Eric Frenzel

Eric Frenzel ( born November 21, 1988 in Annaberg -Buchholz ) is a German nordic combined. He was Olympic champion in 2014, 2011 and 2013 Individual World Champion and won in 2013 and 2014, the Appreciation of the World Cup.

Career

Eric Frenzel starts for the WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal. He comes from Geyer and operates since 1995 skiing. Since 2003 he is part of the national squad. He is a sports soldier in the German army and is managed by the Sports Promotion Group of the Bundeswehr in Frankenberg / Saxony. Since March 2003, he competed in Junior races and other events such as unterklassigen FIS races and the World Cup B. Here he was able to increase its services continuously and repeatedly attained very good results.

After a first start in the World Cup in January 2007 in Lago di Tesero ( 44th in the mass start ) Frenzel was first nominated for the Nordic World Ski Championships. In Sapporo, he was 22 in Gundersen competition. In the subsequent Junior World Championships in Tarvisio Frenzel won gold in the sprint, the silver medal in the relay and he was eighth in the Gundersen competition. At the beginning of the season 2007/ 08 the Oberwiesenthaler could achieve in his second World Cup race ( Gundersen method) in Kuusamo in fourth for the first time a ranking in the top ten. In January, followed in Klingenthal in a mass start competition at the first victory. At the 2009 World Championships in Liberec he reached with the German team the silver medal in the team competition. Together with Björn Kirch iron, Tino Edelmann and John Rydzek he won the bronze medal in the Olympic Winter Games team competition in Vancouver in 2010.

At the opening competition of the World Cup season 2010/11 in Kuusamo Frenzel took second place, while he turned in jumping on the Rukatunturi hill 148.5 meters, a new hill record. On 26 February 2011, he celebrated his greatest success when he became world champion in the individual competition of the Gundersen was ( a jump on the normal hill, 10 km cross-country) at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo. Two days later he was with the German 4 × 5 km relay runner-up and won on March 2, 2011, the bronze medal in the decision on the large hill, followed by cross-country skiing.

In the winter of 2012/13 he won in January four competitions in Seefeld and Klingenthal in a row and took the lead for the first time in the World Cup standings. He also won the first German combiner again after five years at a home race. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme he missed initially in the first individual event a medal just barely, as he drew the short straw in the final sprint against Mario Stecher and Björn Kirch iron. When jumping on the big hill he turned with 138.5 m a new hill record, retained the resulting lead in the trail to the finish and was the second time world champion. In the team sprint, he also still won the bronze medal together with Tino Edelmann. On March 15, 2013, he secured with victory in Oslo winning the World Cup in the 2012/13 season.

In the 2013/14 season Frenzel won the inaugural " Nordic Combined triple" in Seefeld with three competitions in which cross-country trails on 5, 10 and 15 km have been completed, and was started with each of the intervals of the previous day. To this end, there were 200 World Cup points and 30,000 euros in prize money. Previously, he was victorious already in three other World Cup races. On February 12, 2014 he won at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi gold on the normal hill. Following viral infection, he remained in the competition on the large hill in spite of the lead after the jumping without a medal. With the team, he became the first runner together with Björn Kircheisen, John Rydzek and Fabian Rießle the silver medal. In the first competition after the games, he secured the third place in Lahti for the second time winning the overall World Cup.

Achievements

Vancouver 2010: 3rd Team, 10th Gundersen NH, 40th Gundersen LH Sochi 2014: 1 Gundersen NH, 2nd Team, 10th Gundersen LH

Sapporo 2007: 22 Gundersen Liberec 2009: 2nd Team, 8 Mass Start, 29 Gundersen LH, Gundersen NH 34 Oslo 2011: 1 Gundersen NH, NH 2 team, 3 Gundersen LH Val di Fiemme 2013: 1 Gundersen LH, 3rd Team Sprint LH, Gundersen NH 4, 6 Team NH

• 33 podiums including 16 victories:

• 6 World Cup victories in the team:

• Placements in the Overall World Cup:

Private

Eric Frenzel made ​​at the sports boarding Oberwiesenthal High School. At 18, he became the father of a son. He lives with his family in the Upper Palatinate Flossenbiirg. In September 2013 he began a study of Industrial Engineering in a pilot project for elite athletes at the University of Mittweida.