Richard Friday

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Richard Friday Ski jumping
Friday at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

Friday at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 14th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Erlabrunn , Germany
size 173 cm
job Sports soldier
Career
society SG Nickelhütte Aue
Trainer Tino Haase
Dietrich fight
Pers. Best 243.0 m ( Planica 2018)
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
SFWM medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
National medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 2018 Pyeongchang team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed team
silver 2013 Val di Fiemme team
gold 2015 Falun Mixed team
gold 2019 Seefeld team
FIS Ski flying world championships
silver 2012 Vikersund team
silver 2016 Bad Mitterndorf team
bronze 2018 Oberstdorf singles
FIS Ski jumping junior world championship
silver 2011 Otepää team
German Ski Association German championships
bronze 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen team
silver 2011 Hinterzarten singles
bronze 2012 Klingenthal singles
gold 2014 Hinterzarten singles
silver 2016 Oberhof team
bronze 2016 Oberhof singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Debut in the World Cup December 29, 2009
 World Cup victories (individual) 08 ( details )
 World Cup victories (team) 08 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 02. ( 2017/18 )
 Ski flying world cup 07. ( 2017/18 )
 Four Hills Tournament 06. ( 2014/15 )
 Raw Air 07. ( 2018 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 7th 12 3
 Ski flying 1 0 0
 Team jumping 8th 16 6th
Ski jumping Grand Prix
 Debut in the Grand Prix 0October 3, 2009
 Grand Prix victories (individual) 02 ( details )
 Grand Prix victories (team) 01 ( details )
 Overall Grand Prix 07th ( 2011 , 2014 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 2 1 2
 Team jumping 0 4th 2
 Mixed team jumping 1 0 2
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the COC January 17, 2009
 Overall ranking COC 18th ( 2009/10 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 0 2 2
last change: July 27, 2019

Richard Freitag (born August 14, 1991 in Erlabrunn ) is a German ski jumper .

His greatest individual successes to date are second place in the overall World Cup for the 2017/18 season and winning the bronze medal at the 2018 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf . With the team he became world champion in the mixed competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2015 and in the team at the World Championships in 2019 . Other great successes are the silver medals won with the German team at the 2018 Winter Olympics , the 2012 Ski Flying World Championships in Vikersund and the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme , as well as the bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships mixed competition .

Freitag has been a sports soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr Frankenberg since 2012 . He has the military rank of corporal .

Life

Richard Freitag was born in the hospital of the Saxon district of Schwarzenberg in Erlabrunn, where the ski jumping legends Jens Weißflog and Sven Hannawald were born before . He is a son of the former GDR ski jumper Holger Freitag and grew up in Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. on. In 2011, Freitag graduated from the sports high school in Oberwiesenthal . In 2017 he moved from Frankenberg in Saxony , where he lived with the Nordic combined athlete Eric Frenzel , to Oberstdorf . There he lived in a shared apartment with the Nordic combined athlete David Welde . After two years in Oberstdorf, Freitag returned to the Ore Mountains and settled in his parents' house in Breitenbrunn.

Richard Freitag has a brother five years older than him. His sister Selina (* 2001) is also a ski jumper.

Career

Friday jumps for the SG Nickelhütte Aue , but was promoted in the WSV 08 Johanngeorgenstadt club . Since April 2009 he has been a member of the DSV B-team . In July 2009, he won third place in team jumping at the German championships with the Saxon state selection.

In the World Cup he was used for the first time on December 29, 2009 at the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf , after he had previously achieved success in the Continental Cup . On January 3, 2010, he achieved his first World Cup point in Innsbruck with a 30th place. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2010 in Planica , he finished 28th in individual flying . His best result to date in a World Cup competition he achieved with 13th place in the opening competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2010/11 on December 29, 2010 in Oberstdorf. At the German Championships 2011 in Hinterzarten, he was able to jump on the podium for the first time in an individual as runner-up.

At the beginning of the 2011/12 World Cup season , he finished ninth in Kuusamo and achieved his first podium finish on December 3, 2011 with second place in Lillehammer. A weekend later he won his first World Cup competition on the Čerťák in Harrachov ahead of Thomas Morgenstern and Severin Freund . On January 8th 1983 his father Holger celebrated his only World Cup victory on the same hill . At the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in Vikersund , Freitag was the first German to fly to a distance of 230 meters. In the same competition he was silver medal winner together with the German team.

On November 30th, 2012 he was victorious for the first time with the German team at the Rukatunturi ski jump in Kuusamo . His second World Cup victory celebrated Friday on February 16, 2013 as part of the FIS Team Tour 2013 when he won ski flying from the Heini-Klopfer-Schanze in Oberstdorf . In the mixed team competition held for the first time at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he won the bronze medal with the German team alongside Carina Vogt , Ulrike Gräßler and Severin Freund behind Japan and Austria. Before that he had finished sixth in jumping on the normal hill. In the team competition on the large hill, he and his teammates Andreas Wank , Severin Freund and Michael Neumayer won the silver medal behind Austria, after the Norwegian team was subsequently denied it due to a miscalculation of the run-up. The lead over the now third-placed Poles was only 0.8 points. On March 10, 2013, Friday was able to achieve his third individual World Cup victory one day after the success with the team on the large hill in Lahti .

The 2013/14 World Cup season with three individual podium finishes was less successful than the previous two. At the Olympic Games in Sochi he reached places 20 and 21. For the team competition, in which the German team won gold, he was not nominated. He celebrated his fourth World Cup victory on December 20, 2014 in Engelberg. On January 4, 2015, he achieved his fifth World Cup victory in Innsbruck, which was also his first on a Four Hills Tournament and which was also the first victory of a German jumper on the tour since 2002 . As the best German jumper, he took sixth place in the overall tour .

On February 22, 2015, Freitag became world champion in the mixed competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 together with Carina Vogt , Katharina Althaus and Severin Freund . At the German Championships 2016 in Oberhof , Freitag won the bronze medal in the individual competition and the silver medal in the team competition together with Julian Hahn , Johannes Schubert and Martin Hamann .

At the Ski Flying World Championships 2016 in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf he finished eighth in the individual competition and in the team competition he was able to repeat the success of 2012 and together with Andreas Wellinger , Stephan Leyhe and Severin Freund won the silver medal behind the Norwegians.

Friday at the World Cup competition in Titisee-Neustadt 2016

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2017 , he finished ninth on the normal hill and 19th on the large hill in the individual competitions. With the team he was fourth on the large hill.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 World Cup season , he scored two victories in Nizhny Tagil and Titisee-Neustadt , with which he took the lead in the overall standings for the first time in his career. After another victory in Engelberg , he came to the 66th Four Hills Tournament as World Cup leader . There he took second place in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, behind Poland's Kamil Stoch . As second in the tournament he fell in the first round of the third jump in Innsbruck and did not take part in the second round. According to the team doctor, he had pain in his left hip, which was checked by a doctor. The following day, the DSV announced that Friday would end the tour prematurely due to hip bruises and would not take part in the jumping in Bischofshofen. His first competition after the injury break was the 2018 Ski Flying World Championship in Oberstdorf, where he won bronze in singles. At the 2018 Winter Olympics , Friday finished ninth in both individual competitions without a medal, but won silver with the team behind Norway. In the Ski Jumping World Cup 2017/18 , Freitag came second behind Kamil Stoch.

The 2018/19 season was initially pretty moderate for Friday. So he finished the Four Hills Tournament 2018/19 in fourteenth place and was also unable to show any placements among the top ten for a long time. After he had already shown improved form at the World Cup competitions in Willingen as part of the Willingen Five 2019 with his best seasonal placements (4th and 6th place), he confirmed this a week later at the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld : on the large hill in Innsbruck he took the ninth place in the individual and won the world title in the team competition with his teammates Karl Geiger , Stephan Leyhe and Markus Eisenbichler . In the competition on the normal hill , Friday jumped from nineteenth place to fifth place after the first round. He benefited from the onset of snowfall, which made the inrun track significantly slower after his second jump and thus hit the leaders of the first round in particular.

successes

winter Olympics

  • Sochi 2014 : 20th single normal hill, 21st single large hill
  • Pyeongchang 2018 : 2nd team, 9th single normal hill, 9th single large hill

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • Oslo 2011 : 4th team large hill, 15th individual large hill
  • Val di Fiemme 2013 : 3rd mixed team, 2nd team, 6th single normal hill, 6th single large hill
  • Falun 2015 : 1st mixed team, 5th team, 7th single normal hill, 15th single large hill
  • Lahti 2017 : 4th team, 9th single normal hill, 19th single large hill
  • Seefeld 2019 : 1st team, 5th single normal hill, 9th single large hill

Ski flying world championships

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place Type
1. December 11, 2011 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Harrachov Large hill
2. February 16, 2013 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Ski jump
3. March 10, 2013 FinlandFinland Lahti Large hill
4th 20th December 2014 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelberg Large hill
5. 4th January 2015 AustriaAustria innsbruck Large hill
6th 2nd December 2017 RussiaRussia Nizhny Tagil Large hill
7th December 10, 2017 GermanyGermany Titisee-Neustadt Large hill
8th. 17th December 2017 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelberg Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No. date place Type
1. November 30, 2012 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Large hill
2. March 9, 2013 FinlandFinland Lahti Large hill
3. 22nd November 2014 GermanyGermany Klingenthal Large hill
4th 17th January 2015 PolandPoland Zakopane Large hill
5. November 21, 2015 GermanyGermany Klingenthal Large hill
6th January 9, 2016 GermanyGermany Willingen Large hill
7th January 21, 2017 PolandPoland Zakopane Large hill
8th. March 3, 2018 FinlandFinland Lahti Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No. date place Type
1. July 28, 2013 GermanyGermany Hinterzarten Normal hill
2. 4th October 2014 GermanyGermany Klingenthal Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No. date place Type
1. July 27, 2019 GermanyGermany Hinterzarten Mixed normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season space Points
2009/10 90. 0001
2010/11 38. 0105
2011/12 06th 1031
2012/13 08th. 0736
2013/14 24. 0313
2014/15 12. 0622
2015/16 09. 0680
2016/17 13. 0507
2017/18 02. 1070
2018/19 21st 0331
2019/20 44. 0037

Four Hills Tournament placements

season space Points
2009/10 38. 0453.1
2010/11 17th 0785.2
2011/12 10. 0820.4
2012/13 11. 0979.6
2013/14 24. 0732.3
2014/15 06th 1056.8
2015/16 09. 1001.4
2016/17 11. 0897.1
2017/18 27. 0665.1
2018/19 14th 0927.6

Grand Prix placements

season space Points
2011 07th 265
2012 19th 117
2013 12. 215
2014 07th 216
2015 20th 141
2016 27. 085
2017 60. 016
2018 40. 045
2019 22nd 100

Awards

Web links

Commons : Richard Freitag  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ski jumper Richard Freitag: The family duel is on , Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 12, 2011
  2. ↑ Departure from home , Sächsische Zeitung , November 17, 2017
  3. ^ Adam Bucholz: Richard Freitag: Otwieram nowy rozdział. In: skijumping.pl. June 12, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 (Polish).
  4. ↑ Ski jumper Richard Freitag: The family duel has started, on stuttgarter-zeitung.de, on December 12, 2011. Accessed on November 1, 2018.
  5. ↑ Winter 19/20: The DSV Skisprungteam - 1 , on berkutschi.com, from November 11, 2019, accessed on November 11, 2918.
  6. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on January 22, 2011.
  7. ↑ Results at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on October 10, 2011.
  8. ↑ result in www.berkutschi.com , accessed on 11 December 2011th
  9. ↑ "Germany wins close team jumping" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on November 30, 2012.
  10. ↑ Richard Freitag wins home win in Oberstdorf at skispringen.com, accessed on February 16, 2013.
  11. ^ "Japan's first mixed team world champion" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 25, 2013.
  12. ^ "Gold for Anders Bardal" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 25, 2013.
  13. ^ "Title to the team from Austria" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on March 2, 2013.
  14. ↑ Friday wins, friend third at www.sport1.de, accessed on March 10, 2013.
  15. ↑ Oberhof: David Siegel wins German championship title on skispringen.com, October 23, 2016. Accessed December 11, 2016.
  16. ↑ Marco Ries: Richard Freitag celebrates victory in Nizhny Tagil. In: skispringen.com. December 2, 2017, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Marco Ries: Richard Freitag: Careful all-clear after falling in Innsbruck. In: skispringen.com. January 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Andreas Berten: With ski jumper Richard Freitag, fall drama leads to great disappointment. In: derwesten.de. January 4, 2018, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  19. ↑ skispringen.com: Richard Freitag ends the Four Hills Tournament prematurely. In: skispringen.com. January 5, 2018, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  20. ↑ "Kubacki and Stoch bring gold and silver for Poland" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on March 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Friday Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlabrunn , Schwarzenberg district , Saxony , Germany