Juliane Seyfarth

Juliane Seyfarth
Juliane Seyfarth in Hinzenbach (2016)
nation	Germany
birthday	19th February 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Eisenach ,  GDR
size	160 cm
Weight	49 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	TSG Ruhla
Pers. Best	142.0 m (Oberhof)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × DM medals 6 × 1 × 2 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2019 Seefeld team gold 2019 Seefeld Mixed team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2006 Kranj singles  German championships gold 2004 Meinerzhagen singles silver 2005 Oberstdorf singles gold 2006 Klingenthal singles bronze 2008 Oberhof singles gold 2015 Oberstdorf singles bronze 2017 Oberstdorf singles gold 2018 Hinterzarten singles gold 2018 Hinterzarten team gold 2019 Klingenthal singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0December 3, 2011
World Cup victories (individual)	04 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall World Cup	03. ( 2018/19 )
Raw Air	03rd ( 2019 )
Blue Bird Tour	01. ( 2019 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 4th 6th 3  Team jumping 2 0 0
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	17th August 2012
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	03rd ( 2019 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 1  Mixed team jumping 1 0 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	July 23, 2004
COC wins (individual)	10 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	05. ( 2005/06 , 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 10 8th 3
last change: August 18, 2019

Juliane Seyfarth (born February 19, 1990 in Eisenach ) is a German ski jumper . Your club is TSG Ruhla . Her greatest sporting success to date is the two world championship titles with the women’s and mixed teams at the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tyrol and the overall victory at the first Blue Bird Tour in the same year.

Her personal best is 142 meters, which she achieved in Oberhof .

Athletic career

Beginnings (until 2011)

Juliane Seyfarth started skiing at the age of three . When she was nine years old, she came to ski jumping through cross-country skiing . In 2003 and 2004 she became German school champion. She had her first appearance in the Ladies Continental Cup in 2004. In the Continental Cup overall ratings of 2004/05 and 2005/06 , she finished ten and five. On February 5th, 2006 she became the first official junior world champion in ski jumping in Kranj . Only a few days later, on February 11th, she celebrated her first COC victory in Schönwald . She also became German champion in 2006. In the 2006/07 season she was fifth with five wins overall. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Tarvisio in 2007 , she finished fifth in the individual competition.

In the 2007/08 COC season she had to be satisfied with 19th place in the overall ranking. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2008 in Zakopane she was sixth. In the 2008/09 season she reached a podium finish in second place in Zakopane. In the overall ranking she finished 21st. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2009 in Štrbské Pleso , she finished 15th in the individual competition. She finished the 2009/10 season with three fourth places as the best result in the COC and eleventh overall. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten , she was seventh. This was her last participation in a Junior World Championship. In the 2010/11 season she was able to jump on the podium twice, but missed her next victory as third in Oslo and second in Ljubno . Nevertheless, she made it back into the top ten in eighth place overall. In February 2011 she took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships for the first time in Oslo . With rank 31, she missed the final round.

First World Cup participation (2011 to 2016)

From the 2011/12 season she competed in the newly founded World Cup for women . In her first World Cup season, she regularly jumped among the top 30. Her best individual result was 14th place at the World Cup final in Oslo. In the overall World Cup ranking, she finished 36th with 51 points. On August 17, 2012, she made her debut in Hinterzarten in the Summer Grand Prix, which was also newly introduced for women . She finished 34th and missed the points. In the following World Cup season she finished 44th in the overall ranking.

In summer 2013 she competed again at the Grand Prix in Hinterzarten. In 20th place she got her first Grand Prix points. On February 15, 2014 she won the Continental Cup jumping competition in Lahti . This was her first win in the COC since August 2006. On the following day she reached the podium again in second place. In the overall World Cup , she finished 43rd.

Seyfarth at the World Cup in Hinzenbach in February 2016

In the 2014/15 season she performed significantly better. On 7./8. In February 2015 she reached her first top ten placements in Râșnov . On the first day she finished ninth and on the second day she improved her best World Cup placement again to fifth. A week later she was able to confirm her best placement in Ljubno with another fifth place. Through these achievements she took part in the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun . In the individual competition on the normal hill she took 14th place. It was not used in the mixed team competition. Thanks to her good results in the World Cup, she achieved her best position to date in the overall ranking with rank 16. In the 2015/16 season she was able to improve this position again. After she consistently jumped among the top 20, she finished 14th in the overall World Cup with 320 points.

Participation in the Olympic Games (2016 to 2018)

In the 2016/17 season , she was unable to match the results of the previous two seasons. She did not get more than two 16th places as the best individual results in the World Cup and had to be content with 29th place in the overall World Cup. On September 15 and 16, 2017, she won two mat competitions in Trondheim as part of the Continental Cup . In the following World Cup season , she reached the top ten several times and was thus appointed to the German squad for the 2018 Winter Olympics . In the individual competition on the normal hill , she finished tenth. After the Winter Games, she was able to set her best World Cup placement in the World Cup jumping in Râşnov as fifth. With twelfth place in the overall World Cup, she achieved her best career result to date.

First world championship title (since 2018)

On July 13, 2018, Seyfarth won the individual competition at the German Championships in Hinterzarten, tied with Katharina Althaus and ahead of third-placed Gianina Ernst . The next day she won the team competition together with Pauline Heßler as Team Thuringia I. In the Summer Grand Prix 2018 , she jumped into the top ten in every competition. On August 18, 2018, she achieved her best individual placement in the Grand Prix with fourth place in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm . She finished the overall standings in fifth place with 203 points, which was also her best career result to date.

On November 30, 2018, she scored her first World Cup victory at the World Cup opening competition in Lillehammer as part of the Lillehammer Triple 2018, ahead of Maren Lundby and Sara Takanashi . With six further placements on the podium, Seyfarth traveled to the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld as a medal contender . There Seyfarth won together with Ramona Straub , Carina Vogt and Katharina Althaus the first team competition at a world championship against Austria and Norway. In the individual competition on the normal hill, she just missed the medal ranks in fourth place. After the first round she was still in third place behind the eventual winner Maren Lundby and Katharina Althaus, but the Austrian Daniela Iraschko-Stolz improved by several places and pushed Seyfarth off the podium. In the final ski jumping competition at the world championships, mixed jumping, Seyfarth again won the gold medal together with Katharina Althaus, Markus Eisenbichler and Karl Geiger . After the World Championships, Seyfarth showed consistently good jumps at Raw Air 2019 and was able to place third in the overall ranking. At the last station in Trondheim she was able to set a new hill record for women on the Granåsen large hill with 137.5 meters. Just two days later, after jumping 100.0 meters on the Tramplin Stork in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, she celebrated her second World Cup victory. With this victory she became the first leader in the Blue Bird Tour classification . Just one day later, she also won the second competition of the Blue Bird Tour in Nizhny Tagil and expanded the overall lead. A week later she was able to continue her winning streak when she won the competition from the Sneschinka normal hill in Tchaikovsky in front of her teammate Katharina Althaus. Seyfarth could not win the only jumping of the tour from a large hill. A second place behind Maren Lundby from the Sneschinka large hill was enough for her to win the overall ranking ahead of Lundby and her teammate Katharina Althaus.

After a mixed start to the Summer Grand Prix 2019 with an eighth place in the individual competition in Hinterzarten, she won the mixed jumping one day later together with Karl Geiger , Agnes Reisch and Richard Freitag . Two weeks later she achieved her first podium finish at the Summer Grand Prix with a third place in Courchevel . With a second place in the last individual competition in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm in the Czech Republic , she improved her best by one place and finished third in the overall ranking.

Awards

After her tenth place at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games , Juliane Seyfarth was the first woman ever to be awarded the honorary citizenship of her hometown Ruhla . In December 2019 she was voted Thuringia's Sportswoman of the Year .

Private

Seyfarth comes from Thal in Thuringia . Since August 2012 she has been training at the federal base of the DSV in Oberstdorf , the main German training base for women's ski jumping.

