Johannes Rydzek

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Johannes Rydzek Nordic combination
Winner at the World Cup in Ramsau 2016

Winner at the World Cup in Ramsau 2016

nation GermanyGermany 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 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 6 × gold 5 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
DM medals 9 × gold 6 × silver 4 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2010 Vancouver team
silver 2014 Sochi team
gold 2018 Pyeongchang Single LH
gold 2018 Pyeongchang team
FIS 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
FIS 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
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 FinlandFinland Lahti Gundersen
2. February 28, 2014 FinlandFinland Lahti Gundersen
3. March 6, 2014 NorwayNorway Trondheim Gundersen
4th March 8, 2014 NorwayNorway Oslo Gundersen
5. November 29, 2014 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Gundersen
6th February 23, 2016 FinlandFinland Kuopio Gundersen
7th November 26, 2016 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Gundersen
8th. November 27, 2016 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Gundersen
9. 17th December 2016 AustriaAustria Ramsau Gundersen
10. January 21, 2017 FranceFrance Chaux-Neuve Gundersen
11. January 27, 2017 AustriaAustria Seefeld Sprint 1
12. January 28, 2017 AustriaAustria Seefeld Gundersen 1
13. 4th February 2017 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang Gundersen
14th 5th February 2017 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang Gundersen
15th November 26, 2017 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Gundersen
16. 4th March 2018 FinlandFinland Lahti Gundersen
17th January 11, 2019 ItalyItaly 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 RussiaRussia Sochi Season 1
2. March 9, 2013 FinlandFinland Lahti Team sprint 2
3. January 25, 2014 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Season 3
4th January 3, 2015 GermanyGermany Schonach Season 4
5. March 7, 2015 FinlandFinland Lahti Team sprint 5
6th 20th February 2016 FinlandFinland Lahti Team sprint 5
7th 2nd December 2016 NorwayNorway Lillehammer Season 6
8th. November 25, 2018 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Season 7

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 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
02. August 20, 2011 GermanyGermany Oberwiesenthal Penalty Race
03. September 3, 2011 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
04th August 31, 2012 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
05. September 1, 2012 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
06th August 31, 2013 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
07th August 24, 2014 GermanyGermany Oberwiesenthal Gundersen
08th. August 27, 2014 AustriaAustria Villach Gundersen
09. 29th August 2014 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
10. August 30, 2014 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
11. 4th September 2015 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Gundersen
12. 19th August 2018 GermanyGermany Oberwiesenthal Gundersen
Grand Prix victories in the team
No. date place discipline
1. 23rd August 2014 GermanyGermany Oberwiesenthal Team sprint 1
1 With Eric Frenzel.

statistics

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games Olympic rings without rims.svg

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

Placements at world championships

Year and place competition
Gundersen NH Gundersen LH Team NH Team LH Team sprint
NorwayNorway 2011 Oslo 04th 02. 02. 02. -
ItalyItaly 2013 Val di Fiemme 30th 10. - - -
SwedenSweden 2015 Falun 01. 03. 01. - 02
FinlandFinland 2017 Lahti 01. 01. 01. - 01.
AustriaAustria 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 German Ski Association Logo.svg

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

Awards

Web links

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

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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skiinternat-oberstdorf.de
  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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sport.lufthansagroup.com
  12. "WinterStar" for the World Cup organizers merkur-online, March 22, 2011, accessed on January 18, 2014.