Ulrike Gräßler
Ulrike Gräßler ( born May 17, 1987 in a hurry Castle ) is a German ski jumper.
Career
Gräßler occurred in the summer of 2001 in Meinerzhagen while jumping FIS Ladies tour for the first time at an international competition in appearance. In winter 2002, she took part in the FIS Ladies Grand Prix, finishing in 14th place. In 2003 she became German champion and finished in the same year the second place in the European Youth Olympic Festival ( EYOF ) in Planica. In the unofficial junior world championship in Stryn 2004, she took second place.
Since the introduction of Ladies Continental Cup (COC ) Gräßler stepped through going on in this ultimate tournament run of the women's ski jumping. In the first discharged season, 2004/ 05, they could achieve consistently top rankings and finished second in the overall standings to sixth place. In the now as part of the COC discharged Ladies Grand Prix she was in third place this season. 2005/ 06 could be placed back on several jumping among the best, but fell in some places jumping back to 15-20, which is why they only tithes in Gesamtcontinentalcup. In the season 2006/ 07 she jumped all the more successful and has won several jumping. This secured the second place in the Ladies Grand Prix and reached the end even the second place in the Continental Cup overall standings. They parted only 88 points from the winner Anette Sagen. In the COC summer competitions in 2007 she appeared somewhat weaker, but could be improved in the winter, so they again came in tenth place in the overall standings at the end of the season. Having a separate summer and winter rating was introduced for the Continental Cup in 2008, they could win the COC overall ranking with a clear lead in the summer of 2008. In the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec 2009 she won the inaugural competition ski wear Ladies second place. At the German Championships 2009, she won the gold medal ahead of Carina Vogt and Ramona Straub. In the summer of 2009, she was again able to decide the COC overall ranking for itself with four individual victories. In the winter of 2009/10 it belongs together with legends and Daniela Iraschko the dominant athletes of the season.
As a mixed team competition was held at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme for the first time, she won with the German team alongside Carina Vogt, Richard Freitag and Severin Freund behind Japan and Austria the bronze medal.
With the Olympic debut of women's ski jumping she took after a fever illness Rank 22