Johannes Rydzek

Johannes Rydzek
Winner at the World Cup in Ramsau 2016
nation	Germany
birthday	9th December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Oberstdorf , Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	60 kg
job	college student
Career
society	SC Oberstdorf
National squad	since 2008
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 6 × 5 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 2 × 1 × DM medals 9 × 6 × 4 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver team silver 2014 Sochi team gold 2018 Pyeongchang Single LH gold 2018 Pyeongchang team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2011 Oslo Single LH silver 2011 Oslo Team LH silver 2011 Oslo Team NH gold 2015 Falun Single NH gold 2015 Falun team silver 2015 Falun Team sprint bronze 2015 Falun Single LH gold 2017 Lahti Single NH gold 2017 Lahti Single LH gold 2017 Lahti team gold 2017 Lahti Team sprint silver 2019 Seefeld team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 2009 Štrbské Pleso singles bronze 2009 Štrbské Pleso team gold 2010 Hinterzarten team gold 2011 Otepää singles silver 2011 Otepää sprint
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	November 29, 2008
World Cup victories (individual)	17 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	08 ( details )
Overall World Cup	02. ( 2013/14 , 2016/17 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 16 15th 9  sprint 1 0 0  team 5 6th 1  Team sprint 3 4th 2
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	July 26, 2008
Grand Prix victories (individual)	12 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall rating	01. ( 2010 , 2011 , 2014 , 2015 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 12 9 3  team 1 0 2
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	January 18, 2008
Overall ranking COC	43rd ( 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 1 0
last change: February 29, 2020

Johannes Rydzek (born December 9, 1991 in Oberstdorf ) is a German Nordic combined athlete . He became Olympic champion on the large hill in 2018 and won six world championships at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2015 and 2017 .

Career

As a thirteen-year-old Rydzek was first used in October 2005 in an FIS race , which he finished in 52nd place. The following year he was able to achieve 32nd place in this race. In a junior race in March 2007, he was fifth; in the same year he managed a 13th place in an FIS race. In 2007 he was also German youth champion in the individual competition. In January 2008 Rydzek finally achieved his first podium finish in an FIS race when he first came fourth in the Gundersen method and then even second in the sprint in Baiersbronn . Now the German federation also used him as a C-team athlete in the B-World Cup, where he was sixteenth in his first competition. He improved this result in March of that year by placing sixth in Eisenerz . He also won the overall ranking of the Germany Cup and both titles at the German Youth Championships.

Also in summer 2008 Rydzek successfully took part in the Summer Grand Prix, where he finished sixth at one station. He also celebrated a double win at the Alpine Cup in his birthplace in October . Since the World Cup athlete Christian Beetz was injured at the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Rydzek was nominated as an athlete from the C-squad for him at the season opener in Kuusamo and surprisingly achieved a 15th place there. In the course of the season he was able to establish himself in the World Cup and place himself repeatedly in the points. He achieved his best result of the season in Vikersund , where he placed seventh in the top ten for the first time. At the Junior World Championships in 2009 in Štrbské Pleso , Slovakia , he won the bronze medal with the team and the silver medal in the regular individual competition.

At the Junior World Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten , Rydzek won with the team. In the individual competitions over 5 and 10 kilometers, he came fourth. In the team competition of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he won the bronze medal together with Björn Kircheisen , Eric Frenzel and Tino Edelmann on February 23, 2010. In the individual competition on the normal hill, he was 28th. At the end of the season, he finished 25th in the overall World Cup ranking .

Johannes Rydzek at the 2011 World Cup

In the 2010/11 season he was finally able to establish himself among the best in the world with several top ten results. At the World Cup in Ramsau , he celebrated his first podium finish with third place. At the Junior World Championship in Otepää , Estonia , he won the world title over the ten-kilometer distance. He won the silver medal in the five kilometer competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo 2011 , Rydzek won silver with the team in both team competitions, as well as in the individual decision on the large hill. Here he prevailed against his compatriot Eric Frenzel in the final sprint, but had to admit defeat to the French Olympic champion Jason Lamy Chappuis . On March 12, 2011, he won his first World Cup race at the season finale in Lahti , when he again prevailed against Frenzel in the sprint. In the overall World Cup , he achieved his best result to date with sixth place. On October 14, 2011, Rydzek was named Junior Sportsman of the Year 2011 .

In the World Cup season 2011/12 Rydzek reached a podium with the team and in the individual. In winter 2012/13 he won a World Cup race with the team for the first time and together with Eric Frenzel in a team sprint.

Johannes Rydzek (2013)

In October 2013 he won the German championship title for the third time after 2010 and 2011. In the following winter he was mostly able to place in the top five in the World Cup races , and in the end he finished second three times. Added to this was a third place in the team sprint and victory with the German team in the team competition on January 25, 2014 in Oberstdorf . At the Olympic Games in Sochi , he achieved sixth place in the competition on the normal hill. After jumping over the large hill, he fought for victory in cross-country skiing with four competitors, but collided with team-mate Fabian Rießle in the last corner and fell, so that he only finished eighth. In the team competition he won the silver medal together with Eric Frenzel, Björn Kircheisen and Fabian Rießle. For his Olympic successes, he was again awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 8, 2014 by Federal President Joachim Gauck . In the first competition after the Games, Rydzek won an individual competition in the World Cup for the second time on February 28, 2014, as in 2011 again in Lahti . He also won the following two World Cups in Norway. At the end of the season, Johannes Rydzek finished second in the overall standings behind Eric Frenzel.

In the 2014/15 World Cup season , Rydzek won the opening competition in Ruka , but was then only able to take the podium twice with the relay. At the 2015 World Championships in Falun , he won his first world championship title in the competition on the normal hill when he prevailed against Alessandro Pittin after fifth in the 10 km jump . He also won the title with the team together with Tino Edelmann, Eric Frenzel and Fabian Rießle - the first of a German team after 28 years. In the individual on the large hill, he took bronze behind Bernhard Gruber and François Braud . He won the fourth medal at this world championship in the team sprint, where he took silver together with Eric Frenzel .

Rydzek in Ramsau 2016

At the German Championships in Oberhof in 2016 , Rydzek won his sixth national title in singles after 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. In the team sprint, he was runner-up alongside Jakob Lange , with whom he had already won two titles in previous years.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Rydzek won both competitions at the opening competition in Ruka and thus also took the lead in the World Cup. With the team relay, consisting of him, Frenzel, Kircheisen and Rießle, he achieved another victory in the second competition in Lillehammer, Norway. In Ramsau in Styria he won on the first day of the competition and defended the yellow jersey of the overall World Cup leader with a sixth place on the second day, which he had to hand over to Eric Frenzel at the following competition in Lahti. At the Nordic Combined Triple in Seefeld, he finished second behind Frenzel after winning the first two competitions and temporarily taking the lead in the World Cup again. He got this back by winning the first competition of the Olympic dress rehearsal in Pyeongchang. At the World Championships in Lahti , Rydzek achieved a historic quadruple triumph: He won both individual competitions, together with Eric Frenzel, Fabian Rießle and Björn Kircheisen in the team competition and together with Eric Frenzel in the team sprint. In the World Cup, Rydzek fought head-to-head with Eric Frenzel, in which the lead in the overall standings changed several times, and which Frenzel only won in the last race in Schonach. In December, the 26-year-old was voted Sportsman of the Year 2017 . After a mixed World Cup season with one win, he became Olympic champion in the competition on the large hill on February 20, 2018 in Pyeongchang and two days later with the team.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in 2019 , he was unable to defend his world championship title, but once again proved his class with two placements among the top ten in the individual and by winning the silver medal in the team competition. He finished the bumpy 2018/19 World Cup season with a win of the season as the best German in fourth place overall.

He has been a member of the customs ski team since 2015 . His sister Coletta Rydzek is active as a cross-country skier .

In addition to his sporting career, Rydzek has been studying industrial engineering - mechanical engineering at the Kempten University of Applied Sciences since the end of 2012 . The Kempten University of Applied Sciences is a project participant in the “ Partner University of Top Sports ” initiative .

successes

Medals

winter Olympics

• Vancouver 2010 : Bronze Team
• Sochi 2014 : Silver Team
• Pyeongchang 2018 : Gold Individual LH, Gold Team

World championships

• Oslo 2011 : Silver Individual LH, Silver Team LH, Silver Team NH
• Falun 2015 : Gold Individual NH, Gold Team, Silver Team Sprint, Bronze Individual LH
• Lahti 2017 : Gold Singles NH, Gold Singles LH, Gold Team, Gold Team Sprint
• Seefeld 2019 : Silver Team NH

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 12, 2011	Lahti	Gundersen
2.	February 28, 2014	Lahti	Gundersen
3.	March 6, 2014	Trondheim	Gundersen
4th	March 8, 2014	Oslo	Gundersen
5.	November 29, 2014	Kuusamo	Gundersen
6th	February 23, 2016	Kuopio	Gundersen
7th	November 26, 2016	Kuusamo	Gundersen
8th.	November 27, 2016	Kuusamo	Gundersen
9.	17th December 2016	Ramsau	Gundersen
10.	January 21, 2017	Chaux-Neuve	Gundersen
11.	January 27, 2017	Seefeld	Sprint 1
12.	January 28, 2017	Seefeld	Gundersen 1
13.	4th February 2017	Pyeongchang	Gundersen
14th	5th February 2017	Pyeongchang	Gundersen
15th	November 26, 2017	Kuusamo	Gundersen
16.	4th March 2018	Lahti	Gundersen
17th	January 11, 2019	Val di Fiemme	Gundersen

¹Stage win in the Nordic Combined Triple .

