Claudia Nystad

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Claudia Nystad Cross-country skiing
Claudia Nystad (2014)

Claudia Nystad (2014)

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 1st February 1978 (age 42)
place of birth Zschopau ,  GDRGermany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
size 168 cm
Career
job Sports soldier
discipline Cross-country skiing
society WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal
status resigned
End of career March 2015
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 4 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2002 Salt Lake City 4 × 5 km
silver 2006 Turin 4 × 5 km
silver 2006 Turin sprint
gold 2010 Vancouver Team sprint
silver 2010 Vancouver 4 × 5 km
bronze 2014 Sochi 4 × 5 km
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 × 5 km
silver 2003 Val di Fiemme sprint
silver 2007 Sapporo 4 × 5 km
silver 2007 Sapporo Team sprint
silver 2009 Liberec 4 × 5 km
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
silver 1998 St. Moritz 5 km freestyle
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup 1998
 World Cup victories in individual 2 ( details )
 World Cup victories in the team 7 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 5th ( 2004/05 )
 Sprint World Cup 5th (2004/05)
 Distance World Cup 5th ( 2007/08 )
 Tour de Ski 6. (2007/08)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 0 4th 4th
 Distance races 2 2 9
 Season 4th 9 4th
 Team sprint 3 5 1
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the Continental Cup December 14, 1996
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 COC individual race 0 2 4th
last change: December 30, 2015

Claudia Nystad , née Künzel (born February 1, 1978 in Zschopau , GDR ) is a former German cross-country skier and two-time Olympic champion who competed for the WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal . She is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr . With five medals each at the Olympic Games and World Championships, Nystad is next to Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle the most successful German cross-country skier today.

Life

In the Saxon Erzgebirge grew up Nystad was already in the kindergarten for the first time on cross-country skis. At the age of 12 she switched to the children's and youth sports school in Oberwiesenthal , where she graduated from high school in 1996. After graduating from high school, she was employed in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Frankenberg / Sa. to which she still belongs today.

Since May 27, 2005, she has been married to the former Norwegian cross-country skier Trond Nystad . After Trond Nystad gave up his coaching position in the USA in 2006 , the Nystad couple moved to Oberhof , where they opened their own training group. But just a year later Trond left Nystad Oberhof and became the trainer of the Swiss sprint team.

In her private life, Nystad devotes herself to painting, among other things. The graphic design student has already held her own exhibitions with her charcoal drawings.

In the summer of 2007, Nystad auctioned her Olympic gold medal from Salt Lake City, which she won in 2002 with the German relay team, in aid of the " Hansel and Gretel Foundation ", which promotes child protection projects for abused children. The Russian Olympic Museum in Smolensk bought the medal for € 22,000.

After her retirement from competitive sport in 2010 she studied at the University of Leipzig telecommunications industry computer science and graduated in July 2013 with the Bachelor from. She had already announced her comeback for the next winter season in March 2013. After the 2014/15 season, Nystad finally ended her active sports career after several injuries.

Career

Junior days and first successes (1997-2001)

Nystad's first international appearance was in December 1997 at the Continental Cup competition in Argentière, France . In the victory of the German Ramona Roth over 5 kilometers freestyle , she finished 13th. But even at the Junior World Championships in 1998 in Pontresina , Switzerland , Nystad was able to demonstrate its great potential. Over the distance of 5 kilometers of freestyle, she missed the gold medal by 1.4 seconds and was only beaten by her current sister-in-law Katrin Šmigun. Over 15 kilometers, she took eleventh place behind Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle. These results and some good results in the Continental Cup enabled her to take part in the Cross-Country World Cup for the first time . In March 1998, however, it was enough over 15 kilometers of freestyle in Lahti, Finland, only to place 58 among 62 participants. In the 1998/98 season she achieved her first podium finish with third place at the Continental Cup in Chamonix over 10 kilometers of freestyle. In her fourth World Cup outing, the sprint competition in December 1999 in Kitzbühel , she managed to score World Cup points for the first time with 20th place.

