Sven Hannawald

Sven Hannawald
Sven Hannawald (2013)
Full name	Sven Hannawald
nation	Germany
birthday	November 9, 1974
place of birth	Erlabrunn ,  GDR
size	184 cm
job	Sports soldier
Career
society	SC Hinterzarten
Trainer	Wolfgang Steiert
Pers. Best	220 m ( Planica 2002)
status	resigned
End of career	2005
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 1 × SFWM medals 2 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 3 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1998 Nagano team silver 2002 Salt Lake City Normal hill gold 2002 Salt Lake City team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1999 Ramsau Large hill gold 1999 Ramsau team gold 2001 Lahti Team large hill bronze 2001 Lahti Team normal hill  Ski flying world championships silver 1998 Oberstdorf singles gold 2000 Vikersund singles gold 2002 Harrachov singles  Ski Jumping Junior World Championships bronze 1992 Vuokatti team  German championships gold 1998 Large hill gold 1999 Hinterzarten Large hill gold 2000 Oberstdorf singles silver 2003 Oberwiesenthal singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 6, 1992
World Cup victories (individual)	18 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	02. ( 2001/02 , 2002/03 )
Ski flying world cup	01. (1997/98, 1999/00)
Jump World Cup	05. (1998/99, 1999/00)
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 2001/02 )
Nordic Tournament	01. (2000)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 14th 9 9  Ski flying 4th 3 1  Team jumping 1 2 4th
Ski jumping grand prix
Overall Grand Prix	01. (1999)

Sven Hannawald (* 9. November 1974 in Erlabrunn as Sven Poehler ) is a former German ski jumper and today's TV expert at the ARD and business consultant . In 2002, Hannawald was the first athlete to win the Four Hills Tournament with victories in all four competitions. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA, he won gold with the team. Before that, he was ski flying world champion twice in a row in 2000 and 2002 . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 and 2001 he was successful with four medals , including two golds with the team. In 2002 Sven Hannawald was honored as Germany's Sportsman of the Year .

Life

Born in Erlabrunn as Sven Pöhler (his parents only married after his birth), Sven Hannawald grew up in the neighboring town of Johanngeorgenstadt in the Ore Mountains . At the age of twelve he switched to the children's and youth sports school (KJS) in Klingenthal and trained at SC Dynamo Klingenthal . When his parents and their six-year-old sister moved from the Erzgebirge to Jettingen-Scheppach in the Günzburg district ( Bavarian Swabia ) in 1991 , he switched to the ski boarding school in Furtwangen in the Black Forest , where he completed an apprenticeship as a communications electronics technician after school ( secondary school leaving certificate ) . He then signed up for the Bundeswehr and trained as a sports soldier in a sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Todtnau -Fahl until 2001 .

Sven Hannawald lives in Munich and is a member of the ski club in Hinterzarten . In November 2016 he married the soccer player Melissa Thiem . Their son was born in February 2017. The second child, a daughter, was born in May 2019. Sven Hannawald also has another son (* 2006) from a previous relationship.

Athletic career

Beginnings

Hannawald took part in a ski jumping course at the age of seven. At first he operated the Nordic combined , but it soon became clear that his strengths were clearly in ski jumping . In order to have better training opportunities, he switched to the KJS. He became GDR schoolmaster in ski jumping and won the winter sports winter sports children and youth spartakiade in 1987 in Oberwiesenthal in three disciplines, two of which were jumping and one of the Nordic combined.

First successes as a ski jumper

After moving to Hinterzarten, he was third in the team competition of the Junior World Championships in 1992 and German champions in team jumping with his club team in 1994.

In 1998 Hannawald won silver at the Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf and silver in team jumping at the Olympic Games in Nagano .

1998/99 season

In the 1998/99 season he finished fifth in the overall ski jumping World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau in 1999 , he won silver in the individual competition on the large hill behind Martin Schmitt and gold in the team competition on the large hill.

1999/2000 season

From February 12th to 14th, 2000, the ski flying world championship was held in Vikersund ( Norway ) , which due to chaotic weather conditions was not decided on the weekend with two rounds on two days as planned, but on the following Monday with three rounds on just one day . With jumps of 179.5, 188 and 196.5 meters and 536.8 points, Hannawald became world ski flying champion for the first time .

2000/01 season

The team competition on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 had to be postponed by three days due to poor conditions and was only held on February 24th. With 120 meters, Hannawald showed one of the best jumps of the entire first round. With 110.5 meters he was the best jumper in his starter group in the second round and there was only one of two athletes who managed to jump over 100 meters. The German team with the line-up Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann , Alexander Herr and Martin Schmitt defended the world championship title won two years earlier and in the end prevailed with almost 40 points ahead of Finland and Austria. On the normal hill, the German team also won the bronze medal with the same line-up.

2001/02 season

The following winter 2001/02 was the most successful in Sven Hannawald's career.

Triumph at the Four Hills Tournament

Due to the good placements in the run-up to the Four Hills Tournament with the victory in Titisee-Neustadt at the beginning of December, Hannawald was one of the best 15 jumpers in the overall ranking who were automatically qualified for the competition at that time. Hannawald then skipped all four qualification competitions and had to compete against the winners of the qualification, since the Four Hills Tournament has to jump in the first round in knockout mode and the result of the qualification determines the corresponding pair of jumpers.

In the first competition on December 30th in Oberstdorf he clearly prevailed against the Austrian Andreas Widhölzl with 122 meters and was in the lead with almost 10 points ahead of the Swiss Simon Ammann after the first round . With another 122 meters, he had to admit defeat to the Austrian Martin Höllwarth in the second round , who jumped seven meters further. Due to the better posture and the lead from the first round, Hannawald won the first competition of the tour with eight points ahead of Höllwarth.

In the second competition, the New Year’s competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the duel between Hannawald and Widhölzl was repeated in the first round. With 122.5 meters, Hannawald jumped half a meter further than the Austrian, who, however, was able to prevail with a lead of 0.6 points due to the slightly better posture marks. Hannawald came through as the second best of the first round over the rating of the five best losers. With the best distance of 125 meters in the second round, he then achieved the second victory in the second competition with a narrow margin of 1.7 points over Widhölzl.

At the third competition on January 4th in Innsbruck , Hannawald was able to clearly prevail in the first round not only against Martin Höllwarth, who jumped eight meters shorter as the runner-up. He also set a new hill record with 134.5 meters, which was valid until 2015. In the second round he again achieved the best distance with 128 meters and with a lead of 23 points over Adam Małysz from Poland he extended his lead in the overall standings of the tour to over 40 points.

In the final Dreikönigsspringen in Bischofshofen , Hannawald improved the hill record he had set himself three years earlier by two meters with 139 meters and was able to assert himself in the duel against Matti Hautamäki from Finland . Although he had jumped five meters further, he was only just ahead of the Slovenes Robert Kranjec and Hautamäki due to poor posture marks. With 131.5 meters in the final jump and 2.5 points ahead of Hautamäki, Hannawald celebrated his fourth victory in the fourth competition.

Hannawald became the first ski jumper to win all four partial competitions of the Four Hills Tournament in one season and is the tenth German tour winner. With the 1077.6 total points achieved, he also set a new record, which, however, was exceeded in the following years.

winter Olympics

With a win in Willingen and two second places in Zakopane , Hannawald had seamlessly continued the successful streak of the Four Hills Tournament and was thus one of the top favorites for the Olympic victory at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .

On February 10th he was on the normal hill after the first round with a width of 97 meters behind the Swiss Simon Ammann in 2. With 99 meters, Hannawald achieved the best distance in the second round, but remained 1.5 points in the overall standings behind Ammann and won the silver medal.

