Andreas Wellinger

Andreas Wellinger
Wellinger at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld
nation	Germany
birthday	28th August 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Traunstein , Germany
size	184 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
society	SC Ruhpolding
National squad	since 2011
Pers. Best	245 m ( Vikersund 2017)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 0 × SFWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 1 × National medals 4 × 3 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi team gold 2018 Pyeongchang Normal hill silver 2018 Pyeongchang Large hill silver 2018 Pyeongchang team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2017 Lahti Mixed team silver 2017 Lahti Normal hill silver 2017 Lahti Large hill  Ski flying world championships silver 2016 Bad Mitterndorf team  Youth Olympic Winter Games gold 2012 Innsbruck Mix team  Ski jumping junior world championship bronze 2013 Liberec team silver 2015 Almaty singles silver 2015 Almaty team  German championships gold 2012 Klingenthal team gold 2014 Hinterzarten team silver 2015 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles gold 2016 Oberhof team silver 2016 Oberhof singles gold 2017 Oberwiesenthal singles silver 2018 Hinterzarten team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	November 24, 2012
World Cup victories (individual)	03 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	06 ( details )
Overall World Cup	04. ( 2016/17 )
Ski flying world cup	02. ( 2016/17 )
Four Hills Tournament	02. ( 2017/18 )
Raw Air	03. ( 2017 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 10 8th  Ski flying 0 4th 0  Team jumping 6th 11 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Grand Prix victories (individual)	04 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	01. ( 2013 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 4th 2 4th  Team jumping 1 3 2  Mixed team jumping 1 0 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	17th February 2012
COC wins (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	33rd ( 2012/13 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 1
last change: February 9, 2019

Andreas Wellinger (born August 28, 1995 in Traunstein ) is a German ski jumper who competes for SC Ruhpolding and has been a member of the Zoll-Ski-Team since 2015 . His greatest success so far is winning the gold medal on the normal hill at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang .

Family and youth

Andreas Wellinger comes from Weißbach an der Alpenstrasse . Father Hermann Wellinger was an alpine skier who competed in the World Cup. His mother Claudia Hummel also competed in ski races and is a ski jumping judge. Andreas Wellinger learned ski jumping at SC Ruhpolding. At the age of twelve, Andreas Wellinger switched from secondary school in Traunstein to the ski boarding school in Berchtesgaden . First he ran the Nordic combined, before he switched to the special jump at the age of 15. Wellinger has two older sisters.

Career

Wellinger was a Nordic combined athlete from 2002 to 2010 and has been a special jumper since February 2011. In 2009 he finished second in the overall ranking of the pupil's cup. At the OPA games in 2010 he was third in the Nordic combined. In March 2010 he came in second place in the student cup. In September 2011 he took third and second place in the German Cup. A month later he won the Alpine Cup, was fifth in December and won the German Cup that same month. At the German Junior Championships 2011 in Hinterzarten , he jumped to fifth place and was ninth with the team. At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games , he won the gold medal with the mix (jump / combination) team . In the individual competition he came fourth there. In summer 2012 he reached first, second and third place in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup 2012/13 . At the German Championships in 2012 in Klingenthal , he finished fifth and became German champion with the team.

Wellinger has been competing in the World Cup since the beginning of the 2012/13 season . In his first World Cup competition on November 24, 2012, he was fifth, having even led after the first round. Almost a week later he celebrated his first World Cup victory with the German team when jumping on the Rukatunturi hill in Kuusamo in the team competition. With the highest score of all jumpers, he played a big part in it. On December 9, 2012, he took third place on the normal hill of the ski jumping complex RusSki Gorki near Sochi for the first time on a World Cup podium in an individual competition. A week later, on December 16, 2012, he achieved his best individual result in the World Cup with a second place on the Gross-Titlis-Schanze in Engelberg , which he repeated in the following season in the Vogtland Arena in Klingenthal.

At the Junior World Championships 2013 in Liberec , Czech Republic , he won the bronze medal in the team competition with the German team. In the individual, he finished fifth.

On August 3, 2013, Wellinger celebrated his first individual victory at the highest competition level in the context of the Summer Grand Prix in Wisła, Poland . Two weeks later, the next victory followed in Courchevel . By winning the jumping in Klingenthal on October 3rd, he ousted Jernej Damjan from first place and won the overall ranking of the Summer Grand Prix as the third German ski jumper after Sven Hannawald (1999) and Andreas Wank (2012).

He celebrated his first World Cup victory on January 16, 2014 also on the ski jump in Wisła. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi , he reached sixth place on the normal hill. On February 17th, 2014 Wellinger became Olympic champion in team jumping together with Andreas Wank , Marinus Kraus and Severin Freund . For this, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 8, 2014 by Federal President Joachim Gauck .

He got off to a good start in the 2014/15 season when he won the team competition in Klingenthal together with Markus Eisenbichler , Richard Freitag and Severin Freund and came third in the individual competition. At the next World Cup station in Kuusamo , he fell on November 29, 2014 and suffered severe bruises. Immediately after the jump he lost control and fell onto the front of the hill. He started again at the Junior World Championships in Almaty in early February 2015 and won the silver medal both in the individual and with the German team.

At the German Championships in Oberhof in 2016 , Wellinger won the silver medal in the individual competition as well as the gold medal in the team competition together with Karl Geiger , Marinus Kraus and Markus Eisenbichler .

Wellinger won his second World Cup on January 29, 2017 in Willingen . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti , he won the silver medal on both the normal and the large hill, behind the Austrian Stefan Kraft . In addition, together with Carina Vogt , Svenja Würth and Markus Eisenbichler, he became world champion with the mixed team. In ski flying on Vikersundbakken , he equaled Severin Freund's German record with 245 meters . In the Raw Air , which was held for the first time , he finished third behind Kraft and Kamil Stoch from Poland . At the end of the season he finished fourth in the overall World Cup with a total of twelve podium places.

Wellinger very successful start in the World Cup season 2017/18 . He achieved his third World Cup victory on December 3, 2017 in Nizhny Tagil . He started as runner-up in the overall World Cup at the Four Hills Tournament 2017/18 . During the tour, he jumped on the podium as third in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen . He finished the tour as second overall behind Kamil Stoch . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he won the gold medal on the normal hill on February 10, 2018 and a week later, on February 17, the silver medal on the large hill . On February 19, he and Karl Geiger, Stephan Leyhe and Richard Freitag won the silver medal in the team competition behind Norway. With one gold and two silver medals, Wellinger was the most successful ski jumper at the 2018 Winter Games.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in 2019 , he prevailed against Stephan Leyhe in the training rounds , so that he was the fourth German to compete on the large hill in Innsbruck . Due to a disappointing 32nd place, Wellinger was not nominated for the other competitions of the World Championships.

At the beginning of June 2019, Wellinger was seriously injured in training during the preparation for the season in Hinzenbach . He suffered a complex knee injury with torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, which meant that he was out for the entire 2019/20 season . Just before he wanted to start training for the 2020/21 season , Wellinger broke his collarbone while on vacation in Australia in late March 2020 .

successes

winter Olympics

• Sochi 2014 : 1st team, 6th single normal hill, 45th single large hill
• Pyeongchang 2018 : 2nd team, 1st single normal hill, 2nd single large hill

Nordic World Ski Championships

• Falun 2015 : 11th single normal hill
• Lahti 2017 : 1st mixed team, 2nd single normal hill, 2nd single large hill
• Seefeld 2019 : 32nd single large hill

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 16, 2014	Wisła	Large hill
2.	29th January 2017	Willingen	Large hill
3.	3rd December 2017	Nizhny Tagil	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	November 30, 2012	Kuusamo	Large hill
2.	22nd November 2014	Klingenthal	Large hill
3.	November 21, 2015	Klingenthal	Large hill
4th	January 9, 2016	Willingen	Large hill
5.	January 21, 2017	Zakopane	Large hill
6th	March 3, 2018	Lahti	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	3rd August 2013	Wisła	Large hill
2.	15th August 2013	Courchevel	Large hill
3.	3rd October 2013	Klingenthal	Large hill
4th	July 30, 2016	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 14, 2013	Courchevel	Large hill mixed team
2.	7th August 2015	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 8, 2012	Lillehammer	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2012/13	20th	0393
2013/14	09.	0601
2014/15	35.	0137
2015/16	17th	0408
2016/17	04th	1161
2017/18	06th	0828
2018/19	18th	0371

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
2012/13	09.	0988.7
2013/14	10.	0895.7
2014/15	-	-
2015/16	12.	0970.3
2016/17	22nd	0758.8
2017/18	02.	1039.2
2018/19	31.	0653.0

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2012	72.	008th
2013	01.	440
2014	18th	116
2015	12.	185
2016	02.	351
2017	16.	142
2018	58.	018th

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Bischofshofen	Austria	144.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	5th January 2017	January 6, 2019
Oberstdorf	Germany	234.5 m ( HS : 225 m)	4th February 2017	5th February 2017
Oberstdorf	Germany	238.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	5th February 2017	19th January 2018
Pyeongchang	South Korea	113.5 m ( HS : 109 m)	February 10, 2018	current

Awards

• 2014: Elite student of sport
• 2014: 2nd place athlete of the year with the team
• 2018: Silver bay leaf

Web links

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

• Andreas Wellinger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas Wellinger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete entry at the DSV
• Facebook page from Andreas Wellinger

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Wellinger. www.munzinger.de, accessed on February 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Andreas Wellinger on www.zoll.de
3. ↑ Thomas Hahn: The boy on television . SZ.de, December 25, 2012.
4. ↑ List of results (PDF; 38 kB) from olympic.org, accessed on November 25, 2012
5. ↑ List of results (PDF; 47 kB) from olympic.org, accessed on November 25, 2012
6. ↑ Andreas Wellinger wins in Lillehammer , skispringen.com, September 9, 2012, accessed on November 25, 2012.
7. ↑ Andreas Wellinger continues to cause a sensation , rosenheim24.de, August 30, 2012, accessed on November 25, 2012.
8. ↑ Severin Freund wins exciting prelude berkutschi.com, accessed on November 25, 2012.
9. ↑ Germany wins tight team competition berkutschi.com, accessed on November 30, 2012.
10. ↑ JWM title also for Slovenian men berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
11. ↑ Jaka Hvala is crowned junior world champion at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
12. ↑ Wellinger wins individual competition in Wisla ( memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at skispringen-news.de, accessed on August 16, 2013. 
13. ↑ Wellinger wins over Wank and Neumayer at skispringen-news.de, accessed on August 16, 2013.
14. ^ Wellinger according to Triumph Overall Winner spox.com, October 3, 2013, accessed on October 4, 2013.
15. ↑ Andreas Wellinger wins first World Cup in Wisla skispringen.com, January 16, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2014.
16. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
17. ^ Wellinger crashes badly in Kuusamo n.tv.de, November 29, 2016.
18. ↑ Oberhof: David Siegel wins German championship title on skispringen.com, October 23, 2016. Accessed December 11, 2016.
19. ↑ Shock at the beginning of the summer: Andreas Wellinger seriously injured , on skispringen.com, June 7, 2019. Accessed July 3, 2019.
20. ↑ Ski jumper Wellinger will be completely canceled this winter. In: br.de. June 7, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Andreas Wellinger ponownie kontuzjowany! , on skijumping.pl, from April 2, 2020. Accessed April 2, 2020 (Polish).