Martin Schmitt

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Martin Schmitt
Martin Schmitt 2018
nation	Germany
birthday	January 29, 1978
place of birth	Villingen-Schwenningen ,  Germany
size	182 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
society	SC Furtwangen
Trainer	Stefan Horngacher
Pers. Best	224.0 m ( Planica 2002)
status	resigned
End of career	January 31, 2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 3 × 3 × SFWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 2 × 2 × 6 ×
winter Olympics silver 1998 Nagano team gold 2002 Salt Lake City team silver 2010 Vancouver team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1997 Trondheim Large hill team gold 1999 Ramsau Large hill gold 1999 Ramsau Large hill team gold 2001 Lahti Large hill gold 2001 Lahti Large hill team silver 2001 Lahti Normal hill bronze 2001 Lahti Team normal hill silver 2005 Oberstdorf Team normal hill silver 2009 Liberec Large hill bronze 2011 Oslo Team normal hill  Ski flying world championships silver 2002 Harrachov singles  German championships bronze 1997 Large hill silver 1999 Hinterzarten Large hill gold 2001 Oberhof singles bronze 2005 Hinterzarten team bronze 2007 Winterberg singles gold 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen team bronze 2010 Oberhof singles bronze 2010 Oberhof team silver 2011 Hinterzarten team bronze 2012 Klingenthal team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	04th January 1997
World Cup victories (individual)	28 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1998/99 , 1999/2000 )
Ski flying world cup	01. (1998/99, 2000/01)
Jump World Cup	01st (1999/2000)
Four Hills Tournament	03. ( 1999/2000 , 2000/01 )
Nordic Tournament	02. (2002)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 25th 12 8th  Ski flying 3 2 2  Team jumping 2 4th 9
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	03rd (1998)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 3  Team jumping 1 3 3

Martin Schmitt (2011)

Martin Schmitt (born January 29, 1978 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a former German ski jumper who started for the Furtwangen ski club .

From 1998 to 2001 in particular, Schmitt was among the world's best in ski jumping. He celebrated 28 World Cup victories and won the overall World Cup twice (1998/99, 1999/2000). At Nordic World Ski Championships he was able to win a total of 10 medals (including 4 world championship titles), at the Olympic Games he won gold once and twice silver, each in team jumping, and at the ski flying world championships he won silver once.

His and Sven Hannawald's successes between 1997 and 2002 made ski jumping one of the most popular spectator sports in Germany at times .

Career

Beginnings

Martin Schmitt started alpine skiing at the age of three. In 1984 he accompanied his brother to a jump on a 20 m hill in Menzenschwand. Because one participant could not take part, Schmitt jumped in as a substitute and came second. So he came to Nordic combined , but quickly switched to ski jumping . In 1991 he was accepted into the DSV 's junior squad.

He achieved his first major successes as a student at the ski boarding school in Furtwangen ( Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium ), such as the bronze medal in the team at the 1997 World Cup in Trondheim . Before that, he qualified third in the Stefani Jumping in St. Moritz for the Four Hills Tournament, where he recorded his first World Cup points. In the following season, Schmitt won silver with the team at the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano .

1998–2002: Most successful years

In the 1998/99 season Schmitt was able to win the overall World Cup for the first time and won the Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau in 1999 both on the large hill and in team jumping. He defended his victory in the overall World Cup 1999/2000. On the occasion of this victory, the southern bypass in the town of Furtwangen in the Black Forest was renamed Martin-Schmitt-Straße . At times Schmitt even held the ski flying world record, which he set up on March 19, 1999 with 214.5 m. In the first round he had flown 219 m, but could not stand the jump.

In the 2000/01 season he again achieved top results in the World Cup, but was overtaken by the outstanding Adam Małysz . At the 2001 World Championships in Lahti , he again won individual and team competitions on the large hill. In addition, he was able to win the silver medal in the individual and the bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill. Thus, alongside Thomas Morgenstern (2011), Rune Velta (2015) and Stefan Kraft (2017), he is the only ski jumper to win four medals at a ski jumping World Cup.

After the 2001 season, Schmitt was increasingly thrown back from injury problems. In the 2001/02 season , however, he again won team gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and silver at the 2002 Ski Flying World Championships in Harrachov . His last World Cup victory was on March 1, 2002 in Lahti. After that he was unable to build on his earlier successes.

2004–2010: More years with less success

After many setbacks in the 2004/05 season , he left the World Cup for several weeks in order to prepare for the upcoming 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf , where he won the silver medal in the team competition on the normal hill. In 2006 Schmitt took part in the Olympic Winter Games for the third time.

In the 2006/07 season , Schmitt slowly returned to the top of the world. At his home World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt , he fell on landing, with a concussion, a laceration on his chin and a sprained jaw. He paused in the World Cup, but he was able to start again at the 2007 World Cup in Sapporo . On March 11, 2007 he surprised with 3rd place at the Nordic Tournament in Lahti.

In the 2007/08 season , Schmitt started briefly in the Continental Cup, the second division of ski jumping, after a cautious start to the season, in order to prepare for the upcoming Four Hills Tournament . In the Continental Cup he won the opening competition of the new ski jumping hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and was fourth the day after. In the Four Hills Tournament he made a decent comeback in the World Cup, which he finished with an 8th place in the overall ranking and a fourth place in the last competition in Bischofshofen .

In the 2008/09 season he celebrated his comeback with consistently strong jumps, a few fourth and two third places in Innsbruck and Zakopane after almost seven years of abstinence from the ski jumping elite. He finished the Four Hills Tournament in fourth place, at the 2009 World Championships in Liberec Schmitt won silver on the large hill. On the normal hill he managed a 5th place. After the last ski flying in Planica, Schmitt finished the season with 829 points in 6th place in the overall World Cup.

Schmitt also got off to a successful start in the following 2009/10 season . Together with his teammates Michael Uhrmann , Michael Neumayer and Pascal Bodmer , the Black Forest rider took second place in the opening competition in Kuusamo , which was the most successful start for the German national team in nine years. This success could not be continued this season, after a disappointing 21st place at the Four Hills Tournament 2010, Schmitt paused due to a presumably diet-related fatigue syndrome . In Klingenthal and Willingen , Schmitt returned to the World Cup and was able to place in the top 15 as well as making a decisive contribution to Germany winning a team World Cup on February 7, 2010 in Willingen for the first time in five years.

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver he reached 10th place in jumping on the normal hill and 30th place on the large hill. In the Olympic team competition, Schmitt won silver together with Michael Neumayer , Andreas Wank and Michael Uhrmann .

2010–2014: last years

Again and again, the critics and the media voices for Martin Schmitt's resignation. Before the start of the 2010/11 season , Schmitt announced that he could imagine being active until 2012. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 he won the bronze medal with the team in the team competition. He was 14th on the normal hill before after finishing the qualification in ninth place.

The 2011/12 season was difficult for Martin Schmitt and good results in the individual jumping were increasingly missing. He made his last appearance in the World Cup up until then at the Four Hills Tournament 2011/2012 on January 1, 2012 at the New Year's event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he was eliminated as 38th after the first round. For the rest of the season, Martin Schmitt was no longer nominated for the German World Cup team by national coach Werner Schuster .

Despite these sporting setbacks, Martin Schmitt decided to continue his career. He started the 2012/2013 season in the second-rate Continental Cup , in which he performed better again. With a victory in the jumping in Engelberg one day before the start of the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13 , he qualified at the last moment for the 12-man squad of the DSV including the national group, which was only allowed to start in the first two competitions in Germany. This was his 17th participation in a Four Hills Tournament.

In the qualification for the first competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13 in Oberstdorf , Martin Schmitt confirmed his good form and finished 21st. National coach Werner Schuster said that the winner of a Continental Cup jumping has the skills to place in the top 15 to 20 of the World Cup. Schmitt confirmed the assessment and was 16th in the subsequent competition. This was a successful return to the Ski Jumping World Cup after almost a year of absence. In the second competition of the Four Hills Tournament he was 14th. Then Schmitt was appointed to the six-man squad for the two competitions of the tournament taking place in Austria, where he finished 12th and 24th. He finished the tour in 10th place.

Due to his achievements, Schmitt decided to continue his career in the 2013/14 season. He prepared individually at the Hinterzarten base outside of a training group . Since he was not accepted into the A-Team, he started the season in the Continental Cup . Due to his results in the first competitions of the winter, he was nominated for the German stations of the Four Hills Tournament 2013/14 . In the first two competitions of the tour, he finished 36th and 27th respectively, after which he was not nominated for the rest of the tour.

On January 31, 2014, Martin Schmitt announced his resignation at a press conference.

After the active career

While he was still active, he began studying to train at the Sport Academy in Cologne, which he graduated in 2015 as the best in his class with the grade “very good”. In addition, he completed a bachelor's degree in sports science at the University of Leipzig by mid-2016 , which he also completed as the best of his year.

Together with Sven Hannawald , Schmitt works as a TV expert on the ski jumping broadcasts for Eurosport and has reported on the 2018 Winter Olympics in this context . He is also the owner of a marketing agency together with Simon Ammann and Hubert Schiffmann .

At the end of July 2019, the DSV announced Schmitt's engagement as a DSV talent scout. Since his commitment to the ski jumping team of the DSV is limited in time, he can continue to perform his functions as head of his sports marketing agency and as a TV expert at Eurosport.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	November 28, 1998	Lillehammer	Large hill
2.	November 29, 1998	Lillehammer	Large hill
3.	5th December 1998	Chamonix	Normal hill
4th	December 8, 1998	Val di Fiemme	Large hill
5.	December 30, 1998	Oberstdorf	Large hill
6th	January 1, 1999	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
7th	January 23, 1999	Sapporo	Large hill
8th.	March 4, 1999	Kuopio	Large hill
9.	March 11, 1999	Falun	Large hill
10.	March 19, 1999	Planica	Ski jump
11.	November 27, 1999	Kuopio	Large hill
12.	December 18, 1999	Zakopane	Large hill
13.	December 19, 1999	Zakopane	Large hill
14th	December 29, 1999	Oberstdorf	Large hill
15th	January 8, 2000	Engelberg	Large hill
16.	January 9, 2000	Engelberg	Large hill
17th	January 22, 2000	Sapporo	Large hill
18th	January 23, 2000	Sapporo	Large hill
19th	February 27, 2000	Iron Mountain	Large hill
20th	February 28, 2000	Iron Mountain	Large hill
21st	March 5, 2000	Lahti	Large hill
22nd	November 24, 2000	Kuopio	Large hill
23.	December 3, 2000	Kuopio	Large hill
24.	December 29, 2000	Oberstdorf	Large hill
25th	January 24, 2001	Hakuba	Large hill
26th	March 3, 2001	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
27.	March 18, 2001	Planica	Ski jump
28.	March 1, 2002	Lahti	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 18, 2000	Planica	Ski jump
2.	February 7, 2010	Willingen	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 22, 1999	Stams	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 7, 1999	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 13, 1997	Oberhof	Large hill
2.	September 14, 1997	Oberhof	Large hill
3.	December 26, 1997	St. Moritz	Normal hill
4th	August 1, 1998	Oberstdorf	Normal hill
5.	July 30, 2006	Oberstdorf	Large hill
6th	December 22, 2007	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
7th	December 28, 2012	Engelberg	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1996/97	55.	0045
1997/98	27.	0218
1998/99	01.	1753
1999/2000	01.	1833
2000/01	02.	1173
2001/02	05.	0795
2002/03	23.	0253
2003/04	20th	0276
2004/05	37.	0090
2005/06	39.	0064
2006/07	17th	0355
2007/08	19th	0273
2008/09	06th	0829
2009/10	29	0150
2010/11	30th	0137
2011/12	65.	0008th
2012/13	39.	0098
2013/14	78.	0004th

