Kevin Bickner

Kevin Bickner
nation	United States
birthday	23rd September 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Chicago ,  United States
Career
society	Norge Ski Club
National squad	since 2002
Pers. Best	244.5 m ( Vikersund 2017)
status	active
Medal table
National medals 3 × 5 × 1 ×
US championships silver 2015 Park City Large hill silver 2015 Lake Placid Normal hill silver 2016 Park City Large hill silver 2016 Lake Placid Normal hill bronze 2017 Park City Large hill silver 2017 Lake Placid Normal hill gold 2018 Park City Large hill gold 2018 Park City Normal hill gold 2019 Park City Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0March 7, 2015 (team) 0December 5, 2015 (individual)
Overall World Cup	39th ( 2017/18 )
Ski flying world cup	28. ( 2017/18 )
Four Hills Tournament	37th ( 2019/20 )
Raw Air	31. ( 2017 )
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 14, 2015
Overall Grand Prix	26. ( 2016 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0February 9, 2013
Overall ranking COC	76th ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 1
last change: January 27, 2020

Kevin Bickner (born September 23, 1996 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American ski jumper .

Career

Bickner made his international debut on February 18, 2012 at the FIS Cup in Brattleboro , where he reached 26th place. Almost a year later, on February 9, 2013, he was used for the first time in the Continental Cup in Iron Mountain and jumped to 47th place. In the next few years, further appearances in the FIS and Continental Cup followed, but in the latter he was only rarely able to qualify for the second round.

At the Junior World Ski Championships 2014 in Val di Fiemme , Bickner jumped from the normal hill to 53rd place in the individual competition and reached 13th place in the team competition. A year later, at the Junior World Ski Championships 2015 in Almaty , he improved to 35th place in individual and 10th place in team jumping.

On March 6, 2015, Bickner was used in Lahti for the first time in the World Cup, but could not qualify for the first round. A day later he was twelfth in the team world cup competition with the US team.

At the US Ski Jumping Championships in 2015, he came second on both the large hill and the normal hill.

On December 5, 2015, Bickner reached the first round of a World Cup competition in Lillehammer for the first time. During the ski flying on February 14, 2016 in Vikersund , he jumped to 30th place and thus received his first World Cup points. In this jumping he also set his personal best of 214.5 meters. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2016 in Râșnov , he finished eleventh in the individual and was twelfth with the US team in both the team and mixed team competition.

In the 2016/17 season , he got several points in the points. In February 2017 he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti for the first time. He finished 47th in the individual on the normal hill and eighth in the mixed team competition. In the individual competition on the large hill, he reached the finals and took 30th place. In the team competition he was eleventh. At the World Cup ski flying at Vikersundbakken on March 19, 2017, he exceeded Alan Alborn 's US record from 2002 with a height of 244.5 meters .

On July 8, 2017, Bickner achieved his first podium place in the Continental Cup with third place in the competition of the Summer Continental Cup 2017/18 in Kranj . In the 2017/18 World Cup season, too , he jumped into the points several times, as in the previous season. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2018 in Oberstdorf , he finished 24th in the individual. In February 2018, he took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time in Pyeongchang . He started there in all three competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill , he took 18th place and in the individual competition on the large hill, he took 20th place, making him the best American in each case. With the US team he was ninth on the large hill .

At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he finished 37th on the large hill and 48th on the normal hill in the individual competitions. With the US men's team he was eleventh and with the mixed team tenth.

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2015/16	77.	01
2016/17	42.	50
2017/18	39.	50
2018/19	51.	18th
2019/20	54.	14th

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2015	88	01
2016	26th	87
2017	39.	44
2018	33.	58
2019	43.	35

Continental Cup placements

season	summer		winter		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2014/15	-	-	140	001	179.	001
2015/16	068.	025th	082.	029	090.	054
2016/17	041.	083	-	-	081.	083
2017/18	033.	074	-	-	076.	074
2018/19	-	-	077.	045	096.	045
2019/20	063.	044	061.	046	072.	090

Web links

Commons : Kevin Bickner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kevin Bickner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kevin Bickner on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official FIS results list from March 6, 2015 (PDF file)
2. ↑ Official FIS results list from March 7, 2015 (PDF file)
3. ↑ List of results of the US American Ski Jumping Championships on the large hill on August 1, 2015 (PDF file) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2015 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. 
4. ↑ List of results of the US American Ski Jumping Championships on the normal hill on October 11, 2015 (PDF file) ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2016 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. 
5. ↑ Official FIS results list from February 14, 2016 (PDF file)