Ronny Ackermann

Ronny Ackermann
Ronny Ackermann at the Seefeld Triple 2018
nation	Germany
birthday	May 16, 1977
place of birth	Bad Salzungen ,  GDR
size	184 cm
Weight	approx. 69 kg
job	Chief Sergeant in the Bundeswehr
Career
society	Rhöner WSV Dermbach
status	resigned
End of career	March 16, 2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Salt Lake City 2002 sprint silver Salt Lake City 2002 team silver Turin 2006 team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze Lahti 2001 singles gold Val di Fiemme 2003 singles silver Val di Fiemme 2003 sprint silver Val di Fiemme 2003 team gold Oberstdorf 2005 singles gold Oberstdorf 2005 sprint silver Oberstdorf 2005 team gold Sapporo 2007 singles silver Sapporo 2007 team silver Liberec 2009 team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	November 28, 1997 in Rovaniemi
World Cup victories (individual)	28 ( details )
Overall World Cup	1. (2001/02, 2002/03,      2007/08)
Sprint World Cup	1. (2001/02, 2002/03,      2007/08)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 15th 6th 13  sprint 12 15th 10  Mass start 1 4th 1

Ronny Ackermann (born May 16, 1977 in Bad Salzungen ) is a former German Nordic combined athlete . From the end of 2011 to spring 2020 he was also their national coach.

Career

At the age of five, Ronny Ackermann learned to ski in his home town of Unteralba , and when he was seven, he also learned to ski jumping. At the age of twelve he moved to the Oberhof sports high school. After graduating from high school, Ackermann joined the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group in Oberhof and started for WSV Oberhof 05 . Since July 2004 he started for the Rhöner WSV Dermbach . His constant top performances in ski jumping and cross-country skiing made him perhaps the best German combined athlete and one of the most successful Nordic combined athletes worldwide. By November 2008 he had 28 World Cup victories. His trademark was his hair, which used to be mostly red.

Ackermann won the overall World Cup in the 2001/2002 season (3rd place in Oslo on March 16 was the first overall World Cup victory for a German in 16 years, when Hermann Weinbuch was victorious; in the end, Oberhofer had 2,110 points and thus 124 points ahead to last year's winner Felix Gottwald ) and was able to confidently defend this title in the 2002/2003 season . He was also awarded the Holmenkollen Medal in 2003 .

In the following two World Cup winters in 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 , Ackermann had to give way to the strong-running Finn Hannu Manninen in the overall World Cup , but he became the star of the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 when he became world champion in both the individual and the sprint. At the end of 2005 he was also voted Germany's Sportsman of the Year .

The next two years were rather disappointing for Ackermann. It was all the more surprising that the German became world champion in the individual again at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 . With three titles in a row, Ackermann is the record holder on this route.

Because of a long training delay after a virus infection and two training falls, Ackermann initially took a longer break from competitions and also decided not to attend the 2010 Olympic Games . In March 2011 he finally announced the end of his career.

From the end of 2011 to May 2020, Ronny Ackermann was the national trainer on the staff under the head national trainer Hermann Weinbuch of the Nordic combined athletes in the German Ski Association (DSV) . He was responsible for ski jumping. In May 2020 he was replaced in this role by the former Austrian ski jumping head coach Heinz Kuttin . Ackermann will henceforth be employed elsewhere within the DSV.

Greatest successes

• 28 World Cup victories
• 2000 German champion - sprint
• 2000 German Vice Champion - Individual
• 2001 Bronze Medal - Sprint World Championship - Lahti
• 2001 2nd place - overall World Cup
• 2001 German champion - individual
• 2001 German champion - sprint
• 2002 Silver Medal - Sprint - Winter Olympics - Salt Lake City
• 2002 Silver Medal - Relay - Winter Olympics - Salt Lake City
• 2002 German Champion - Individual
• 2002 German Vice-Champion - Sprint
• 2002 overall world cup winner
• 2002 Sprint World Cup winner
• 2003 World Champion Nordic Combined - Individual - Val di Fiemme
• 2003 Vice World Champion - Sprint - World Championship - Val di Fiemme
• 2003 Vice World Champion - Relay - World Championship - Val di Fiemme
• 2003 overall world cup winner
• 2003 Sprint World Cup winner
• 2003 German champion - individual
• 2003 German champion - sprint
• 2004 2nd place - overall World Cup
• 2005 World Champion Nordic Combined - Individual & Sprint - Oberstdorf
• 2005 Vice World Champion Nordic Combined - Relay - Oberstdorf
• 2006 Silver Medal - Nordic Combined - Relay - Olympic Winter Games - Turin
• 2007 World Champion Nordic Combined - Singles - Sapporo
• 2007 Vice World Champion Nordic Combined - Relay - Sapporo
• 2008 overall world cup winner

