Wilhelm Denifl

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Willi Denifl Nordic combination
Denifl before the 2018 Winter Olympics

Denifl before the 2018 Winter Olympics

Full name Wilhelm Denifl
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 10th November 1980 (age 39)
place of birth Rum , Austria
job Sports soldier
Career
society SV Innsbruck-Bergisel
status resigned
End of career 17th March 2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 2003 Val di Fiemme team
silver 2013 Val di Fiemme Team sprint
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
bronze 2000 Štrbské Pleso team
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 16, 2000
 World Cup victories (individual) 03 (including 2 in the team) ( details )
 Overall World Cup 08. ( 2012/13 )
 Sprint World Cup 11th ( 2002/03 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 1 2 6th
 team 2 1 6th
 

Wilhelm "Willi" Denifl (born November 10, 1980 in Rum ) is a former Austrian Nordic combined athlete and today's trainer.

Career

The sports soldier Denifl from SV Innsbruck-Bergisel has been skiing since 1989. He made his international debut in the 1998/99 season in the B-World Cup Nordic Combined. After he was able to collect his first successes in the first two years, he made his World Cup debut in a sprint in Breitenwang on January 16, 2000 , but missed the points as 39th. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2000 in Štrbské Pleso , Denifl won the bronze medal in the team competition together with David Kreiner , Florian Aichinger and Bernhard Gruber .

In the summer of 2000 Denifl started in the Summer Grand Prix and already reached the points in 26th place at the start in Klingenthal . He also landed in the points in Oberhof , Stams and Berchtesgaden. In Berchtesgaden he reached his first place in the top ten as 10th. In January 2001 Denifl also scored his first point success in the World Cup. He finished the individual competition in Reit im Winkl on rank 27. Despite these first points, Denifl continued to compete in the B World Cup and won the individual competition in Mo i Rana at the end of the season .

At the beginning of the 2001/02 season , Denifl came 10th in Kuopio and his first top 10 placement at a World Cup in winter. At the end of the season he also won two more victories in the B World Cup in Calgary and Lake Placid . In January 2003, with fifth place at the World Cup in Chaux-Neuve, he achieved his best World Cup placement to date.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme , Denifl competed with great success. In addition to good placements in the individual races, eighth in the Gundersen and 10th in the sprint, he won the gold medal in the team competition with Michael Gruber , Christoph Bieler and Felix Gottwald . After Denifl was able to firmly establish himself in the points of the World Cup, he finished his first good season in 11th place in the overall World Cup standings. At the 2003 Summer Grand Prix , Denifl again achieved two top 10 placements.

From the 2003/04 season Denifl had to struggle with strong fluctuations in performance. Although he was regularly in the points, he also missed the top 10 in all World Cups and at times even the points. It was not until December 2005 that Denifl managed to make it into the top ten again with eighth place in the mass start in Ramsau am Dachstein . However, he could not keep up this performance. Only at the Summer Grand Prix 2006 in Bischofshofen did Denifl again achieve a top ranking. In the team competition in Berchtesgaden, the team even missed a podium as fourth. The same thing happened to the team at the Team World Cup in Lago di Tesero in January 2007.

At the Summer Grand Prix 2007 in Oberhof , Denifl celebrated its first A-Class podium with a third place. After further top results, he finished fifth overall. Also in the 2007/08 season Denifl started promisingly as ninth in Kuusamo . After he achieved two top 10 results in Trondheim , Denifl was thought to be back in the top of the world. However, he could not show any consistency this time either. Although he reached two top 10 placings in Val di Fiemme and Klingenthal, the last ones remained until the end of the season, when he finished 17th overall.

Denifl started the new 2008/09 season successfully with two sixth places in Kuusamo and two fourth places in Trondheim and Ramsau am Dachstein . With the team he reached a podium again as third in Schonach in the Black Forest . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2009 , Denifl in Liberec was 30th in the singles and fifth with the team and could not have top placements.

In the World Cup, too, things were turbulent again for Denifl. So he again missed the points in the World Cup several times and ultimately did not get a starting place at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . He only traveled to Canada as a substitute. In the following 2010/11 season he and the team in Seefeld in Tyrol just missed their first team success and came in second. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he finished 13th and 19th in the two individual competitions. At the end of the season, Denifl once again demonstrated his quality in Lahti in fourth place and ended the season again in 17th place overall.