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	3rd February 2013	Sochi	Season 1
2.	March 9, 2013	Lahti	Team sprint 2
3.	January 25, 2014	Oberstdorf	Season 3
4th	January 3, 2015	Schonach	Season 4
5.	March 7, 2015	Lahti	Team sprint 5
6th	20th February 2016	Lahti	Team sprint 5
7th	2nd December 2016	Lillehammer	Season 6
8th.	November 25, 2018	Kuusamo	Season 7

¹With Björn Kircheisen , Manuel Faißt and Eric Frenzel .

² With Eric Frenzel.

³With Tino Edelmann , Fabian Rießle and Eric Frenzel.

^4th With Tino Edelmann, Björn Kircheisen and Eric Frenzel.

⁵ With Fabian Rießle.

^6th With Eric Frenzel, Björn Kircheisen and Fabian Rießle.

^7thWith Eric Frenzel, Fabian Rießle and Vinzenz Geiger .

Grand Prix victories

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	August 8, 2010	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
02.	August 20, 2011	Oberwiesenthal	Penalty Race
03.	September 3, 2011	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
04th	August 31, 2012	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
05.	September 1, 2012	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
06th	August 31, 2013	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
07th	August 24, 2014	Oberwiesenthal	Gundersen
08th.	August 27, 2014	Villach	Gundersen
09.	29th August 2014	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
10.	August 30, 2014	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
11.	4th September 2015	Oberstdorf	Gundersen
12.	19th August 2018	Oberwiesenthal	Gundersen

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	23rd August 2014	Oberwiesenthal	Team sprint 1

¹ With Eric Frenzel.

statistics

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	team
2010 Vancouver	28.	-	03.
2014 Sochi	06th	08th.	02.
2018 Pyeongchang	05.	01.	01.

Placements at world championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	Team NH	Team LH	Team sprint
2011 Oslo	04th	02.	02.	02.	-
2013 Val di Fiemme	30th	10.	-	-	-
2015 Falun	01.	03.	01.	-	02
2017 Lahti	01.	01.	01.	-	01.
2019 Seefeld	08th.	09.	02.	-	-

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2008/09	33.	0123
2009/10	25th	0197
2010/11	06th	0442
2011/12	13.	0467
2012/13	09.	0407
2013/14	02.	0779
2014/15	03.	0731
2015/16	05.	0685
2016/17	02.	1609
2017/18	04th	0849
2018/19	04th	0806
2019/20	14th	0260

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2008	19th	0040
2009	05.	0139
2010	01.	0340
2011	01.	0390
2012	03.	0250
2013	03.	0400
2014	01.	0296
2015	01.	0390
2016	06th	0160
2017	13.	0109
2018	04th	0211

Placements at German championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen	sprint	Mass start	Team sprint
2008 Klingenthal	-	11.	08th.	-
2009 Garmisch	-	-	-	03.
2010 Oberhof	01.	-	-	02.
2011 Hinterzarten	01.	-	-	03.
2012 Klingenthal	02.	-	-	-
2013 Oberstdorf	01.	-	-	02.
2014 Hinterzarten	01.	-	-	01.
2015 Oberstdorf	01.	-	-	01.
2016 Oberhof	01.	-	-	02.
2017 Klingenthal	01.	-	-	02.
2018 Hinterzarten	-	-	-	03.
2019 Johanngeorgenstadt	02.	-	-	03.

Awards

• 2009: " Elite student of sport "
• 2011: Junior athlete of the year
• 2011: "Winterstar" (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
• 2014: Silver bay leaf
• 2015: Sportsman of the year with the team
• 2017: Sportsman of the year

Web links

Commons : Johannes Rydzek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website by Johannes Rydzek
• Johannes Rydzek in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• John Rydzek on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Johannes Rydzek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait on the Sporthilfe website ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ message about Rydzeks victory at Alpencup ( Memento of 6 October 2008 at the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Combiner Rydzek again German champion Focus online, October 4, 2013, accessed on December 17, 2013
3. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Rydzek becomes world champion in Falun nordicjumpworld.com, February 20, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015.
5. ↑ Sportsman of the year 2017 - Dahlmeier, Rydzek and beach volleyball duo triumph . Spiegel Online, December 17, 2017.
6. ↑ Johannes Rydzek on www.zoll.de
7. ↑ Vita. Website of Johannes Rydzek, accessed September 27, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Double World Cup gold for Johannes Rydzek. Kempten University of Applied Sciences, February 25, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Partner university for top-class sport. Kempten University, accessed on September 27, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Two honors for Johannes Rydzek ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oberstdorf Ski Boarding School, accessed on January 18, 2014.  
11. ↑ Johannes Rydzek is "Junior Sportsman of the Year 2011" ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Lufthansa Group, October 14, 2011, accessed on January 18, 2014. 
12. ↑ "WinterStar" for the World Cup organizers merkur-online, March 22, 2011, accessed on January 18, 2014.