Björn Kircheisen

Björn Kircheisen
Björn Kircheisen at the Seefeld Triple 2018
nation	Germany
birthday	6th August 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Erlabrunn ,  GDR
size	183 cm
job	Police Chief Candidate
Career
society	WSV Johanngeorgenstadt
status	resigned
End of career	March 25, 2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 8 × 3 × JWM medals 6 × 0 × 0 × DM medals 4 × 6 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City team silver 2006 Turin team bronze 2010 Vancouver team silver 2014 Sochi team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2003 Val di Fiemme team silver 2005 Oberstdorf team silver 2005 Oberstdorf singles silver 2007 Sapporo team bronze 2007 Sapporo sprint silver 2009 Liberec team silver 2009 Liberec Single NH silver 2011 Oslo Team NH silver 2011 Oslo Team LH bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme Single NH bronze 2017 Lahti Single NH gold 2017 Lahti Team NH  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2001 Karpacz team gold 2002 Schonach singles gold 2002 Schonach team gold 2003 Sollefteå singles gold 2003 Sollefteå team gold 2003 Sollefteå sprint
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	February 10, 2001
World Cup victories (individual)	17 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	05 ( details )
Overall World Cup	03rd ( 2002/03 , 2005/06 )
Sprint World Cup	03rd ( 2002/03 , 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 7th 13 8th  sprint 8th 1 4th  Mass start 2 1 1  team 5 3 0  Team sprint 0 1 0
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 26, 2000
Grand Prix victories (individual)	02 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall rating	02. ( 2011 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 2 5 5  team 1 1 2
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	January 21, 2001
Overall ranking COC	32nd ( 2000/01 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 1 0  team 0 0 1

Björn Kircheisen (born August 6, 1983 in Erlabrunn , Karl-Marx-Stadt district , GDR ) is a former German Nordic combined athlete . He won four Olympic and twelve World Cup medals.

Career

Kircheisen is a candidate for the police chief and was part of the federal police's competitive sport project, the Bad Endorf model . He started for the WSV Johanngeorgenstadt , the club of his hometown in the Ore Mountains, and trained in the state performance center in Klingenthal. Kircheisen made his international debut in the 1999/00 season in the Nordic Combined World Cup. At the Summer Grand Prix 2000 he started in the senior national team for the first time. On January 21, 2001, he achieved his first B-World Cup success in Klingenthal . He also finished second on the podium in Karpacz . At the following Junior World Championships in 2001 in the same place, he won the gold medal with the team in the mass start.

A good week later he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Liberec on February 10, 2001 . As 14th, he immediately achieved a good top 20 placement and thus also won his first World Cup points. At the beginning of the 2001/02 season he was surprisingly in Kuopio in the individual for the first time on the podium in a World Cup race. He also showed a good performance in the sprint as fifth. In January 2002 he took third place twice in Val di Fiemme . At the following Junior World Championships in 2002 in Schonach in the Black Forest , he secured the gold medal in both individual and team competitions.

After the Junior World Championship success, Kircheisen traveled to Salt Lake City as part of the team for the 2002 Winter Olympics . After he achieved a very good fifth place in the individual, he won the silver medal with the team. In the sprint, he finished ninth. Back in the World Cup, he only managed to place points until the end of the season. In the 2002/03 season , Kircheisen surprisingly started third place in Kuusamo after poor results at the Summer Grand Prix . Only a few days later he celebrated the first three World Cup victories in three World Cup races in a row in Trondheim . For a few years, however, it remained the only World Cup victories.

At the Junior World Championships in 2003 in Sollefteå , Kircheisen secured the title in both individual and team competitions and took home three gold medals. At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , together with Thorsten Schmitt , Georg Hettich and Ronny Ackermann, he again secured the silver medal behind the successful Austrians. Back in the World Cup, Kircheisen proved his good form again with third place in Oslo . In the overall World Cup ranking he achieved a very good third place. He was also third in the Sprint World Cup.

As a result, Kircheisen had to struggle with significant drops in performance. It was not until the 2004/05 season that he was able to slowly fight his way back to the top of the world. So from January 2005 he landed again increasingly in the top 10. In Pragelato , after finishing second with the team, he also finished third in the sprint, finishing third. At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , Kircheisen surprised everyone by winning the silver medal in the first individual competition. He and the team also held the silver medal in their hands in the team competition. He just missed another medal in the sprint as fourth.

On March 5, 2005, Kircheisen won his fourth World Cup in Lahti . He started weakly in the 2005/06 Olympic season , but was able to fight his way back to the top of the world in January 2006. In the Gundersen Singles in Harrachov , he was second on the podium again. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he stayed in both individual competitions as seventh outside the medal ranks, but again secured silver with the team as in 2002. At the penultimate World Cup station in Oslo, Kircheisen again won the sprint race. As in 2002/03, he finished the season again in third place in the overall World Cup ranking and the Sprint World Cup ranking.

In the summer, Kircheisen achieved his first summer victory at the mass start in Klingenthal. In the 2006/07 season , Kircheisen started again mixed. Only at the last World Cup station before the World Championships did he achieve a top result in Zakopane with third place in the mass start and victory in the sprint, which is why he traveled to the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo. After he secured bronze in the sprint there, he won silver again with the team. In March Kircheisen celebrated his eighth World Cup victory in Lahti.

Kircheisen also got off to a successful start in the 2007/08 season . So he won the sprint race in Kuusamo and was second on the podium in the Trondheim singles. In Ramsau am Dachstein , Kircheisen again celebrated two World Cup victories, but he was unable to build on these successes until the end of the season. However, he made it back to the top of the world again in the 2008/09 season . After two individual and one team World Cup victories, he finished fourth overall at the end of the season. At the 2009 World Championships , Kircheisen again won silver with the team and was also successful in the individual on the large hill and came second.

For the 2009/10 Olympic season , Kircheisen fought again with constant performance. However, he won another World Cup in Ramsau and was on the podium again in Oberhof as third . With the team he won the team world cup in Schonach a little later. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Kircheisen won the team competition after two silver medals in 2002 and 2006 for the first time only for bronze. In the two individual competitions, he finished 20th and 22nd without any chance of a medal.

A year later at the World Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he was also no longer able to land in the world class in the individual competitions. However, he again won two silver medals with the team in both team competitions. In the first World Cup after the World Championships, he won his 15th individual World Cup in Lahti. However, after almost 30 years, Kircheisen was no longer able to achieve consistently top performances. Often times he had to be content with placements outside the top 10.

Shortly before the 2013 World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Kircheisen succeeded in Almaty , Kircheisen succeeded in winning the Gundersen singles after he had already been successful with the team in Sochi . At the World Championships, Kircheisen again secured bronze in the Gundersen singles on the normal hill. With the team, he was sixth and missed a medal in the team competition for the first time.

For the 2013/14 season , Kircheisen in Tchaikovsky achieved a second place twice in the absence of the World Cup best. After three unsuccessful and pointless starts in Chaux-Neuve and Seefeld in Tyrol , he was able to reach a top 10 place in Oberstdorf in seventh place and belonged to the fifth and last German combined Olympic ticket on January 19, 2014 got from the national coach at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for the fourth time to the German Olympic team. After he narrowly missed the podium and a medal in the Gundersen singles as fourth, Kircheisen secured the silver medal in the team competition together with Eric Frenzel , Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Rießle . For this they were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Joachim Gauck on May 8, 2014 .

After the two somewhat weaker World Cup seasons 2014/15 and 2015/16, he improved significantly again in the 2016/17 season and regularly made it into the top ten. Together with Eric Frenzel , Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek , he won the team competition in Lillehammer on December 2, 2016 . On February 10, 2017, in Sapporo - in the absence of most of the world's best - he celebrated his first World Cup victory in over four years. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he won the bronze medal in the Gundersen competition on the normal hill behind Johannes Rydzek and Eric Frenzel. Two days later he won the team competition together with Rydzek, Frenzel and Fabian Rießle. After a total of eleven silver medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships, which had earned him the joke name “Silbereisen”, this was the first adult title for church iron. In addition, with 12 medals, he is the athlete who has collected the most World Cup medals.

Kircheisen qualified again for the 2018 Olympic Games , but was not used in Pyeongchang . On March 25, 2018, he contested his last World Cup race in Schonach . He has been part of the German Ski Association's coaching team since 2019 and, together with Constantin Kreyselmeyer, is responsible for course group 1b in the "Nordic Combined" area.

successes

Medals

winter Olympics

• 2002 Salt Lake City : Silver Team
• 2006 Turin : Silver Team
• 2010 Vancouver : Bronze Team
• 2014 Sochi : Silver Team

World championships

• 2003 Val di Fiemme : Silver Team
• 2005 Oberstdorf : Silver Gundersen, Silver Team
• 2007 Sapporo : Silver Team, Bronze Sprint
• 2009 Liberec : Silver Gundersen LH, Silver Team
• 2011 Oslo : Silver Team NH, Silver Team GH
• 2013 Val di Fiemme : Bronze Gundersen NH
• 2017 Lahti : Gold Team NH, Bronze Gundersen NH

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	0December 6, 2002	Trondheim	Sprint large hill
2.	0December 7, 2002	Trondheim	Gundersen large hill
3.	0December 8, 2002	Trondheim	Sprint large hill
4th	0March 5, 2005	Lahti	Gundersen large hill
5.	0March 5, 2006	Lahti	Sprint large hill
6th	March 12, 2006	Oslo	Sprint large hill
7th	0February 4, 2007	Zakopane	Sprint large hill
8th.	March 10, 2007	Lahti	Sprint large hill
9.	0December 1, 2007	Kuusamo	Sprint large hill
10.	December 15, 2007	Ramsau	Mass start normal hill
11.	December 16, 2007	Ramsau	Hurricane Sprint normal hill
12.	December 21, 2008	Ramsau	Gundersen normal hill
13.	January 10, 2009	Val di Fiemme	Mass start large hill
14th	December 20, 2009	Ramsau	Gundersen normal hill
15th	March 11, 2011	Lahti	Gundersen large hill
16.	0February 9, 2013	Almaty	Gundersen large hill
17th	February 10, 2017	Sapporo	Gundersen large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	0January 3, 2009	Schonach	Relay normal hill 1
2.	January 24, 2010	Schonach	Relay normal hill 1
3.	03rd February 2013	Sochi	Relay large hill 2
4th	0January 3, 2015	Schonach	Relay normal hill 3
5.	02nd December 2016	Lillehammer	Relay normal hill 4

¹With Georg Hettich , Eric Frenzel and Tino Edelmann .

²With Johannes Rydzek , Manuel Faißt and Eric Frenzel.

³ With Eric Frenzel, Tino Edelmann and Johannes Rydzek.

^4thWith Eric Frenzel, Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek.

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 27, 2006	Klingenthal	Mass start large hill
2.	August 13, 2009	Oberstdorf	Gundersen large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 27, 2016	Oberwiesenthal	Team sprint normal hill 5

⁵ With Eric Frenzel.

statistics

Participation in Winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	sprint	team
2002 Salt Lake City	05.	-	09.	02.
2006 Turin	07th	-	07th	02.
2010 Vancouver	22nd	20th	-	03.
2014 Sochi	-	04th	-	02.

Participation in world championships

Year and place	competition
	sprint	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	Mass start	Team NH	Team LH	Team sprint
2003 Val di Fiemme	17th	07th	-	-	02.	-	-
2005 Oberstdorf	04th	02.	-	-	-	02.	-
2007 Sapporo	03.	07th	-	-	-	02.	-
2009 Liberec	-	45.	02.	26th	-	02.	-
2011 Oslo	-	28.	DNS	-	02.	02.	-
2013 Val di Fiemme	-	03.	14th	-	06th	-	-
2015 Falun	-	-	23.	-	-	-	-
2017 Lahti	-	03.	16.	-	01.	-	-

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2000/01	50.	108
2001/02	14th	715
2002/03	03.	756
2003/04	39.	089
2004/05	06th	571
2005/06	03.	888
2006/07	06th	494
2007/08	08th.	676
2008/09	04th	957
2009/10	10.	463
2010/11	07th	435
2011/12	05.	728
2012/13	11.	384
2013/14	12.	340
2014/15	23.	181
2015/16	27.	118
2016/17	05.	748
2017/18	23.	235

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2002	17th	056
2007	03.	236
2009	04th	165
2011	02.	280
2012	59.	008th
2013	06th	165
2014	03.	229
2015	14th	066
2016	05.	161
2017	16.	106

Placements at German championships

Year and place	competition
	singles	sprint	Mass start	Team sprint
2000 Oberstdorf	DNF	20th	-	-
2001 Oberhof	-	02.	-	-
2002 Winterberg	05.	05.	-	-
2003 Oberwiesenthal	03.	03.	-	-
2004 Oberstdorf	02.	10.	-	-
2005 Hinterzarten	05.	12.	-	-
2006 Oberhof	01.	01.	-	-
2007 Winterberg	08th.	10.	-	-
2008 Klingenthal	-	01.	02.	-
2009 Garmisch	11.	-	-	02.
2011 Hinterzarten	-	-	-	04th
2012 Klingenthal	04th	-	-	-
2014 Hinterzarten	05.	-	-	02.
2015 Oberstdorf	03.	-	-	02.
2017 Klingenthal	07th	-	-	01.

Awards

• Vogtland Sportsman of the Year 2001
• Junior athlete of the year 2002, 2003
• Saxony's Sportsman of the Year 2002, 2005, 2007
• Silver Bay Leaf (2014)

Private

He was in a relationship with the snowboarding world champion Isabella Laböck until summer 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Björn Kircheisen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Björn Kircheisen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Björn Kircheisen in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Björn Kircheisen with the German Olympic team
• Björn Kircheisen with the Federal Police
• Björn Kircheisen in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ First World Cup victory for Björn Kircheisen. Frankfurter Allgemeine , December 6, 2002, accessed February 24, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Klaus Vestewig: Nordic Combination: The Sorrows of Björn Kircheisen. Südwest Presse , February 7, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Kircheisen wins for the first time in four years. Sportschau , February 10, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Golden prelude for combiners. Sportschau , February 24, 2017, accessed on February 24, 2017 . 
6. ^ Thomas Nahrendorf: Silver and bronze for the Erzgebirge: Kircheisen sets world championship record. Day 24, February 24, 2017, accessed February 24, 2017 .