Ronny Heer

Ronny Heer
Ronny Herr at the Grand Prix 2004 in Steinbach-Hallenberg
nation	Switzerland
birthday	January 9, 1981
place of birth	Wolhusen
size	176 cm
Weight	65 kg
job	Commercial clerk in trust
Career
society	SC Horw
Trainer	Robert Treitinger Peter Leiner
National squad	since 1999
status	resigned
End of career	March 2011
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × SM medals 4 × 5 × 1 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 1999 Saalfelden team  Swiss championships bronze 2000 Prémanon singles silver 2001 St. Moritz singles silver 2002 Les Tuffes singles silver 2003 Kandersteg singles silver 2004 Hinterzarten singles silver 2005 Kandersteg singles gold 2007 Kandersteg singles gold 2008 Einsiedeln singles gold 2009 Einsiedeln singles gold 2010 Einsiedeln singles
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	0February 5, 2000
Overall World Cup	19. ( 2001/02 , 2005/06 )
Sprint World Cup	15. ( 2001/02 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  team 0 0 1
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 26, 2000
Grand Prix victories (individual)	03 ( details )
Overall rating	03rd ( 2008 , 2009 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 3 0 0

Ronny Heer (born January 9, 1981 in Wolhusen ) is a former Swiss Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Heer, who has been skiing at SC Horw since he was twelve, made his international debut in 1999 in the Nordic Combined B World Cup. Already in the first competitions he scored 19 points and thus in the end the 61st place in the overall ranking. At the 1999 Junior World Championships in Saalfelden , Heer and the team won the silver medal in the team competition.

In the 1999/2000 season he launched successfully, it that on 5 February 2000 in Japanese Hakuba its debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup was. Since he was unable to achieve World Cup points in the first races, he continued to compete in the B World Cup, where he was able to steadily improve his performance. At the Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined in 2000 in Prémanon , France , he achieved the bronze medal behind Urs Kunz and Andreas Hurschler . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2001 , he was part of the Swiss team. In the individual race, however, he did not start despite a report. In the team competition he achieved tenth place together with Andreas Hurschler, Ivan Rieder and Andy Hartmann . On December 1, 2001, Heer won World Cup points for the first time in Lillehammer . Shortly before that, he won silver behind Andy Hartmann at the Swiss Nordic Combined Championships in 2001 . On December 9, 2001, Heer reached sixth place at the World Cup in Štrbské Pleso for the first time a placement among the top ten. He also won World Cup points in the following races and again achieved sixth place in the Oberwiesenthal sprint .

At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Heer came in 29th place in both sprints and singles. In the team competition he achieved seventh place together with Andreas Hurschler, Jan Schmid and Ivan Rieder. At the end of the current 2001/02 season he got more points, so that he finally finished 19th in the overall World Cup ranking. In the sprint ranking he reached 15th place. As in 2001, he again won silver at the Swiss Nordic Combined Championships in 2002 in Les Tuffes , France . The start of the new 2002/03 season went less well for Heer, so that he mostly clearly missed placements in the top ten. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2003 , he reached 21st place in the sprint, 31st place in the individual and eighth place with the team in the team competition. After he again only achieved mediocre placements after the World Cup, he had to be satisfied with 36th place in the overall World Cup standings.

In the following two years he was only rarely able to bring his performance to the level of 2001 and mostly stayed in the constant range of places 20 to 30. At the Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined in 2003, however, he again won silver behind Ivan Rieder Individual competition. Also at the Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined in 2004 it was again the silver medal.

On February 11, 2005, Heer achieved third place in the team competition in Pragelato, the only World Cup podium of his career. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf he reached 28th place in Gundersen and 31st place in sprint. With the team, he reached sixth place in the team competition. After the world championship, he started again in the B World Cup for a year. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin he reached 20th place in the sprint and 24th place in the individual. With the team he just missed the medal ranks in the team competition with fourth place. After the Olympic Games, he started again in the World Cup and achieved World Cup points from the start. By the end of the 2005/06 season he achieved a placement among the top twenty and thus at the end of 2001/02 again 19th place in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the following year, Heer in Zakopane achieved eighth place in the mass start and was once again among the top ten for the first time. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , however, he was again unable to achieve any top positions and ended up taking 18th place in the sprint and 21st place in the Gundersen. With the team he reached fifth place in the team competition. At the Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined in 2007 , Heer won the title for the first time in his career. In the World Cup, his performance decreased again after the World Cup. It wasn't until the beginning of 2008 that he was able to place in the top twenty again. On August 1, 2008, Heer won his first Grand Prix competition in Einsiedeln . At the Swiss Nordic Combined Championships in 2008 in Einsiedeln, Heer won the gold medal in the individual ahead of Seppi Hurschler and Joel Bieri .

In Liberec he reached 14th place on the normal hill and 28th place on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Gundersen. In the mass start he came in 31st place. At the Summer Grand Prix 2009 Heer was able to win two of four competitions and, like in 2008, finished third in the overall ranking. In the World Cup, however, he had to be content with lower placements for the rest of the year, mostly even outside of the points. It was not until January 2010 that he again achieved top positions and was nominated for the Olympic Games again.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Heer achieved 11th place in the individual on the normal hill and 22nd in the individual on the large hill. In the team competition he finished ninth with his teammates. After the games he continued to achieve good results in the World Cup and ended up in 24th place in the overall World Cup ranking. At the Swiss Nordic Combined Championships 2010 in Einsiedeln, Heer won the individual gold medal for the fourth time in a row. Heer finished his last World Cup season in 2010/11 with five top 20 placements in 27th place overall. At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo he was 25th in the individual on the normal hill and 27th in the individual on the large hill. He finished eighth in the team competition on the large hill. At the end of the 2010/11 season, Heer ended his career.

successes

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	August 1, 2008	Einsiedeln	Gundersen large hill
2.	August 8, 2009	Hinterzarten	Gundersen normal hill
3.	August 15, 2009	Einsiedeln	Gundersen large hill

B-World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 13, 2006	Chaux-Neuve	Sprint normal hill
2.	January 20, 2006	Oberstdorf	Sprint large hill
3.	January 27, 2006	Karpacz	Gundersen normal hill
4th	January 28, 2006	Karpacz	Sprint normal hill

Team B World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 10, 2005	Vuokatti	Team normal hill

statistics

Participation in Winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	sprint	team
2002 Park City	29	-	29	07th
2006 Turin	24.	-	20th	04th
2010 Vancouver	11.	22nd	-	09.

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1999/00	61.	021st
2000/01	54.	063
2001/02	19th	517
2002/03	36.	098
2003/04	30th	126
2004/05	52.	039
2005/06	19th	273
2006/07	21st	149
2007/08	33.	155
2008/09	27.	183
2009/10	24.	198
2010/11	27.	088

Web links

• Ronny Heer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ronny Heer on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Ronny Heer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2000 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2000. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. 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. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
2. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2001 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2001. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
3. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2002 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2002. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
4. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2003 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2003. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
5. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2004 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2004. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
6. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2007 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2007. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
7. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2008 (PDF; 15 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2008. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
8. ↑ Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined 2010 (PDF; 20 kB) Swiss-Ski . 2010. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2010. 
9. ↑ Bye bye top-class sport. Ronny Heer's website, March 10, 2011, accessed May 14, 2011
10. ↑ Ronny Heer resigns. ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swiss-Ski , March 10, 2011, accessed on May 14, 2011