In his stronger discipline, jumping from the large hill, three days later he was tied with Ammann in the lead with 132.5 meters after the first round. At the distance of 131 meters, Hannawald fell in the second round, which threw him back to fourth place. Despite the fall, he narrowly missed a medal and was 0.7 points behind bronze. Ammann was able to maintain the lead from the first round and was again Olympic champion.

In the final team competition on February 17th, Hannawald competed with Stephan Hocke , Michael Uhrmann and Martin Schmitt . Hannawald achieved the second best result of his group of jumpers with 123 meters in the first and 120.5 meters in the second round, the Finn Matti Hautamäki was better in both rounds . After a hard-fought duel with the Finnish team, the German jumpers managed to win the gold medal with a wafer-thin margin of just 0.1 points.

For his achievements at the 2002 Winter Olympics, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Rau on May 6, 2002.

Ski Flying World Championships

The next competition after the Olympic Games was the ski flying world championship in Harrachov at the beginning of March , with Hannawald starting as the defending champion. In contrast to his competitors, he managed two equal jumps of 202 meters each, so that he was in the lead after the first day. Due to the bad weather conditions, the jumping had to be canceled on the second day, so that, like two years earlier, the overall ranking was decided on just one day. Hannawald was the first jumper to successfully defend his title.

In the overall World Cup ranking, Hannawald finished second behind Poland's Adam Małysz at the end of the season . He was named Sportsman of the Year in 2002 for his achievements .

2002/03 season

The 2002/03 season was also extremely successful for Hannawald. He won six World Cup competitions, came second in the Four Hills Tournament and in the end took second place in the overall World Cup ranking. He achieved one of the six victories of the season at the first competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf. Sven Hannawald has won five tournament competitions in a row.

On February 8, 2003 he won the World Cup jumping in Willingen. For his first jump he received a grade of 20 five times  - a rating that only seven jumpers have received so far. For his second jump, Hannawald received four times the mark 20 and one 19.5 and thus nine times 20 in a jumping competition.

2003/04 season

Sven Hannawald (2004)

In the 2003/04 season things didn't go as hoped for Hannawald. His best result was a fourth place in Trondheim ( Norway ). As a consequence, he ended the season prematurely.

Hannawald has been the subject of a discussion about anorexia for a long period of time . At a height of 1.84 m, he weighed 64 kg (data from his official website).

End of career as a ski jumper

Hannawald (left) next to Andreas Görlitz at a benefit game with the KSC Allstars (2010)

On April 29, 2004 it was announced that Hannawald suffered from burnout syndrome and had gone to a special clinic for treatment. In the meantime he was on the mend and already made several public appearances again. On August 3, 2005, Hannawald announced that after successfully treating his burnout syndrome, he no longer wanted to expose himself to the rigors of professional sport, and thus ended his career. On July 8, 2006, he was bid farewell at the Night of the Eagles in Oberkirch .

On March 9, 2007, Sven Hannawald became wok world champion at the 5th wok world championship in Innsbruck , together with Markus Beyer , Christina Surer and Susianna Kentikian as pilot of the 4-person wok of the Seat team.

Between the end of 2009 and 2015, Hannawald was active in the football department of TSV Neuried, where he was mainly used as a defender on the wing of the 2nd men's team in the Munich 3 district class.

Motorsport career

Hannawald at the Hockenheimring (2012)

Sven Hannawald contested his first car races in 2005 by making a guest start at the season finale at the Hockenheimring in the German Seat Leon Supercopa . After he had competed in the Seat Leon Supercopa again in the following two years, he competed for the first time in a few races of the ADAC GT Masters in the 2008 season for the Schnabl Engineering team in a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup . In 2009 he started a race weekend for the Buchbinder Racing team .

In the 2010 season , Hannawald had a permanent cockpit for the first time in the ADAC GT Masters. He and his teammate Thomas Jäger drove a Corvette Z06.R GT3 for the Callaway Competition team . At the second race weekend at the Sachsenring , he finished second in the Sunday run, with which he achieved his first podium and at the same time his first championship points. In the Sunday race of the following race weekend at the Hockenheimring, he achieved another second place. Hannawald finished the season in second place in the amateur standings and in 15th place in the overall standings.
In the 2011 season was Heinz-Harald Frentzen his teammate. In the end, Hannawald was fourth in the amateur ranking, and in the overall ranking it was enough to rank 30.

From 2012 to 2015 he only took part in occasional events. B. 2013 in a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 from the Rowe Racing team at two races of the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring .

author

Hannawald at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013

His biography My high-altitude flight, my crash, my landing in life was published on September 5, 2013.

Business consultant

On July 1, 2016, Hannawald and Sven Ehricht, a graduate in business administration, founded a management consultancy specializing in corporate health and sports sponsoring . In moderated talks and seminars, he passes on his personal experiences with sporting success, but also pressure to perform and a lack of balance ( burnout ). The seminars take place on ski jumping hills.

TV presence

Hannawald as a commentator at Eurosport (2019)

After the end of his career, Sven Hannawald was more often at the microphone as an interview partner in World Cup reports. During the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08 , he acted for the first time at ZDF alongside Jens Weißflog as an expert. From the 2016/17 season he worked for Eurosport as a ski jumping expert alongside commentator Matthias Bielek . In October 2020, his move to ARD was announced, where he will replace Dieter Thoma and act as an expert at the side of presenter Matthias Opdenhövel .

In July 2013 he won the show Schlag die Star against his opponent.

In 2018, 2020 and 2021 he participated in the Ninja Warrior Germany celebrity special for the RTL donation marathon .

In 2019 he won the final of the TV show Eternal Heroes against Andrea Henkel .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	location	Type
1.	January 6, 1998	Bischofshofen	Large hill
2.	January 24, 1998	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
3.	February 19, 2000	Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf	Ski jump
4th	March 10, 2000	Trondheim	Large hill
5.	March 12, 2000	Oslo	Large hill
6th	March 19, 2000	Planica	Ski jump
7th	December 2, 2001	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
8th.	December 30, 2001	Oberstdorf	Large hill
9.	January 1, 2002	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
10.	January 4, 2002	innsbruck	Large hill
11th	January 6, 2002	Bischofshofen	Large hill
12th	January 12, 2002	Willingen	Large hill
13th	December 22, 2002	Engelberg	Large hill
14th	December 29, 2002	Oberstdorf	Large hill
15th	January 18, 2003	Zakopane	Large hill
16.	January 19, 2003	Zakopane	Large hill
17th	February 2, 2003	Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf	Ski jump
18th	February 8, 2003	Willingen	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	location	Type
1.	March 18, 2000	Planica	Ski jump

World Cup placements

season	place	Points
1993/94	90	0002
1994/95	63.	0026th
1996/97	59.	0040
1997/98	06th	0953
1998/99	06th	0896
1999/2000	04th	1065
2000/01	09.	0462
2001/02	02.	1259
2002/03	02.	1235
2003/04	24	0253

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	location	Type
1.	August 6, 1999	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
2.	September 11, 1999	Hakuba	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	location	Type
1.	August 7, 1999	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Grand Prix placements

season	place	Points
1998	09.	0157
1999	01.	0332
2000	35.	0033
2001	32.	0045
2003	31.	0022nd

Continental Cup victories in individual

No.	date	location	Type
1.	February 11, 1994	Ruhpolding	Large hill
2.	January 7, 1995	Planica	Normal hill
3.	March 16, 1996	Planica	Large hill
4th	February 23, 1997	Iron Mountain	Large hill
5.	July 25, 1998	Berchtesgaden	Normal hill

Continental Cup placements

season	place	Points
1994/95	14th	0396
1995/96	15th	0394
1996/97	07th	0615
1997/98	95.	0105
1998/99	54.	0220

