Jens Weißflog

Jens Weißflog
Jens Weißflog (2017)
nation	DDR Germany
birthday	July 21, 1964
place of birth	Steinheidel-Erlabrunn ,  GDR
Career
society	SC tractor Oberwiesenthal Oberwiesenthaler SV 1990
Trainer	Joachim Winterlich
Pers. Best	201 m ( Bad Mitterndorf 1996)
status	resigned
End of career	June 15, 1996
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 4 × SFWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 × National medals 5 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1984 Sarajevo Normal hill silver 1984 Sarajevo Large hill gold 1994 Lillehammer Large hill gold 1994 Lillehammer Team large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1984 Sarajevo Normal hill silver 1984 Sarajevo Large hill silver 1984 Engelberg team gold 1985 Seefeld Normal hill bronze 1985 Seefeld Team large hill gold 1989 Lahti Normal hill silver 1989 Lahti Large hill bronze 1991 Val di Fiemme Large hill bronze 1991 Val di Fiemme Team large hill silver 1995 Thunder Bay Team normal hill bronze 1995 Thunder Bay Large hill  Ski flying world championships silver 1985 Planica singles bronze 1990 Vikersund singles  German championships silver 1991 Oberstdorf Large hill gold 1991 Oberstdorf Normal hill gold 1993 Oberhof / Oberwiesenthal Large hill gold 1993 Oberhof / Oberwiesenthal Normal hill gold 1994 Oberstdorf Normal hill gold 1995 Schonach / Titisee-Neustadt Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1980
World Cup victories (individual)	33 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	1 ( details )
Overall World Cup	1. ( 1983/84 )
Ski flying world cup	8. (1995/96)
Jump World Cup	4. (1995/96)
Four Hills Tournament	1. ( 1983/84 , 1984/85 , 1990/91 , 1995/96 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 33 18th 19th  Ski flying 0 1 2  Team jumping 1 3 2

Jens Weißflog (born July 21, 1964 in Steinheidel-Erlabrunn ) is a former German ski jumper . He is one of the five athletes (besides him Espen Bredesen , Thomas Morgenstern , Matti Nykänen and Kamil Stoch ) who have won the four most important competitions in ski jumping ( Olympics , World Championships , Overall World Cup and Four Hills Tournament ). Weißflog is the only athlete who was able to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games in both the parallel style and the V-style (see ski jumping technique ).

Career

Weißflog at the GDR Ski Championships in 1989

Jens Weißflog grew up in Pöhla and has lived since attending the children's and youth sports school in Oberwiesenthal , where he belonged to the SC tractor .

As a 19-year-old, the ski jumper - often called "Flea vom Fichtelberg" because of his slim stature and low body weight - won the Four Hills Tournament for the first time at the turn of the year 1983/1984. This season he became Olympic champion on the normal hill in Sarajevo and won the overall World Cup.

In the following years, Weißflog dominated the ski jumping world together with the outstanding Finn Matti Nykänen : in 1985 and 1989 he won gold at the World Championships (and a total of nine other podium placements), in 1984, 1985, 1991 and 1996 he won the Four Hills Tournament. In 1991 he received the Holmenkollen Medal .

The uniqueness of his success lies in the fact that Jens Weißflog was able to maintain his level over twelve years. Neither the system change from the GDR to the Federal Republic in 1990 nor the conversion of the ski jumping technique from the parallel to the V style around 1993 could set him back in the long term. In 1994 he won two gold medals on the large hill and with the team at the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer .

In 1996 he crowned his career with the fourth overall victory in the Four Hills Tournament, after which he retired from competitive sports. In June 1996 Jens Weißflog held a farewell gala on the Fichtelbergschanze in Oberwiesenthal, where he again competed in a mat jumping and said goodbye to Janne Ahonen in second place with a hill record (102 meters) .

Weißflog is the most successful German ski jumper, internationally only the Finns Matti Nykänen and Janne Ahonen as well as Adam Małysz from Poland and the Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer have won more World Cups . Weißflog won three Olympic gold medals. He is also a four-time winner of the Four Hills Tournament, only Janne Ahonen has achieved five wins.

After his Olympic victories in Lillehammer, he was made an honorary citizen of Oberwiesenthal on February 27, 1994 . In 2003 the Planetoid 2000 WX158 discovered on November 30, 2000 in the Drebach public observatory (Erzgebirge) was named after Jens Weißflog. It now bears the official name (22168) Weissflog and moves between the planets Mars and Jupiter around the sun.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• 1984 in Sarajevo: 1 × gold (normal hill), 1 × silver (large hill)
• 1994 in Lillehammer: 2 × gold (large hill, large hill team)

World championships

• 3 × gold (1984, 1985, 1989)
• 5 × silver (2 × 1984, 1985, 1989, 1995)
• 5 × bronze (1989, 1990, 2 × 1991, 1995)

