Falko Weißpflog

Falko Weißpflog
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	1954
place of birth	Pleißa ,  GDR
Career
National squad	since 1976
status	resigned
End of career	1980
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 1 × 1 × 2 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1978 Lahti Large hill GDR championships bronze 1976 Lauscha Normal hill silver 1977 Oberwiesenthal Normal hill gold 1978 Schmiedefeld Large hill bronze 1979 Oberhof Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
Overall World Cup	46th ( 1979/80 )

Falko Weißpflog (* 1954 in Pleißa ) is a former German ski jumper .

Career

Falko Weißpflog completed his first jumps on the ski jumping facility in Gussgrund, which is part of the Rabensteiner Forest near Grüna . Weisspflog was internationally successful especially from 1976 to 1980. His greatest successes include the bronze medal on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1978 and the ski flying world record of 174 meters on the Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill in Oberstdorf in 1976 . Weißpflog was initially active for his home company sports club Motor Grüna , after he had convinced the officials with good performances, he started from 1973 like his brother Roland for the SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal , for which Jens Weißflog later also celebrated successes.

Because of his long jumps, Falko Weißpflog was also known as a falcon . The Austrian musician Johann Hölzel was fascinated by Weißpflog and thereupon chose his stage name Falco , as he announced in the TV show “ Outsider front runner ”.

successes

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 3rd place February 18, 1978 Lahti (FIN) large hill behind Tapio Räisänen (FIN) and Alois Lipburger (AUT)

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	46.	20th

GDR championships

• 1976 - 3rd place on the normal hill behind Jochen Danneberg and Bernd Eckstein
• 1977 - 2nd place on the normal hill behind Harald Duschk and in front of Thomas Meisinger
• 1978 - GDR champion on the large hill in front of Jochen Danneberg and Matthias Buse
• 1979 - 3rd place on the large hill behind Harald Duschk and Martin Weber
• Records:
  • March 5, 1976 Ski flying world record 174 m in Oberstdorf

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Oberstdorf	Germany	174.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 5th 1976	March 7, 1976
innsbruck	Austria	106.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	January 3, 1978	2nd January 1980
Lahti	Finland	114.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	February 26, 1978	March 9, 1980

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .

Web links

• Falko Weißpflog in the database of the International Ski Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The green side of winter sports. In: Free Press. Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG, April 20, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Sports and crafts keep 85-year-olds young . Free press - www.pleissa-sachsen.de. September 2, 2005. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of the ski jumper Falko Weißpflog - Rock me Amadeus - How Falco got his name . Central German radio . February 8, 2011. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
4. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 167
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} GDR championships - ski jumping . sport-komplett.de. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
6. ↑ Ski flying world records . Skisprungschanzen.com. Retrieved March 2, 2014.