Janko Neuber

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Janko Neuber Cross-country skiing
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nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic of Germany
GermanyGermany 
birthday June 25, 1971
place of birth Marienberg ,  German Democratic RepublicGermany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
size 180 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
society Oberwiesenthaler SV
National squad since 1992
status resigned
End of career 2002
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
silver 1989 Vang Season
gold 1990 Les Saisies Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 12, 1992
 Overall World Cup 46th ( 1995/96 )
 Sprint World Cup 65th ( 1998/99 )
 Long distance world cup 45th ( 1999/00 )
 Middle distance world cup 60th ( 1999/00 )
Placements in the marathon or Worldloppet Cup
 Debut in the Cup 2001
 Worldloppet Cup victories 73rd ( 2001 ) ( details )
 

Janko Neuber (born June 25, 1971 in Marienberg ) is a former German cross-country skier and today's trainer.

Career

Neuber started skiing as a child with both sisters Jeannette and Jaqueline. The family created cross-country trails and smaller ski jumps at their own house. From 1978 to 1985 Neuber attended the Polytechnic High School in his home town of Neuhausen. After he had won the school championship in touring and cross-country skiing, he was approached by his sports teacher Bernd Meier about regular training. He began to train at the training center in Neuhausen with the Nordic combined trainer Günther Hertels , who also looked after Konrad Winkler . But after he did not quite achieve the expected success with jumps from hills, he switched to cross-country skiing and trained with Frank Hiemann and Volker Langer. A short time later he reached second place in the GDR championships in age group 12 and was subsequently allowed to switch to the children's and youth sports school (KJS) in Oberwiesenthal . However, he initially decided against boarding school life. Neuber continued to convince in Neuhausen with his performances, as he was one of the few young talents who already competed in the new skating technique.

In August 1985 Neuber finally went to the sports boarding school in Oberwiesenthal. His new trainer there was Antje Weidlich . In his second year at the KJS, Neuber was a multiple GDR Spartakiade winner. After the 10th grade, Neuber decided on the Abitur, which he wanted to achieve in parallel despite increasing training requirements. His new coach was Wolfgang Perner . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1989 in Vang , Norway , Nauber won silver in the 4 × 10 kilometer relay together with Ronny Schubert , Bertram Seidel and Mario Möller and thus his first international medal. In the following year he won the Junior World Championships in Les Saisies, France, together with Jens Dietel , Jens Neuber and Matthias Grundwald Staffelgold. As a result, the political changes in Germany led to the dissolution of the GDR teams.

In 1991 Neuber was officially accepted into the all-German youth team and was part of the squad for the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1991 in Reit im Winkl . However, the team remained there without success. In July 1991 Neuber graduated from high school with an average of 1.6. In October 1991 Neuber became a member of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group . With the coach change to Lutz Hänel and Werner Nauber , he was able to improve his performance again and qualified for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . After 32nd place over the 10 km individual distance, he was able to run into 23rd place in the pursuit. Over the 30 km it had to be demolished and in the end it took 47th place. In the final 50 km race he finished 29th. After another coach change in the association, he started in December 1992 in the cross-country skiing world cup . But Neuber initially had no major success. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Sweden's Falun he ran after a rather disappointing 47th place more than 30 km on a good 17th place in the 50-km-long distance races. In December 1993 Neuber ran twice in the top 10 in the Tauplitz Continental Cup . In Oberhof he also achieved a good result in 14th. With the national championship titles won, this was enough to qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway . In his second and, although he was only 23 years old, last games, he could not build on the performance of Albertville. The best result was a 33rd place in the 30 km race.

As a result, Neuber could not celebrate any further successes in the World Cup. Only in the Continental Cup he was regularly among the top 20. For the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 he missed the qualification. In November 1995 he managed to win World Cup points for the first time in Gällivare, Sweden, as 13th in the World Cup. In Santa Caterina he also managed to place within the points after 15 km. For the first time in the top ten, Neuber ran in February 1996 in ninth place in the Reit im Winkl sprint . In the winter of 1996/97 Neuber remained in the World Cup without any points. At the 1997 Military World Ski Championships in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier , Oberwiesenthaler ran in 20th place over 15 km. Previously, he had again missed qualifying for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 . He also failed to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics .

Due to the lack of success, Neuber decided to part with his base trainer Werner Nauber. In addition, muscular problems arose in the winter of 1997/98, which for Neuber had almost led to the end of his active career. However, in April 1998 he got the approval from the team doctor and the Oberwiesenthal sports doctor Margarete Sipeer to be able to continue practicing his sport. According to the analysis, the muscle problems were due to incorrect training methods. Neuber's new coach was Heinz Nestler , who was coach of the then GDR national team in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1980s Nestler was head trainer at SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal and later became a local base trainer.

In December 1998 he saw his first success. He won the FIS race in Ulrichen . After the re-qualification for the start in the Cross-Country World Cup, he already achieved the points in his first race as 19th in Dobbiaco . He also succeeded in this in the second race and the subsequent World Cup in Seefeld in Tirol . At the German Championships in 1999 Neuber secured two titles and then started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein . Although he only ran behind in the individual races there, he belongs to the team in the 4 × 10 km relay race, which also included Andreas Schlütter , Axel Teichmann and Mark Kirchner . In the race, the Germans narrowly missed a medal and finished fourth behind Austria , Norway and Italy .

However, Neuber was unable to take this relay success with him to his individual starts in the World Cup. As a result, he largely clearly missed the points. In February 2000, he won the Pontresina Continental Cup race . In March he started two FIS races in Pigadia, Greece, and won them by a clear margin. A short time later he was able to score points in the World Cup in Bormio as 20th in the pursuit. In the winter of 2000/01 he started only in two World Cup races and finished only once in 30th place. At the 2001 Military World Ski Championships in Colchester , Neuber ran in 13th place over 15 km. After he started weak again in the 2001/02 season , Neuber retired from the national team in December. In January he ran his last international race with the start of the Cross-Country Skiing Marathon Cup in Predazzo .

From 2003 Neuber took over a coaching position at the German Ski Association and from 2013 worked as a senior discipline trainer at LG 1b. He was also a base trainer at the federal base in Oberwiesenthal. In April 2015, Neuber and the Norwegian Torstein Drivenes became senior discipline trainers of the German national cross-country skiing team. Neuber is responsible for the men and Drivenes for the women.

successes

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. February 6, 2000 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pontresina 30 km classic Continental Cup

Other victories in FIS races

No. date place discipline
1. December 13, 1997 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ulrichen 15 km classic
2. December 6, 1998 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ulrichen 15 km classic
3. March 4, 2000 GreeceGreece Pigadia 10 km classic
4th March 5, 2000 GreeceGreece Pigadia 15 km freestyle
5. April 8, 2000 AustriaAustria Tauplitz 50 km freestyle

Placements in the World Cup

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
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10 1 1
Scoring 2 4th 1 1 1 9 1
Starts 10 15th 9 4th 2 3 43 1
Status: end of career
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
1992/93 14th 70. - - - -
1995/96 33 46. - - - -
1998/99 22nd 59. - - 22nd 65.
1999/00 27 76. 16 (LD)
11 (MD)		 45th (LD)
60th (MD)		 - -
2000/01 1 127. - - - -

Private

Neuber married his longtime girlfriend Solveig in May 1994, with whom he has a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Janko Neuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on October 3, 2015
  2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's 50 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on October 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Military World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's 15 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on October 3, 2015
  4. ↑ Military World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's 15 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on October 3, 2015
  5. ^ Skiverband Sachsen eV - trainer. In: skiverbandsachsen.de. September 26, 2015, accessed October 3, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Mario Felgenhauer: Torstein Drivenes and Janko Neuber new senior discipline trainers for German cross-country skiers. In: xc-ski.de. April 20, 2015, accessed October 3, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Janko Neuber becomes the new national coach. (No longer available online.) In: blick.de. May 2, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved October 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blick.de
  8. ↑ Sport1.de: Cross-country skiing: Torstein Drivenes and Janko Neuber new DSV trainers. In: sport1.de. April 20, 2015, accessed October 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Neuber, Janko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cross-country skier and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg , German Democratic Republic