Nowak started skiing in Sohland at the age of six and trained ski jumping and cross-country skiing from the very beginning . In 2011, the Olympic ski jumping medalist and multiple GDR champion Henry Glaß took over her training and has been looking after her on the hill since then. Nowak achieved her first successes at local youth championships, at which she was, among other things, Saxony champion - both in ski jumping and in Nordic combined, which combines jumping with cross-country skiing. From the 2015/16 season she competed in the Alpine Cup , with women's competitions for Nordic combined women taking place for the first time as part of this international junior series from 2015. In the following winters, the Saxon established herself with successes in both disciplines in the German junior team and has been included in course group 2b of the German Ski Association since 2016 , which corresponds to the D / C team.
In particular, Nowak appeared as a combiner at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2018 , where she won the demonstration competition in front of her teammate Anna Jäkle . In this competition, known as the “test event”, a junior world champion in Nordic combined was determined for the first time, albeit without a medal. For this success, the then 16-year-old was honored with the nd sport award at the end of 2018 and subsequently received increased media attention as a “pioneer” in the sport that was previously withheld from men. At the same time, Nowak continued to make a successful start in ski jumping: At the 2019 Junior World Championships in Lahti , she won the silver medal as a starting jumper in the team competition (together with Josephin Laue , Selina Freitag and Agnes Reisch ), while in the combination she won the victory of Ayane Miyazaki of the same age weak flu, only reached ninth place.
Nowak achieved the greatest successes of her career to date in winter 2019/20: After an initially mixed season in the Continental Cup , she won the bronze medal at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in January behind Lisa Hirner and Miyazaki , before she won the Junior World Ski Championships in Oberwiesenthal was the only DSV athlete to become Junior World Champion with a lead of 45 seconds. After the competition, Nowak, who also acted as an ambassador at the home World Cup, received praise from multiple Olympic champion Eric Frenzel , mainly because of the mental strength shown .
Germany
Seefeld
Predazzo