Nicholas Alexander

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Nick Alexander Ski jumping
Nick Alexander in Engelberg 2014

Nick Alexander in Engelberg 2014

Full name Nicholas Alexander
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 24th August 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Brattleboro , VermontUnited States
size 180 cm
Weight 61 kg
Career
society Lebanon Outing Club
Pers. Best 185.0 m ( Planica 2016)
status resigned
End of career 2016
Medal table
National medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Logo of the US ski team US championships
bronze 2008 Park City Large hill
gold 2009 Lake Placid Large hill
gold 2014 Lake Placid Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Debut in the World Cup March 21, 2009
 Overall World Cup 78th ( 2014/15 )
 Four Hills Tournament 56th ( 2009/10 )
 Nordic Tournament 57th (2010)
Ski jumping Grand Prix
 Overall Grand Prix 43rd ( 2013 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the COC December 1, 2007
 Overall ranking COC 72nd ( 2009/10 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 0 0 1
 

Nicholas "Nick" Alexander (born August 24, 1988 in Brattleboro , Vermont ) is a former American ski jumper .

Career

Alexander, who grew up in Lebanon , New Hampshire , started ski jumping in 1999 at the age of 10. Shortly thereafter, he received a scholarship to the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid . In 2007 he was accepted into the team for the FIS Cup . On December 1, 2007, he made his debut in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup in Pragelato . In his first season, however, he remained without points. At the Junior World Championships 2008 in Zakopane he reached the 56th place in individual and 8th place with the team in team jumping. In the 2008/09 Continental Cup season he was able to jump into the top ten for the first time with eighth place in Pragelato and in the end achieved 81st place in the overall standings with 60 points. At the US Championships in Park City in 2008 , he won the bronze medal in individual jumping. In March 2009 he was nominated for a World Cup jumping for the first time. In the individual, however, he failed with the 47th place in the qualification. In team flying, he and the team ended up in twelfth place. At the Summer Grand Prix 2009 in Courchevel he was able to draw attention again with 15th place. On November 28, 2009 he then succeeded in the Finnish Kuusamo for the first time the qualification for the main field of a World Cup, where he missed the leap into the points as 44th. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Alexander retired from jumping on the normal hill as 41st and from the large hill as 40th after the first round. With the team he reached eleventh place in the team competition.

On January 26, 2013, Alexander was able to achieve his best position in this competition so far as third in the Continental Cup jumping in Titisee-Neustadt .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he was eliminated in the individual competitions as 35th on the normal hill and 48th on the large hill after the first round. With the US team he was tenth.

On September 14, 2014 Alexander won the FIS Cup jumping in Planica ahead of Anže Semenič and Stefan Huber and thus achieved his only international victory in an FIS competition. On February 1, 2015, he was the 27th to get his only four World Cup points of his career on the Mühlenkopfschanze in Willingen . He finished the 2014/15 season as 78th in the overall World Cup . In February 2015, he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships for the first time in Falun . In the individual competition on the normal hill he failed as 41st in the qualification and in the mixed team competition he finished seventh with the US team.

In the 2015/16 season he jumped in both the Continental Cup and the World Cup . His best placement was fourth in the COC in Bischofshofen and 36th in the World Cup in Engelberg .

On August 3, 2016, Nick Alexander announced his resignation. He started work at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon , New Hampshire .

statistics

World Cup placements

season space Points
2014/15 78. 04th

Four Hills Tournament placements

season space Points
2009/10 56. 161.9
2015/16 61. 112.2

Grand Prix placements

season space Points
2009 45. 33
2013 43. 55
2014 80. 01

Continental Cup placements

season summer winter total
space Points space Points space Points
2008/09 - - - - 081. 060
2009/10 - - - - 072. 052
2010/11 - - - - 110. 012
2011/12 - - - - 099 017th
2012/13 - - - - 079. 101
2013/14 086. 008th 087. 027 106. 035
2014/15 106. 004th 114. 009 146. 013
2015/16 - - 055. 092 076. 092

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Alexander  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Result US Championships 2014 (PDF; 98 kB)
  2. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . Sports-Reference.org. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  3. Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
  4. "COC-M: First victory for Fredrik Bjerkeengen" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on January 26, 2013.
  5. a b Nick Alexander ended his career. In: fis-ski.com . August 3, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .