Henry Glass

Henry Glass
Henry Glaß in Johanngeorgenstadt 1970
nation	GDR
birthday	February 15, 1953
place of birth	Rodewisch ,  GDR
Career
status	resigned
End of career	1981
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × SFWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 2 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1976 Innsbruck Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1976 Innsbruck Large hill silver 1978 Lahti Normal hill  Ski flying world championships bronze 1977 Vikersund singles GDR championships bronze 1973 Schmiedefeld Normal hill silver 1975 Oberwiesenthal Normal hill silver 1975 Oberwiesenthal team silver 1977 Oberwiesenthal Large hill gold 1980 Klingenthal Large hill silver 1980 Klingenthal Normal hill gold 1981 Schmiedefeld Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
Overall World Cup	21. ( 1979/80 )
Four Hills Tournament	02. ( 1971/72 , 1979/80 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 1

Henry Glaß (born February 15, 1953 in Rodewisch ) is a former German ski jumper and today's ski jumping trainer.

Career

Glaß is the son of the Nordic combiner Gerhard Glaß and belonged to the SC Dynamo Klingenthal . His greatest successes were the bronze medal on the large hill at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , the bronze medal at the Ski Flying World Championships in 1977 , the silver medal in jumping from the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1978 and 2nd place at the Four Hills Tournament 1971/72 . He also won the 1978 ski flying week in Ironwood (USA) with a top distance of 154 meters. Henry Glaß became two-time GDR champion, in 1980 on the large hill and 1981 on the normal hill, he won the runner-up title in 1975 and 1980 on the normal hill and in 1977 on the large hill. He won a bronze medal at the 1973 championship on the normal hill. His coaches included Harry Glaß , Jürgen Wolf and Herbert Leonhardt .

Glaß had been assistant coach of the German national ski jumping team since the mid-1990s. From the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Glaß was excluded from the NOK as a trainer after it became known that Glaß had had contacts with the Ministry for State Security in the GDR .

Henry Glaß has been working at the Landesleistungszentrum in Klingenthal since May 2008. There he trains the young jumpers from Saxony.

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	21st	56
1980/81	46.	15th

Web links

Commons : Henry Glaß  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Henry Glaß in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Henry Glaß in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski jumping (results of the Four Hills Tournament). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved November 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Three German Olympic supervisors blocked by the NOK. In: handelsblatt.com . January 25, 2006, accessed November 14, 2018 .