Eric Frenzel
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Frenzel 2016 at the World Cup in Ramsau |
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nation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 21st November 1988 (age 31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Annaberg-Buchholz , GDR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WSC Oberwiesenthal SSV Geyer (since 08/2018) |
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Debut in the World Cup | January 13, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (individual) | 43 ( details ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (team) | 10 ( details ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall World Cup |
2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 ) |
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Grand Prix victories (individual) | details ) | 6 (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: October 27, 2019 |
Eric Frenzel (born November 21, 1988 in Annaberg-Buchholz , Karl-Marx-Stadt district , GDR ) is a German Nordic combined athlete . He became Olympic champion in 2014 and 2018 , individual world champion in 2011 , 2013 and 2019 and won the overall ranking of the World Cup five times from 2013 to 2017 .
Career
Eric Frenzel started for WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal until 2018 and since then for SSV Geyer . He comes from Geyer and has been skiing since 1995. He has been part of the national team since 2003. He is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr and is looked after by the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Frankenberg / Saxony. Since March 2003, he entered junior races and other events such as unterklassigen FIS races and the World Cup B to. Here he was able to continuously improve his performance and achieved very good results several times.
After a first start in the World Cup in January 2007 in Lago di Tesero (44th in the mass start), Frenzel was nominated for the first time for the Nordic World Ski Championships . In Sapporo he was 22nd in the Gundersen competition. At the subsequent Junior World Championships in Tarvisio , Frenzel won gold in the sprint, the silver medal in the relay and he was eighth in the Gundersen competition. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season , the Oberwiesenthaler was able to place in the top ten for the first time in his second World Cup race (Gundersen method) in Kuusamo, finishing fourth. In January the first victory followed in a mass start competition in Klingenthal .
At the 2009 World Championships in Liberec , he achieved the silver medal in the team competition with the German team. Two years after his first World Cup victory, he won a World Cup for the second time on January 30, 2010 in Seefeld (Gunderson method). Together with Björn Kircheisen , Tino Edelmann and Johannes Rydzek , he won the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
At the opening competition of the 2010/11 World Cup season in Kuusamo, Finland, Frenzel took second place, setting a new hill record in jumping on the Rukatunturi hill with 148.5 meters. On February 26, 2011 he celebrated his first great success when he became world champion in the individual of the Gundersen competition (one jump from the normal hill, 10 km cross-country skiing) at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo . Two days later he was runner-up in the German 4 × 5 kilometer relay and won the bronze medal on March 2, 2011 in the decision of the large hill followed by cross-country skiing.
In the winter of 2012/13 he won four competitions in Seefeld and Klingenthal in a row and took the lead in the World Cup for the first time. In addition, he was the first German combined athlete to win a home race again after five years. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he narrowly missed a medal in the first individual competition when he lost out in the final sprint against Mario Stecher and Björn Kircheisen. When jumping from the large hill, he set a new hill record with 138.5 m, kept the resulting lead in the trail to the finish and became world champion for the second time. In the team sprint he also won the bronze medal together with Tino Edelmann. On March 15, 2013 he won the World Cup in the 2012/13 season with a win in Oslo.
In the 2013/14 season , Frenzel won the first Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld with three competitions in which cross-country trails of 5, 10 and 15 km were completed and each started at the intervals of the previous day. He won all three competitions. For this there were 200 World Cup points and 30,000 euros in prize money. Before that, he was victorious in three other World Cup races. On February 12, 2014, he won gold on the normal hill at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi , 4.2 seconds ahead of Akito Watabe. After a virus infection, he remained without a medal in the competition on the large hill despite being in the lead after jumping. With the team he won the silver medal as a starting runner together with Björn Kircheisen, Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Rießle . For these Olympic achievements, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Joachim Gauck on May 8, 2014 . In the first competition after the games, he secured third place in Lahti for the second time, winning the overall World Cup.
In January 2015, Frenzel won the Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld for the second time in a row . In 2015, as in the previous year, he won all three competitions. With two subsequent victories in Sapporo, he was able to win five races in a row. At the 2015 World Championships in Falun , together with Tino Edelmann , Fabian Rießle and Johannes Rydzek, he won the gold medal for a German team for the first time in 28 years. With Rydzek he won another medal in the team sprint with silver. Despite a strong season up to then and the leading position in the World Cup, he remained without a podium in the individual competitions of the World Cup. After the World Cup, he won the overall World Cup ranking for the third time in a row .
In winter 2015/16 , Frenzel secured the third overall victory in the third edition of the Nordic Combined Triple . As in the previous two years, he won all three competitions. With the victories in the Nordic Combined Triple, Frenzel took over the World Cup lead from Fabian Rießle . Before the triple he was able to win two World Cup competitions and after the triple another three. Frenzel celebrated the last of his eight World Cup victories in the season on March 5, 2016 in Schonach in the Black Forest and 29 years after Hubert Schwarz , a German athlete again won a World Cup in Schonach. With this victory he secured the overall World Cup prematurely and drew level with the Finns Hannu Manninen , who also won the crystal ball four times in a row.
In the 2016/17 World Cup season in the Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld, Frenzel narrowly lost the finish sprint against Johannes Rydzek in the first two races , but won the decisive third race on January 29 and secured overall victory for the fourth time in a row. At the World Championships in Lahti he won gold with Johannes Rydzek, Fabian Rießle and Björn Kircheisen in the team competition and with Rydzek in the team sprint, as well as silver behind Rydzek on the normal hill. He celebrated his 40th World Cup victory on March 18, 2017 in Schonach, winning the Black Forest Cup for the second time in a row . One day later, by winning the last race of the season for the fifth time, he won the overall World Cup ahead of Johannes Rydzek and Akito Watabe . He passed Hannu Manninen and is the most successful athlete in the Nordic Combined World Cup.
For the opening ceremony of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , Korea , Frenzel was chosen as the flag bearer of the German delegation . He prevailed in an online vote among athletes and fans against the speed skater Claudia Pechstein , the ski racer Viktoria Rebensburg , the tobogganist Natalie Geisenberger and the ice hockey national player Christian Ehrhoff . On the normal hill and with the team he became Olympic champion, on the large hill he won the bronze medal. At the end of the World Cup season , Frenzel only finished eighth this time after five overall World Cup wins in a row. On August 13, 2018, Eric Frenzel announced his return to SSV Geyer , for whom he will compete in the future World Cup. At the same time he was awarded honorary membership in the WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal .
With two second places in Lillehammer , Frenzel started the 2018/19 World Cup season . In the further course of the season he only came within reach of the podium in Val die Fiemme with fifth place. Before the World Championships in Seefeld , he took a break from competition and worked on the approach squat during jumping training in Planica . This paid off at the World Championships. After jumping 130.5 meters on Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck, he went into the cross-country ski run as the leader, where he was able to defend his lead to the finish and win the gold medal. With a good jumping performance, he laid the basis for winning the gold medal in the team sprint with Fabian Rießle two days later .
Private
Eric Frenzel graduated from the Oberwiesenthal sports boarding school. At the age of 18 he had a son. In September 2013 he began studying industrial engineering in a pilot project for top athletes at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences . The second son was born at the end of September 2015 and in June 2017 he became the father of a daughter for the first time. Frenzel lives with his family in Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate .
successes
World Cup victories in individual
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | January 20, 2008 | Klingenthal | Mass start |
2. | January 30, 2010 | Seefeld | Gundersen |
3. | 4th December 2011 | Lillehammer | Penalty Race |
4th | 19th January 2013 | Seefeld | Gundersen |
5. | 20th January 2013 | Seefeld | Gundersen |
6th | January 26, 2013 | Klingenthal | Gundersen |
7th | January 27, 2013 | Klingenthal | Penalty Race |
8th. | March 8, 2013 | Lahti | Gundersen |
9. | 15 March 2013 | Oslo | Gundersen |
10. | November 30, 2013 | Kuusamo | Gundersen |
11. | December 8, 2013 | Lillehammer | Gundersen |
12. | December 15, 2013 | Ramsau | Gundersen |
13. | 17th January 2014 | Seefeld | Sprint 1 |
14th | January 18, 2014 | Seefeld | Gundersen 1 |
15th | 19th January 2014 | Seefeld | Gundersen 2 |
16. | January 26, 2014 | Oberstdorf | Gundersen |
17th | December 6, 2014 | Lillehammer | Gundersen |
18th | January 10, 2015 | Chaux-Neuve | Gundersen |
19th | January 16, 2015 | Seefeld | Sprint 1 |
20th | 17th January 2015 | Seefeld | Gundersen 1 |
21st | January 18, 2015 | Seefeld | Gundersen 2 |
22nd | 23rd January 2015 | Sapporo | Gundersen |
23. | January 24, 2015 | Sapporo | Gundersen |
24. | 20th December 2015 | Ramsau | Gundersen |
25th | January 23, 2016 | Chaux-Neuve | Gundersen |
26th | January 29, 2016 | Seefeld | Sprint 1 |
27. | January 30, 2016 | Seefeld | Gundersen 1 |
28. | January 31, 2016 | Seefeld | Gundersen 2 |
29 | February 10, 2016 | Trondheim | Gundersen |
30th | 19th February 2016 | Lahti | Gundersen |
31. | 5th March 2016 | Schonach | Gundersen |
32. | 3rd December 2016 | Lillehammer | Gundersen |
33. | 4th December 2016 | Lillehammer | Gundersen |
34. | December 18, 2016 | Ramsau | Gundersen |
35. | January 7, 2017 | Lahti | Gundersen |
36. | January 13, 2017 | Val di Fiemme | Gundersen |
37. | 15th January 2017 | Val di Fiemme | Gundersen |
38. | 29th January 2017 | Seefeld | Gundersen 2 |
39. | 15th March 2017 | Trondheim | Gundersen |
40. | 18th March 2017 | Schonach | Gundersen |
41. | 19th March 2017 | Schonach | Gundersen |
42. | December 16, 2017 | Ramsau | Gundersen |
43. | March 13, 2018 | Trondheim | Gundersen |
World Cup victories in the team
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | January 3, 2009 | Schonach | Season 3 |
2. | January 24, 2010 | Schonach | Season 3 |
3. | January 13, 2013 | Chaux-Neuve | Team sprint 4 |
4th | 3rd February 2013 | Sochi | Season 5 |
5. | March 9, 2013 | Lahti | Team sprint 6 |
6th | January 25, 2014 | Oberstdorf | Season 7 |
7th | January 3, 2015 | Schonach | Season 8 |
8th. | 2nd December 2016 | Lillehammer | Season 9 |
9. | January 13, 2018 | Val di Fiemme | Team sprint 10 |
10. | November 25, 2018 | Kuusamo | Season 11 |
Individual Grand Prix victories
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | August 14, 2007 | Klingenthal | Mass start |
2. | August 7, 2010 | Oberstdorf | Gundersen |
3. | August 27, 2011 | Oberwiesenthal | Gundersen |
4th | September 2, 2011 | Oberstdorf | Gundersen |
5. | August 30, 2015 | Oberwiesenthal | Gundersen |
6th | August 25, 2017 | Oberstdorf | Gundersen |
Grand Prix victories in the team
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | 23rd August 2014 | Oberwiesenthal | Team sprint 1 |
2. | August 27, 2016 | Oberwiesenthal | Team sprint 2 |
statistics
Placements at the Olympic Winter Games
Year and place | competition | ||
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Gundersen NS | Gundersen GS | team | |
2010 Vancouver | 10. | 40. | 3. |
2014 Sochi | 1. | 10. | 2. |
2018 Pyeongchang | 1. | 3. | 1. |
Placements at world championships
Year and place | competition | ||||||
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sprint | Gundersen NS | Gundersen GS | Mass start | Team NS | Team GS | Team sprint | |
2007 Sapporo | DSQ | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - |
2009 Liberec | - | 34. | 29 | 8th. | - | 2. | - |
2011 Oslo | - | 1. | 3. | - | 2. | 2. | - |
2013 Val di Fiemme | - | 4th | 1. | - | 6th | - | 3. |
2015 Falun | - | 4th | 9. | - | 1. | - | 2. |
2017 Lahti | - | 2. | 7th | - | 1. | - | 1. |
2019 Seefeld | - | 16. | 1. | - | 2. | - | 1. |
World Cup placements
season | space | Points |
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2007/08 | 7th | 752 |
2008/09 | 11. | 473 |
2009/10 | 4th | 697 |
2010/11 | 4th | 554 |
2011/12 | 6th | 727 |
2012/13 | 1. | 1034 |
2013/14 | 1. | 1031 |
2014/15 | 1. | 945 |
2015/16 | 1. | 1389 |
2016/17 | 1. | 1734 |
2017/18 | 8th. | 622 |
2018/19 | 12. | 380 |
2019/20 | 7th | 565 |
Grand Prix placements
season | space | Points |
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2007 | 4th | 211 |
2008 | 7th | 114 |
2009 | 12. | 99 |
2010 | 3. | 260 |
2011 | 3. | 269 |
2012 | 6th | 197 |
2013 | 8th. | 117 |
2014 | 2. | 285 |
2015 | 5. | 182 |
2016 | 31. | 18th |
2017 | 2. | 290 |
2018 | 10. | 140 |
2019 | 14th | 108 |
Placements at German championships
Year and place | competition | |||
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Gundersen | sprint | Mass start | Team sprint | |
2004 Oberstdorf | 32. | 16. | - | - |
2006 Oberhof | - | 7th | - | - |
2007 Winterberg | 15th | 9. | - | - |
2008 Klingenthal | - | 9. | 1. | - |
2009 Garmisch | 2. | - | - | 2. |
2010 Hinterzarten | 2. | - | - | 1. |
2011 Hinterzarten | 7th | - | - | - |
2012 Klingenthal | 1. | - | - | - |
2013 Oberstdorf | - | - | - | 3. |
2014 Hinterzarten | 3. | - | - | 2. |
2015 Oberstdorf | 2. | - | - | 2. |
2016 Oberhof | 2. | - | - | 4th |
2017 Klingenthal | 2. | - | - | 1. |
2018 Hinterzarten | 2. | - | - | 2. |
2019 Johanngeorgenstadt | 7th | - | - | 2. |
Awards
- 2014: Champion of the year
- 2014 , 2018 : Sportsman of the year , 2nd place
- 2014: Silver bay leaf
- 2014: Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in bronze
- 2014: Holmenkollen Medal
- 2014–2019: Saxony's Sportsman of the Year (record)
- 2015: Sportsman of the year (team)
- five times athlete of the month
- 2018: Geyer was awarded honorary citizenship
Others
On June 28, 2014, SSV Geyer named its club's own school jumps after Eric Frenzel. On June 20, 2017, he was made an honorary citizen of the Oberwiesenthal health resort .
Web links
- Official website
- Eric Frenzel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Eric Frenzel on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Eric Frenzel in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Combiner Frenzel brings four wins in a row. Die Zeit , January 27, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Combined Frenzel brings home success and yellow jersey. Die Welt , January 26, 2013, accessed December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Frenzel wins gold in the combination: "I am overwhelmed". Focus , February 8, 2013, accessed December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Frenzel wins after disqualification. Sport1 , March 5, 2016, accessed December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Seefeld series torn by Frenzel. Sportschau , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Rydzek snatches the victory away from Frenzel again. Sportschau , January 28, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Frenzel strikes back and intercepts Rydzek. Sportschau , January 29, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Fall drama: Frenzel before overall victory. Sport1 , March 18, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Frenzel celebrates fifth overall World Cup victory in a row. Spiegel Online, March 19, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Frenzel becomes the German flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 7, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Eric Frenzel: With precision landing to the world champion. In: Free Press . February 22, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Nordic skiing: girlfriend and little son biggest fans of world champion Eric Frenzel. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , November 29, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Frenzel becomes a father again. In: Sport1 .de. October 15, 2015, accessed December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Eric Frenzel is father again. In: Saxon newspaper . June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Eric Frenzel: Sporty family man. Badische Zeitung , March 2, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen til Moan og Frenzel. In: nrk.no. March 8, 2014, accessed August 16, 2020 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Eric Frenzel made an honorary citizen . In: Free Press, Zwickauer Zeitung . May 5, 2018, p. 21 .
- ↑ Sports facilities. SSV Geyer, accessed February 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Eric Frenzel becomes an honorary citizen of the Oberwiesenthal health resort. Blick.de , August 6, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Frenzel, Eric |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Nordic combined |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Annaberg-Buchholz , Karl-Marx-Stadt district , GDR |