Manuel Faisst

Manuel Faisst
Manuel Faißt (2016)
nation	Germany
birthday	11th January 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Furtwangen
size	171 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combination
society	SV Baiersbronn
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 3 × 1 × 1 × EYOF medals 2 × 0 × 0 × OPA medals 3 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 4 × 2 × 4 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 2012 Erzurum Gundersen bronze 2012 Erzurum team gold 2013 Liberec sprint gold 2013 Liberec Gundersen gold 2013 Liberec team  European Youth Olympic Festival gold 2009 Szczyrk sprint gold 2009 Szczyrk team  Nordic ski games from the OPA gold 2008 Bois-d'Amont team bronze 2008 Bois-d'Amont student gold 2009 Baiersbronn Juniors gold 2009 Baiersbronn team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	0December 5, 2009
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	10. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 0 3  team 1 3 0  Team sprint 0 2 0
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 13, 2010
Overall rating	13. ( 2015 , 2016 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  team 0 1 1
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	January 10, 2009
Overall ranking COC	27. ( 2010/11 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  team 0 1 0
last change: March 7, 2020

Manuel Faißt (born January 11, 1993 in Furtwangen in the Black Forest ) is a German Nordic combined athlete . In 2013 he became a three-time junior world champion.

Career

Manuel Faißt lives in Freiburg and is a member of the SV Baiersbronn ski club . He attended the ski boarding school in Furtwangen .

Faiß started the Continental Cup for the first time on January 10th, 2009 in Klingenthal , where he finished 25th. In twelve starts he reached the points ten times and was five times in the top 10. At the European Youth Olympic Festival in Szczyrk , he won gold in the sprint and with the team.

In the following winter of 2009/10, two fifth places on December 5, 2010 in Steamboat Springs and January 16, 2011 in Klingenthal were his best placements. He also made his debut on December 5, 2009 with a 49th place in the World Cup. He was also used in the Continental Cup in 2010/11, in the World Cup he only started at the competition in Schonach .

Faißt took part in the Summer Grand Prix 2011, where he came in between 11th and 24th. On November 26th 2011 he got his first World Cup point as 30th. He achieved his best results this winter on December 10th and 11th, 2011 with places 7 and 18. At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Erzurum in February 2012 he won silver behind Mattia Runggaldier and bronze in the Gundersen competition with 10 km of cross-country skiing Team (together with Christian Arlt, Tobias Simon and Michael Schuller). In the overall World Cup ranking , he finished 35th.

He started the 2012/13 season with a 15th place on November 24, 2012 in Lillehammer . He achieved further good placements on December 16 in Ramsau (15), on January 6 in Schonach (9) and on January 19 in Seefeld (11). At the Junior World Championships 2013 in Liberec he won gold medals in both individual competitions and with the team (together with Michael Schuller, Jakob Lange and David Welde ). In the World Cup he came on February 3rd for the sick Tino Edelmann in the team that won the relay competition in Sochi .

In the summer of 2013, Faißt competed in all of the 2013 Grand Prix competitions and was able to place in the top twenty every time. At the German Championships in Oberstdorf in 2013 he was able to confirm his good form by winning bronze in the individual and becoming German champion in the team sprint for the first time together with Fabian Rießle . At the beginning of the 2013/14 World Cup season in Kuusamo , Faißt missed the points in the individual, but was still nominated for the team competition, which he finished in second place behind Norway with Björn Kircheisen , Johannes Rydzek and Eric Frenzel . After he started in the second-rate Continental Cup in between , Faißt returned to the national team at the end of February. He achieved his best result of the season in early March in Trondheim with an eighth place.

In the winter of 2014/15 Faißt was part of the World Cup team without interruption, but was only able to gain one World Cup point more than last year. On January 31, 2015 he was nominated for the team sprint in Predazzo , where he and Rießle had to admit defeat by 0.9 seconds in the finish sprint and came second behind the Norwegians Jan Schmid and Jørgen Graabak .

At the start of the 2015 Grand Prix , Faißt took third place in the team sprint together with Rießle in Oberwiesenthal . In the rest of the summer, Faißt showed consistently good performances and finished the Grand Prix in thirteenth place in the overall standings. He was able to transfer this form to the 2015/16 World Cup , in which he reached the podium for the first time on December 20, 2015 in Ramsau and finally came eleventh in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the summer of 2016, Faißt once again took 13th place in the overall Grand Prix standings . At the German championships taking place at the end of October , he won the bronze medal in the Gundersen competition and his second championship title in the team sprint, again with Fabian Rießle. On February 11, 2017, Faißt finished third in Sapporo behind Akito Watabe and Tim Hug . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti , Finland , he was only nominated for the Gundersen competition on the normal hill and took 17th place.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 World Cup season , Faißt struggled with form problems and was only able to place in the top 10 in February 2018 when he finished third in Hakuba, Japan . In the following weeks, his performance continued to fluctuate, so that he was not nominated for the 2018 Winter Olympics .

After Faißt finished second in the 2018 Grand Prix together with Terence Weber in the team sprint in Oberwiesenthal , a few weeks later he won his third championship title in the team sprint with Fabian Rießle in Hinterzarten . In the 2018/19 World Cup , Faißt was in top form and showed his best side, especially in the jumping runs. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld , he finished 14th on the large hill. He was not nominated for the remaining competitions. At the end of the season Faißt achieved his best results of the season with fourth place in Oslo and sixth place in Schonach . With tenth place in the overall ranking of the World Cup, he achieved his best overall World Cup ranking to date.

successes

Junior World Championships

• 2012 Erzurum : Silver Gundersen, Bronze Team
• 2013 Liberec : Gold Sprint, Gold Gundersen, Gold Team

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	3rd February 2013	Sochi	Relay large hill 1

¹With Johannes Rydzek , Björn Kircheisen and Eric Frenzel .

statistics

Manuel Faißt at the World Cup in Pyeongchang on February 4th 2017

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2011/12	35.	076
2012/13	32.	118
2013/14	26th	149
2014/15	28.	150
2015/16	11.	422
2016/17	13.	389
2017/18	15th	388
2018/19	10.	485
2019/20	10.	418

Placements at German championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen	Team sprint
2009 Garmisch	-	07th
2010 Oberhof	04th	DNF
2011 Hinterzarten	08th.	02.
2012 Klingenthal	05.	-
2013 Oberstdorf	03.	01.
2014 Hinterzarten	07th	02.
2015 Oberstdorf	11.	04th
2016 Oberhof	03.	01.
2017 Klingenthal	06th	03.
2018 Hinterzarten	04th	01.
2019 Johanngeorgenstadt	03.	01.

family

Manuel Faißt comes from a family of athletes. While his father Klaus ran the Nordic combined himself , his mother Andrea was active as a footballer. His big sister Melanie Faißt is a two-time German ski jumping champion.

Web links

Commons : Manuel Faißt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manuel Faißt in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Manuel Faißt's website
• Portrait dated December 15, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=NK&raceid=1476
2. ↑ Manuel Faißt Vice World Champion Badische Zeitung, February 23, 2012
3. ↑ Manuel Faißt wins three gold medals at the Junior World Championships Badische Zeitung online, February 28, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2013
4. ↑ German combiners win World Cup relay in Sotschi Badische Zeitung online, February 3, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2013
5. ↑ Ex-ski jumper Faisst: 3.3 goals per game. fussball.de, April 15, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2018 .