Daniel Little

Daniel Little
Daniel Wenig in the summer of 2014
nation	Germany
birthday	12th August 1991 (age 29)
size	180 cm
Weight	64 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	SK Berchtesgaden
National squad	since 2006
Pers. Best	174.5 m ( Bad Mitterndorf 2015)
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 0 × 1 × 2 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 2011 Otepää team  German championships gold 2012 Klingenthal team silver 2014 Hinterzarten team silver 2015 Garmisch team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 29, 2013
Overall World Cup	70th ( 2014/15 )
Four Hills Tournament	33. ( 2014/15 )
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 30, 2011
Overall Grand Prix	25. ( 2014 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	September 27, 2008
COC wins (individual)	02 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	01. ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 2 2

Daniel Wenig (born August 12, 1991 ) is a former German ski jumper .

Career

Little, who started for SK Berchtesgaden , started his international career after winning the German School Championship in 2006 in the C-team. In June 2006 he started at the FIS Cup in Bischofshofen for the first time . After finishing second overall in the 2007 German Cup, he secured a place in the Alpine Cup , which he won straight away.

After he showed good constant performances at the FIS jumping competitions in 2007 and the beginning of 2008 and was able to win the German Cup in 2008, he started again in the FIS Cup from August 2008. In Predazzo he immediately showed good jumps with a tenth and a fourth place. He was also successful at the Alpine Cup on the same hill a week later, so that in September 2008 he had the first opportunity to compete in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . He was able to win his first Continental Cup points straight away in Oberstdorf with 12th place. After good jumping in the Alpine Cup, he jumped two more competitions in the Continental Cup in Braunlage in January and also got the points in both competitions. He finished the 2008/09 season in 134th place overall. Shortly thereafter, he secured the title of German youth champion in the team in 2009 and victory in the overall German Cup in 2009.

Although he won the FIS Cup competition in Oberwiesenthal in August 2009 and narrowly missed the podium in the second competition, he was not part of the German national team's regular B squad in 2009/10. He remained in the C-team until January 2010 and started in the Alpine Cup. In January 2010 he received a starting place for the Continental Cup show jumping in Titisee-Neustadt , where he was unsuccessful with 42nd place. Only two weeks later, however, he was able to secure points again in Iron Mountain .

For the 2010/11 season , Wenig was firmly nominated for the B-team in the Continental Cup. In the first competition of the season in Rovaniemi, Finland , he surprised with a good fifth place. In the second competition as well as in both competitions in Vikersund he was well under the top twenty. He was then nominated as a member of the national group for the jumping in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen as part of the Four Hills Tournament 2010/11 . However, Wenig was already disqualified in the qualification on both hills. After two good Alpine Cup competitions in Hinterzarten , he started at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2011 in Otepää, Estonia . There he won the silver medal in the team competition together with Richard Freitag , Marinus Kraus and Stephan Leyhe . In the individual competition, he jumped to 14th place.

After Wenig was again successful in the FIS Cup in Ruhpolding in February , he started again in the Continental Cup in March. In Kuopio , he won two points, which ended the season in 55th place overall. After more mixed in the Continental Cup, he started the summer season, he started in Kazakhstan's Almaty for the first time in the FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix . With the 27th place he also achieved his first points, which in the end helped him to the 83rd place overall.

Until December, all competitions in the Continental Cup were rather mediocre for few. It wasn't until December in Almaty that he was able to attract attention again with rank 10. He was able to reach this place in the second competition as well as in the first competition on the Kiremitliktepe in Erzurum . After this jumping, Wenig fought for a constant performance. In March 2012 he had to start again in the FIS Cup due to rather poor results in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and had to be content with places in the midfield here as well.

At the German Championships in Klingenthal in 2012 , Wenig won the team championship together with Andreas Wellinger , Karl Geiger and Marinus Kraus as Team Bayern I.

He started the Summer Continental Cup 2012 successfully with a ninth place in Stams . In Sochi he even achieved his best individual placement in the Continental Cup with sixth place. Then four days later he was given a starting place for the qualification for the Grand Prix jumping in Wisła , Poland , in which he did well and qualified for the jumping on the following day. There, however, he failed in the first round on rank 43. After he had to fight again with a significant drop in performance and again failed to qualify in both German jumping competitions in the Four Hills Tournament in 2012/13 , Wenig surprised on January 5, 2013 in Zakopane with his first win in the Continental Cup. On 13 January 2013 won little in Reit im Winkl the "Reit im Winkl Cup 2013" on the Franz-Haslberger hill . The other competitions until March were rather unsuccessful for Wenig, so that in the end only the 33rd place in the overall ranking jumped out. In the 2013/14 season he won the overall ranking of the Continental Cup. At the start of the Four Hills Tournament , he finished 22nd on December 29, 2014 in Oberstdorf and thus scored World Cup points for the first time in his career. In the end, he finished 70th overall in the 2014/15 season with 11 points. He ended his career in 2016.

successes

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	5th January 2013	Zakopane	Large hill
2.	March 2, 2014	Falun	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2014/15	70.	011

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2011	083.	004th
2013	050.	047
2014	025th	090
2015	070.	013

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2008/09	134.	012
2009/10	133.	004th
2010/11	055.	118
2011/12	033.	211
2012/13	033.	216
2013/14	001.	923
2014/15	023.	321
2015/16	076.	092

Private

Little has a brother and a sister and lives in Großkarolinenfeld .

Web links

• Daniel Wenig in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Daniel Wenig in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Daniel Wenig . German Ski Association . Retrieved May 8, 2013.
2. ↑ “Austria wins team title at Junior World Championships” at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on May 8, 2013.
3. ↑ DM 2012 - Team results list (PDF; 257 kB) . VSC Klingenthal. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
4. ↑ COC Zakopane: Little wins before Mechler and Kraus . Skispringen-News.de. January 5, 2013. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013. 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 May 8, 2013. 
5. ↑ Daniel Wenig with 91.5 meters . Chiemgau Online. January 18, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.