medal in the first individual competition when he lost out in the final sprint against Mario Stecher and Björn Kircheisen. When jumping from the large hill, he set a new hill record with 138.5 m, kept the resulting lead in the trail to the finish and became world champion for the second time. In the team sprint he also won the bronze medal together with Tino Edelmann. On March 15, 2013 he won the World Cup in the 2012/13 season with a win in Oslo.

In the 2013/14 season , Frenzel won the first Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld with three competitions in which cross-country trails of 5, 10 and 15 km were completed and each started at the intervals of the previous day. He won all three competitions. For this there were 200 World Cup points and 30,000 euros in prize money. Before that, he was victorious in three other World Cup races. On February 12, 2014, he won gold on the normal hill at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi , 4.2 seconds ahead of Akito Watabe. After a virus infection, he remained without a medal in the competition on the large hill despite being in the lead after jumping. With the team he won the silver medal as a starting runner together with Björn Kircheisen, Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Rießle . For these Olympic achievements, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Joachim Gauck on May 8, 2014 . In the first competition after the games, he secured third place in Lahti for the second time, winning the overall World Cup.

On December 18, 2016 in Ramsau at the award ceremony

In January 2015, Frenzel won the Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld for the second time in a row . In 2015, as in the previous year, he won all three competitions. With two subsequent victories in Sapporo, he was able to win five races in a row. At the 2015 World Championships in Falun , together with Tino Edelmann , Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek, he won the gold medal for a German team for the first time in 28 years. With Rydzek he won another medal in the team sprint with silver. Despite a strong season up to then and the leading position in the World Cup, he remained without a podium in the individual competitions of the World Cup. After the World Cup, he won the overall World Cup ranking for the third time in a row .

On December 18, 2016 in Ramsau on the way to victory in front of Fabian Rießle

In winter 2015/16 , Frenzel secured the third overall victory in the third edition of the Nordic Combined Triple . As in the previous two years, he won all three competitions. With the victories in the Nordic Combined Triple, Frenzel took over the World Cup lead from Fabian Rießle . Before the triple he was able to win two World Cup competitions and after the triple another three. Frenzel celebrated the last of his eight World Cup victories in the season on March 5, 2016 in Schonach in the Black Forest and 29 years after Hubert Schwarz , a German athlete again won a World Cup in Schonach. With this victory he secured the overall World Cup prematurely and drew level with the Finns Hannu Manninen , who also won the crystal ball four times in a row.

In the 2016/17 World Cup season in the Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld, Frenzel narrowly lost the finish sprint against Johannes Rydzek in the first two races , but won the decisive third race on January 29 and secured overall victory for the fourth time in a row. At the World Championships in Lahti he won gold with Johannes Rydzek, Fabian Rießle and Björn Kircheisen in the team competition and with Rydzek in the team sprint, as well as silver behind Rydzek on the normal hill. He celebrated his 40th World Cup victory on March 18, 2017 in Schonach, winning the Black Forest Cup for the second time in a row . One day later, by winning the last race of the season for the fifth time, he won the overall World Cup ahead of Johannes Rydzek and Akito Watabe . He passed Hannu Manninen and is the most successful athlete in the Nordic Combined World Cup.

For the opening ceremony of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , Korea , Frenzel was chosen as the flag bearer of the German delegation . He prevailed in an online vote among athletes and fans against the speed skater Claudia Pechstein , the ski racer Viktoria Rebensburg , the tobogganist Natalie Geisenberger and the ice hockey national player Christian Ehrhoff . On the normal hill and with the team he became Olympic champion, on the large hill he won the bronze medal. At the end of the World Cup season , Frenzel only finished eighth this time after five overall World Cup wins in a row. On August 13, 2018, Eric Frenzel announced his return to SSV Geyer , for whom he will compete in the future World Cup. At the same time he was awarded honorary membership in the WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal .

With two second places in Lillehammer , Frenzel started the 2018/19 World Cup season . In the further course of the season he only came within reach of the podium in Val die Fiemme with fifth place. Before the World Championships in Seefeld , he took a break from competition and worked on the approach squat during jumping training in Planica . This paid off at the World Championships. After jumping 130.5 meters on Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck, he went into the cross-country ski run as the leader, where he was able to defend his lead to the finish and win the gold medal. With a good jumping performance, he laid the basis for winning the gold medal in the team sprint with Fabian Rießle two days later .

Private

Eric Frenzel graduated from the Oberwiesenthal sports boarding school. At the age of 18 he had a son. In September 2013 he began studying industrial engineering in a pilot project for top athletes at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences . The second son was born at the end of September 2015 and in June 2017 he became the father of a daughter for the first time. Frenzel lives with his family in Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate .

successes

Eric Frenzel, 2017

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 20, 2008	Klingenthal	Mass start
2.	January 30, 2010	Seefeld	Gundersen
3.	4th December 2011	Lillehammer	Penalty Race
4th	19th January 2013	Seefeld	Gundersen
5.	20th January 2013	Seefeld	Gundersen
6th	January 26, 2013	Klingenthal	Gundersen
7th	January 27, 2013	Klingenthal	Penalty Race
8th.	March 8, 2013	Lahti	Gundersen
9.	15 March 2013	Oslo	Gundersen
10.	November 30, 2013	Kuusamo	Gundersen
11.	December 8, 2013	Lillehammer	Gundersen
12.	December 15, 2013	Ramsau	Gundersen
13.	17th January 2014	Seefeld	Sprint 1
14th	January 18, 2014	Seefeld	Gundersen 1
15th	19th January 2014	Seefeld	Gundersen 2
16.	January 26, 2014	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
17th	December 6, 2014	Lillehammer	Gundersen
18th	January 10, 2015	Chaux-Neuve	Gundersen
19th	January 16, 2015	Seefeld	Sprint 1
20th	17th January 2015	Seefeld	Gundersen 1
21st	January 18, 2015	Seefeld	Gundersen 2
22nd	23rd January 2015	Sapporo	Gundersen
23.	January 24, 2015	Sapporo	Gundersen
24.	20th December 2015	Ramsau	Gundersen
25th	January 23, 2016	Chaux-Neuve	Gundersen
26th	January 29, 2016	Seefeld	Sprint 1
27.	January 30, 2016	Seefeld	Gundersen 1
28.	January 31, 2016	Seefeld	Gundersen 2
29	February 10, 2016	Trondheim	Gundersen
30th	19th February 2016	Lahti	Gundersen
31.	5th March 2016	Schonach	Gundersen
32.	3rd December 2016	Lillehammer	Gundersen
33.	4th December 2016	Lillehammer	Gundersen
34.	December 18, 2016	Ramsau	Gundersen
35.	January 7, 2017	Lahti	Gundersen
36.	January 13, 2017	Val di Fiemme	Gundersen
37.	15th January 2017	Val di Fiemme	Gundersen
38.	29th January 2017	Seefeld	Gundersen 2
39.	15th March 2017	Trondheim	Gundersen
40.	18th March 2017	Schonach	Gundersen
41.	19th March 2017	Schonach	Gundersen
42.	December 16, 2017	Ramsau	Gundersen
43.	March 13, 2018	Trondheim	Gundersen

¹Stage win in the Nordic Combined Triple .

² At the same time overall victory in the Nordic Combined Triple.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 3, 2009	Schonach	Season 3
2.	January 24, 2010	Schonach	Season 3
3.	January 13, 2013	Chaux-Neuve	Team sprint 4
4th	3rd February 2013	Sochi	Season 5
5.	March 9, 2013	Lahti	Team sprint 6
6th	January 25, 2014	Oberstdorf	Season 7
7th	January 3, 2015	Schonach	Season 8
8th.	2nd December 2016	Lillehammer	Season 9
9.	January 13, 2018	Val di Fiemme	Team sprint 10
10.	November 25, 2018	Kuusamo	Season 11

³With Georg Hettich , Björn Kircheisen and Tino Edelmann .

^4th With Tino Edelmann.

⁵With Johannes Rydzek , Björn Kircheisen and Manuel Faißt .

^6th With Johannes Rydzek.

^7thWith Tino Edelmann, Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Rießle .

^8th With Tino Edelmann, Johannes Rydzek and Björn Kircheisen.

⁹ With Björn Kircheisen, Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek.

¹⁰With Vinzenz Geiger .

¹¹ With Fabian Rießle, Johannes Rydzek and Vinzenz Geiger.

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	August 14, 2007	Klingenthal	Mass start
02.	August 7, 2010	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
03.	August 27, 2011	Oberwiesenthal	Gundersen
04th	September 2, 2011	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
05.	August 30, 2015	Oberwiesenthal	Gundersen
06th	August 25, 2017	Oberstdorf	Gundersen

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	23rd August 2014	Oberwiesenthal	Team sprint 1
2.	August 27, 2016	Oberwiesenthal	Team sprint 2

¹With Johannes Rydzek .

²With Björn Kircheisen .

statistics

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NS	Gundersen GS	team
2010 Vancouver	10.	40.	03.
2014 Sochi	01.	10.	02.
2018 Pyeongchang	01.	03.	01.

Placements at world championships

Year and place	competition
	sprint	Gundersen NS	Gundersen GS	Mass start	Team NS	Team GS	Team sprint
2007 Sapporo	DSQ	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2009 Liberec	-	34.	29	08th.	-	02.	-
2011 Oslo	-	01.	03.	-	02.	02.	-
2013 Val di Fiemme	-	04th	01.	-	06th	-	03.
2015 Falun	-	04th	09.	-	01.	-	02.
2017 Lahti	-	02.	07th	-	01.	-	01.
2019 Seefeld	-	16.	01.	-	02.	-	01.

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2007/08	07th	0752
2008/09	11.	0473
2009/10	04th	0697
2010/11	04th	0554
2011/12	06th	0727
2012/13	01.	1034
2013/14	01.	1031
2014/15	01.	0945
2015/16	01.	1389
2016/17	01.	1734
2017/18	08th.	0622
2018/19	12.	0380
2019/20	07th	0565

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2007	04th	0211
2008	07th	0114
2009	12.	0099
2010	03.	0260
2011	03.	0269
2012	06th	0197
2013	08th.	0117
2014	02.	0285
2015	05.	0182
2016	31.	0018th
2017	02.	0290
2018	10.	0140
2019	14th	0108

Placements at German championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen	sprint	Mass start	Team sprint
2004 Oberstdorf	32.	16.	-	-
2006 Oberhof	-	07th	-	-
2007 Winterberg	15th	09.	-	-
2008 Klingenthal	-	09.	01.	-
2009 Garmisch	02.	-	-	02.
2010 Hinterzarten	02.	-	-	01.
2011 Hinterzarten	07th	-	-	-
2012 Klingenthal	01.	-	-	-
2013 Oberstdorf	-	-	-	03.
2014 Hinterzarten	03.	-	-	02.
2015 Oberstdorf	02.	-	-	02.
2016 Oberhof	02.	-	-	04th
2017 Klingenthal	02.	-	-	01.
2018 Hinterzarten	02.	-	-	02.
2019 Johanngeorgenstadt	07th	-	-	02.

Awards

• 2014: Champion of the year
• 2014 , 2018 : Sportsman of the year , 2nd place
• 2014: Silver bay leaf
• 2014: Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in bronze
• 2014: Holmenkollen Medal
• 2014–2019: Saxony's Sportsman of the Year (record)
• 2015: Sportsman of the year (team)
• five times athlete of the month
• 2018: Geyer was awarded honorary citizenship

Others

On June 28, 2014, SSV Geyer named its club's own school jumps after Eric Frenzel. On June 20, 2017, he was made an honorary citizen of the Oberwiesenthal health resort .

Web links

Commons : Eric Frenzel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Eric Frenzel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Eric Frenzel on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Eric Frenzel in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Combiner Frenzel brings four wins in a row. Die Zeit , January 27, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Combined Frenzel brings home success and yellow jersey. Die Welt , January 26, 2013, accessed December 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Frenzel wins gold in the combination: "I am overwhelmed". Focus , February 8, 2013, accessed December 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Frenzel wins after disqualification. Sport1 , March 5, 2016, accessed December 29, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Seefeld series torn by Frenzel. Sportschau , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Rydzek snatches the victory away from Frenzel again. Sportschau , January 28, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Frenzel strikes back and intercepts Rydzek. Sportschau , January 29, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Fall drama: Frenzel before overall victory. Sport1 , March 18, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Frenzel celebrates fifth overall World Cup victory in a row. Spiegel Online, March 19, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Frenzel becomes the German flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 7, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Eric Frenzel: With precision landing to the world champion. In: Free Press . February 22, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Nordic skiing: girlfriend and little son biggest fans of world champion Eric Frenzel. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , November 29, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Frenzel becomes a father again. In: Sport1 .de. October 15, 2015, accessed December 29, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Eric Frenzel is father again. In: Saxon newspaper . June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Eric Frenzel: Sporty family man. Badische Zeitung , March 2, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen til Moan og Frenzel. In: nrk.no. March 8, 2014, accessed August 16, 2020 (Norwegian).
18. ↑ Eric Frenzel made an honorary citizen . In: Free Press, Zwickauer Zeitung . May 5, 2018, p. 21 .
19. ↑ Sports facilities. SSV Geyer, accessed February 20, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Eric Frenzel becomes an honorary citizen of the Oberwiesenthal health resort. Blick.de , August 6, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .