Andreas Wank

Andreas Wank
Andreas Wank 2014
nation	Germany
birthday	February 18, 1988
place of birth	Halle (Saale) ,  GDR
size	190 cm
Weight	72 kg
job	Student / sports soldier
Career
society	SC Hinterzarten
National squad	since 2002
Pers. Best	219.5 m ( Planica 2018)
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × SFWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 2 × 7 × 6 ×
winter Olympics silver 2010 Vancouver team gold 2014 Sochi team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2013 Val di Fiemme team  Ski flying world championships silver 2012 Vikersund team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 2008 Zakopane singles gold 2008 Zakopane team  German championships silver 2002 Winterberg team silver 2005 Hinterzarten team bronze 2006 Oberhof singles gold 2007 Winterberg team gold 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles silver 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen team silver 2010 Oberhof team bronze 2011 Hinterzarten singles bronze 2011 Hinterzarten team silver 2012 Klingenthal singles silver 2012 Klingenthal team silver 2014 Hinterzarten singles bronze 2014 Hinterzarten team bronze 2015 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles bronze 2018 Hinterzarten team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 29, 2004
World Cup victories (team)	03 ( details )
Overall World Cup	19. ( 2015/16 )
Ski flying world cup	21st ( 2011/12 )
Four Hills Tournament	10. ( 2015/16 )
Raw Air	37th ( 2018 )
Nordic Tournament	45th (2010)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 1  Team jumping 3 5 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Grand Prix victories (individual)	03 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	01. ( 2012 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 2 0  Team jumping 1 1 4th  Mixed team jumping 0 1 2
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0August 3, 2002
COC wins (individual)	06 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	02. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 6th 9 6th

Andreas Wank (born February 18, 1988 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German ski jumper and sports soldier in the rank of Oberfeldwebel in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Oberhof . He became Olympic champion with the German team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . His greatest international success to date in an individual competition is the overall victory at the Summer Grand Prix 2012 . He also won the silver medal with the German team at the 2010 Winter Olympics , the 2012 Ski Flying World Championships and the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championships .

Private

Andreas Wank originally comes from Domnitz in Saxony-Anhalt , but spent his childhood from the age of ten in Oberhof , where he attended the sports high school and graduated from high school in 2007. Since then, Wank has started for the WSV Oberhof 05. When the ski jumps in Oberhof were newly built or renovated, he moved to the Black Forest in September 2010 . After living in Breitnau for three years, he has lived in Titisee since 2014 , where he built a house.

At the end of March 2008, he began the Bachelor's degree in International Management at the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences , a course that was adapted to the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences and specially designed for top athletes. Since completing his studies, he has been working at the TU Darmstadt .

Career

Andreas Wank started ski jumping at an early age. At the age of only 12, he became the German student master in 2000. In 2001 he reached 3rd place in the overall ranking in the pupil's cup. He also reached 3rd place in the overall ranking of the German Cup. In 2002 he was part of the team for the German Championships. He won the silver medal in the team competition. A year later, he started again in the junior classification and ended up being German Vice Junior Champion. In addition, he again reached 3rd place in the overall ranking of the German Cup. From 2004 Wank started in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup and already reached his first podium place in his second competition in Rovaniemi with 3rd place. Then Wank belonged to the national group for the World Cup jumping in Oberstdorf on December 29, 2004 as part of the Four Hills Tournament 2004/05 . In his first jump in the highest ski jumping series, he reached 45th place. In 2005 Wank became German youth champion in both the individual and the team. At the German Senior Championships, he finished sixth. In 2007 he won the gold medal at the German Championships with the Thuringia I team.

On February 27, 2008 he was in the Polish Zakopane junior world champion in singles. Two days later he also won the team jumping title. In the 2008/09 season he was part of the senior national team for the ski jumping World Cup for the first time . In the end he reached 59th place in the overall World Cup ranking.

On July 19, 2009 Andreas Wank won the individual competition of the German championship in ski jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen completely surprisingly with jumps of 135 meters and 139 meters in front of Michael Neumayer and Michael Uhrmann. He achieved his best placement in an individual competition to date at the Summer Grand Prix in Klingenthal on October 3, 2009, when he finished the competition in 7th place.

In the 2009/10 season he was part of the German team's senior squad for the first time. On January 16, 2010, Wank made the jump to the podium for the first time by finishing second behind Thomas Morgenstern in Sapporo . At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he came in jumping from the large hill to 28th place. In the Olympic team competition, Wank had the greatest success of his career up to then, winning silver together with Michael Neumayer , Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann .

On August 19, 2012, he won his first Summer Grand Prix in Hinterzarten . Less than a week later he won both competitions in Hakuba . With these three victories he laid the foundation for the overall victory in the Summer Grand Prix , which he finally secured with a 15th place in the final competition in Klingenthal .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he and his teammates Severin Freund , Michael Neumayer and Richard Freitag won the silver medal behind Austria in the team competition on the large hill, after the Norwegian team was subsequently stripped of the silver medal for a miscalculation of the run-up. The lead over the now third-placed Poles was only 0.8 points. A week later he won a team competition in the World Cup for the first time with the German team in Lahti .

