Andreas Kuettel

Andreas Kuettel
Andreas Küttel 2011 in Oslo
nation	Switzerland
birthday	25th April 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Einsiedeln ,  Switzerland
size	181 cm
job	Sports teacher, sports psychological consultant, sports scientist
Career
society	SC Einsiedeln
Trainer	Berni Schödler
National squad	Since 1993
Pers. Best	222 m ( Planica 2006)
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × OPA medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 12 × 4 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2009 Liberec Large hill  Ski jumping junior world championship bronze 1996 Gallio singles  Nordic ski games from the OPA silver 1993 Rastbüchl singles  Swiss championships silver 2001 St. Moritz singles gold 2002 Les Tuffes singles gold 2003 Kandersteg singles bronze 2004 Hinterzarten singles gold 2004 Hinterzarten team silver 2005 Kandersteg singles gold 2005 Kandersteg team gold 2006 Einsiedeln singles gold 2006 Einsiedeln team gold 2007 Kandersteg singles gold 2007 Kandersteg team gold 2008 Einsiedeln singles gold 2008 Einsiedeln team silver 2009 Einsiedeln singles silver 2009 Einsiedeln team gold 2010 Einsiedeln singles gold 2010 Einsiedeln team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	02nd December 1995
World Cup victories (individual)	05 ( details )
Overall World Cup	03rd ( 2005/06 )
Ski flying world cup	16. (2008/09)
Jump World Cup	29th (1995/96)
Four Hills Tournament	04th ( 2005/06 )
Nordic Tournament	02. (2006)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 5 4th 6th
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	0September 1, 1994
Grand Prix victories (individual)	02 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	04. ( 2005 , 2007 , 2008 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 4th 2

Andreas Küttel (born April 25, 1979 in Einsiedeln ) is a former Swiss ski jumper and current sports scientist at the Syddansk Universitet in Odense . His greatest sporting success was winning the world championship title on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 .

Life

Athletic career

«Ski jumpers always balance between these extremes [euphoria and falling - note]. You can't fool yourself in our sport. You have to be ruthlessly honest with yourself at all times. "

- Andreas Kuettel.

Successes in youth and World Cup debut (until 1996)

Küttel, who jumped for the Einsiedeln Ski Club, started ski jumping at the age of eight at the invitation of his first trainer Hermann Kälin. At an early age, he competed in international school competitions. On December 26, 1992, he started in St. Moritz for the first and only time in the European Cup , the forerunner of the Continental Cup , but clearly missed the points. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1993 in Harrachov , Czech Republic , he was 29th in the individual and ninth with the team. Just a few days later, the Swiss junior champion won the silver medal behind Michael Uhrmann in the school competition at the Nordic Ski Games of the OPA in March 1993 in Breitenberg . On December 19, 1993, at the age of fourteen, Küttel was appointed to the Swiss World Cup team for the first time , but missed the qualification for jumping on the Gross-Titlis-Schanze in Engelberg . As a result, he started again in lower-class competition series. He made his debut in the Continental Cup in St. Moritz just a week later. Although he was only able to finish 72nd, he won his first Continental Cup points just three days later in St. Aegyd . Also in his second participation in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships , Küttel placed only in the middle ranks from the Raimund-Ertl-Schanze in Breitenwang at the end of January 1994 .

In the summer of 1994 Küttel tried again at the highest level. He was unable to qualify at the historically first Grand Prix competition in Hinterzarten , but only a few days later he jumped into the second round at his debut in Predazzo . In the winter of 1994/95, however, he stayed away from the World Cup and occasionally competed in the Alpine Cup . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1995 in Gällivare , Sweden , he reached 27th place in the individual and ninth place in the team competition. A few months passed before his debut in the World Cup before he started the winter in the World Cup in Lillehammer on December 2, 1995, collecting his first World Cup points straight from the normal hill. The sixteen-year-old also remained unimpressed on the large hill the next day and jumped into the points again. In the following weeks he traveled with the World Cup circus and achieved remarkable first results such as the sixth place in Planica in mid-December . In addition, a short time later he just missed the podium in fourth in Chamonix . With these achievements in the back, Küttel started as the big favorite at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1996 in Gallio, Italy . After finishing sixth with the team together with Rico Parpan , Marc Vogel and Christian Kryenbühl , Küttel won the bronze medal in the individual behind Michael Uhrmann and Primož Peterka . About two weeks later he won his first Continental Cup competition at the same place. After a drop in performance at the end of the season, he finished the World Cup season in 32nd place overall.

