Holger Friday
Holger Friday 
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| nation |
 GDR
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| birthday | October 8, 1963 | ||||||||
| place of birth |
Steinheidel-Erlabrunn , GDR
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| size | 173 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg | ||||||||
| Career | |||||||||
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| society | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | ||||||||
| Trainer |
Jürgen Wolf Herbert Leonhardt |
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| National squad | since 1980 | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1986 | ||||||||
| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | |||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | December 30, 1980 | ||||||||
| World Cup victories (individual) | 1 ( details ) | ||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 29. ( 1983/84 ) | ||||||||
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Holger Freitag (born October 8, 1963 in Steinheidel-Erlabrunn ) is a former German ski jumper .
Career
On December 30, 1980, on Friday in Oberstdorf, he had his first ski jumping World Cup . However, the first three years of his career were largely unsuccessful.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 , Friday reached 27th place on the normal hill and 39th place on the large hill. In the team competition, he came in 4th place together with Matthias Buse , Klaus Ostwald and Manfred Deckert and thus narrowly missed the medal ranks. On January 6, 1983, Friday jumped in Bischofshofen for the first time with an 11th place to a point. Two days later he was able to win his first and only World Cup competition in Harrachov . At the end of the 1983/84 season he finished 29th in the overall World Cup ranking.
At the 1984 Winter Olympics , Friday jumped to 35th place in the competition on the normal hill.
He had to break off the Four Hills Tournament in 1984/85 after two rather mediocre jumps in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a serious fall in Innsbruck . After this fall, he was operated on several times and was unable to build on his previous successes. In 1986 he again competed in three World Cup competitions, where he once again jumped among the top ten in Liberec with 8th place. He finished his last World Cup on February 21, 1986 in Gstaad in 13th place.
After his career, he studied medicine and received his doctorate. He is a specialist in orthopedics and works as a resident doctor in Auerbach in Vogtland . His son Richard Freitag and his daughter Selina Freitag are also ski jumpers.
successes
World Cup victories in individual
| No. | date | place | Type |
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| 1. | January 8, 1983 |
 Harrachov
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Large hill |
European Cup wins in individual
| No. | date | place | Type |
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| 1. | March 25, 1984 |
Štrbské Pleso
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Large hill |
statistics
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1982/83 | 24. | 32 |
| 1983/84 | 29 | 38 |
| 1985/86 | 24. | 14th |
Web links
- Holger Freitag in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Holger Freitag in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Dr. med. Holger Freitag from Auerbach: From the jump table to the operating table (PDF; 239 kB), in: KVS-Mitteilungen 3/2007
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Friday, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinheidel-Erlabrunn , German Democratic Republic |