Both her grandfather Georg and father Heiko were ski jumpers on a national level.

successes

Olympic games

• 2018 Pyeongchang : 10th individual

World championships

Seyfarth at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld with her mixed team mates Althaus, Eisenbichler and Geiger

• Oslo 2011 : 31st individual
• Falun 2015 : 14th individual
• Seefeld 2019 : 4th individual, 1st team, 1st mixed team

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	November 30, 2018	Lillehammer	Normal hill
2.	16th March 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Normal hill
3.	17th March 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Normal hill
4th	23 March 2019	Tchaikovsky	Normal hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	19th January 2019	Yamagata	Normal hill 1
2.	February 9, 2019	Ljubno	Normal hill 2

¹with Ramona Straub , Carina Vogt and Katharina Althaus

²with Carina Vogt, Anna Rupprecht and Katharina Althaus

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	July 27, 2019	Hinterzarten	Normal hill mixed 1

¹with Karl Geiger , Agnes Reisch and Richard Freitag

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
01.	February 11, 2006	Schönwald	Normal hill
02.	March 5, 2006	Vikersund	Normal hill
03.	July 21, 2006	Park City	Normal hill
04th	July 22, 2006	Park City	Normal hill
05.	July 25, 2006	Calgary	Normal hill
06th	July 26, 2006	Calgary	Normal hill
07th	August 9, 2006	Pöhla	Middle hill
08th.	15th February 2014	Lahti	Normal hill
09.	15th September 2017	Trondheim	Normal hill
10.	16th September 2017	Trondheim	Normal hill

German championships

German championships
	2004 Meinerzhagen	Gold in the single middle hill
	2005 Meinerzhagen	Silver in the single middle hill
	2006 Klingenthal	Gold in the single middle hill
	2008 Oberhof	Bronze in the individual middle hill
	2015 Oberstdorf	Gold in the individual normal hill
	2017 Oberstdorf	Bronze in the single normal hill
	2018 Hinterzarten	Gold in the individual normal hill
	2018 Hinterzarten	Gold in the normal hill team
	2019 Klingenthal	Gold in the individual large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2011/12	36.	0051
2012/13	44.	0022nd
2013/14	43.	0037
2014/15	16.	0222
2015/16	14th	0320
2016/17	29	0095
2017/18	12.	0349
2018/19	03.	1451
2019/20	11.	0414

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2013	42.	011
2015	20th	060
2016	14th	059
2017	10.	139
2018	05.	203
2019	03.	172

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2004/05	10.	292
2005/06	05.	757
2006/07	05.	801
2007/08	19th	231
2008/09	21st	178
2009/10	11.	402
2010/11	08th.	543
2011/12	51.	022nd
2012/13	16.	060
2013/14	19th	068
2014/15	26th	068
2015/16	31.	042
2016/17	14th	095
2017/18	09.	200
2018/19	22nd	110

Web links

Commons : Juliane Seyfarth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juliane Seyfarth in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Juliane Seyfarth on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Profile of Juliane Seyfarth at the German Ski Association
• Profile of Juliane Seyfarth in the DSV yearbook
• Profile of Juliane Seyfarth on berkutschi.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juliane SEYFARTH. In: dsv-jahrbuch.de. German Ski Association , accessed on July 30, 2018 . 
2. ↑ List of results for individual jumping. (PDF; 74.2 kB) In: sommerskispringen-hinterzarten.de. Ski Club Hinterzarten, July 13, 2018, p. 1 , accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Result list team jumping. (PDF; 14.5 kB) In: sommerskispringen-hinterzarten.de. Ski Club Hinterzarten, July 14, 2018, pp. 1–2 , accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Juliane Seyfarth is the first honorary citizen of the city of Ruhla on eisenach.thueringer-allgemeine.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
5. ↑ Rainer Beichler: Juliane Seyfarth jumps again in the World Cup. In: Eisenach Online. 2012, accessed July 25, 2018 .