In the 2011/12 season Denifl increasingly managed to make the leap among the best of the World Cup. In Liberec , he achieved a surprisingly good individual podium finish in third place. In the overall World Cup ranking, he reached 11th place. Denifl had his best season to date with the 2012/13 World Cup season , in which he again made it onto the podium in January 2013 in Klingenthal. He also achieved third place in the Olympic test in Sochi . At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, he just missed a medal after finishing 20th on the normal hill and sixth on the large hill. He finally managed to do this with his partner Bernhard Gruber in the team sprint, where he won silver. At the end of the season he landed on the podium again at the Individual World Cup in Oslo before finishing the season eighth overall.

Denifl in Ramsau 2016

In the 2013/14 season , on January 5, 2014, he achieved his first individual World Cup victory in Tchaikovsky . He then received the nomination for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . There Denifl only started in the individual competition from the normal hill and reached 19th place.

The two World Cup seasons 2014/15 and 2015/16 were relatively disappointing overall. Above all, the rather mediocre jumping results repeatedly caused large backlogs at the start of the following individual races, so that a ninth place overall at the 10 km Gundersen run in Val di Fiemme remained the best result in 2015. If he manages a good jump, then he is always a candidate for the podium, which he impressively demonstrated in February 2016 in Kuopio, Finland, with a third place overall.

The 2016/17 season got off to a successful start. At the opening competition in Ruka, Finland, he reached the podium in the 10 km Gundersen run with 2nd place and was allowed to finish on the podium again with David Pommer , Mario Seidl and Philipp Orter with 3rd place in the team relay that followed in Lillehammer . Unfortunately, he had bad luck with the jumps at the two individual competitions in Ramsau am Dachstein that ended in 2016 and thus no more chances of good placements.

Denifl represented Austria at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In the team competition on the large hill, he won bronze together with Lukas Klapfer, Bernhard Gruber and Mario Seidl. On March 3, 2018, Denifl and his partner Bernhard Gruber won the combined team sprint in Lahti .

For the 2019/20 season, Denifl became coach of the Austrian Continental Cup team together with Thomas Baumann .

successes

World Cup victories

singles

No. date place discipline
1. January 5, 2014 RussiaRussia Tchaikovsky Gundersen

team

No. date place discipline
1. February 24, 2003 ItalyItaly Val di Fiemme Team (normal hill K95 / 4 × 5 km) 1
2. March 3, 2018 FinlandFinland Lahti Combined team sprint 2

World Cup placements

season space Points
2005/06 27. 181
2007/08 17th 294
2008/09 17th 327
2009/10 23. 204
2010/11 17th 217
2011/12 11. 537
2012/13 08th. 418
2013/14 09. 380
2014/15 20th 188
2015/16 18th 259
2016/17 09. 442
2017/18 13. 466
2018/19 20th 266

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

  • 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
placement Single a sprint Mass start team total
sprint Season
1st place 1 1 1 3
2nd place 1 1 2
3rd place 5 6th 11
Top 10 42 5 2 3 15th 67
Scoring 142 33 13 3 18th 209
Starts 170 48 14th 3 18th 253
As of March 4, 2018
a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Awards

Private

Denifl now lives in Weißkirchen and has two sisters. He is married to his wife Ute and has two daughters named Nina and Hanna. Denifl holds cross-country skiing courses at regular intervals in Nauders .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Denifl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Denifl just missed the podium . Little newspaper . December 20, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Val di Fiemme: 6th place for Willi Denifl . Radio Tirol . February 28, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Minister of Sport Norbert Darabos congratulates Willi Denifl and Bernhard Gruber on the silver medal in the team sprint . Sportministerium.at . March 4, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ ÖSV-News: Willi Denifl celebrates first World Cup victory! . ÖSV . January 5, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ In the 200th attempt it worked with the first victory in the World Cup for Willi Denifl . Nachrichten.at. January 7, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Denifl: “People like me even without victory” . Tyrolean daily newspaper . January 16, 2014. Accessed March 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ Gruber / Denifl won combined team sprint in Lahti (March 3, 2018)
  8. ↑ Willi Denifl returns as COC team coach in Austria , fis-ski.com from April 12, 2019, accessed on April 15, 2019
  9. ↑ About Me , Official Website, accessed May 8, 2018
  10. ↑ Cross-country skiing with Willi Denifl . Gasthof Lamm. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Denifl, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denifl, Willi (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Nordic combiner
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Rum , Austria