Bill Demong

Bill Demong ( born March 29, 1980 in Saranac Lake ) is an American Nordic combined, ski jumping and cross-country skiers.

  • 3.1 World Cup wins
  • 3.2 B- World Cup wins

Career

Nordic Combined

Demong began in 1989 with the skiing and now starts for the Lake Placid Ski Club. Since 1997 he started at the international level and 1997 was his first Nordic Juniorenskiweltmeisterschaften, finished in Gundersen on the 37th place in the team and the Eleventh Place and a year in St. Moritz, he was sixth in the team and later 18th individual. He also wanted to the Olympics, but he trained hard in the 1997/98 season. In December 1997, he made ​​his World Cup debut in Steamboat Springs and came in the sprint on the 43rd. The leaders of the U.S. Ski Association, it was sufficient and took him to his first Winter Olympic Games 1998 in Nagano. There he came in the relay to tenth place and in a single on the 34th. A season later he got his first World Cup points. In 1999 he was allowed to go to his first Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 to Ramsau. At the World Championships he improved his performance and came in the sprint to 18th place, single at number 27 and the team to tenth place. The third Nordic Juniorenskiweltmeisterschaften 1999 in Saalfelden went very well, because the team gold medal in the individual and the 13th jumped out.

In the 1999/2000 season ranked in the World Cup in Vuokatti a respectable eleventh place and announced his claim to the top spots in the future. In his fourth and final Nordic Juniorenskiweltmeisterschaften 2000 Strbske Pleso also went well. With the team the silver medal in the individual jumped out and he came on the 24th Place. In the World Cup season Demong was seven in the top 15 In his second Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti, the Americans had in the sprint and in single race satisfied with very disappointing results and with the landed the team only in eighth place. In the Olympic Winter 2001/2002 he won his first World Cup in Liberec win of his career. At the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, he was unable to repeat his good individual performances, but the team he showed good performance in jumping, missed the connection on the tracks and so jumped with his teammates Matt Dayton, Johnny Spillane and Todd Lodwick only the fourth of place as in Lahti. After the Summer Grand Prix 2002 in Winterberg he crashed out of the team hotel into an empty swimming pool and sucked up doing heavy skull fractures to. Because of the burden of ski jumping was the career as a combiner in question. The entire 2002/03 season he had to pause competitively. But the doctors allowed him only endurance training on cross-country skis and start his second career as a cross country skier.

After a long break from competition, he raced in the 2003/ 04 season. Because he lacked the jump and practice the old form, he ended by Christmas in all World Cup events outside the points. That's why he was put in the beginning of January 2004 B World Cup, to rediscover his form. He succeeded very well, because he was back to its former strength. At the end of the season he achieved top results again. At the beginning of the World Cup season 2004/ 05 he managed in B- World Cup three podiums in a row, including a victory was in Lake Placid. It was then brought back to the A- Cup, and reached six results in the top 15 at the end he ended up in the World Cup on the 17th Place. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf reached a good 12th place. With the season came only fifth place in the sprint and drove a 19th place. Because him the following winter season 2005/ 06 was still missing some achievements, he was transferred for a few races in the B World Cup and showed before Christmas with two B- World Cup victories in Lake Placid and Park City, and proved again good A- World Cup rankings. But in his third appearance at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin Demong put under pressure and did not show his true performance level. In Standalone 15, in the sprint only the 25th place and with the team only disappointing screened space.

In the World Cup season 2006/07 was to Demong of the year not much to watch, but in the new year became stronger and had in Oberstdorf and in Ruhpolding twice a fourth place. At the Championships in Sapporo, he confirmed his good performances, since he was in single only 8.5 seconds behind Ronny Ackermann and won the silver medal. In the sprint, took the 13th place team and ninth place. By the end of the World Cup season, he was able to confirm its good performance on and so won the Lahti in his second World Cup victory in singles and was in Oslo to third place in the sprint. Also in the next season 2007/ 08 he was able to fight to the top courses, he was 16 times in the top ten, and that included his third World Cup victory in Trondheim. The World Cup season 2008/ 09 was for Demong very promising, he won 5 World Cup victories and was like last year again in the World Cup third. In his fifth Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec also went very well as the World Cup season. In mass start jumping out of fifth place in the individual on the normal hill and a bronze medal on the large hill gold medal.

In the Olympic season 2009/10 he won the World Cup stop in Val di Fiemme and finished in the overall World Cup 12 Together with Brett Camerota, Todd Lodwick and Johnny Spillane won Demong on February 23, 2010, the silver medal in the team competition of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A few days later he won the gold medal in singles on the large hill. The World Cup season 2010/11 was for Demong to forget, because in eight starts he has only four times in the points and was the overall World Cup 44 The Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo went not to his liking. In some of the normal hill he slotted in the seventh place on the large hill was only sixth place in it. With his two team matches he missed almost always a medal, a sixth and fourth place. A third and fourth place were the best results in the World Cup season 2011/12. Overall, he was 20 in the World Cup overall status. The 2012/13 season was not his best. He achieved the best result with 12th place in Klingenthal. On the other hand ran the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme quite well. In Teamwettberwerb he won the bronze medal with his teammates Taylor Fletcher, Bryan Fletcher and Todd Lodwick of normal hill and the subsequent 4x5 km cross-country skiing.

Cross-country skiing

After his accident he start at the American Birkebeiner in Wisconsin in 2002, reached a good 14th place. On 22 February 2003, he made ​​his debut in the Marathon Cup in Hayward, occupied by 52 km freestyle mass start on the 14th Place. The following winter 2003/ 04 was only in the Continental Cup at Soldier Hollow at 10 km freestyle watching and came on the 25th place. In his first Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo as a cross-country skier, he came only in the 50 km race used and was 51 when Marathon Cup race 2013 in Samedan he came 42 km away on the 34th. In addition Debüte Demong on 16 March 2013 Cross Country World Cup in Oslo, was in the 50 km mass start race 58

Ski Jumping

2004 Demong was with two FIS races and 2009 the team jumping in Lahti, where he did not reach with his teammates Anders Johnson, Nicholas Fairall and Eric Camerota with space 12 the second round.

Private

Demong visited at school the Saranac Lake Central School and the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid. In his youth he worked as a carpenter. He is married to Kathrine Koczynski.

Sporting successes

World Cup wins

B- World Cup wins

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