Matthias Loess
nation
Germany Germany
birthday
17 August 1975 (age 45)
place of birth
Marienberg , GDR Germany Democratic Republic 1949
size
180 cm
job
Sports soldier
Career
society
Dynamo Schneeberg SC Dynamo Klingenthal (1988 - 1990) VSC Klingenthal (since 1997)
Trainer
Kerst Dietel (VSC) Uwe Dotzauer (VSC) Hermann Weinbuch (DSV)
status
resigned
End of career
2001
Medal table
National medals
0 ×
0 ×
1 ×
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup
December 29, 1996
Overall World Cup
20. ( 1997/98 )
Sprint World Cup
60th ( 2000/01 )
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix
August 26, 1998
Grand Prix victories (individual)
0 2 ( details )
Overall rating
0 1st1998 )
Podium placements
1.
2.
3.
singles
2
1
0
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC
December 11, 1995
COC wins (individual)
0 3 ( details )
COC victories (team)
0 1 ( details )
Overall ranking COC
0 8. ( 1995/96 )
Podium placements
1.
2.
3.
singles
3
0
2
team
1
0
0
Matthias Looß (born August 17, 1975 in Marienberg ) is a former German Nordic combined athlete . The 1998 Olympian won the Grand Prix in the summer of 1998 .
Career Looß, who was trained by Uwe Dotzauer among others at the Klingenthal base , has already celebrated a few successes in the youth field. In the 1992/93 season he was German youth champion in Warmensteinach and second in the overall ranking of the Alpine Cup . In the winter of 1994/95 he was again German youth champion in Braunlage . On December 10, 1995 Looß reached third in Rovaniemi for the first time the podium in the second-rate Intercontinental Cup . At the end of November 1996, he won his first B World Cup race in Bardufoss .
In the 1996/97 season Loess won his first World Cup points. After he also won his only national medal at the German championships in Baiersbronn in 1997 as third behind Jens Deimel and Ralf Adloff , Looß was appointed to the squad for the 1997 Nordic World Ski Championships . In the individual after the Gundersen method he finished 42nd place, together with Jens Gaiser , Georg Hettich and Jens Deimel he was also sixth with the team.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Looß reached 32nd place in the individual. He also took sixth place with the team together with Jens Deimel, Thorsten Schmitt and Ronny Ackermann . He celebrated his greatest success in the summer of 1998 when he became the overall winner of the two Grand Prix competitions in Wernigerode and Klingenthal .
After the winter of 2000/01, he only started at the German championships in 2001 in Oberhof , where he just missed a medal in fourth in the Gundersen singles. He then ended his career.
Occasionally he works as a jumping judge at competitions within the framework of the Saxon Ski Association.
successes Individual Grand Prix victories
No.
date
place
discipline
1.
August 26, 1998
Germany Wernigerode
Gundersen
2.
August 28, 1998
Germany Klingenthal
Gundersen
B-World Cup victories in individual Team B World Cup victories
No.
date
place
discipline
1.
January 21, 2001
Germany Klingenthal
Season
statistics Placements at the Olympic Winter Games
Year and place
competition
Gundersen
team
Japan 1998 Nagano
32.
0 6th
Placements at world championships
Year and place
competition
Gundersen
team
Norway 1997 Trondheim
42.
0 6th
World Cup placements Grand Prix placements
season
space
Points
1998
0 1.
0 50
1999 13.
119
2000
0 8th.
247
B World Cup placements Placements at German championships Web links Individual evidence
↑ Twice gold for Klingenthal klingenthal-magazin.de , January 20, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2020.
↑ Example: Looß as jumping judge at the Ziener-Sachsenpokal 2018 , in: klingenthal.de/vsc , accessed on February 19, 2020.
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Germany
Bardufoss
1998 Nagano
