Nicole Fessel

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Nicole Fessel Cross-country skiing
Nicole Fessel, 2018

Nicole Fessel, 2018

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 19th March 1983 (age 37)
place of birth Annweiler am Trifels , Germany
Career
society SC Oberstdorf
status resigned
End of career 4th September 2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2014 Sochi 4 × 5 km
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
silver 2002 Schonach 1 km sprint freestyle
gold 2003 Solleftea 1 km sprint freestyle
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup October 26, 2002
 Overall World Cup 8. ( 2014/15 )
 Sprint World Cup 21st ( 2006/07 )
 Distance World Cup 6. ( 2014/15 )
 Tour de Ski 7. ( 2015 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Distance races 0 1 1
 Stage race 0 1 0
 Season 0 1 0
 Team sprint 0 1 0
last change: August 1, 2019

Nicole Fessel (born March 19, 1983 in Annweiler am Trifels ) is a German, former cross-country skier . She has been part of the customs ski team since 1998 .

Career

Nicole Fessel lives in Blaichach and starts for SC Oberstdorf . She made her international debut in 2000 at the Junior World Championships in Štrbské Pleso , when she was tenth in the sprint and 55th over five kilometers in free technique. A year later at the Junior World Championships in Karpacz - Szklarska she was 18th in the mass start race over 15 kilometers and 21st in the sprint. Things went much better at the junior world championships in Schonach in 2002 , where she was junior sprint junior sprint champion. She also finished 17th in free technique over five kilometers. Between 2000 and her first start in the World Cup in Linz in December 2002, she competed in FIS and Continental Cup races. The greatest successes in 2002 were victories over 5 and 10 kilometers in the Continental Cup races in Pontresina . In her first World Cup sprint in Linz, she reached 20th place. Over the same distance she won the junior world championship for the first time in Sollefteå in 2003 and reached 13th place over five kilometers in classic style. From now on it was also used regularly in World Cup races. Fessel achieved her first result in the top ten with the second German relay team at the relay world cup race in March 2003 in Falun as tenth place.

At the start of the 2003/04 season, she reached sixth place in the team sprint in Düsseldorf with Manuela Henkel . In the following years, Fessel was able to achieve good results again and again, but without creating her final breakthrough. At the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf , she was only used in the ten-kilometer freestyle race, which she finished in 55th place. At the end of 2005 she won the title of German sprint champion in Munich . At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , Fessel started in two races. She finished 31st in the sprint and 48th in the 30-kilometer race. It was not until the start of the 2006/07 season that Fessel and Katrin Zeller finished eighth in the Düsseldorf team sprint and once again made it into the top ten. In the season there were more and more positive results, in Changchun she came fourth in the Sprint World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo , Japan , she was 15th in the sprint.

Fessel 2010 at the Tour de Ski

Fessel only started sporadically in distance races. In the following 2007/08 season , eighth place in the Düsseldorf sprint was her season best and her only top 10 placement. In distance races you still do not get any placements in the points. The stagnating performance continued in the 2008/09 season. Her best individual performance was 9th in the sprint of Valdidentro. At the 2009 World Championships in Liberec , Czech Republic , she again finished 15th in the sprint. An upward trend was evident in the 2009/10 Olympic season . In the sprint you achieved two top 10 placings again in Rybinsk with seventh place and in Canmore with ninth place. For the first time she also managed to place in the top ten in a distance race in the 15 km double pursuit in Rybinsk, where large parts of the world's elite were absent. In the 2010 Olympic Games of Vancouver reached bondage in the sprint rank 17 and in the double pursuit over 15 kilometers of the 22 square.

More consistent training resulted in a greater increase in performance in the 2010/11 season . At the start of the season in Gällivare , Fessel finished ninth in the 10 km freestyle race. She was able to build on this good performance in Kuusamo . There she reached places five, two and four in the World Cup stage races. With this, Fessel had run up to the world elite, which also raised high hopes for the Sprint World Cup in Düsseldorf. However, she was only able to achieve this in the team sprint with fifth place. At the height of Davos she was 16 in the 10 km classic race. After this race, Fessel suffered a long series of illnesses, which meant that she missed a number of World Cup races and the Tour de Ski 2010/2011 . It was not until the weekend before the 2011 World Championships of Oslo she could in Drammen celebrate their World Cup comeback and was 22 km over 10 classic. At the World Championships she was 15th in sprint races, as in the two previous World Championships. It went better with three seventh in the double pursuit, the mass start race over 30 kilometers and in the team sprint. She finished fifth with the German cross-country relay.

At the 2013 World Championships in Fiemme Valley , Italy , she was fifth in the mass start race over 30 kilometers and twelfth in the sprint. In the skiathlon as 22nd and in the freestyle race over ten kilometers as 26th, she did not come in front places. She finished seventh with the German cross-country relay. At the 2014 Winter Olympics , she won the bronze medal as the starting runner in the 4 × 5 km relay and was awarded the silver laurel leaf on May 8, 2014 by Federal President Joachim Gauck . She was also 14th in the skiathlon and 21st over ten kilometers in the classic technique.

In December 2014, Fessel was second in the 10 km freestyle at the World Cup race in Davos. In the subsequent Tour de Ski she reached seventh place in the overall ranking. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , she achieved 46th place in the 10 km freestyle, sixth place with the relay and fourth place in the team sprint. She finished the 2014/15 season in eighth place in the overall World Cup and sixth in the Distance World Cup. In the 2015/16 season she took 13th place at the Nordic Opening and 19th place at the Ski Tour Canada . Her best individual placement in the World Cup of the season was fourth in the skiathlon in Lillehammer . At the end of the season she finished 22nd in the overall World Cup and 18th in the Distance World Cup. After finishing fifth in the classic 10 km in Ruka and seventh in the 10 km mass start race in La Clusaz at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, she finished 15th in the 2016/17 Tour de Ski . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti she came in 21st place in the 30 km mass start race, 16th place over 10 km classic and sixth with the relay and together with Stefanie Böhler in the team sprint. At the World Cup finals in Québec she was ninth in the overall standings and reached 18th place in the overall World Cup and 12th place in the Distance World Cup. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she finished tenth in the team sprint together with Sandra Ringwald .

Fessel is an officer in the simple customs service in the Federal Customs Administration , where she is a member of the customs ski team .

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

  • 2006 Turin : 31st place sprint freestyle, 48th place 30 km freestyle mass start
  • 2010 Vancouver : 17th place sprint classic, 22nd place 15 km skiathlon
  • 2014 Sochi : 3rd place relay, 14th place 15 km skiathlon, 23rd place 10 km classic
  • 2018 Pyeongchang : 10th place team sprint freestyle

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 2005 Oberstdorf : 55th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2007 Sapporo : 15th place sprint classic
  • 2009 Liberec : 15th place sprint freestyle
  • 2011 Oslo : 5th place relay, 7th place team sprint classic, 7th place 30 km freestyle mass start, 7th place 15 km skiathlon, 15th place sprint freestyle
  • 2013 Val di Fiemme : 5th place 30 km classic mass start, 7th place relay, 12th place sprint classic, 22nd place 15 km skiathlon, 25th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2015 Falun : 4th place team sprint freestyle, 6th place relay, 46th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2017 Lahti : 6th place team sprint classic, 6th place relay, 16th place 10 km classic, 21st place 30 km freestyle mass start

Placements in the World Cup

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
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit
sprint Stage
race b
total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place 1 1 2 1 1
3rd place 1 1
Top 10 6th 10 1 3 14th 11 4th 49 5 13
Scoring 19th 37 4th 5 36 57 15th 173 10 17th
Starts 22nd 56 10 6th 46 102 16 258 10 17th
Status: end of season 2017/18
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
2002/03 18th 73. - - 18th 52.
2003/04 24 69. - - 24 43.
2004/05 10 84. - - 10 61.
2005/06 75 53. - - 75 27.
2006/07 105 36. 8th 70. 100 21st
2007/08 80 44. 3 67. 77 30th
2008/09 82 52. - - 82 33.
2009/10 151 48. 55 45. 96 29
2010/11 420 17th 203 20th 69 33.
2011/12 561 17th 299 17th 154 23.
2012/13 326 22nd 228 19th 30th 49.
2013/14 143 43. 78 32. 55 42.
2014/15 565 8th. 399 6th - -
2015/16 399 22nd 307 18th 4th 64.
2016/17 435 18th 313 12. - -
2017/18 138 43. 138 22nd - -

Web links

Commons : Nicole Fessel  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.onetz.de/sport/nicole-fessel-beendet-karriere-erstes-kind-dezember-id2836169.html , accessed on September 5, 2019.
  2. Nicole Fessel on www.zoll.de
  3. Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  4. Fessel surprises with second place at sport1.de on December 20, 2014
  5. ^ Profile of Nicole Fessel