Felix Gottwald

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Felix Gottwald Nordic combination
Felix Gottwald (2010)

Felix Gottwald (2010)

nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday January 13, 1976
place of birth Zell am SeeAustria
size 179 cm
Weight 69 kg
job Entrepreneur
Career
society SC Saalfelden
status resigned
End of career March 12, 2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × gold 1 × silver 3 × bronze
World Cup medals 3 × gold 2 × silver 6 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2002 Salt Lake City team
bronze 2002 Salt Lake City sprint
bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Gundersen
gold 2006 Turin team
gold 2006 Turin sprint
silver 2006 Turin Gundersen
gold 2010 Vancouver team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1997 Trondheim team
silver 2001 Lahti team
bronze 2001 Lahti Gundersen
gold 2003 Val di Fiemme team
silver 2003 Val di Fiemme Gundersen
bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme sprint
bronze 2005 Oberstdorf team
bronze 2005 Oberstdorf Gundersen
gold 2011 Oslo Team normal hill
gold 2011 Oslo Team large hill
bronze 2011 Oslo Normal hill
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
silver 1993 Harrachov team
bronze 1994 Breitenwang team
gold 1995 Gällivare team
bronze 1995 Gällivare Gundersen
bronze 1996 Asiago Gundersen
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 23, 1993
 World Cup victories (individual) 23 ( details )
 World Cup victories (team) 01 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 01. ( 2000/01 )
 Sprint World Cup 01. ( 2000/01 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 9 14th 13
 sprint 11 7th 7th
 Mass start 3 3 0
 team 1 4th 0
 

Felix Gottwald (born January 13, 1976 in Zell am See ) is a former Austrian Nordic combined athlete . With three gold , one silver and three bronze medals, he is the most successful athlete in Austrian Olympic history . In total, he won 18 medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships.

Career

Felix Gottwald starts for SC Saalfelden and is considered one of the strongest cross-country skiers among the combiners, and was able to achieve a total of 23 World Cup victories. In 2001 he was the overall World Cup winner, in 2002, 2003 and 2010 he finished second. He has won 18 medals at major sporting events. In 2003 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal .

With seven medals at the Olympic Games , he is Austria's most successful Olympic participant. At the Olympic Games in Turin in 2006, Gottwald had the great chance of winning his first individual gold medal in a major event, which he was later able to achieve in the sprint competition. After jumping in eleventh place, he fought his way up to the top group in cross-country skiing and started a successful breakaway attempt on the last climb together with the German Georg Hettich . However, due to his race to catch up, the Zeller was unable to gain any further and ultimately had to admit defeat to Hettich. In the team competition he won the gold medal with Mario Stecher , Christoph Bieler and Michael Gruber . After jumping Austria was still in second place; Gottwald ran as the third man and made a major contribution to the Austrian victory. He was able to  make up a lot of time on Ronny Ackermann - the third runner of the Germans - and put goalkeeper Mario Stecher in a good starting position. In the final sprint competition, Felix Gottwald, after finishing twelfth after the jumping, took gold before the Norwegian Magnus Moan and the German Georg Hettich, who was in the lead after the jump.

Felix Gottwald ended his active career on March 18, 2007 with a second place in the sprint at Holmenkollen in Oslo. His hometown club named the Felix Gottwald ski jumping stadium in Uttenhofen after him . At the end of 2008 he published his autobiography One Day in My Life .

On May 17th, 2009 Gottwald announced his new start in Nordic combined. In his first two competitions, the Austrian championships on October 17 and 18, 2009, he took second place on the normal and large hill. After he had to cancel the planned comeback in the World Cup after an almost three year break on November 28, 2009 in Kuusamo due to illness, he started in Lillehammer somewhat weakened and reached the ranks 15th and 12th. The races scheduled for Harrachov were canceled and it followed three races in his adopted home, the Ramsau . He came in second, fifth and third.

Felix Gottwald ( Vancouver 2010 )

He then finished second twice in Oberhof , Germany. He achieved the absolute best time in both races, catching up over a minute in the run. On January 9, 2010, he finally won his first World Cup race after his comeback in Val di Fiemme . At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2010 he finished 14th in the normal hill competition. On February 23, 2010 he finally won Olympic gold again in the team competition with Mario Stecher, David Kreiner and Bernhard Gruber . After jumping to 125 m in the ski jumping competition, Gottwald fought a duel with the American Johnny Spillane in the cross-country skiing competition . On the last climb before the handover, he left Spillane and handed over to last runner Mario Stecher with a lead of around 14 seconds. With this gold medal, Gottwald also replaced Toni Sailer and Thomas Morgenstern as Austria's most successful Olympic athletes.

In his second comeback year on November 27, 2010, he won the individual competition in Kuusamo with a spectacular race to catch up: after jumping only 26th, he managed to catch up a full two minutes behind in the 10 km cross-country skiing and thus set a new record in this competition to care.

After settling for 14 December 2010 in a practice crash on the 60 meter hill in Villach had suffered a broken right shoulder blade, he won only 25 days later, the 10 km World Cup competition in Germany Schonach in front of his team-mate Mario Stecher and Bernhard Gruber and caused a sensation due to the extremely short state of recovery.

On January 13, 2011, exactly on his 35th birthday, Felix Gottwald announced his plans for the time after the end of his career. In the future he will work as a mentor with Therme Loipersdorf , hold management seminars and act as an ambassador for the SalzburgerLand Tourismus Gesellschaft .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , Gottwald won his sixth bronze medal at world championships on February 26, 2011. Two days later he became team world champion on the normal hill with David Kreiner, Bernhard Gruber and Mario Stecher. Gottwald went on the trail as the third Austrian, was able to make up over 19 seconds or two places and hand it over to Mario Stecher as the leader. On March 4, 2011, Gottwald won the gold medal in the team competition on the large hill in his last appearance at major events with the unchanged relay.

One week after the end of the World Championships in Oslo, Gottwald ended his career at the World Cup finals in Lahti . In his last race he ran from 23rd place after jumping to third place. In the overall standings he also took third place.

Gottwald is very proactive when it comes to doping . In an interview shortly before the start of the 2009 season, he said: “It is crucial that you are satisfied with yourself in life. If you dop, manipulate, cheat, then that won't work. "

Sporting successes

World Cup victories in individual

date place country discipline
December 2, 2000 Kuopio Finland sprint
December 3, 2000 Kuopio Finland Gundersen
January 19, 2001 Park City United States sprint
March 1, 2001 Nayoro Japan Mass start
March 9, 2001 Oslo Norway Gundersen
March 10, 2001 Oslo Norway sprint
December 7, 2001 Zakopane Poland Mass start
December 16, 2001 Steamboat Springs United States Gundersen
December 29, 2001 Oberwiesenthal Germany sprint
January 5, 2002 Schonach Germany Gundersen
January 11, 2002 Val di Fiemme Italy sprint
January 13, 2002 Ramsau am Dachstein Austria Mass start
January 1, 2003 Oberhof Germany sprint
January 12, 2003 Chaux-Neuve France Gundersen
March 8, 2003 Oslo Norway sprint
March 15, 2003 Lahti Finland sprint
February 12, 2005 Pragelato Italy sprint
January 3, 2006 Ruhpolding Germany sprint
January 6, 2007 Oberstdorf Germany Gundersen
January 20, 2007 Seefeld Austria sprint
January 9, 2010 Val di Fiemme Italy Gundersen
November 27, 2010 Kuusamo Finland Gundersen
January 8, 2011 Schonach Germany Gundersen

World Cup victories in the team

date place country discipline
March 16, 2000 Santa Caterina Italy Team mass start

statistics

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
placement Single a sprint Mass start team total
sprint Season
1st place 9 11 3 1 24
2nd place 14th 7th 3 4th 28
3rd place 13 7th 0 20th
Top 10 84 53 10 8th 155
Scoring 109 74 13 9 205
Starts 111 74 13   9 207
Status: end of career
a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Awards (excerpt)

LOTTERY GALA "Night of Sports" :

  • Team of the year: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2010
  • Special Award (Unique Career): 2007

literature

Web links

Commons : Felix Gottwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Return of the flagship athlete  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sport.orf.at, May 17, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sport.orf.at  
  2. a b ÖSV combiners conquer gold ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2010 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. sport.orf.at, February 24, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sport.orf.at
  3. Gottwald - the longest race to catch up diepresse.com, November 28, 2010
  4. Felix Gottwald becomes ambassador  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Salzburger Nachrichten, January 14, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.salzburg.com  
  5. Felix Gottwald for SalzburgerLand SalzburgerLand Tourismus GmbH, accessed on February 2, 2011
  6. Gottwald: "Sport is too good for me" sportnet.at, November 26, 2009
  7. ^ Rolf Bryhn: Holmenkollmedaljen - tildelinger. In: snl.no . Retrieved February 22, 2018 (Norwegian).
  8. Honorary Ambassador of the Jane Goodall Institute Austria, accessed on February 20, 2012