Georg Hettich

Georg Hettich
Hettich 2004 during the Summer Grand Prix in Steinbach-Hallenberg
nation	Germany
birthday	October 12, 1978
place of birth	Furtwangen ,  Germany
job	college student
Career
society	Schonach-Rohrhardsberg ski team
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × Universiade medals 1 × 0 × 0 × DM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City 4 × 5 km team gold 2006 Turin 15 km individual silver 2006 Turin 4 × 5 km team bronze 2006 Turin 7.5 km sprint  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 × 5 km team silver 2005 Oberstdorf 4 × 5 km team  Winter Universiade gold 2005 Seefeld singles  German championships bronze 2005 Hinterzarten team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 3, 2000
World Cup victories (team)	2 ( details )
Overall World Cup	6. (2002/03, 2005/06)
Sprint World Cup	4th (2005/06)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 1 2  sprint 0 2 5  Mass start 0 1 0  team 2 2 1

Georg Hettich (born October 12, 1978 in Furtwangen ) is a former German Nordic combined and Olympic champion.

Career

During his active career, Hettich started for the Schonach-Rohrhardsberg ski team in his home town of Schonach in the Black Forest . He graduated from the ski boarding school in Furtwangen and then studied medical engineering at the Furtwangen University branch in Villingen-Schwenningen . He then did his doctorate in the field of sports motor skills at the Institute for Sports and Sports Science at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with a thesis on balance control. Today he works for the prosthesis manufacturer Aesculap. He lives in Freiburg with his wife Birgit and two sons.

At the Junior World Championship in 1997 in Calgary Georg Hettich won silver with the team as well as the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , at the 2003 World Championships in Val di Fiemme , at the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , respectively a silver medal with the team.

Georg Hettich won the gold medal in the individual at the Winter Universiade 2005.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics , he won the gold medal in the individual competition (Gundersen K90 / 15 km) in Turin and thus celebrated the greatest success of his sporting career. He also won the silver medal in the team competition with Björn Kircheisen , Ronny Ackermann and Jens Gaiser and won the bronze medal in the sprint.

For this sporting success he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on April 26, 2006.

In the years that followed, he couldn't get to this shape. He was absent from the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec and only traveled to Vancouver as a substitute for the 2010 Winter Olympics .

After the 2009/10 World Cup season , Georg Hettich ended his career. His last World Cup competition was on March 14, 2010 in Oslo .

Georg Hettich was elected a member of the 14th Federal Assembly on the proposal of the CDU parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament .

Quote

“Olympic champion - I thought it was only available on TV, now I'm one myself.” - after winning the gold medal.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 3, 2009	Schonach	Relay normal hill
2.	January 24, 2010	Schonach	Relay normal hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	August 21, 2002	Winterberg	Gundersen normal hill
2.	September 3, 2005	Steinbach-Hallenberg	Mass start large hill
3.	July 26, 2008	Hinterzarten	Gundersen normal hill

statistics

Participation in Winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	sprint	team
2002 Park City	34.	-	-	02.
2006 Turin	01.	-	03.	02.
2010 Vancouver	-	24.	-	-

Placements at world championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen	sprint	team
1997 Trondheim	-	-	06th
2001 Lahti	48.	13.	-
2003 Pragelato	04th	04th	02.
2005 Oberstdorf	22nd	07th	02.
2007 Sapporo	29	-	-

Web links

Commons : Georg Hettich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Georg Hettich's website
• Georg Hettich in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Georg Hettich on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Linder: Georg Hettich, in: Der Sonntag (Karlsruhe), February 3, 2019, p. 3.
2. ↑ Georg Hettich's staff page at the Institute for Sport and Sport Science at the University of Freiburg ( memento of the original from September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Harald Linder: Georg Hettich, in: Der Sonntag (Karlsruhe), February 3, 2019, p. 3.
4. ↑ Harald Linder: Georg Hettich, in: Der Sonntag (Karlsruhe), February 3, 2019, p. 3.
5. ↑ Olympic and Paralympic participants from Turin received from Federal President Köhler Silver Laurel Leaf / “ Keep sports funding ” , on dosb.de, on April 27, 2006. Accessed on May 22, 2017.