John year (curler)

Johnny year
Full name	John year jr. jr.
birthday	April 10, 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
Career
nation	Germany
society	CC Hamburg
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World Curling Championships silver 1987 Vancouver  European Curling Championships gold 1985 Grindelwald
last change: February 1, 2014

John year jr. jr. (also Johnny Jahr ; born April 10, 1965 ) is a German curler and businessman.

Athletic career

Year jr. jr. is the grandson of the publisher of the same name, John Jahr senior , who founded Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. in 1965 . His father John Jahr junior , who also sat on the board of the publishing house for a long time, built up the Curling Club Hamburg from 1969 and thus laid the foundation for the tradition of the sport in the Hanseatic city. Year jr. jr. began playing in the club's games as a child, and in 1984 he took part as Skip with his own team at the Junior Curling World Championships in Cornwall , Canada , where he finished seventh. In the years that followed, Jahr played second in Rodger Gustaf Schmidt's team and won the title at the 1985 European Curling Championship and the silver medal at the 1987 World Championship . As captain, he also took part in the 1996 World Cup with a team from CC Hamburg , but missed a good result there as eighth among ten starting teams.

In the late 1990s, year jr. jr. started his curling career and from then on took care of various businesses as a graduate in business administration, including a real estate company he founded as well as holdings in the Gruner + Jahr publishing house and the casinos in Hamburg and Wiesbaden. With the death of his father in 2006, these commitments intensified. Nevertheless, the millionaire started again in 2010 to build up a curling team in Hamburg with the aim of qualifying for the Olympic Winter Games. A five-man team formed around him, which in addition to him as Skip consisted of Christopher Bartsch , Felix Schulze , Peter Rickmers and Sven Goldemann . In the following years the Hamburg team fought with the strongest German team to date, the CC Füssen , to determine which club was allowed to represent Germany at the various major events. In 2011, Jahr's team took seventh place at the European Championships in Moscow . After the Füssen team had occupied one of the lower ranks at the European Championships in 2012 and was relegated from the A group, the CC Hamburg had to make it back to the first group at the B European Championships in the winter of 2013/14 then secure the starting place for the 2014 Games in Sochi at the Olympic qualification . This required around 70 days of preparation, which the actual amateurs described as "semi-professional".

After two defeats at the qualifying tournament in Füssen in mid-December 2013, Jahr jr. jr. and his team to win the remaining six games and thus the entire tournament, which earned him the starting place for the Olympic Games. There was year jr. jr. the oldest active representative of the German Olympic team ; at 48 he was more than three decades older than the team's youngest, the short tracker Anna Seidel and the ski jumper Gianina Ernst . The German curling team reached 10th place in the preliminary round in Sochi.

In 2018 he played for the first time in a senior world championship and came in ninth place with the team he led.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Schneider: Heritage obliges. welt.de, January 20, 2008, accessed on February 11, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Beils: Curling - with the mop to Sochi. RP Digital GmbH, January 25, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2014 . 

Web links

• John Jahr (Curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Achim Leoni: Hamburger John Jahr: At the age of 48 to the Olympics on Abendblatt.de. Released December 10, 2013. Accessed February 1, 2014.
• Achim Dreis: The rich old man's Olympic dream on faz.net. Released January 16, 2014. Accessed February 1, 2014.