Hill records

location	country	Expanse	set up	Record up
Bischofshofen	Austria	137.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	February 23, 1999	0January 6, 2002
Trondheim	Norway	134.5 m (HS: 131 m)	March 10, 2000	0March 9, 2001
Oslo	Norway	132.5 m (HS: 128 m)	March 12, 2000	March 13, 2005
Titisee-Neustadt	Germany	145.0 m (HS: 142 m)	0December 2, 2001	March 11, 2016
innsbruck	Austria	132.5 m (HS: 130 m)	0January 3, 2002	0January 4, 2002
innsbruck	Austria	134.5 m (HS: 130 m)	0January 4, 2002	04th January 2015
Bischofshofen	Austria	139.0 m (HS: 134 m)	0January 6, 2002	0January 6, 2005
Park City	United States	099.0 m (HS: 100 m)	February 10, 2002	current
Zakopane	Poland	140.0 m (HS: 134 m)	January 18, 2003	January 23, 2010
Bad Mitterndorf	Austria	214.0 m (HS: 200 m)	January 31, 2003	January 10, 2009

Awards

• 2002: Goldene Feder special price for the sympathetic way with which he presents the sport in the media
• 2002: Sportsman of the Year (Germany)
• 2012: Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Autobiography

• Sven Hannawald: My soaring, my crash, my landing in life . ZS Verlag Zabert Sandmann GmbH, 1st edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-89883-387-5 .

literature

• Jan Wielgohs:  Hannawald, Sven . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Sven Hannawald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sven Hannawald's website
• Sven Hannawald in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Sven Hannawald in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Sven Hannawald in the database of driverdb.com (English).
• Literature by and about Sven Hannawald in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-ski jumper: The great void in the life of Sven Hannawald . welt.de. Retrieved April 8, 2009.
2. ↑ junior: A Zehnpfünder for Hanna Forest. focus.de, December 2, 2006, accessed on March 3, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Sven Hannawald: "I was ill with success" , Die Zeit , December 28, 2017
4. ↑ Official result (Oberstdorf, December 30, 2001) (PDF, 523 kB)
5. ↑ Official result (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, January 1, 2002) (PDF, 169 kB)
6. ↑ Official result (Innsbruck, January 4, 2002) (PDF, 523 kB)
7. ↑ Official result (Bischofshofen, January 6, 2002) (PDF, 523 kB)
8. ↑ Overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament 2001/02 (PDF, 66 kB)
9. ↑ Official result (Salt Lake City, February 10, 2002) (PDF, 194 kB)
10. ↑ Official result (Salt Lake City, February 13, 2002) (PDF, 195 kB)
11. ↑ Official result (Salt Lake City, February 18, 2002) (PDF, 203 kB)
12. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of May 6, 2002 on the occasion of the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2002 Winter Olympics ....: www.bundespräsident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Reden / greetings
13. ↑ Official result (Harrachov, March 9, 2002) (PDF, 224 kB)
14. ↑ In addition to Hannawald, only Helmut Recknagel has managed that so far . Recknagel won three competitions and two more in the following year
15. ↑ Local sport: "Hey Sven, you pipe". Abendzeitung , May 12, 2010, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
16. ↑ "Ziiieh" now in football: Sven Hannawald is now playing for TSV Neuried. Münchner Merkur , June 24, 2013, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
17. ↑ ADAC GT Masters starting field is forming . adac-motorsport.de. March 20, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
18. ↑ Sven Hannawald: "I don't miss anything" . skispringen.com. March 29, 2010. Archived from the original on September 11, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
19. ↑ "GT Masters: Hannawald / Jäger fly onto the podium" (motorsport-magazin.com on May 9, 2010)
20. ↑ Points / ADAC GT Masters. (PDF) adac-gt-masters.de, November 2, 2011, accessed on January 30, 2017 . 
21. ↑ VLN website: ROWE RACING with a good dress rehearsal for the 24h race. On: www.vln.de , archived from the original on December 8, 2013 ; Retrieved December 17, 2015 . 
22. ↑ Change to ARD: Sven Hannawald succeeds Dieter Thoma. In: skispringen.com. October 23, 2020, accessed October 23, 2020.