German championships

• 5 × gold (1991, 2 × 1993, 1994, 1995)
• 1 × silver (1991)
• 5 × GDR champions

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 6, 1983	Bischofshofen	Large hill
2.	January 1, 1984	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
3.	4th January 1984	innsbruck	Large hill
4th	January 6, 1984	Bischofshofen	Large hill
5.	January 11, 1984	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Normal hill
6th	January 15, 1984	Liberec	Large hill
7th	February 12, 1984	Sarajevo	Normal hill
8th.	March 27, 1984	Planica	Ski jump
9.	January 1, 1985	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
10.	17th February 1985	Engelberg	Large hill
11.	December 6, 1986	Thunder Bay	Normal hill
12.	January 24, 1988	Engelberg	Large hill
13.	January 22, 1989	Oberhof	Large hill
14th	March 5, 1989	Oslo	Large hill
15th	March 8, 1989	Örnsköldsvik	Normal hill
16.	March 27, 1989	Planica	Ski jump
17th	March 27, 1989	Planica	Large hill
18th	December 17, 1989	Sapporo	Large hill
19th	January 1, 1990	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
20th	17th January 1990	Zakopane	Large hill
21st	December 30, 1990	Oberstdorf	Large hill
22nd	January 1, 1991	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
23.	December 12, 1993	Planica	Large hill
24.	December 14, 1993	Predazzo	Large hill
25th	December 30, 1993	Oberstdorf	Large hill
26th	January 22, 1994	Sapporo	Normal hill
27.	January 23, 1994	Sapporo	Large hill
28.	March 5, 1994	Lahti	Large hill
29	March 27, 1994	Thunder Bay	Normal hill
30th	January 29, 1995	Lahti	Large hill
31.	January 6, 1996	Bischofshofen	Large hill
32.	January 20, 1996	Sapporo	Normal hill
33.	February 17, 1996	Iron Mountain	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 25, 1994	Thunder Bay	Large hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1982/83	16.	80
1983/84	1.	230
1984/85	4th	151
1985/86	16.	77
1986/87	11.	103
1987/88	6th	111
1988/89	2.	192
1989/90	6th	200
1990/91	8th.	141
1991/92	37.	16
1992/93	11.	61
1993/94	2.	1110
1994/95	6th	683
1995/96	4th	1028

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Bischofshofen	Austria	110.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 6, 1983	January 6, 1983
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	108.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 1984	January 1, 1989
innsbruck	Austria	107.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	4th January 1984	4th January 1985
Bischofshofen	Austria	114.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 6, 1984	January 6, 1987
Engelberg	Switzerland	121.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	17th January 1984	17th February 1984
Oberwiesenthal	Germany	96.0 m ( HS : 106 m)	1984	1985
Hinterzarten	Germany	95.5 m ( HS : 108 m)	1993	August 3, 1994
Engelberg	Switzerland	124.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	17th February 1984	January 15, 1994
Oberstdorf	Germany	124.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 30, 1993	December 29, 1996
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	110.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 1994	January 1, 1994
Sapporo	Japan	125.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 23, 1994	January 19, 1997
Lillehammer	Norway	135.5 m ( HS : 138 m)	February 23, 1994	November 28, 1998
Oberwiesenthal	Germany	97.5 m ( HS : 106 m)	1995	1996
Bad Mitterndorf / Tauplitz	Austria	201.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 11, 1996	February 8, 1997
Iron Mountain	United States	131.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	February 18, 1996	February 18, 1996
Oberwiesenthal	Germany	102.0 m ( HS : 106 m)	1996	2003

Private life and political activity

For the 1986 Volkskammer election, Weißflog was nominated by the FDJ as a successor to the Volkskammer of the GDR. In the city ​​council election on June 7th, 2009, Weißflog won a mandate for the Oberwiesenthal CDU and has been involved in local politics ever since. After the fall of the Wall , Weißflog worked as an advertising ambassador for the AOK health insurance company for a number of years . In the year he left competitive sports, Weißflog opened a hotel in his home town of Oberwiesenthal and worked as a ski jumping expert at ZDF until 2011 .

His first marriage was for 17 years and from this marriage, in addition to his daughter from a previous relationship, they have two sons. In July 2005, the couple separated by mutual agreement. In October 2010, Weißflog and his partner became the parents of a daughter. On August 10, 2019, after almost 13 years, he married his partner.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold of the GDR, 1984 and 1986
• Holmenkollen Medal 1991
• Silver bay leaf 1994
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 1996
• Askania Award (Askania Sport Award) 2019

literature

• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Weißflog, Jens . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Jens Weißflog and Egon Theiner: Stories of my life. egoth-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-902480-94-1 .
• Jens Weißflog and Egon Theiner: Pictures of my life. egoth-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-902480-84-2 .

Web links

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

• Jens Weißflog in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Jens Weißflog in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jens Weißflog Appartment Hotel & Restaurant
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Jens Weißflog column ) at skispringen.com

Remarks

1. ↑ So far it has not been possible to prove beyond any doubt that Weissflog moved up as a member of parliament at any point in time.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rekordy życiowe skoczków narciarskich ( Polish ) skokinarciarskie.pl. February 3, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
2. ↑ Results. In: Sport-Bild. June 19, 1996, p. 70.
3. ↑ Honorary Citizen. In: oberwiesenthal.de. Archived from the original on April 9, 2018 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 22168 Weissflog (2000 WX158). Jet Propulsion Laboratory , October 2, 2003, accessed July 14, 2012 . 
5. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: skispringen.com )
6. ^ Presidium of the People's Chamber (ed.): The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. Parliamentary term 9 . 1st edition. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-329-00119-4 .
7. ↑ Freie Presse , local edition Annaberg of June 9th, 2009: Ski jumping legend makes a leap into politics.
8. ↑ Ski jumping: “A jumbo also flies” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1996 ( online - 16 December 1996 ).
9. ↑ www.jens-weissflog.de Jens Weißflog Hotel & Restaurant
10. ^ Rp Online: Ex-ski jumping star: Jens Weißflog becomes a father again. In: rp-online.de. May 6, 2010, accessed August 22, 2019 . 
11. ↑ After 13 years of relationship! Jens Weißflog secretly married his Doreen. In: tag24.de. TAG24 NEWS Germany, August 11, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .