Simon Hüttel (Nordic combined)

Simon Hüttel
Hüttel at the COC 2017 in Eisenerz
nation	Germany
birthday	August 4, 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Marktredwitz ,  Germany
job	Customs officer
Career
society	WSV Weissenstadt
Trainer	Constantin Kreiselmeyer
National squad	since 2016
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × OPA medals 0 × 1 × 1 × National medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2019 Lahti team  Nordic ski games from the OPA silver 2016 Tarvisio team bronze 2016 Tarvisio youth
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	16th March 2019
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 25, 2017
Overall rating	71st ( 2019 )
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	December 16, 2016
Overall ranking COC	34th ( 2019/20 )
last change: March 12, 2020

Simon Hüttel (born August 4, 1999 in Marktredwitz ) is a German Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Hüttel, who starts for WSV Weissenstadt , made his international debut on September 6, 2014 at the Alpine Cup competition in Winterberg , which he did not finish. In the following years he regularly took part in OPA competitions. For the first time he reached the podium in September 2015 at the Alpencup in Hinterzarten , but a few months later he won the bronze medal in the youth singles and silver with the team at the Nordic Ski Games of the OPA 2016 in Tarvisio and Villach . After celebrating his first victory in the Alpencup in October 2016, he made his debut in the Continental Cup in Klingenthal in December . There he initially missed the points, but was able to reach them with nineteenth place on his second participation.

At the German Championships 2017 in Klingenthal, Hüttel was the German Junior Champion ahead of Julian Schmid and Jonas Welde . In August 2018 he made his Grand Prix debut in Oberstdorf , but could not make it into the top thirty. A few weeks later, Hüttel defended his junior championship title at the 2018 German Championships in Hinterzarten. In addition, he and Johannes Rydzek finished third in the team sprint.

In the winter of 2018/19, Hüttel regularly reached the points in the Continental Cup . He did best in ninth place at the mass start in Nizhny Tagil . In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2019 in Finland's Lahti he won the sprint to 22nd place, while he for the Gundersen not been nominated -Single over ten kilometers. Together with Luis Lehnert , David Mach and Julian Schmid , he won the gold medal with the team. At the end of the season he made his World Cup debut in Schonach , but missed the points.

At the mass start in Klingenthal as part of the 2019 Grand Prix , Hüttel won Grand Prix points for the first time with 29th place.

Hüttel trains at the Bundesstützpunkt Oberstdorf and belongs to course group Ib in the 2019/20 season .

Personal

Both his father Horst and his grandpa used to jump themselves. In 2014, Hüttel switched to the CJD Christophorus Schools in Berchtesgaden for reasons of reconciling school and sport , which he successfully completed four years later with the Abitur.

statistics

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2019	71.	002

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2016/17	61.	042
2017/18	98	006th
2018/19	35.	105
2019/20	34.	114

Placements at German championships

Year and place	competition
	singles	Team sprint
2017 Klingenthal	14th	10.
2018 Hinterzarten	07th	03.
2019 Johanngeorgenstadt	14th	06th

Web links

Commons : Simon Hüttel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Simon Hüttel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Simon Hüttel at the German Ski Association
• Simon Hüttel on Zoll.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2019 Men's Team HS100 / 4 × 5.0 km in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 25, 2019
2. ↑ Armin Eger and Fabian Leeb: Interview with the sporting director of the Nordic combined and ski jumpers Hüttel: Why shouldn't girls combine? , on onetz.de, from January 26, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2019.