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1996/97	35.	0398
1997/98	27.	0466
1998/99	04th	0915.6
1999/2000	03.	0960.5
2000/01	03.	0920.1
2001/02	07th	0958
2002/03	20th	0794
2003/04	16.	0899
2004/05	33.	0472
2005/06	50.	0220.7
2006/07	14th	0819.9
2007/08	08th.	0955.9
2008/09	04th	1055.2
2009/10	21st	0739.9
2010/11	29	0579.4
2011/12	52.	0191
2012/13	10.	0980.8
2013/14	42.	0372.5

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1997	13.	107
1998	03.	342
1999	06th	234
2000	17th	135
2001	09.	169
2003	19th	051
2005	54.	011
2006	22nd	101
2007	13.	166
2008	10.	183
2009	43.	037
2011	52.	030th
2012	52.	026th
2013	49.	049

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
1995/96	106.	0077
1996/97	22nd	0379
1997/98	40.	0300
1998/99	81.	0156
2012/13	33.	0091

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Lillehammer	Norway	136.0 m ( HS : 138 m)	November 28, 1998	March 12, 2004
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	123.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 1999	January 1, 2001
Sapporo	Japan	139.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 24, 1999	February 6, 2005
Trondheim	Norway	133.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	March 9, 1999	December 12, 1999
Oberstdorf	Germany	133.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 29, 2000	December 28, 2003
Planica	Slovenia	214.5 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 19, 1999	March 20, 1999
Lahti	Finland	131.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	February 19, 2001	February 24, 2001

Awards

• Athlete of the year 1999 (athlete and team categories)
• In 2014 Martin Schmitt was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

social commitment

Schmitt is committed as an "ambassador" for the Sehnsucht Foundation and the Tannheim aftercare clinic , whose patients he regularly invites to visit him during training. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the German Childhood Cancer Care Foundation, a foundation for chronically ill children whose work focuses on the aftercare and rehabilitation of families with children, adolescents and young adults with cancer, heart and cystic fibrosis.

Private

Martin Schmitt lives in Freiburg im Breisgau . Schmitt's brother is the former Nordic combined skier Thorsten Schmitt .

Web links

Commons : Martin Schmitt  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Martin Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Schmitt in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Martin Schmitt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Martin Schmitt's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SKIJUMPING.de on January 10th 2010: Martin Schmitt suffers from exhaustion syndrome
2. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
3. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS140 men . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
4. ↑ spiegel.de from February 22, 2010: Olympic Winter Games - DSV quartet jumps to silver
5. ↑ Result: Ski Jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS140 Team Men . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on October 30, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
6. ↑ SKIJUMPING.de on November 5th, 2010: Martin Schmitt: "Fit like never before in my career"
7. ↑ No resignation - Martin Schmitt continues career ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) "Martin Schmitt continues career"
8. ↑ skispringen.com on May 17, 2013: DSV announces the 2013/2014 squad allocation
9. ↑ "The experienced athlete and his final goal" , derstandard.at of December 12, 2013, accessed on December 13, 2013
10. ↑ "Martin Schmitt there for the 18th time" , stern.de from December 22, 2013, accessed on December 23, 2013
11. ^ "Farewell to the great idol Martin Schmitt" , welt.de from January 1, 2014, accessed on January 2, 2014
12. ↑ So that's it: Martin Schmitt says goodbye! , skispringen.com accessed on January 31, 2014
13. ↑ ^{a b} LVZ Online: ski jumping legend - Leipzig university student Martin Schmitt not currently thinking about coaching career. In: lvz.de. December 28, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b c} Martin Schmitt becomes DSV-Talentscout , on deutscherskiverband.de ( Deutscher Skiverband ) on July 25, 2019. Accessed on July 25, 2019.
15. ↑ Martin Schmitt and his second career: “You start all over” , on ispo.com, November 28, 2011. Accessed August 18, 2017.
16. ^ Dpa: Fabian Hambüchen as a reporter at the winter games . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
17. ^ Website of the foundation ( memento of April 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 23, 2013
18. ↑ Joachim Röderer and Uwe Mauch: Südwest: Skispringer: Schmitt resignation: "Everyone has respect for his performance" , Badische Zeitung, January 31, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2014