Nico Ihle

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Nico Ihle Speed ​​skating
Nico Ihle, clothing for the German team for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 2nd December 1985 (age 34)
place of birth Karl-Marx-Stadt ,  GDR
size 187 cm
Weight 86 kg
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline sprint
society Chemnitz SG
Trainer Klaus Ebert
Pers. Best times 34.35 (500 m)
December 8, 2017 in Salt Lake City ( DR )
1: 07.16 (1000 m)
February 25, 2017 in Calgary ( DR )
status A.
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
National medals 12 × gold 10 × silver 7 × bronze
ISU Individual distance world championships
silver 2017 Gangneung 500 m
Sprint EMTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2017 Heerenveen sprint
ISU European Individual Distance Championships
bronze 2018 Kolomna 1000 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 2005
 World Cup victories 3
 Total toilet 500 5. ( 2014/15 )

7. ( 2016/17 )

 Total toilet 1000 3. ( 2014/15 )

5. ( 2016/17 )

 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 500 meters 2 2 3
 1000 meters 1 0 4th
last change: January 31, 2018

Nico Ihle (born December 2, 1985 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German speed skater . He is the younger brother of Denny Ihle .

Career

Nico Ihle starts for the Chemnitz skater community , where he is trained first by Henry Taube , later by Heiko Walther and since 2005 by Klaus Ebert . Ihle made his World Cup debut in 2005/06 at a World Cup in Salt Lake City . In the races for the German championship in 2006, he was third on the 500-meter course. In 2007 he was runner-up over 100 meters and third in the sprint four-way fight. He was German junior champion seven times.

At the Sprint World Championships in 2008 , Ihle finished 25th in the midfield. The 2008/09 season began with the German individual distance championships in Berlin, where he won bronze over 1000 meters and his first national title over 500 meters.

In the last World Cup race in the 2009/10 season before the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Ihle was able to qualify for the Olympic Games in seventh place in Salt Lake City with a German record over 1000 meters. In his first Olympic participation in Vancouver, he reached a respectable 18th place over the 500 m .

Ihle achieved his international breakthrough in the 2010/2011 season with numerous top ten placements over 500 and 1000 meters, the best of which was a fourth place on January 29, 2011 at the World Cup in Moscow.

At the Sprint World Championship on 26./27. January 2013 in Salt Lake City he got back the now lost German record from his brother with 34.87 s, and one day later improved it again significantly to 34.64 s. In the overall standings, he came in tenth place. He exceeded his own national point record with 137.945. On March 2, 2013, he finished third in the 1000 meter race in Erfurt and achieved a podium place in the World Cup for the first time .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Ihle took eighth place over 500 m and thus achieved the best Olympic result for a German participant in this discipline since 1992. Ihle even reached fourth place over 1000 m and only missed bronze by 0.12 Seconds. On March 8 and 9, 2014, Ihle in Inzell achieved two podium finishes in the World Cup with third and second places over 500 m .

On December 6, 2014, Ihle won his first 1000 m World Cup race ahead of Samuel Schwarz in Berlin . The last time there was a German double victory was in the 1989/90 season. At the Sprint World Championship 2015 in Astana , Ihle was bronze after the first day, but was disqualified on the second day because of a false start in the 500-meter race. On November 20, 2016, Ihle won his second world cup race over 500 m in Nagano and his third over 500 m in Berlin on January 27, 2017.

At the 2017 individual distance world championship on the Olympic track in Gangneung in 2018 , Ihle won the first world championship medal for a German speed skater since the existence of the individual distance world championship over 500 m.

Ihle is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Frankenberg, Saxony .

Honors

In 2014 and 2017 Nico Ihle was awarded the Chemmy as Athlete of the Year by Chemnitz. During the ceremony in April 2018, he was also honored with an entry in the city's Golden Book . In 2018 he was voted "Sportsman of the Heart" by the Chemnitz audience.

World Cup placements

placement 500 m 1000 m Team
sprint 		total
1st place 2 1 - 3
2nd place 2 - 1 3
3rd place 3 4th 1 8th
Top 10 29 30th 5 64

(As of February 1, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nico Ihle with two World Cup tenth records - Wolf falls voices.de, January 28, 2013, accessed on March 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Ihle in Erfurt for the first time on the World Cup podium Focus online, March 2, 2013, accessed on March 3, 2013
  3. ↑ Glück im Schatten from Oranje Berliner Zeitung of February 10, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2014
  4. ↑ Nico Ihle only misses his first World Cup victory by six hundredths of a second Süddeutsche.de, March 9, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ Sprinters celebrate double victory in Berlin - Nico Ihle and Samuel Schwarz duped competition Sportal.de, December 6, 2014, accessed on December 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ Sprinter Ihle is experiencing its "worst moment" Süddeutsche.de, March 1, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ A bang - skid-racing Ihle sprints to victory . Sportschau.de. November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ Nico Ihle wins World Cup silver over 500 meters. StN.de, February 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Editor: Chemnitzer Sport-Ase honored with Chemmy. In: radiochemnitz.de. April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Chemnitz athlete of the year honored with Chemmy. In: Freiepresse.de. May 4, 2019, accessed May 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ihle, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City