Kiesewetter was the first German ski jumper to learn the new ski jumping technique , the V-style . After the Swedish jumper Jan Boklöv had dominated the overall World Cup in 1989 with this new technique, Kiesewetter decided to learn this new technique together with his exercise bike Reinhard Heß. In December 1990 he celebrated his first victories at the World Cup competitions in Lake Placid and Sapporo . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 in Val di Fiemme , he won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Jens Weissflog , Dieter Thoma and Heiko Hunger . He was twelfth on the normal hill and seventh on the large hill. At the end of the season, he was able to book tenth place in the overall World Cup. He almost set an unofficial world record while ski flying in Planica in 1991 . At that time, its distance of 196 meters was not recognized as a world record because it reached into the snow when landing. After that he had a tried and tested over 191 meters, which was rated as setting the world record. At that time, the FIS had assessed distances that exceeded 191 meters with exactly this width, in order to prevent a long hunt for safety reasons.
While preparing for the next season, Kiesewetter had a serious fall on the Hans-Renner-Schanze in Oberhof in autumn 1991 and sustained a broken left ankle . After the entire world elite had changed over to the new style, André Kiesewetter found it difficult to re-establish himself among the world elite. After fighting for the connection for several years and only able to qualify with difficulty for the competition of the best 50 athletes in the few appearances in the World Cup, he ended his sporting career in 1995. He completed his last competition at the German Nordic Ski Championships in 1995 in Schonach .
Kiesewetter started training as a physiotherapist in 1995 . Today he works as a therapist in the "m & i specialist clinic" in Herzogenaurach . As a part-time job, he looked after the handball players at HG Quelle Fürth from 2002 to 2006 and the second team at 1. FC Nürnberg from 2006 to 2007 . Between 2007 and 2009 he worked for the women's handball Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg. Since the 2016/17 season he has been taking care of the Swiss national ski jumping team as a physiotherapist.
↑ Andreas Kopp, Seefeld: The physiotherapist for Swiss ski jumpers followed the path of the GDR sporting talents and once flew as far as no other before | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed December 28, 2019]).
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