Weaker years (1996 - 2001)

In the World Cup season 1996/97 Küttel remained pointless. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1997 in Calgary , he was sixth in the individual and seventh with the team. Despite largely unsuccessful appearances in the World Cup, Küttel was nominated for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim in 1997 and used in all three competitions. He presented himself surprisingly strong, especially on the normal hill and took 21st place, whereas on the large hill he jumped even shorter and clearly missed the second round when he was fifty. Together with Sylvain Freiholz , Bruno Reuteler and Marco Steinauer , he finished eighth with the team.

The following winter, Kuettel fell short of his expectations. So he won again no World Cup points, which is why he was transferred back to the second-rate Continental Cup after several unsuccessful attempts . But even there he was not able to convince with his appearances and ultimately ranked 177th overall. It was not until January 23, 1999 that he made it into the points again as part of the World Cup competition in Sapporo, Japan . Even if he failed to win more points in the following weeks, Küttel was in the Swiss squad for the 1999 Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau . However, he could hardly be satisfied with the individual placements 51 and 39 as well as eight with the team. For the rest of the season, he therefore faced the competition again primarily in the Continental Cup . In the 1999/00 season, Küttel also competed in the Continental Cup in summer and winter , where he again recommended himself for the World Cup team with several good results. At the beginning of February 2000, Küttel was part of the Swiss squad in Willingen for the first time , where he won three points from the Mühlenkopfschanze on both days of the competition. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2000 in Vikersund , he finished 27th. He achieved the greatest distance with his third jump of 152 meters. He finished the season in 57th place in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the 2000/01 World Cup , Küttel continued to struggle, but was able to perform better every now and then. His best result of the season was the seventh place on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck as part of the Four Hills Tournament 2000/01 . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2001 he showed equally good jumps and thus achieved eleventh place on the normal hill and 29th place on the large hill . In the two team competitions he was ninth with his compatriots.

First Olympic participation and constant years in the World Cup (2001 - 2005)

In the summer of 2001, Küttel started with his second podium in the Continental Cup , when he and Simon Ammann , Sylvain Freiholz and Marco Steinauer only had to admit defeat to the teams from Germany and South Korea in Oberstdorf . After he still missed the points on the opening weekend of the 2001/02 World Cup , he reached them regularly for the rest of the season. So he was allowed to travel to Salt Lake City for the first time as a participant in the 2002 Winter Olympics . At the season highlight, Küttel was able to call up strong jumps, so that after the mixed 22nd place on the normal hill he was sixth on the large hill. Together with double Olympic champions Simon Ammann, Sylvain Freiholz ​​and Marco Steinauer, he also took seventh place in the team competition. A few weeks later Küttel flew to 39th place at the 2002 Ski Flying World Championships in Harrachov . In the overall World Cup ranking, he achieved his best overall result to date with rank 30. Despite significantly weaker performance in the following season, Küttel contested his fourth Nordic World Ski Championships in February 2003 in Val di Fiemme . With two weak individual competitions, where he landed far behind in 47th place, and a ninth place with the team, the world championship was one of his worse.

He made a leap in performance in the 2003 Grand Prix , which he finished in 16th place. In the 2003/04 World Cup , too, Küttel showed his form improved and on January 11, 2004 even jumped third in Liberec for the first time on the podium in the World Cup. He finished the season with rank 23 at the Ski Flying World Championships 2004 in Planica . With several single-digit placings in the 2004 Grand Prix , including a third place, he achieved a top 10 overall placement at the highest level for the first time with seventh place in the overall ranking. He confirmed this advance to the top of the world with constant performances in winter in the 2004/05 World Cup . The best result of the season was third place in Willingen. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , however, it was only mediocre performances (in the individual 20th and 18th).

World Cup victories and world championship titles - The years at the top of the world (2005 - 2009)

The best season of his career began with his second Continental Cup victory in his home town of Einsiedeln in July 2005. A few weeks later in Bischofshofen his first victory in the Grand Prix followed , which together with other good results led to fourth place in the overall standings. Küttel started the winter with fourth place in Kuusamo right from the start at a high level. A week later he celebrated his first World Cup victory from Lysgårdsbakken in Lillehammer with a new hill record, which he was able to confirm with another victory in Harrachov the following weekend . The Swiss presented himself in top form at the Four Hills Tournament 2005/06 and achieved his best result on the tour with fourth place in the tour evaluation. He achieved his best results at a ski flying world championship with sixth place just a few days later at the ski flying world championship 2006 from Kulm . At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he just missed the medal ranks. He achieved fifth place in the competition on the normal hill in Pragelato and sixth on the large hill. He finished the team competition together with Simon Ammann , Michael Möllinger and Guido Landert in seventh place. Küttel won his third win of the season at the Nordic Tournament 2006 in Kuopio . At the final ski flying in Planica he finished fourth on the first day of the competition, which was his best ski flying result. He set up his personal best of 222 meters. He finished the World Cup season in third place in the overall standings, making him only the second Swiss on the podium in the overall World Cup after Stephan Zünd . In July 2006 Küttel became Swiss individual champion for the third time .

After starting the 2006/07 World Cup season fatally with 41st place in Kuusamo , Küttel then jumped into the top ten seven times in a row. During this period he also won his fourth World Cup, which he celebrated as part of the Four Hills Tournament 2006/07 at the New Year's event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , Küttel disappointed with 19th place on the Ōkurayama hill , before he showed significantly better jumps with fifth place on the Miyanomori hill . He finished seventh with the team. In September 2007 he won his second Grand Prix jumping in Hakuba . On December 23, 2007 he won home jumping in Engelberg ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer and Thomas Morgenstern . It was his fifth and last World Cup victory of his career. In the further course of the season he reached the podium two more times and finally finished seventh in the overall standings for the third time in a row, a single-digit overall placement. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2008 in Oberstdorf , Küttel flew to thirteenth place.

In the 2008/09 season , Kuettel continued to jump regularly among the top ten. He celebrated his greatest success at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , when he was 0.4 points ahead of second-placed German Martin Schmitt from the large hill with a jump of 133.5 meters in the first round , before the jump because of snow and Wind had to be canceled after one round and Küttel was crowned world champion. He replaced compatriot Simon Ammann , who won the title in Sapporo in 2007. In the competition on the normal hill, it was enough for sixth place. He finished eleventh in the overall World Cup.

The last seasons until the end of the career (2009 - 2011)

Küttel landing in the team competition at the 2011 World Championships in Oslo

In the 2009/10 World Cup season , Küttel was unable to match the performance of previous years. He rarely managed to show two good jumps in one competition, so that he often missed the second round. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he reached 35th place in jumping from the normal hill and was eliminated after the first round. The jumping from the large hill, which he finished in 24th place, went a little better. At the Swiss Ski Jumping Championships 2010 in Einsiedeln , Küttel won the gold medal for the last time from the normal hill ahead of Simon Ammann and Marco Grigoli . In the following winter, Küttel consistently missed the points. Instead, he entered the Continental Cup again in January 2011 , where he presented better results with two fifth places in Sapporo . Küttel had already made public in 2009 that he wanted to end his career in 2011. He confirmed this decision in the run-up to the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 when he announced his retirement immediately after the World Championships. In the individual competition on the normal hill he showed his skills again, reached the finals for the first time in the season and finally finished 29th. In the team competition, he finished only a disappointing tenth place together with Pascal Egloff , Simon Ammann and Marco Grigoli. With his last competition jump of his career, he landed from the large hill at 112 meters and missed the second round in 43rd place.

In his career, Küttel was trained by Werner Schuster and Martin Künzle , among others , but Berni Schödler's influence was probably the greatest. Küttel took part in a total of three Winter Olympic Games, eight world championships and five ski flying world championships.

academic career

Küttel studied sports science at the ETH Zurich between 1999 and 2005 and trained as a gymnastics and sports teacher. After his career, he wrote his doctoral thesis between 2013 and 2017 at the Institute for Sport and Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark , which dealt with the question of the extent to which the national context affects the career transition from professional sport to “post-sport” life. He made a comparison of the sports systems in Switzerland, Denmark and Poland. He has been an assistant professor since May 2017 and publishes regularly.

Miscellaneous and private

Küttel is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .

The large hill at the Einsiedeln ski jumping hill is named after Küttel. In addition to the registry office, Küttel and his wife Dorota Pawlowska chose the Andreas-Küttel-Schanze as the official wedding venue for his wedding in 2009. Since December 6th, 2009 he is the father of a son whose godfather is Simon Ammann . Küttel has lived in Denmark since 2011.

The athletic careers of Simon Ammann and Andreas Küttel were published in a book by Marc Wälti at the end of 2011 with the title “The Unequal Twins”.

Küttel made his commentator debut in December 2012 as a co-commentator at Eurosport Denmark. He later worked as a ski jumping expert at SRF .

In spring 2017, Küttel was hired as an external consultant for the first team of Swiss ski jumpers. "Küttel's tasks not only include working with the athletes, but also the coaches."

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 3, 2005	Lillehammer	Large hill
2.	December 9, 2005	Harrachov	Large hill
3.	March 7, 2006	Kuopio	Large hill
4th	January 1, 2007	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
5.	December 23, 2007	Engelberg	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 3, 2005	Bischofshofen	Large hill
2.	September 8, 2007	Hakuba	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 18, 1996	Gallio	Normal hill
2.	July 23, 2005	Einsiedeln	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1995/96	32.	181
1998/99	69.	018th
1999/00	57.	026th
2000/01	48.	063
2001/02	30th	145
2002/03	60.	020th
2003/04	23.	258
2004/05	17th	395
2005/06	03.	980
2006/07	05.	804
2007/08	07th	778
2008/09	11.	561
2009/10	33.	111

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1994	35.	357
1995	56.	207
1996	37.	019th
2002	39.	021st
2003	16.	061
2004	07th	200
2005	04th	297
2006	06th	303
2007	04th	362
2008	04th	326
2009	34.	048
2010	59.	016

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Lillehammer	Norway	139.0 m ( HS : 138 m)	December 3, 2005	December 1, 2006

literature

• Marc Wälti : Simon Ammann & Andreas Küttel: The unequal twins. Faro, Lenzburg 2011, ISBN 3-037-81034-3 .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Küttel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andreas Küttel in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas Küttel on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Andreas Küttel in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Andreas Küttel in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
• Andreas Küttel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Website by Andreas Küttel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Leap into marital happiness. In: schweizer-illustrierte.ch. July 11, 2009, accessed February 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Andreas Küttel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available), accessed on February 13, 2020.
3. ↑ Adam Kwieciński: Result team jumping World Cup 1997 in Trondheim , on wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl, accessed on February 13, 2020 (Polish).
4. ↑ ^{a b} When Küttel seized the opportunity . In: srf.ch from February 27, 2019, accessed on February 13, 2020.
5. ↑ Küttel is world champion on the large hill . In: berkutschi.com on February 27, 2009, accessed on February 13, 2020.
6. ^ Andreas Küttel. In: olympedia.org. Accessed August 26, 2020 (English). 
7. ↑ Kerstin Kock: Andreas Küttel wins national title in Switzerland . skispringen-news.de. October 10, 2010. Accessed on October 12, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Schweizer Küttel ends after the Ski Jumping World Championships. In: focus.de. February 15, 2011, accessed February 13, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Morgenstern at the goal of all dreams . In: berkutschi.com of February 26, 2011, accessed on February 13, 2020.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Küttel , on researchgate.net, accessed on February 13, 2020 (English).
11. ^ ^{A b c d} Christian Brüngger: The friend as a prominent flight attendant. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. December 17, 2017, accessed February 13, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Andreas Küttel , on portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk, accessed on February 13, 2020 (Danish).