Ulf Findeisen
Ulf Findeisen 
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Ulf Findeisen at the GDR Ski Championships 1989 |
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 German Democratic Republic
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| birthday | March 2, 1962 | ||||||||
| place of birth |
Zschopau , GDR
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| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1990 | ||||||||
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| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | |||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | December 30, 1982 | ||||||||
| World Cup victories (individual) | 2 ( details ) | ||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 12. ( 1986/87 ) | ||||||||
| Four Hills Tournament | 3. ( 1986/87 ) | ||||||||
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Ulf Findeisen (born March 2, 1962 in Zschopau ) is a former German ski jumper who was active from 1983 to 1990.
Career
Findisen began on the school and youth jump in Wünschendorf with the ski jumping sport . His father Christian was one of his first coaches. At the age of 13 he moved to Oberwiesenthal and trained at SC Traktor under Joachim Winterlich with Jens Weißflog, among others .
In 1983 he took part in World Cup competitions for the first time. He was able to place three times in the top ten and narrowly missed the podium in fourth in Gstaad, Switzerland . This season he was also able to become GDR master on the large hill for the first time. In the following season he was able to confirm the good results and repeated his success at the national championships. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1984 he won the team silver medal with the GDR team. In 1985 he became the GDR master of the normal hill.
In front of a home crowd in Oberwiesenthal, he celebrated his first World Cup victory in 1986. Findeisen had his most successful season in 1986/1987 when he finished third behind Ernst Vettori and Vegard Opaas in the Four Hills Tournament . In third place, he was able to fight for his first podium of the season in the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . A short time later he jumped to his second World Cup success in Štrbské Pleso in Czechoslovakia . In the overall World Cup he finished twelfth this season.
In the following years he could no longer build on the good performance and ended his active career in 1990. Since then, Ulf Findeisen has been working as a ski jumping trainer in his hometown of Zschopau, where he looked after young German jumper Erik Simon, among others .
successes
World Cup victories in individual
| No. | date | place | Type |
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| 1. | January 19, 1986 |
Oberwiesenthal
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Normal hill |
| 2. | January 11, 1987 |
 Štrbské Pleso
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Large hill |
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1982/83 | 23. | 43 |
| 1983/84 | 27. | 39 |
| 1984/85 | 57. | 5 |
| 1985/86 | 17th | 73 |
| 1986/87 | 12. | 95 |
| 1987/88 | 59. | 7th |
| 1988/89 | 67. | 1 |
Hill records
| place | country | Expanse | set up on | Record up |
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| Oberwiesenthal |
 Germany
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92.5 m ( HS : 106 m) |
1979 | 1979 |
| Oberwiesenthal |
Germany
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101.0 m ( HS : 106 m) |
1985 | January 19, 2003 |
Web links
- Ulf Findeisen in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Ulf Findeisen on the website of the Nordic Alpine Zschopau Ski Club
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Findisen, Ulf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zschopau , German Democratic Republic |