Anders Johnson (ski jumper)
Anders Johnson ( born April 23, 1989 in Plattsburgh ) is an American ski jumper.
Career
Anders Johnson began his professional career in the Continental Cup in the 2001/ 02 season. On 26 January 2002, he took the first part in a series of jumping and reaching there its 21st place on the large hill. At the Junior World Championship 2003 in Sollefteå, Sweden he reached on the normal Schanz in the individual competition of the 44th and in the team competition along with Evan Blias, Blake Hughes and Chris Francis on the 14th and penultimate place in front of Switzerland. After another jump in the Continental Cup, he started again in 2005 at the Junior World Championships in Stryn, Norway and reached there in the individual competition and the 52nd in the team jumping to 12th place. In the following years, Johnson failed to qualify for the A-National squad and jumped so still only in the Continental Cup. At the Junior World Championships in 2005 in Rovaniemi, Finland, he was able to improve its profit by 2003 and reached the individual competition in 35th place and in the team competition, together with Mike Glasder, Nicholas Fairall and Skyler Keate the 11th Place. At the Junior World Cup in 2006 in Kranj, Slovenia Johnson jumped only in the individual competition and reached there 37th place, but was nonetheless nominated for the crew of the United States for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. When local team competition on February 20, 2006, he reached with the team along with Thomas Schwall, Clint Jones and Alan Alborn the 14th Place. Johnson was 17 years old the youngest American ski jumper who has ever been nominated for an Olympic tournament and the second youngest nominee U.S. athletes at all. Even after the Olympics Johnson could not make the leap to the A national team and therefore jumped some FIS Cup Jumping, before taking part again at the Continental Cup. On September 2, 2006, he reached the FIS Cup in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden for the first time a podium finish and reached the 3rd place. At the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Tarvisio, Italy, he could not convince again with number 43 in the singles competition and ranked 14th in the team competition. When Fis - Cup on 1 September 2007 in Upper Wiesenthal he could repeat his result from last year again. At the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Zakopane, Poland, he was able to reach 17th place for the first time a TOP20 placement. With the team he was ranked 8th on March 15, 2008, he won the U.S. Championships in Lake Placid. After another season in the Continental Cup and a jump at the Summer Grand Prix, he jumped for the first time on 28 December 2008, the qualification for the opening event of the Four Hills Tournament 2008/ 09 in Oberstdorf in the A national team for the United States. However, he could not qualify in the first three jumping. Only on 5 January 2009 he succeeded in jumping in Bischofshofen with 44th place in qualifying the jump in competition, but which he finished as the 50th and thus last. There were other World Cup competitions in Tauplitz and Vancouver. With the 29th place in the second competition on the large hill in Vancouver on January 25, 2009, he achieved his best result so far in the World Cup. Despite this result, since then he jumps back in F-sharp or Continental Cup. At the Junior World Cup 2009 in Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, he was able to achieve his best result at a World Junior Championships on 5 February 2009 with 16th place in the individual competition. In 2009, he first participated at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec and reached on the normal hill and 48th on the large hill to the 40th place.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 Johnson was eliminated in 49th place in jumping on the normal hill made after the first passage. When qualifying on the big hill he could not qualify for the finals to be 42.
After the Olympics, he entered the season 2009/ 10 on at any other international show jumping. Only in September he started again in the Continental Cup, but ended up taking in Lillehammer and Oslo, only on the rearmost seats. He then started in Falun in the FIS Cup and reached there two good fourth places. The Continental Cup 2010/11 season began Johnson unsuccessful. Only in the Alpensia Pyeongchang in South Korea Jumping Park he could regain a point with the 30th place on 13 January. A month later, he reached in his home while jumping in Iron Mountain surprising seventh place. At season's end he again succeeded in Wisła a 29th place. The season he finished then on the 84th place in the Continental Cup standings, what its hitherto best result showed.
In summer 2011, sch Johnson tried without luck in Ski Jumping Grand Prix, and in the Continental Cup. Only at Team jumping as well as in individual competition in the FIS Cup, he was able to achieve good rankings. The Continental Cup 2011/12 season he played from December 2011 to February 2012 without success, reaching only rear seats. Only in Iron Mountain him again scored a points win. When shortly thereafter taking place in the FIS Cup jumping in Brattleboro he was able to win both competitions. At season's end Johnson was once again nominated for a World Cup competition, but missed the ski flying in Planica in individual qualification and did not even with the team in the team flies over the 11 square. The summer of 2012, he began jumping successfully with two good finishes in Stams. After rather mixed results as a result, he was able to achieve two 27 places at the inaugural Grand Prix jumping in Almaty. In Hinzenbach and Klingenthal However, he failed to qualify again well and had to classify on place 72 of the Grand Prix Appreciation so with just eight points.
The World Cup season 2012/13 he started with the team in Lillehammer with a surprising fifth place. In the following the individual competition he remained but in each case already hanging in the qualification without success. It was only on January 4, 2013, he managed this in Innsbruck and was able to reach the 46th place. As in this competition he was also at the following World Cup point without success.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, Johnson was part of the U.S. team, reaching the individual on the normal hill in 37th place before the mixed- team competition due to the good performance of Jessica Jerome, Peter Frenette and individual world champion Sarah Hendrickson finished sixth. In some of the large hill he was again a chance with the 39th place. For the team competition on the large hill no American team has been established.
Private
Johnson's sister Alissa Johnson is also ski jumper jumps and also for the national teams of the United States. His father Alan Johnson was also successful ski jumper and 1988-1992 coach of the national team in nordic combined, and from 1992 to 1995 his manager before he became coach of the 1995-1996 ski jumping national squad of the United States.