Manfred Deckert

Manfred Deckert
Manfred Deckert (2017)
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	March 31, 1961
place of birth	Halle (Saale) ,  GDR
Career
society	SC Dynamo Klingenthal
Trainer	Jürgen Wolf
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1980 Lake Placid Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1985 Seefeld Large hill team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
World Cup victories (individual)	1 ( details )
Overall World Cup	11. ( 1981/82 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 2 0

Manfred Deckert (born March 31, 1961 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German ski jumper and local politician ( independent ).

Career

He spent his childhood in Johanngeorgenstadt , where he got to know winter sports and his father of the same name worked as a sports teacher at the Pestalozzi-POS. Due to his achievements, he then attended the children's and youth sports school in Klingenthal , where he also passed the Abitur. He belonged to the SC Dynamo Klingenthal . The cross-country skier Alf-Gerd Deckert is his older brother.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , Deckert was able to win the silver medal while jumping from the normal hill, tied with the Japanese Hirokazu Yagi . His trainer was Jürgen Wolf from Klingenthal . On January 3, 1982, he won his only World Cup competition in Innsbruck. In the 1981/1982 season he won the overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament with this victory . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 in Seefeld in Tirol , he won the bronze medal in team jumping together with Frank Sauerbrey , Klaus Ostwald and Jens Weißflog .

After his active career, he worked as a trainer at SC Dynamo Klingenthal until its liquidation in 1990. After six months of unemployment, Deckert worked for a company ( Duravit ) in the heating and plumbing industry for 17 years .

Since August 4th, 2008 he has been the mayor of the city of Auerbach / Vogtl , established by the SPD . and member of the SPD parliamentary group in the Vogtlandkreis .

Manfred Deckert has been honorary president of the VSC Klingenthal since August 1997.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 3, 1982	innsbruck	Large hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	46.	20th
1980/81	48.	14th
1981/82	11.	84
1982/83	50.	07th
1983/84	52.	10
1984/85	31.	24

Web links

• Manfred Deckert in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Manfred Deckert in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )