Pascal Bodmer

Pascal Bodmer
Pascal Bodmer 2010
nation	Germany
birthday	4th January 1991
place of birth	Balingen ,  Germany
size	176 cm
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	SV Meßstetten
Pers. Best	189.5 m ( Oberstdorf 2011)
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 × National medals 2 × 1 × 2 ×
Ski jumping junior world championship gold 2008 Zakopane team silver 2009 Štrbské Pleso team silver 2010 Hinterzarten team  German championships bronze 2005 Hinterzarten team gold 2008 Klingenthal singles gold 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen team bronze 2010 Oberhof team silver 2011 Hinterzarten team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	February 3, 2007
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	19th ( 2009/10 )
Ski flying world cup	41st (2008/09)
Jump World Cup	41st (2009)
Four Hills Tournament	07th ( 2009/10 )
Nordic Tournament	41st (2009)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 0  Team jumping 1 1 0

Pascal Bodmer (born January 4, 1991 in Balingen ) is a German ski jumper from Hossingen , a district of Meßstetten in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

Career

Pascal Bodmer was born on January 4, 1991 as the child of the car mechanic Werner Bodmer and his wife Alice in Balingen. At the age of five he accompanied his brother Patrick to alpine skiing and shortly afterwards to ski jumping at the Messstetten ski club. Meßstetten bears the title of "highest town in Baden-Württemberg". The Heuberg has three natural hills ; including two small jumps with a construction point of 20 and 40, as well as a middle hill with K 60. Bodmer started ski jumping at the age of five. In 2002, the then eleven-year-old was the second best jumper of the German Ski Association (DSV) and best of ARGE Baden-Württemberg (Swabian youth champion 2002). In the years to come, the young jumper always improved himself in the school competitions and was one of the best youngsters at the DSV. From summer 2005 he was a member of the C-team of the German Ski Association. Since September 2006, the beginning of the 2006/2007 school year, he has been attending the Furtwangen Ski Boarding School (SKIF) in Furtwangen in the Black Forest . There he attended the 10th class of secondary school and trained in the C-squad together with his brother Patrick (then D-squad) and other ski jumping talents.

In 2005 Pascal Bodmer and the OPA team became German Schoolchildren. At the OPA games in 2006 he finished fifth and in July 2006 22nd place in the Continental Cup . He won the German Cup , and came third in the Alpine Cup . At the German Championships in 2006, he finished sixth. At the Junior World Championships 2007 in Tarvisio , Italy , he reached 18th place in individual jumping and 4th place with the team. In February 2007 Bodmer finished 29th in the world cup competition in Klingenthal and received his first two world cup points. From the 2007/2008 season he was part of the B-team. At the Junior World Championships 2008 in Zakopane , Poland , he reached 11th place in individual jumping and won the gold medal with the team. On July 19, 2008 Bodmer became German ski jumping champion (men and juniors) in the Vogtland Arena in Klingenthal. At the Four Hills Tournament 2008/09 he was only able to convince in the qualification for the New Year's show in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. A year later he again won first place in the German championship with the "Baden-Württemberg" team.

At the Junior World Championships in 2009 in Štrbské Pleso , Slovakia , he reached 4th place in individual jumping and won the silver medal with the team. In summer 2009, Bodmer graduated from the Furtwangen boarding school with vocational college 2 (economics). He is now a sports soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Todtnau -Fahl, lives in Stegen in the upper Dreisamtal with Kevin Horlacher and trains in the Black Forest first with the former Austrian jumper Stefan Horngacher , then together with Martin Schmitt at the Olympic base in Hinterzarten with coach Rolf Schilli . His current rank is Corporal .

At the start of the 2009/10 Olympic season, Bodmer achieved his best ever World Cup result on November 28, 2009. First he helped the team to second place and in the first individual competition of the season he surprisingly reached second place. At the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 he came seventh in the victory of Austrian Andreas Kofler . At the Junior World Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten , Germany , he reached 20th place in individual jumping and won the silver medal with the team. On February 7, 2010, he won the team competition on the Mühlenkopfschanze in Willingen as part of the FIS Team Tour 2010 with the German team, which also included Michael Neumayer , Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Bodmer retired in jumping on the normal hill, tied with Stefan Hula as 31st after the first round.

At the Four Hills Tournament 2010/11 he achieved 25th place in the overall ranking. On December 29, 2011 he did not succeed in qualifying for the 60th Four Hills Tournament 2011/12 on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf  .

His personal best is 189.5 m, jumped on February 4, 2011 on the Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill in Oberstdorf .

successes

Chronologically

2009/10 season

• Four Hills Tournament: 7th place

2007/08 season

• Junior World Championship Nordic in Zakopane (team): 1st place
• German Champion (July 2008)

2006/07 season

• World Cup Neustadt: 29th place
• OPA Alpine Cup: 6th place
• German Youth Championship (team): 1st place
• German youth championship: 3rd place

2005/06 season

• Brotterode: 1st and 4th place DP
• OPA Games: 9th place
• German Youth Championship (team): 4th place
• OPA Alpine Cup final in Prajelatto / Turin: 21st place

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 7, 2010	Willingen	Large hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2006/07	88	002
2008/09	55.	023
2009/10	19th	336
2010/11	33.	122

Web links

Commons : Pascal Bodmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pascal Bodmer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Pascal Bodmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pascal Bodmer on the website of the German Ski Association
2. ↑ ^{a b} "BAUHAUS" FIS World Cup Ski Jumping. 31st World Cup Competition. Planica (SLO). Flying Hill Individual. Start List Training & Qualification. Fédération Internationale de Ski, March 16, 2011, accessed January 19, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Pascal Bodmer autograph card, 2006/07 season
4. ↑ Joachim Lindinger: Pascal Bodmer in a profile . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from December 31, 2009
5. ↑ Pascal Bodmer on the website of the Meßstetten ski club
6. ^ German national team 2007/2008. Ski jumping. (No longer available online.) German Ski Association, formerly the original ; Retrieved January 19, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ World Cup prelude: Ski jumping talent Bodmer surprises the world on SPIEGEL.de
8. ^ "BAUHAUS" FIS World Cup Ski Jumping. 25th World Cup Competition. Oberstdorf (GER). Flying Hill Individual. Results training. Fédération Internationale de Ski, February 4, 2011, accessed January 19, 2014 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Website Pascal Bodmer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.