Michael Neumayer

Michael Neumayer
Michael Neumayer at Engelberg 2014
nation	Germany
birthday	15th January 1979
place of birth	Bad Reichenhall ,  Germany
size	180 cm
job	Tax clerk
Career
society	SK Berchtesgaden SC Oberstdorf
Pers. Best	231.0 m ( Vikersund 2013)
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 1 × SFWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 7 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2010 Vancouver team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2005 Oberstdorf Team normal hill bronze 2011 Oslo Team normal hill silver 2013 Val di Fiemme Large hill team  Ski flying world championships bronze 2006 Bad Mitterndorf team  German championships gold 2002 Winterberg team silver 2004 Oberstdorf singles gold 2004 Oberstdorf team bronze 2005 Hinterzarten singles gold 2005 Hinterzarten team gold 2006 Oberhof team silver 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen singles silver 2010 Oberhof singles gold 2010 Oberhof team gold 2011 Oberhof team gold Oberstdorf 2013 team silver 2014 Hinterzarten team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 29, 2000
World Cup victories (team)	04 ( details )
Overall World Cup	09. ( 2012/13 )
Ski flying world cup	07th (2012/13)
Four Hills Tournament	03rd ( 2007/08 )
Nordic Tournament	12. (2008)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 2  Ski flying 0 1 0  Team jumping 4th 2 4th
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Grand Prix victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	08. ( 2004 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 1  Team jumping 1 3 3  Mixed team jumping 1 0 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
COC wins (individual)	03 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	01. ( 2001/02 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 10 5

Michael Neumayer (born January 15, 1979 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a former German ski jumper . He won the silver medal in the team competition with the German team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as well as at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 and in Val di Fiemme in 2013 .

Career

Michael Neumayer comes from Bad Reichenhall , where he gained his first experience in winter sports at SK Reichenhall in the alpine skiing area . It was not until the age of 13 that he and his mother visited the ski jumps on Kälberstein in Berchtesgaden , a few kilometers away , to "try out" ski jumping. According to his own statements, there was "no talent [...] recognizable" at the time, but he subsequently switched to ski jumping at SK Berchtesgaden and the CJD Christophorus Schools Berchtesgaden .

After graduating from school, he worked as a tax clerk in his father's tax office before he began studying business administration at the Kempten University of Applied Sciences in 2004 . Neumayer also moved to the Oberstdorf district of Schöllang in order to be able to better combine sports and studies. The proximity to Oberstdorf offers him good training conditions without long travel times. His greatest sporting successes to date are the silver medals in team jumping on the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 and in Val di Fiemme in 2013 .

On his 27th birthday, he and his teammates ( Alexander Herr , Michael Uhrmann and Georg Späth ) surprisingly won the team bronze medal at the ski flying world championship 2006 in Bad Mitterndorf (Kulm).

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he was the second best German on the normal hill with eleventh place. If only the distances from the two rounds had been added up, Neumayer would have taken first place. Neumayer's trainer Peter Rohwein said: Just after meters, Michael Neumayer would have become Olympic champion. So we didn't do anything wrong. But landing and aesthetics were not what the judges like to see.

In the 2006/07 season he started with a promising fifth place in the opening competition in Kuusamo , but then tore a cruciate ligament before the second competition in Lillehammer , which is why he was out for the entire season. Nine months later he made his comeback at the Summer Grand Prix in Zakopane and was able to win the first run straight away and take sixth place in the overall standings.

At the New Year's competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he landed on the podium for the first time in a World Cup with third place . In the overall ranking of the tour, he also reached third place. A good two years later, on February 6, 2010, he jumped on the Mühlenkopfschanze in Willingen as part of the FIS Team Tour 2010 for the second time in his career and won the bronze medal in a World Cup competition. The following day he won the team competition on the same hill with the German team, which also included Pascal Bodmer , Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann.

For this success he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Köhler.

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver he reached 16th place in jumping on the normal hill and 6th place on the large hill. In the Olympic team competition, Neumayer won silver together with Andreas Wank , Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann.

On February 27, 2011 Michael Neumayer won the bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo together with Martin Schmitt, Michael Uhrmann and Severin Freund . Almost two years later, he improved the German record for ski flying on the Vikersundbakken in Vikersund on January 27, 2013 by one meter to 231 meters. In this competition, he achieved his best World Cup placement to date with second place.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2013 , he and his teammates Andreas Wank , Severin Freund and Richard Freitag won the silver medal behind Austria in the team competition on the large hill, after the Norwegian team was subsequently stripped of the silver medal for a miscalculation of the run-up. The lead over the now third-placed Poles was only 0.8 points.

In the 2014/15 World Cup season , Neumayer was the fourth-best German to finish 13th in the 63rd Four Hills Tournament . Two weeks later, together with Marinus Kraus , Richard Freitag and Severin Freund, he won his fourth and last World Cup victory with the team in Zakopane .

On March 16, 2016, Neumayer announced the end of his career.

Since winter 2018/19 he has been working for the FIS as coordinator of the Continental Cup in Nordic Combined.

Private

Neumayer now lives with his wife, a daughter and a son in Fischen im Allgäu and works as a tax clerk.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 7, 2010	Willingen	Large hill
2.	November 30, 2012	Kuusamo	Large hill
3.	March 9, 2013	Lahti	Large hill
4th	17th January 2015	Zakopane	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 28, 2015	Hakuba	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 6, 2005	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2000/01	81.	001
2001/02	52.	039
2002/03	38.	092
2004/05	22nd	259
2005/06	24.	205
2006/07	50.	045
2007/08	16.	507
2008/09	19th	353
2009/10	20th	285
2010/11	22nd	306
2011/12	21st	236
2012/13	09.	678
2013/14	27.	281
2014/15	21st	347
2015/16	52.	024

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2001	59.	003
2002	30th	032
2003	21st	046
2004	08th.	192
2005	10.	162
2006	35.	072
2007	11.	198
2008	09.	227
2009	33.	049
2010	28.	071
2011	30th	081
2012	16.	127
2013	13.	183
2014	21st	102
2015	22nd	132

Web links

Commons : Michael Neumayer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Neumayer in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Michael Neumayer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Michael Neumayer on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Stefan Schimmel: 16 years in the World Cup circus - Michael Neumayer fondly remembers a long and atypical ski jumping career; 3rd place in the Four Hills Tournament 2008 in the Reichenhaller Tagblatt on April 30, 2020, p. 13
2. ↑ Olympians receive the silver bay leaf ... DOSB, May 17, 2010
3. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
4. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS140 men . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
5. ↑ spiegel.de from February 22, 2010: Olympic Winter Games - DSV quartet jumps to silver
6. ↑ "World Champion Robert Kranjec flies to victory" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on January 28, 2012.
7. ^ "Title to the team from Austria" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on March 2, 2013.
8. ↑ mpl: Ski jumping: Michael Neumayer ends his career. In: Focus Online . March 16, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ "It's time to get started and to see what the season will bring!" In: fis-ski.com. FIS , December 10, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019 .