Gerd Siegmund

Gerd Siegmund
nation	DDR Germany
birthday	7th February 1973
place of birth	Dresden,  GDR
size	180 cm
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	WSV Oberhof 05 VSC Klingenthal SC Dynamo Klingenthal
Pers. Best	190 m ( Oberstdorf 1998)
status	resigned
End of career	2000
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 3 × 4 × 3 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1995 Thunder Bay team  German championships bronze 1993 Oberwiesenthal Normal hill silver 1994 Oberstdorf Normal hill gold 1996 Oberhof Large hill silver 1996 Oberhof Normal hill silver 1996 Oberhof team gold 1997 Baiersbronn team silver 1997 Baiersbronn Normal hill bronze 1998 Ruhpolding Large hill bronze 1998 Ruhpolding team gold 1999 Oberwiesenthal Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	17th January 1990
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	13. ( 1993/94 )
Ski flying world cup	15th (1994/95)
Jump World Cup	32nd (1995/96)
Four Hills Tournament	22. ( 1994/95 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 0 0  Team jumping 1 2 2
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 28, 1994
Overall Grand Prix	15th ( 1995 )

Gerd Siegmund (born February 7, 1973 in Dresden ) is a former German ski jumper .

Career

In 1983 Siegmund made his debut as a ski jumper. His first club was Dynamo Sebnitz, where he learned ski jumping. He then attended the children's and youth sports school in Klingenthal , where he belonged to the SC Dynamo Klingenthal . After graduating from school, he became a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr and continued training in Oberhof after the fall of the Wall . He completed a total of 133 world cup competitions during his active career. He celebrated his greatest success in the World Cup in 1994 in Thunder Bay , Canada . Here he achieved the first and only World Cup victory of his career. Participation in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer was a special highlight in the Dresdner's career. In the individual competition on the normal hill he reached 11th place. In the team that could win the gold medal in the team competition, however, he was not positioned.

A year later, in 1995, he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay. Together with Jens Weißflog , Hansjörg Jäkle and Dieter Thoma , he won the silver medal in the team competition. In the individual competition on the large hill, he was also able to achieve 10th place. A few more years in the World Cup followed with ups and downs. 1998 Siegmund had to accept a bitter disappointment. Despite the established qualification standard, he was not taken to the Olympic Games in Nagano . Two years later he ended his career for good after struggling with knee problems.

After the end of his active career, Siegmund worked as a ski jumping expert for ARD . After his engagement ended, Siegmund switched to the television station Eurosport a little later . Here he stood by the commentator Dirk Thiele as a specialist in ski jumping broadcasts until 2016.

In addition, he is active as the sports manager of Richard Freitag and Andreas Wank and also exercised this function with Michael Uhrmann , Stephan Hocke and Jörg Ritzerfeld . He is also involved in the organization of World Cup competitions in Germany. In February 2007, for example, he played a major role in the success of the World Cup in Klingenthal, which served as a replacement for the snowless World Cup station in Harrachov. In Klingenthal he is now head of marketing.

Since the 2009/2010 season , he and Dirk Thiele have also been reporting on the men's ski jumping World Cup in a regular video blog on YouTube on a private initiative . Background information and interviews with athletes, trainers and officials are offered under the name skisprungtv . Since 2016 he has moderated the AVIA ski jumping talk with Dirk Thiele on the internet channels Facebook and Youtube.

On September 19, 2015, Gerd Siegmund was unanimously elected President of the Thuringian Ski Association's Xth Association Day, but only one year later he resigned.

Gerd Siegmund has been working as a ski jumping consultant at ZDF since the 2017/2018 winter season.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 26, 1994	Thunder Bay	Normal hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 25, 1994	Thunder Bay	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 28, 1999	Schönwald	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1992/93	59.	001
1993/94	13.	326
1994/95	22nd	200
1995/96	34.	150
1996/97	88	008th
1997/98	45.	056
1998/99	41.	089
1999/00	34.	114

Web links

• Gerd Siegmund in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Gerd Siegmund in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Gerd Siegmund to Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• AVIA ski jumping talk Facebook
• AVIA ski jumping talk Youtube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski jumper Richard Freitag does not take off. Thüringer Allgemeine , December 15, 2011, accessed on February 2, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Siegmund convinced of the German team's successes. Thüringer Allgemeine, December 8, 2012, accessed January 8, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Youngest jumper trio with the youngest manager. Sächsische Zeitung , December 31, 2001, accessed January 8, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Martin Schmitt deleted from the squad. rp-online.de, December 19, 2007, accessed on February 2, 2012 . 
5. ^ Thomas Nahrendorf: After departure from Eurosport: Gerd Siegmund is doing that now . tag24.de. December 1, 2016. Accessed April 21, 2019.
6. ↑ Thomas Rudolph: Siegmund unanimously elected the new ski president. In: Thuringian General . September 21, 2015, accessed January 22, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Administrator: Thüringer Skiverband eV (No longer available online.) In: Thüringer Skiverband eV Archived from the original on September 26, 2016 ; Retrieved September 26, 2016 .