From the beginning of the 2000/01 season, Nystad was a permanent member of the German World Cup team. That this trust was justified was shown right at the beginning of the season when she scored her first World Cup points in distance competitions with places 24 over 10 kilometers freestyle in Santa Caterina Valfurva and 16 over 10 kilometers classic in Brusson . At the sprint in Brusson, she achieved her first top ten result with ninth place. Shortly before the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 , she sprinted in Nové Město na Moravě behind Julija Tschepalowa and Anita Moen, her first podium in a World Cup competition. At the World Championships in Lahti she was 14th in the sprint, 17th over 15 kilometers classic and 24th in the pursuit competition. With the German relay she took fourth place. At the end of the season she finished 23rd in the overall World Cup. In the sprint ranking, she was able to place ninth among the top ten in the world.

Most successful years (2002-2005)

The 2001/02 Olympic season began for Nystad with rather declining results. In distance competitions, she usually placed far outside the World Cup points. And she couldn't repeat the good results of the previous season in sprint competitions either. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City over 15 kilometers freestyle (mass start), she lost the connection early and came in 26th. In the pursuit competition, she gave up after the classic distance in 55th place, hopelessly behind. That made it all the more surprising to reach the finals in the sprint competition. Behind Tschepalowa, Sachbacher-Stehle and Moen, however, only the ungrateful fourth place remained. The relay competition on the following day was overshadowed by Russia's doping-related disqualification before the start. Inspired by the unexpected medal wins by Viola Bauer and Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle, the German team managed to keep up with the now-favored Norwegians right up to the last runner. As the penultimate runner, Nystad handed over to Sachsenbacher-Stehle about ten seconds behind. He managed to reconnect with Anita Moen. And like the day before, the Norwegian had to admit defeat to the Germans in the final sprint. Winning the gold medal was the greatest success in German women's cross-country skiing for 22 years.

In the 2002/03 season Nystad celebrated several relay World Cup victories with the German team. But she also managed to catch up with the good results of 2001 in the individual competitions. Among other things, she achieved third place in the 5 km freestyle in Kiruna behind Kristina Šmigun and Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle and in Clusone behind Marit Bjørgen a second place in the freestyle -Sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , Nystad started with eleventh place in the pursuit competition. In the relay competition, two days later, she managed to turn a gap of 20 seconds on Norway into a lead of 13 seconds. Sachsenbacher-Stehle was able to take the victory home clearly. As in the 2002 Olympic Games, Nystad also reached the final run in the sprint competition, which was held in free technique. This time, however, she only had to give way to the outstanding Marit Björgen. At the 2003 Military World Championships in Rovaniemi , she won the silver medal over 10 kilometers freestyle behind Gabriella Paruzzi . At the end of the season, she finished seventh in both the overall World Cup and the Sprint World Cup.

Claudia Nystad behind Justyna Kowalczyk during the sprint in Prague 2008

With third places in the World Cup competitions in Beitostølen , Dobbiaco and Ramsau am Dachstein , Nystad showed in the 2003/04 season that it is also among the world's best in distance competitions. At the World Cup in Otepää , Estonia , the sports soldier, who was known as a freestyle specialist, also surprised with her classic technique. In the 15-kilometer mass start competition on January 11, 2004, she surprisingly managed to clearly distance the local hero Kristina Šmigun in the final sprint and celebrate her first World Cup triumph. Even over 10 kilometers in Nové Město na Moravě she was able to place second place on the podium in a competition of classical technology. At the sprint in Trondheim , she achieved her sixth podium place this season with third place behind Björgen and Sachsenbacher-Stehle. In the overall World Cup, she finished seventh again. In the discipline scores for the sprint competitions and distance competitions, she was tenth and sixth. Also in the 2004/05 season she was able to climb the podium three times in Bern , Nové Město na Moravě and Pragelato . In addition, there were further new top ten placements, so that this season she was able to record her best result in the overall World Cup with fifth place. In the sprint world cup she was also fifth and in the distance world cup seventh. Shortly before the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2005 in Oberstdorf, Nystad fell ill with a cold, which prevented her from participating in all competitions. In her first competition, the pursuit competition, she finished tenth. In the relay competition, too, things did not go well for the German team. After Sachsenbacher-Stehle, the penultimate German runner, handed over to Nystad in fifth place, about 26 seconds behind the leading Russians, the strongest German runner, who was still weakened by the illness, was unable to catch up and brought the relay to the home crowd fourth place to finish. Nystad also took fourth place in the team sprint together with Viola Bauer. Over 30 kilometers she was sixth in the classic class and 14th in the sprint competition.

