Andreas Wank

Andreas Wank ( born February 18, 1988 in Halle ( Saale) ) is a German ski jumper and sports soldier in the rank of Sergeant in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Oberhof. He was. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 with the German team Olympic champion His biggest international success in a single competition is the overall victory at the Summer Grand Prix in 2012. Moreover, he won at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Ski Flying World Championships in 2012 and the Ski World Championships 2013 in each case the silver medal with the German team.

Origin

Andreas Wank is originally from Domnitz in Saxony -Anhalt, spent his childhood from the age of ten, however, in Oberhof, where he visited the sports high school and graduated with this high school in 2007. Wank starts since the WSV Oberhof 05 When the jumps were built or renovated in Oberhof, he pulled it in September 2010 in the Black Forest. After living for three years in Breitnau, he began in 2013 with the construction of their own house in Titisee.

End of March 2008, he joined the Ansbach University of the bachelor program International Management, a course of study that has been adapted to the HS Ansbach and designed for top athletes. In the summer of 2014 Wank will finish the study.

Career

Andreas Wank began early with the ski jumping. With only 12 years, in 2000 he was German student masters. In 2001, he reached the 3rd place in the overall standings in Schülercup. He also reached the 3rd place in the overall standings of the Germany Cup. In 2002, he was then the team for the German Championships. He won the silver medal in the team competition. A year later he started again in the junior rankings and finished runner- German junior champion. In addition, he once again took 3rd place in the overall standings of the Germany Cup. From 2004 Wank launched in Ski Jumping Continental Cup, and reached already in his second competition in Rovaniemi with 3rd place its first podium finish. Wank Then belonged on December 29, 2004 on the National Group for the World Cup in Oberstdorf in the Four Hills Tournament 2004/05. In his first competition at the highest ski jumping series he reached the 45th place. 2005 Wank German youth champion in singles and also in the team. At the German Senior Championships he finished sixth at the end. In 2007 he won with the team I Thuringia the gold medal at the German Championships.

On 27 February 2008 he became junior world champion in singles in Zakopane. Two days later, he also won the title in the team event. In the 2008 /09 season he was one of the first to the A national team for the World Cup Ski Jumping. At the end he reached the 59th place in the overall World Cup standings.

On July 19, 2009 Andreas Wank won the individual competition of the German championship in ski jumping in Garmisch -Partenkirchen completely by surprise with jumps of 135 meters and 139 meters in front of Michael Neumayer and Michael watch men. His best finish so far in a single jump he reached the Summer Grand Prix in Klingenthal on 3 October 2009, when he finished the competition as 7.

In the 2009/2010 season he was first fixed to the A-team of the German team. On January 16, 2010 Wank first acquired the jump on the podium by reaching second place behind Thomas Morgenstern in Sapporo. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he came in jumping on the big hill on the 28th place. In the Olympic team competition Wank managed the hitherto biggest success of his career, he won with Michael Neumayer, Martin Schmitt and Michael Uhrmann silver.

On August 19, 2012, he won his first Summer Grand Prix in Hinterzarten. Only five days later, he won both competitions in Hakuba the competition. With these three victories, he laid the foundation for the overall victory in the Summer Grand Prix, which he finally secured by a 15th place in the final in Klingenthal.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he won with his teammates Severin Freund, Michael Neumayer and Richard Freitag behind Austria the silver medal in the team competition on the large hill, after the Norwegian team retrospectively for a miscalculation of the start-up the silver medal was stripped. The advance of the now third -placed Poland was only 0.8 points. A week later, he won the German team in Lahti for the first time a team competition in the World Cup.

In January 2014, Andreas Wank sat within the team through against Michael Neumayer and thus secured the remaining German launch site for the Winter Olympics in Sochi. There he took on the normal hill in tenth place, after he had stood before the second passage in fifth. On February 17, 2014 Wank was in Sochi together with Marinus Kraus, Andreas Wellinger and Severin Freund Olympic champion in the team competition.

Achievements

World Cup victories in team

World Cup rankings

Grand Prix victories

Grand Prix rankings

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