Stephan Hocke

Stephan Hocke
Squat on Holmenkollen 2012
nation	Germany
birthday	October 20, 1983
place of birth	Suhl ,  GDR
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	WSV Oberhof 05 WSV Schmiedefeld
Pers. Best	208.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status	resigned
End of career	December 29, 2012
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × OPA medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 2 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City team  Nordic ski games from the OPA gold 1999 Baiersbronn singles gold 1999 Baiersbronn team  German championships silver 2005 Hinterzarten team gold 2007 Winterberg singles gold 2007 Winterberg team silver 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen team silver 2010 Oberhof team bronze 2011 Hinterzarten team silver 2012 Klingenthal team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	November 23, 2001
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	09. ( 2001/02 )
Ski flying world cup	51st (2008/09)
Four Hills Tournament	10. ( 2001/02 )
Nordic Tournament	21st (2005)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 0 1  Team jumping 0 0 4th
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 11, 2001
Overall Grand Prix	21st ( 2002 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Team jumping 0 1 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	March 10, 2001
COC wins (individual)	09 ( details )
COC victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	23rd ( 2010/11 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 9 3 4th  Team jumping 2 0 0

Stephan Hocke (born October 20, 1983 in Suhl ) is a former German ski jumper . His greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in the team competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .

Career

Hocke began practicing Nordic combined in 1992 , where his father was the trainer of a DSV team and switched to special jumping at the age of 14. In the 1997/98 season he celebrated his first success by winning the German Junior Championship. At the 2001 Summer Grand Prix he competed in an international competition for the first time. After he was able to take 20th place straight away, he also took part in the subsequent Grand Prix competitions in Japan , where he jumped into the top ten for the first time with a ninth place in Sapporo .

At the end of November 2001 in Kuopio , Finland , the season opener of the Ski Jumping World Cup 2001/02 he was able to occupy places among the top ten with a seventh and a fifth place. At the following World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt , he was third to take his first podium. A week later, on December 15, 2001, he celebrated his only World Cup victory at the World Cup competition on the Gross-Titlis-Schanze in Engelberg . In the following Four Hills Tournament , he brought stable performances and finished tenth in the tour evaluation. At the subsequent World Cup in Willingen , he was able to secure another podium place in the team competition with the team with third place.

Because of his achievements, Hocke was nominated for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . After he was not used in the competition on the normal hill, he was able to take twelfth place in the individual competition on the large hill. At the final team competition on the large hill, he won the gold medal together with Sven Hannawald , Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann .

The rest of the World Cup season was mixed for Hocke: Although he finished third with the team in Lahti , he was no longer able to achieve top positions in the individual competitions. His good results from the start of the season were sufficient for ninth place in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the following years, Hocke kept switching between the World Cup, where he rarely achieved top results, and the second-rate Continental Cup .

At the end of August 2003 he had a serious fall during a training jump from Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck and suffered a fracture of the thoracic vertebra and several hairline cracks . Nevertheless, he was able to participate in the World Cup again in November 2003.

In the winter of 2004/05 he initially showed similar mixed performances as in previous years, but was able to improve over time and achieved on February 11, 2005 in Pragelato with fifth place his best result for over two years. On February 12, 2005 he was used in the team competition and was able to celebrate a third place with the team. Because of this good performance, he was appointed to the German squad for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf. There, however, he could not prevail in the team-internal elimination and only took part in the official training rounds as a substitute. At the end of the season in ski flying in Planica , Slovenia , he was able to set up his personal best of 208.5 m.

In mid-November 2006 he fell during a training course in Ramsau am Dachstein and broke his left collarbone . On the last weekend in December he was able to get back into the Continental Cup. In the team competition on February 11, 2007 in Willingen, he took another third place. He then took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo. On the large hill, he narrowly missed the second round, and on the normal hill, he finished 27th. In the team competition, the German squat team had no chance due to the previous injury to Michael Uhrmann and ended up in eighth place.

Immediately before the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13, Stephan Hocke announced that he would end his career immediately. The reason is the material battle in ski jumping and poor training conditions in his home in Thuringia.

Hocke is a graduate of the Oberhof sports high school and joined the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in summer 2003 . He later studied sports science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 15, 2001	Engelberg	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 18, 2001	Rælingen	Normal hill
2.	January 11, 2008	Sapporo	Normal hill
3.	December 9, 2008	Rovaniemi	Normal hill
4th	December 10, 2008	Rovaniemi	Normal hill
5.	December 13, 2008	Vikersund	Large hill
6th	December 14, 2008	Vikersund	Large hill
7th	December 7, 2010	Rovaniemi	Normal hill
8th.	December 8, 2010	Rovaniemi	Normal hill
9.	December 12, 2010	Vikersund	Large hill

Continental Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 5, 2001	Oberstdorf	Normal hill
2.	September 30, 2001	Oberhof	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	09.	508
2002/03	52.	036
2003/04	34.	115
2004/05	27.	183
2005/06	82.	002
2006/07	65.	016
2007/08	45.	038
2008/09	32.	145
2009/10	80.	003
2010/11	31.	132
2011/12	36.	107

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2001	22nd	69
2002	21st	61
2003	57.	02
2005	53.	12
2006	62.	14th
2007	34.	58
2008	39.	61
2009	44.	36
2010	79.	03
2011	37.	58

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Engelberg	Switzerland	134.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 15, 2001	December 15, 2001

Web links

Commons : Stephan Hocke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ahonen dominates qualification - Hannawald waived
2. ↑ Compulsory break for Stephan Hocke
3. ↑ Stephan Hocke ends his career . www.skispringen.com. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
4. ↑ Anja Blankenburg: Gold in Salt Lake City: “It couldn't have been any closer”. Ostthüringer Zeitung , February 7, 2014, accessed on February 9, 2014 .