Hans-Peter Pohl

Hans-Peter Pohl
nation	BR Germany
birthday	January 30, 1965
place of birth	Triberg in the Black Forest ,  Germany
size	175 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
society	SC Schonach
National squad	since 1985
status	resigned
End of career	1994
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1988 Calgary Team 3x10 km (NH)  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1987 Oberstdorf Team 3x10 km (NH) bronze 1993 Falun Team 3x10 km (NH)  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1985 Randa / Täsch / Zermatt Team 3x10 km (NH)
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	March 16, 1985
Overall World Cup	10. ( 1990/91 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 0 1

Hans-Peter Pohl (born January 30, 1965 in Triberg in the Black Forest ) is a German former Nordic combined athlete . He became Olympic champion in the team together with Thomas Müller and Hubert Schwarz . Hans-Peter Pohl is Eurosport expert for TV coverage of Nordic combined.

Career

Beginnings in skiing

Pohl grew up in Schonach , where he still lives today with his wife Anja and three children. At the age of six, Hans-Peter started Nordic combined. After completing secondary school in 1980, he completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and then signed up for the German Armed Forces . On December 28, 1972, Pohl celebrated his first victory in ski jumping. In 1977 the first success in the combination followed, Pohl took second place at the German Schoolchildren Championship in Warmensteinach . In 1979 he became German champion in the age group up to 14 years.

First successes

In the years that followed, Hans-Peter Pohl became German champion twelve times, four of them in the senior class. Twice he won the overall Alpincup in the Nordic combined and in the special jumping.

Pohl made his international debut at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1985 in Täsch and Zermatt . He won the individual silver medal. On March 16, 1985, he finally made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup and immediately achieved sixth in the points and a place in the top ten in Oslo . Also in the World Cup races contested by Pohl in the 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons, he only achieved points.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 1987 , he finished eighth in the Gundersen singles before winning the gold medal in the team competition with Hermann Weinbuch and Thomas Müller . After the World Cup, he just missed the podium in Lahti and Falun as fourth. At the 1988 Winter Olympics , he won the gold medal together with Müller and Hubert Schwarz . He also stayed in the points in the following World Cup races, but did not get on the podium until 1991. It was not until January 5th, 1991 in Schonach in the Black Forest that he reached his first and only podium with third place. This season he achieved the best overall result of his career in the overall ranking with rank 10.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 in Val di Fiemme , Pohl landed fifth in the individual competition and barely missed a medal with the team in fourth. Also at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , he missed a title defense with the team and was fifth in the end.

In the 1993/94 season he played his last World Cup and then retired from active sports life.

After the sport

At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , Pohl met Dirk Thiele , sports commentator at Eurosport , who offered him the opportunity to comment on the special jumping with him. From this a lasting partnership developed, since 1998 Pohl worked regularly with Dirk Thiele to comment on special jumping and the Nordic combined. As early as 1994, he began studying at the trainer academy in Cologne, parallel to his commentary work. After passing the exam in 1995, he continued his training, this time as an insurance specialist, his current job. After his part-time work as an ARD expert in the years 2003-2010, he came back to Eurosport and commented there with Roman Knoblauch and Marc Rohde on the broadcasts of Nordic combined and women's ski jumping. Since 2006 he has been the independent owner of an Allianz agency in his home town of Schonach.

successes

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
2nd place
3rd place	1					1
Top 10	24					24
Scoring	36					36
Starts	36					36
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Hans-Peter Pohl in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Hans-Peter Pohl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Hans-Peter Pohl in the Munzinger archive