Second Olympic victory after highs and lows (2006 to 2010)

Claudia Nystad 2007 at the World Cup sprint in Stockholm

Also in the 2005/06 Olympic season she achieved eight top ten placements, including five podium finishes. The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin started with places 17 and 18 in the pursuit competition and over 10 kilometers classic but disappointing for Nystad. But like four years before, the German team managed to fight for gold in the relay competition. Sachsenbacher-Stehle handed over Claudia Nystad with a lead of 12 seconds. However, this could not keep the lead and was overtaken by Russia, Italy and Sweden on the last climb. With one kilometer to go, Nystad was ten seconds behind the medal. In a phenomenal final sprint, however, she managed to catch up with both Sweden and Italy and secure the silver medal for the German team. Motivated by winning her second Olympic medal, Nystad also reached the final run in the sprint competition, which was held in free technique. As in the 2003 World Championships, she only had to admit defeat to one runner and won her first individual Olympic medal with the silver medal behind Chandra Crawford . In the final competition over 30 kilometers freestyle she took sixth place. At the end of the season, she finished seventh in the overall World Cup for the third time. In the sprint world cup she was eighth, in the distance world cup ninth.

Nystad at the World Cup in Trondheim, March 2009

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season she moved to Oberhof together with her husband Trond Nystad, so that Nystad was officially trained by her husband for the first time. But especially at the beginning of the season, the successes of earlier years failed to materialize. At the Tour de Ski , which was held for the first time, only a disappointing 19th place remained in the end. It was all the more surprising that she narrowly missed her first gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo in a team sprint with Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle. At the last change, the German duo was still in the front. In the final sprint, however, Nystad was narrowly beaten by Virpi Kuitunen . She also won the silver medal again with the relay. In the pursuit competition she was 17th, over 10 kilometers freestyle 15th and over 30 kilometers classic 26th. She finished the season 13th in the overall World Cup. After the failures of the Oberhof training group, her husband was recalled to the technical team and then switched to the Swiss Ski Association. In the 2007/08 season , Nystad's performance stabilized again at a higher level. At the Tour de Ski 2007/2008 she came in sixth place as the best German. In Oslo she was third over 30 kilometers of freestyle and at the end of the season, the cross-country skiing world cup final 2007/08 in Bormio , she surprisingly won the prologue and thus her second World Cup competition and finished third behind Virpi Kuitunen and Justyna Kowalczyk . In the overall World Cup she was eighth and in the Distance World Cup she achieved her best position so far with fifth place. Immediately after the last competition, Nystad underwent knee surgery. After a forced break of eight weeks, she prepared for the 2008/09 season . In the opening race over 10 kilometers freestyle she finished twelfth. After moderate results and a 43rd place in Kuusamo , she was publicly criticized by national coach Jochen Behle regarding her attitude. At the Sprint World Cup in Düsseldorf , Nystad sprinted her first top ten result this winter with eighth place. In the team sprint she was able to fight for third place with Stefanie Böhler . At the start of the Tour de Ski 2008/09 , she surprisingly won the prologue in front of the Italian Arianna Follis in her home town of Oberhof . The Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec started for Nystad with a non-nomination for the 10 km classic competition. And the subsequent pursuit competition was quickly over for her after only a few kilometers due to a fall. In the sprint she was able to improve and reached the semifinals and ninth place in the final bill. As the final runner in the relay competition, she won the silver medal for the German team in an exciting final sprint against Charlotte Kalla . After the award ceremony, however, Nystad caused a scandal when she showed Jochen Behle the middle finger due to his constant criticism of the performance of the German women and the women's trainer Ismo Hämäläinen . The next day she apologized and denied that this gesture was intended for national coach Behle. As in the previous year and in this year's Tour de Ski, Nystad proved her strength in prologue competitions at the World Cup final and celebrated her second win of the season in Falun . After a good performance on the other stages as well, she finished as the best German in seventh place at the end of the season and was thus able to work her way up to 13th place in the overall World Cup.

In the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver Nystad, together with Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Olympic champion in the team sprint and won with Katrin Zeller , Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Miriam Gössner in the relay silver. This was also her last race, in June 2010 Nystad announced her retirement from active sports.

Comeback (since 2013)

In March 2013 Nystad announced her comeback, which she made on November 29, 2013 at the World Cup opener in Kuusamo . She finished the Tour de Ski 2013/14 in 19th place. At the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi , she won the bronze medal with the German relay team. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , she achieved 42nd place in the 10 km freestyle. After the 2014/15 season, Nystad finally ended her active sports career after several injuries sustained in the Tour de Ski.

World Cup victories

singles

No. date place discipline
1. January 10, 2004 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 15 km mass start classic
2. March 14, 2008 ItalyItaly Bormio 2.5 km prologue freestyle singles

Stage victories in world cup races

No. date place discipline run
1. December 27, 2008 GermanyGermany Oberhof 2.8 km prologue freestyle singles Tour de Ski 2008/09
2. March 20, 2009 SwedenSweden Falun 2.2 km prologue freestyle singles World Cup Final 2009

World Cup victories in the team

No. date place discipline
1. January 19, 2003 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město 4 × 5 km relay 1
2. February 14, 2003 ItalyItaly Asiago Team sprint freestyle 2
3. March 23, 2003 SwedenSweden Falun 4 × 5 km relay 2
4th January 23, 2005 ItalyItaly Pragelato Classic team sprint 3
5. March 18, 2006 JapanJapan Sapporo Team sprint freestyle 2
6th December 17, 2006 FranceFrance La Clusaz 4 × 5 km relay 4
7th March 25, 2007 SwedenSweden Falun 4 × 5 km relay 4

2 With Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle.
3 With Viola Bauer.
4thWith Stefanie Böhler , Viola Bauer and Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle.

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

  • 2002 Salt Lake City : 1st place relay, 4th place sprint freestyle, 26th place 15 km freestyle mass start
  • 2006 Turin : 2nd place relay, 2nd place sprint freestyle, 6th place 30 km freestyle mass start, 17th place 10 km classic, 18th place 15 km pursuit
  • 2010 Vancouver : 1st place team sprint freestyle, 2nd place relay, 16th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2014 Sochi : 3rd place relay, 35th place sprint freestyle, 43rd place 15 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 2001 Lahti : 4th place relay, 14th place sprint freestyle, 17th place 15 km classic, 27th place 10 km pursuit
  • 2003 Val di Fiemme : 1st place relay, 2nd place sprint freestyle, 11th place 2 × 5 km double pursuit, 19th place 30 km freestyle
  • 2005 Oberstdorf : 4th place relay, 4th place team sprint freestyle, 6th place 30 km classic mass start, 10th place 15 km pursuit, 14th place sprint classic
  • 2007 Sapporo : 2nd place relay, 2nd place team sprint freestyle, 15th place 10 km freestyle, 17th place 15 km pursuit, 26th place 30 km classic mass start
  • 2009 Liberec : 2nd place relay, 18th place sprint freestyle, 22nd place 30 km freestyle mass start
  • 2015 Falun : 42nd place 10 km freestyle

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

  • 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place 1 1 2 3 4th
2nd place 1 1 4th 6th 5 9
3rd place 1 2 2 1 3 4th 13 1 4th
Top 10 2 19th 5 3 8th 22nd 2 61 16 23
Scoring 5 53 14th 6th 19th 52 6th 155 17th 23
Starts 11 60 17th 8th 23 63 7th 189 17th 23
Status: end of career
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
1999/2000 11 71. - - 11 51.
2000/01 166 23. - - 139 9.
2001/02 76 41. - - 78 23.
2002/03 466 7th - - 230 7th
2003/04 762 7th 587 6th 175 10.
2004/05 613 5. 343 7th 270 5.
2005/06 571 7th 337 9. 234 8th.
2006/07 369 13. 185 15th 139 14th
2007/08 921 8th. 535 5. 226 13.
2008/09 576 13. 325 14th 119 21st
2009/10 190 43. 109 31. 81 31.
2013/14 165 38. 107 27. 10 67.
2014/15 126 50. 90 34. 8th 65.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Claudia Nystad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberhof is a good training patch . www.bundeswehr-sport-magazin.de. September 22, 2006. Archived from the original on February 26, 2010. 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. Retrieved December 27, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswehr-sport-magazin.de
  2. ↑ Trond Nystad new sprint trainer in Switzerland . www.xc-ski.de. June 6, 2007. Archived from the original on February 26, 2010. 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. Retrieved December 27, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xc-ski.de
  3. ↑ Between painting and running . free-wort.de. January 11, 2008. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009. 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. Retrieved February 8, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freies-wort.de
  4. ↑ Dorothee Soboll: Olympic champion Claudia Nystad is planning her sporty comeback after completing her bachelor's degree in Leipzig ( Memento of the original from 23 August 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. , Campus Online of the University of Leipzig and Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 5, 2013, accessed on August 26, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lvz-online.de
  5. ^ SZ-Online: Cross-country Olympic champion Claudia Nystad makes a comeback
  6. ↑ a b Claudia Nystad ends her career for good. ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ Relay gold for cross-country skiers . www.welt.de. February 22, 2002. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  8. ↑ Olympic champions run easily to gold . www.faz.net. February 25, 2003. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  9. ↑ Künzel sprints to silver . www.abendblatt.de. February 27, 2003. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  10. ↑ Künzel runs to the first victory in the wrong race . www.welt.de. January 11, 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  11. ↑ Cross-country skiing: Women's relay remains without a medal . www.wiwo.de. February 21, 2005. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  12. ↑ Künzel sprints to relay silver . www.handelsblatt.com. February 18, 2006. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  13. ↑ Claudia Künzel sprints to silver . www.spiegel.de. February 22, 2006. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  14. ↑ Cross-country skiing news . www.ski-news.de. July 19, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  15. ↑ Enough self-confidence for first place . www.bild.de. March 25, 2008. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  16. ↑ Interview Claudia Nystad - Cladding 2008 . www.youtube.com. October 22, 2008. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  17. ↑ 43rd place - Behle criticizes Nystad . www.kicker.de. November 30, 2008. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
  18. ↑ Twice German silver - stinky fingers for Behle . www.welt.de. January 26, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
  19. ↑ Nystad gets away from it with impunity despite the "finger finger" . www.focus.de. January 27, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
  20. ↑ dpa : Claudia Nystad says hello, quietly . www.sportschau.de. June 21, 2010. Retrieved June 21, 2010.
  21. ↑ Cross-country Olympic champion Claudia Nystad makes comeback SZ-Online.de, March 3, 2013.
  22. ↑ Comeback of the blond bird of paradise Sport1, November 28, 2013, accessed on February 15, 2014.
  23. ↑ Saxony's "Sportsman of the Year" of all time. (No longer available online.) In: www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de. Archived from the original on September 18, 2008 ; Retrieved December 27, 2008 .
  24. ↑ Nystad, Steiner and FC Erzgebirge are Saxony's athletes of the year. (No longer available online.) In: www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de. January 8, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sport-fuer-sachsen.de
  25. ^ Press release from the Federal Ministry of Defense. (No longer available online.) In: www.franz-josef-jung.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.franz-josef-jung.de
  26. ↑ Awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf in April 2010. www.bundespraesident.de, archived from the original on July 27, 2010 ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 .
  27. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Three winter sports fans say goodbye. (No longer available online.) In: www.weltcup-oberhof.de. January 9, 2011, archived from the original on July 27, 2009 ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Nystad, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschopau , German Democratic Republic