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	December 9, 1999	Vuokatti	Gundersen normal hill
02.	January 5, 2001	Reit im Winkl	Sprint normal hill
03.	February 10, 2001	Liberec	Gundersen large hill
04th	November 23, 2001	Kuopio	Gundersen large hill
05.	November 25, 2001	Kuopio	Sprint large hill
06th	December 18, 2001	Steamboat Springs	Sprint large hill
07th	January 3, 2002	Reit im Winkl	Sprint normal hill
08th.	January 18, 2002	Liberec	Sprint large hill
09.	March 15, 2002	Oslo	Gundersen large hill
10.	January 22, 2003	Hakuba	Gundersen large hill
11.	January 25, 2003	Sapporo	Mass start large hill
12.	March 9, 2003	Oslo	Sprint large hill
13.	March 14, 2003	Lahti	Gundersen large hill
14th	November 29, 2003	Kuusamo	Gundersen large hill
15th	November 30, 2003	Kuusamo	Sprint large hill
16.	December 6, 2003	Trondheim	Sprint large hill
17th	December 12, 2003	Val di Fiemme	Sprint normal hill
18th	December 30, 2003	Oberhof	Gundersen large hill
19th	February 22, 2004	Liberec	Gundersen large hill
20th	February 29, 2004	Oslo	Gundersen large hill
21st	November 27, 2004	Kuusamo	Gundersen large hill
22nd	4th December 2004	Trondheim	Gundersen large hill
23.	December 5, 2004	Trondheim	Sprint large hill
24.	January 2, 2005	Ruhpolding	Sprint large hill
25th	November 30, 2007	Kuusamo	Gundersen large hill
26th	January 12, 2008	Val di Fiemme	Gundersen large hill
27.	January 20, 2008	Klingenthal	Sprint large hill
28.	November 29, 2008	Kuusamo	Gundersen large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	August 22, 1999	Wernigerode	singles
02.	August 25, 1999	Steinbach-Hallenberg	singles
03.	August 28, 1999	Klingenthal	singles
04th	August 26, 2001	Steinbach-Hallenberg	singles
05.	August 29, 2003	Klingenthal	Gundersen normal hill

B-World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	3rd December 1995	Ramsau	Gundersen large hill

statistics

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Sprint LH	team
1998 Nagano	-	-	06th
2002 Park City	04th	02.	02.
2006 Pragelato	18th	08th.	02.

Placements at world championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	sprint	Mass start	team
1999 Ramsau	24.	-	09.	-	06th
2001 Lahti	16.	-	03.	-	04th
2003 Pragelato	01.	-	02.	-	02.
2005 Oberstdorf	01.	-	01.	-	02.
2007 Sapporo	01.	-	08th.	-	02.
2009 Liberec	13.	21st	-	19th	02.

Awards

• 2003 third place athlete of the year
• 2005 Sportsman of the Year
• April 26th, 2006 bearer of the silver bay leaf

Web links

Commons : Ronny Ackermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ronny Ackermann in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ronny Ackermann on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Official website of Ronny Ackermann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sebastian Krause: DSV coach Ackermann: The star is the trainer. In: Spiegel Online . March 9, 2012, accessed January 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ https://www.kicker.de/775415/artikel
3. ↑ 12. Sports report of the Federal Government to the Bundestag - printed matter VI / 2152 - page 67, .... the handing over of the silver laurel leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic Games and the Paralypics of Turin took place on April 26th, 2006 ...