In January 2014, Andreas Wank prevailed against Michael Neumayer within the team and thus secured the remaining German starting place for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi . There he took tenth place on the normal hill, after having been fifth before the second round. On February 17, 2014, Wank was Olympic champion in team jumping together with Marinus Kraus , Andreas Wellinger and Severin Freund in Sochi . For this success he received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Gauck on May 8, 2014 .

In May 2014, Wank decided to start for SC Hinterzarten instead of WSV Oberhof 05 , as he has been training at the base in Hinterzarten since 2010 .

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The 2018/19 ski jumping season was disappointing for Wank. After he started the winter in the Continental Cup , he could not recommend himself for the national group due to mixed results and thus missed the Four Hills Tournament . His best result was second place in Sapporo, Japan, on January 18, 2019. However, he was unable to repeat this placement, which is why he was transferred to the third-class FIS Cup in February . There, however, Wank dominated the two weekends in Rastbüchl and Villach and won all four competitions.

Wank announced the end of his career on July 11, 2019 and, after his last jump on July 27, 2019, switched to the supervisory staff of the German Ski Association.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 9, 2013	Lahti	Large hill
2.	November 21, 2015	Klingenthal	Large hill
3.	January 9, 2016	Willingen	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	19th August 2012	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
2.	August 25, 2012	Hakuba	Large hill
3.	August 26, 2012	Hakuba	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	7th August 2015	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	July 30, 2011	Courchevel	Large hill
2.	July 31, 2011	Courchevel	Large hill
3.	February 21, 2015	Iron Mountain	Large hill
4th	22nd January 2017	Sapporo	Large hill
5.	February 10, 2017	Whistler	Normal hill
6th	March 3, 2018	Rena	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2006/07	87.	003
2007/08	71.	011
2008/09	59.	018th
2009/10	21st	259
2010/11	64.	009
2011/12	22nd	227
2012/13	28.	287
2013/14	34.	171
2014/15	51.	054
2015/16	19th	369
2016/17	35.	090
2017/18	43.	045

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2006	62.	014th
2008	22nd	092
2009	30th	059
2010	61.	014th
2011	19th	148
2012	01.	449
2013	20th	143
2014	47.	037
2015	26th	113
2016	18th	119
2017	37.	049
2018	18th	107

Continental Cup placements

season	summer		winter		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2002/03	106.	0002	-	-	257.	0002
2004/05	071.	0010	044.	0146	053.	0156
2005/06	052.	0054	052.	0103	056.	0157
2006/07	023.	0068	071.	0064
2007/08	060.	0023	032.	0186	039.	0209
2008/09	029	0100	050.	0138	047.	0238
2010/11	-	-	003.	0750	007th	0750
2011/12	003.	0426	-	-	021st	0426
2014/15	-	-	004th	0602	010.	0602
2015/16	019th	0181	-	-	055.	0181
2016/17	-	-	023.	0350	033.	0350
2017/18	-	-	002.	1040	002.	1040
2018/19	020th	0147	020th	0351	016.	0498

Web links

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

• Andreas Wank in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas Wank in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website by Andreas Wank

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Wank. (No longer available online.) Viessmann Sports, archived from the original on January 7, 2016 ; accessed in February 2014 . 
2. ↑ Feel good in Breitnau - Andreas Wank jumps from Oberhof into the Black Forest. In: Badische Zeitung. August 14, 2012, accessed February 18, 2014.
3. ↑ Ski jumping: Interview: Why ski jumper Andreas Wank is moving to Titisee. In: Badische Zeitung. November 22, 2013, accessed December 15, 2013.
4. ↑ Andreas Wank wants to get involved again. In: MZ-web.de , November 19, 2015.
5. ↑ FH welcomes the year 2008. (No longer available online.) FH Ansbach, March 26, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 16, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
6. ↑ Andreas Wank: “Not yet at the end of development”. In: skispringen.com. May 12, 2013, accessed May 16, 2013 . 
7. ^ Sibylle Scheibner: Andreas Wank. (No longer available online.) In: ptw.tu-darmstadt.de. May 16, 2006, archived from the original on July 16, 2018 ; accessed on July 16, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ List of results on fis-ski.com , accessed on January 1, 2011.
9. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS140 men. (No longer available online.) Www.sports-reference.com, archived from the original on February 5, 2011 ; Retrieved March 10, 2013 . 
10. ^ Olympic Winter Games - DSV quartet jumps to silver. In: spiegel.de , February 22, 2010.
11. ↑ Wank is heat resistant - first win! In: berkutschi.com. August 19, 2012, accessed August 20, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Wank does the hat trick. In: berkutschi.com. August 26, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Andreas Wank GP overall winner - Freund wins the final. In: berkutschi.com. October 3, 2012, accessed August 20, 2018 . 
14. ^ Title to the team from Austria. In: berkutschi.com , accessed March 2, 2013.
15. ↑ Germany dominates team jumping. In: berkutschi.com , accessed on March 10, 2013.
16. ↑ Andreas Wank buys his fifth Olympic ticket. In: skispringen.com , accessed on January 19, 2014.
17. ↑ Silver bay leaf. Website of the Federal President, May 5, 2014.
18. ↑ Hinterzarten instead of Oberhof: Andreas Wank changes clubs. In: skispringen.com , accessed on May 26, 2014.
19. ↑ Ski jumping: Olympic champion Wank ends his career and becomes a supervisor. In: rp-online.de. July 11, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .