Alexander Herr

Mr. Alexander ( born October 4, 1978 in Furtwangen ) is a former German ski jumper.

Career

Lord began at the age of four years with the ski jumping. He celebrated his first major success in 1993 by winning the bronze medal on the normal hill at the Junior World Championships in the Czech Republic Harrachov.

Since the winter of 1994/95 Mr. was a member of the national team of the German Ski Association. In the 1997/98 season he won the overall title of the Continental Cup. In January 1999, he jumped at the Ski Jumping World Cup in Engelberg, Switzerland for the first time to a place among the top ten. In 2001 he was at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti team world champion in jumping on the large hill with Sven Hanna Wald, Martin Schmitt and Michael watch men. In the team competition on the normal hill he won the bronze medal and was with his rankings in the singles competitions ( seventh on the large hill, 16th on the normal hill ) second-best Springer of the team. This season he also reached rank 17 with his best finish in the overall standings of the Four Hills Tournament.

After a dry spell without notable success, during which he was even demoted to the Continental, its performance curve showed only starting from the 2003/04 season back up. After two seventh and a sixth place finish at the World Cup event in Liberec, Willingen and Lahti, he reached the World Cup in Kuopio with the third place had hitherto been his best finish.

Start of the season 2004/ 05 on November 27, 2004 Mr. occupied during World Cup in Kuusamo behind the Finns Janne Ahonen second place. In the second competition a day later it was only enough to ninth. In the same season he also tore during a heavy fall cruciate ligament, after his season was over.

On January 15, 2006 at the Ski Flying World Championships with the German team he had a sensational Lord and his teammates Georg Spaeth, Michael Uhrmann and Michael Neumayer himself picked up the bronze medal. Mr. succeeded on that day his first flight over 200 meters.

At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin Mr reached the weakest level of the German team, why was provided prior to the nomination for the large hill jumping excretion with substitute Martin Schmitt when jumping from the normal hill. Mr. Schmitt was three jumps before, but he had been doing favored by a non-compliant jump suit, so that further precipitation was set in the then Schmitt was ahead. After this was then nominated by the federal trainer Peter Rohwein, Mr. occurred shortly after the decision with the words "This is a joke, which demonstrates the competence of the coach. " "That looks a blind man with a cane, that no fair conditions prevailed. " Before the camera. He was taken then from the ski jumping Olympic team. A few days later, he declared that he would not jump anymore from now on in the national team of the DSV.

Men tried to change it to the Swedish Ski Association and trained before the 2006/07 season with the Swedish team. There was however denied Swedish citizenship, he attempted to run for the Polish Ski Association. Obtaining a Polish citizenship would have been possible for him because he has a Polish mother. In the summer of 2007 he officially ended his career.

In the 2008 /09 season, he was part-time athletics coach of Bundesliga Club woman of SC Freiburg. On October 4, 2008, he married his girlfriend Katrin.

On 3 June 2009 it was announced that Lord from the ski - season 2009/10 will jump active in the DSV squad. His goal are the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. With internal qualification but he could not qualify for a spot in the World Cup or Continental Cup itself.

Achievements

World Cup rankings

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