Simon Ammann

Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann (2014)
nation	Switzerland
birthday	25th June 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Grabs , Switzerland
size	173 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
society	RG Churfirsten SSC Toggenburg
Trainer	Ronny Hornschuh
National squad	since 1992
Pers. Best	243.0 m ( Planica 2019)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 2 × SFWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × National medals 10 × 17 × 4 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City Normal hill gold 2002 Salt Lake City Large hill gold 2010 Vancouver Normal hill gold 2010 Vancouver Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2007 Sapporo Large hill silver 2007 Sapporo Normal hill bronze 2009 Liberec Normal hill bronze 2011 Oslo Large hill  Ski flying world championships gold 2010 Planica singles  Swiss championships silver 1998 Langenbruck Juniors singles bronze 1999 Chaux-Neuve singles gold 1999 Chaux-Neuve Juniors singles bronze 2001 St. Moritz singles silver 2002 Les Tuffes singles silver 2003 Kandersteg singles bronze 2003 Kandersteg team silver 2004 Hinterzarten singles silver 2004 Hinterzarten team bronze 2005 Kandersteg singles silver 2005 Kandersteg team silver 2006 Einsiedeln singles silver 2006 Einsiedeln team silver 2007 Kandersteg singles silver 2007 Kandersteg team silver 2008 Einsiedeln singles gold 2009 Einsiedeln singles gold 2009 Einsiedeln team silver 2010 Einsiedeln singles gold 2011 Einsiedeln singles gold 2011 Einsiedeln team gold 2012 Einsiedeln singles gold 2012 Einsiedeln team silver 2013 Chaux-Neuve team gold 2013 Chaux-Neuve singles gold 2014 Einsiedeln singles silver 2014 Einsiedeln team gold 2015 Einsiedeln singles silver 2015 Einsiedeln team silver 2018 Einsiedeln singles silver 2019 Chaux-Neuve singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 29, 1997
World Cup victories (individual)	23 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01st ( 2009/10 )
Ski flying world cup	03rd ( 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2011/12 )
Jump World Cup	45th ( 1999/2000 )
Four Hills Tournament	02. ( 2008/09 , 2010/11 )
Raw Air	06. ( 2019 )
Nordic Tournament	01. (2010)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 23 22nd 21st  Ski flying 0 9 5
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	0August 8, 1999
Grand Prix victories (individual)	06 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	01st ( 2009 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 6th 4th 5
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	December 26, 1997
COC wins (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	54th ( 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 3 4th  Team jumping 0 0 1
last change: January 1st, 2020

Ammann at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Simon Ammann at the Swiss Ski Day in Bern, October 2010

Simon Ammann (born June 25, 1981 in Grabs ) is a Swiss ski jumper . He celebrated his greatest successes at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , when he won on both the normal and large hill. Ammann has consistently been among the world's best for many years. With four gold medals, Ammann is the most successful ski jumper in individual Olympic competitions and the most successful Swiss winter Olympic athlete. In the 2009/10 season he won the overall World Cup.

Career

Simon Ammann first drew attention to himself at the opening competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf on December 29, 1997, when he surprisingly reached 15th place at the age of 16, qualifying for the Swiss Olympic team. The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano were not very successful for him, he finished 35th and 39th in individual competitions. In the following years there were no sporting successes.

A second place in December 2001 at the World Cup in Engelberg and two podium places in Predazzo brought Ammann close to the top of the world for the first time. He was third in the opening competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf and came in sixth overall.

Simon Ammann's breakthrough came surprisingly at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, when he won gold medals on both the normal hill and the large hill. On the normal hill he left Sven Hannawald and Adam Małysz behind. On the large hill he won ahead of Adam Małysz and Matti Hautamäki . After the Olympic Games, he also won the World Cup competition on the Holmenkollbakken in 2002. After that, however, Ammann increasingly lost his good shape.

He fell at the 2006 Winter Olympics , which made defending his title impossible. After this incident, Ammann was able to constantly improve its performance and finally won its first summer competition in Kranj (Slovenia).

On December 2nd, 2006 he won a jumping competition in Lillehammer ahead of his Swiss teammate Andreas Küttel . This was the first Swiss double success in the history of the Ski Jumping World Cup. For the first time in his career, Ammann became World Cup leader. At the home World Cup on December 16 and 17, 2006 in Engelberg, he finished second and fourth and thus went as overall World Cup leader in the 55th Four Hills Tournament , which began on December 29, 2006 and which he finished in third place.

Another highlight of his career followed at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2007 when he won the world championship title on the large hill. He beat the Finn Harri Olli by two tenths of a point. When jumping on the normal hill, he won the silver medal. He just had to give way to the superior Adam Małysz ( 21.5 points ahead ). He finished the 2006/07 World Cup in third place behind Małysz and Anders Jacobsen ; by far his best ranking to date. Together with Andreas Küttel (fifth place), he achieved the best Swiss result of the season in ski jumping history. For the first time, Switzerland was also in third place in the team ranking ahead of established ski jumping nations such as Finland.

The 2007/08 season brought a small setback with ninth place overall. In the World Cup 2008/09 he achieved second place overall, his best final result in the overall World Cup. That year he won five individual world cups. Ammann only had to admit defeat to Gregor Schlierenzauer .

In October 2009, after many international successes, he celebrated his first two Swiss championships (individual and team with the Eastern Switzerland Ski Association). The 2009/10 World Cup also started successfully with three more victories up to the Four Hills Tournament. However, he could not win this again, Andreas Kofler won the tour, while Ammann finished the tour in fifth.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he won the gold medal on the normal hill on February 13, and just a week later he also won an individual Olympic competition on the large hill with his fourth victory. With his four gold medals, he is now the most successful Swiss winter sportsman at the Olympic Games. He is also the first ski jumper to win four individual gold medals at the Olympic Games. He overtook Matti Nykänen from Finland , who had won three gold medals. With victories in all four competitions that were still pending after the Olympics, Ammann was able to win the overall World Cup and the Nordic Tour for the first time . On March 20, 2010, Ammann crowned his season by winning the 2010 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica .

At the Swiss Championships 2010 in Einsiedeln , Ammann won the silver medal on the normal hill behind Andreas Küttel and in front of Marco Grigoli . A year later - Küttel had since resigned - he was able to take back the title and win it ahead of Gregor Deschwanden and Pascal Egloff . At Vikersundbakken , he set a new Swiss ski flying record in 2011 with a height of 238.5 meters .

On February 7, 2014, Ammann represented Switzerland as the standard bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . After the Winter Games did not go according to plan for Ammann, he thought about retiring for a while. A few days before the World Cup final of the 2013/14 season, however, he announced that he would continue his career.

On January 6, 2015, Ammann fell seriously during the Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen and was admitted to hospital with a concussion after briefly unconsciousness. After the rumor had surfaced for a few months that Ammann might declare the end of his career, he announced in mid-May that he would continue his ski jumping career for the next season.

In the two seasons after the fall, Ammann performed consistently well in the World Cup and made it into the second round in most competitions, but without being able to achieve podium positions. He changed his movement sequences during landing, which led to uncertainties during telemark landing . That is why he often got deductions in the posture grades.

At the ski flying in Bad Mitterndorf on January 13, 2018, he achieved a podium place in the World Cup for the first time since 2015. At the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , his sixth participation in the Olympic Games, he was eleventh on the normal hill and 13th on the large hill .

At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he was twelfth on the normal hill and 15th on the large hill. With the Swiss men's team, he finished seventh in the team competition.

Private

Ammann grew up and went to school in Unterwasser in the canton of St. Gallen . He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . On June 25, 2010, Ammann married his long-time Russian friend Yana Yanovskaya, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. The couple has lived in Schindellegi in the canton of Schwyz since 2008 . Since November 19, 2012 he has been the holder of the private pilot license (PPL).

successes

winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

• Gold in individual jumping (normal hill)
• Gold in individual jumping (large hill)

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

• Gold in individual jumping (normal hill)
• Gold in individual jumping (large hill)

World championships

Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo

• Gold in individual jumping (large hill)
• Silver in individual jumping (normal hill)

Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec

• Bronze in individual jumping (normal hill)

Ski flying world championship 2010 in Planica

• Gold in the individual competition

Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo

• Bronze in individual jumping (large hill)

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01.	March 17, 2002	Oslo	Large hill
02.	December 2, 2006	Lillehammer	Large hill
03.	March 18, 2007	Oslo	Large hill
04th	November 29, 2008	Kuusamo	Large hill
05.	December 7, 2008	Trondheim	Large hill
06th	December 13, 2008	Pragelato	Large hill
07th	December 20, 2008	Engelberg	Large hill
08th.	December 29, 2008	Oberstdorf	Large hill
09.	December 6, 2009	Lillehammer	Large hill
10.	December 18, 2009	Engelberg	Large hill
11.	December 20, 2009	Engelberg	Large hill
12.	January 17, 2010	Sapporo	Large hill
13.	February 3, 2010	Klingenthal	Large hill
14th	March 7, 2010	Lahti	Large hill
15th	March 9, 2010	Kuopio	Large hill
16.	March 12, 2010	Lillehammer	Large hill
17th	March 14, 2010	Oslo	Large hill
18th	January 1, 2011	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
19th	January 22, 2011	Zakopane	Large hill
20th	March 13, 2011	Lahti	Large hill
21st	December 29, 2013	Oberstdorf	Large hill
22nd	November 28, 2014	Kuusamo	Large hill
23.	November 29, 2014	Kuusamo	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 2, 2007	Kranj	Normal hill
2.	September 13, 2008	Hakuba	Large hill
3.	September 14, 2008	Hakuba	Large hill
4th	August 9, 2009	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
5.	August 12, 2009	Pragelato	Large hill
6th	August 14, 2009	Courchevel	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	15th September 2019	Lillehammer	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1997/98	070.	0022nd
1999/00	045.	0046
2001/02	007th	0628
2002/03	028.	0202
2003/04	013.	0511
2004/05	023.	0243
2005/06	017th	0305
2006/07	003.	1167
2007/08	009.	0728
2008/09	002.	1776
2009/10	001.	1649
2010/11	002.	1364
2011/12	011.	0731
2012/13	014th	0553
2013/14	007th	0733
2014/15	011.	0646
2015/16	015th	0480
2016/17	029	0147
2017/18	019th	0312
2018/19	024.	0313
2019/20	035.	0081

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	006th	0961.4
2002/03	024.	0660.7
2003/04	014th	0923.2
2004/05	037.	0399.6
2005/06	013.	0964.3
2006/07	003.	0931.9
2007/08	015th	0871.5
2008/09	002.	1091.1
2009/10	005.	1008.3
2010/11	002.	0928.4
2011/12	019th	0710.8
2012/13	027.	0722.7
2013/14	003.	0992.4
2014/15	017th	0898.9
2015/16	011.	0970.9
2016/17	044.	0303.0
2017/18	029	0576.3
2018/19	013.	0945.8
2019/20	027.	0738.4

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1999	037.	0025th
2001	022nd	0069
2002	012.	0101
2004	034.	0026th
2005	018th	0095
2006	004th	0393
2007	008th.	0271
2008	002.	0617
2009	001.	0537
2010	019th	0104
2011	047.	0040
2012	006th	0305
2013	014th	0180
2014	023.	0096
2015	034.	0083
2016	040.	0069
2017	013.	0161
2018	050.	0027
2019	033.	0062

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
1998/99	135.	0071
1999/00	111.	0106
2000/01	145.	0046
2001/02	125.	0069
2005/06	054.	0162
2012/13	119.	0044
2016/17	058.	0162
2018/19	101.	0040
2019/20	049.	0150

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Engelberg	Switzerland	137.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 15, 2001	December 20, 2003
Trondheim	Norway	140.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 7, 2008	January 3, 2009
Pragelato	Italy	144.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 13, 2008	current
Lillehammer	Norway	146.0 m ( HS : 138 m)	December 6, 2009	current
Engelberg	Switzerland	141.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 20, 2009	20th December 2015
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	143.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 2010	current
Zakopane	Poland	140.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	January 23, 2010	January 27, 2018
Vancouver Whistler	Canada	108.0 m ( HS : 106 m)	February 23, 2010	current
Klingenthal	Germany	145.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 1, 2011	February 2, 2011
Kuopio	Finland	106.0 m ( HS : 100 m)	March 10, 2015	current

Honors

Ammann was voted Sportsman of the Year in Switzerland in 2002. He also came second in the award for the Swiss of the year 2002. On December 12, 2010, he again received the Credit Suisse Sports Award for Swiss Sportsman of the Year 2010.

In 2010 Ammann became an honorary citizen of Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann in the canton of St. Gallen.

reception

The increasing popularity after his first Olympic victory in 2002 led to an appearance on David Letterman's talk show in the USA and an appearance on “ Wetten, dass ..? “His outward appearance earned him a comparison in the media with the popular character Harry Potter . He himself said as follows in an interview in 2002:

“The good thing was that Harry Potter is known all over the world. In America it has given me tremendous popularity. But my story is just not a fantasy, not a fairy tale. [...] I have to distance myself from a fantasy figure from a book. "

criticism

Simon Ammann's involvement on the Toggenburg Bergbahnen administrative board led to criticism because the company refused to offer a joint winter ticket for the Unterwasser and Wildhaus ski regions from the 2019/20 winter season .

Web links

Commons : Simon Ammann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Simon Ammann in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Simon Amman in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
• Simon Ammann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Simon Ammann on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Simon Ammann's website
• Portrait of Simon Ammann
• The high-flyer of yore is reinventing itself (FAZ.net December 20, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on October 11, 2011.
2. ↑ Kerstin Kock: Andreas Küttel wins national title in Switzerland . www.skispringen-news.de. October 10, 2010. Accessed on October 12, 2010.  ( 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.  
3. ↑ Results at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on October 11, 2011.
4. ↑ Simon Ammann becomes standard bearer . skispringen.com. January 28, 2014. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
5. ↑ Simon Ammann continues his career . skispringen.com. March 19, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
6. ↑ Experts discuss Ammann's mistakes. n-tv, January 7, 2015, accessed January 7, 2015.
7. ↑ Simon Ammann continues his career. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
8. ^ Large prints from Ammanns Landungen SRF, November 22, 2015. Accessed February 21, 2018.
9. ↑ Blick : Secret Wedding Article from June 26, 2010
10. ↑ Private pilot license ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2014 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. 
11. ↑ Kaeslin and Ammann are athletes of the year . Spox.ch. December 12, 2010. Accessed on December 13, 2010.  ( 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.  
12. ↑ Simon Ammann honorary citizen of Alt St. Johann SG - The news from Switzerland and abroad are constantly updated. Exclusive column with a biting note on the front page. . www.nachrichten.ch. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
13. ^ BBC report of February 15, 2002
14. ↑ sport1.at from February 24, 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2007 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. 
15. ↑ Interview with Die Welt am Sonntag on December 1, 2002
16. ^ Regula Weik: Mountain railways: flown out. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), January 4, 2018
17. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, December 20, 2015, p. 36