Jens Filbrich

Jens Filbrich
Jens Filbrich (2014)
nation	Germany
birthday	13th March 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Suhl ,  German Democratic Republic
size	177 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
job	Sports soldier
discipline	Cross-country skiing
society	SV Eintracht Frankenhain
Trainer	Cuno Schreyl
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 4 × 3 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Season silver 2006 Turin Season  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2001 Lahti Season silver 2003 Val di Fiemme Season silver 2005 Oberstdorf Season silver 2005 Oberstdorf Team sprint bronze 2007 Sapporo 50 km classic silver 2009 Liberec Season bronze 2011 Oslo Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 7, 1999  World Cup victories in the team 8 ( details )  Overall World Cup 11th (2004/05)  Distance World Cup 8. (2004/05)  Tour de Ski 9th (2006/07)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 0 2 3  Season 6th 3 4th  Team sprint 2 0 0
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup February 27, 1999  Continental Cup victories 2 ( details )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  COC individual race 1 1 2  OPA individual race 1 0 0

Jens Filbrich (born March 13, 1979 in Suhl ) is a former German cross-country skier .

Jens Filbrich from SV Eintracht Frankenhain comes from a sports-loving family. His father Wolfgang is a qualified sports teacher, former cross-country skier and biathlon trainer ; his mother Sigrun is a former cross-country skier who won bronze at the Olympics. His brother Raik was active as a sports soldier in the Nordic combined . Filbrich is married to former biathlete Janet Klein , with whom he has a son.

Jens Filbrich won bronze at the 2001 World Championships in Lahti and the 2002 Winter Olympics , and silver with the relay at the 2003 World Championships in Val di Fiemme , the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf , the 2009 World Championships in Liberec and the 2006 Winter Olympics .

For this he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on April 26, 2006.

In Oberstdorf in 2005 he also won silver in the team sprint together with Axel Teichmann . At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo , he won the bronze medal over 50 km classic.

On February 20, 2010 Filbrich reached the 6th place in the double pursuit at the Olympic Games in Vancouver after he had supported Tobias Angerer in winning the silver medal.

Jens Filbrich ended his active career after the 50 km race in Oslo on March 8, 2014. Before that, he had taken part in the Olympic Games in Sochi for the fourth time , where he took 14th place over 15 km.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 23, 2003	Beitostølen	4 × 10 km relay 1
2.	January 11, 2004	Otepää	4 × 10 km relay 2
3.	February 15, 2004	Oberstdorf	6 × 1.2 km team sprint freestyle 3
4th	February 22, 2004	Umeå	4 × 10 km relay 4
5.	November 21, 2004	Gällivare	4 × 10 km relay 1
6th	January 23, 2005	Pragelato	6 × 1.5 km classic team sprint 3
7th	November 20, 2005	Beitostølen	4 × 10 km relay 2
8th.	November 19, 2006	Gällivare	4 × 10 km relay 5

¹With René Sommerfeldt , Tobias Angerer and Axel Teichmann .

²With Andreas Schlütter , Tobias Angerer and Axel Teichmann.

³ With Axel Teichmann.

^4thWith Franz Göring , Andreas Schlütter and Axel Teichmann.

⁵ With Franz Göring, Axel Teichmann and Tobias Angerer.

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	January 5, 2003	Campra	10 km classic	Continental Cup
2.	February 13, 2011	Forni di Sopra	15 km classic	Alpine Cup

Web links

Commons : Jens Filbrich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jens Filbrich in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Jens Filbrich in the database of the Visma Ski Classics (English)
• Jens Filbrich in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 3, 2010 to the Bundestag - printed matter VI / 2152 - page 67, ... the handing over of the silver laurel leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic Games and the Paralympics of Turin took place on April 26, 2006 ... .
2. ↑ Rheinische Post: 30 kilometers of cross-country skiing - Tobias Angerer takes silver after the super sprint ( memento of the original from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ End of career for Angerer and Filbrich spox.com, March 8, 2014, accessed on March 9, 2014.