Marko Baacke

Marko Baacke
nation	Germany
birthday	February 10, 1980
place of birth	Friedrichroda ,  GDR
size	183 cm
Weight	69 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	WSC 07 Ruhla
National squad	since 1987
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 0 × National medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2001 Lahti sprint  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 2000 Štrbské Pleso sprint silver 2000 Štrbské Pleso Gundersen  German championships bronze 2000 Oberstdorf singles bronze 2000 Oberstdorf sprint
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 3, 2000
Overall World Cup	7th ( 2000/01 )
Sprint World Cup	5th ( 2000/01 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 0 1  sprint 0 1 1
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 26, 2000
Grand Prix victories (individual)	1 ( details )
Overall rating	6. ( 2000 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 1 0 0

Marko Baacke (born February 10, 1980 in Friedrichroda ) is a former German Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Baacke, who grew up in the mountain town of Ruhla in western Thuringia and started skiing at the age of six, celebrated his first success at the 1995 German Schoolchildren's Championships, where he won the title in his age group. In 1995 and 1997 he was German youth champion in individual, and in 1998 he won the German junior championship.

In 1997 he made his international debut in the Nordic Combined B World Cup . On January 9, 1999, Baacke achieved his first podium finish in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with second place. In the same year he was German junior champion in singles. He also signed up as a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr in 1999 . As a member of the sports promotion group in Oberhof , he won his first B World Cup in Reit im Winkl in December .

In January 2000 he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup . He missed the points in Oberwiesenthal and Reit im Winkl before he won his first two World Cup points in Schonach in the Black Forest in 29th place. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2000 in Štrbské Pleso , he won the individual silver medal behind Alexej Zvetkov . In the sprint he only had to admit defeat to the Finn Petter Kukkonen and also won silver. At the German Championships in 2000 he won the bronze medal in the individual and in the sprint.

In February 2000, he achieved a top 10 placement for the first time in Hakuba. At the end of the season he started in the team mass start for the first time and only just missed his first podium finish in Santa Caterina with the team in fourth . Baacke won the FIS Summer Grand Prix 2000 in Stams .

In his most successful season 2000/01 Baacke started with his first podium as third in Kuopio . In January 2001 he succeeded with the team again in Park City a fourth place in the team mass start, before he achieved the best individual WC result of his career in second in the individual in Steamboat Springs .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti , he won his first and only world championship title in the sprint. With the team he missed a second medal in fourth. In the individual he reached eighth place. At the end of the season he reached third place again at Holmenkollen in Oslo . In the overall season standings, he finished seventh. In the sprint world cup he was fifth.

After a serious training fall on November 20, 2001 in Kuusamo, a kidney and spleen had to be removed. A return to the absolute top of the world was therefore denied him. In the World Cup he usually only ended up in midfield. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , he finished 23rd in the sprint.

In September 2004 he ended his active combined career.

In April 2007 he began his diploma training course at the trainer academy in Cologne , which he successfully completed in 2010. He is currently looking after several young German talents at the federal base in Oberhof. His father, Klaus Baacke, who trained him himself for several years, is a long-standing, successful junior trainer in Nordic skiing.

successes

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 2, 2000	Stams	Gundersen large hill

B-World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 20, 1999	Reit im Winkl	Gundersen K90 / 15 km

statistics

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place		1				1
3rd place	1	1				2
Top 10	6th	3			2	11
Scoring	16	13	2		2	33
Starts	18th	18th	5		2	43
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Marko Baacke in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Marko Baacke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita: Marko Baacke. Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on November 30, 2013 . 
2. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2000 - Men's Gundersen K90 / 10.0 km. FIS-Ski.com, accessed on November 30, 2013 (English). 
3. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2000 - Men's Sprint K90 / 5.0 km. FIS-Ski.com, accessed on November 30, 2013 (English). 
4. ↑ German champions in Nordic combined. sport-komplett.de, accessed on November 30, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Moved Marko Baacke weeps silent tears. Die Welt , February 26, 2001, accessed November 30, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Nordic World Ski Championships: Marko Baacke wins gold. Spiegel Online , February 24, 2001, accessed November 30, 2013 . 
7. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's Sprint K116 / 7.5 Km. FIS-Ski.com, accessed on November 30, 2013 (English). 
8. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's Team K90 / 4x5 Km. FIS-Ski.com, accessed on November 30, 2013 (English). 
9. ↑ "I want to go back to competitive sport". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 14, 2001, accessed November 30, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Combined Marko Baacke wants to continue his competitive sports career. Start of rehab. German Olympic Sports Confederation , December 12, 2001, accessed November 30, 2013 . 
11. ↑ World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's Sprint K120 / 7.5 Km. FIS-Ski.com, accessed on November 30, 2013 (English). 
12. ↑ Nordic combined: Marko Baacke stops. Rheinische Post , September 14, 2004, accessed November 30, 2013 .