Hans-Peter Pohl

Hans -Peter Pohl ( born January 30, 1965 in Triberg im Schwarzwald ) is a former German nordic combined. He was Olympic champion in the team along with Thomas Müller and Hubert Schwarz. Hans -Peter Pohl 's ARD expert on the TV coverage of the Nordic Combined.

  • 2.1 World Cup statistics

Career

Beginnings in skiing

Pohl grew up in Schonach, where he lives with his wife Anna and three children today. At age six, Hans -Peter started with the Nordic combined. After his high school degree in 1980, he completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and undertook thereafter in the army. On December 28, 1972 Pohl celebrated his first victory in ski jumping. 1977 followed the first success in the combination, Pohl took second place in the German students Championship in Warmensteinach. In 1979 he became German champion in the age group up to 14 years.

The first successes

In the following years, Hans -Peter Pohl twelve times German champions, including four times in the seniors. Twice he won the Alpincup overall victory in the Nordic combined and special jumping.

His international debut Pohl at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 1985 in Tasch and Zermatt. He won the silver medal in singles. On March 16, 1985, he finally made ​​his debut in the World Cup Nordic Combined and reached in Oslo immediately sixth scoring points and a place in the top ten. With this one result he reached in the overall standings with rank 10 the best overall result of the career. Also in the disputed by Pohl World Cup race in the season 1985 /86 and 1986/87 it reached only points standings.

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf, he landed in the Gundersen single in eighth, before the team competition, he won the gold medal together with Hermann Wine Book and Thomas Müller. After the World Cup he missed in Lahti and fourth positions respectively as Falun marginally podium ranks. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 he won the gold medal together with Müller and Hubert Schwarz. Also in the next World Cup race, he stayed in the points, but remained from a podium until 1991. It was not until January 5, 1991 in Schonach he reached his first and only podium with third place.

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 in Val di Fiemme Pohl landed in fifth place of retail competition and missed the team's fourth barely a medal. Also at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992, he missed the team a title defense significantly and came in fifth.

In 1993 he played his last World Cup and retired in connection from the active sportsman existence back.

After sports

At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, learned Pohl Dirk Thiele, know sports commentator at Euro Sport, who offered to share with him to comment on the special jumping. This developed into a lasting partnership, since 1998, Pohl worked regularly with Dirk Thiele to comment on special jumping and nordic combined. As early as 1994 he began parallel to the commentators activity with studies at the trainer academy in Cologne. After the 1995 test, he graduated from another training, this time as an insurance expert, his current profession.

Achievements

World Cup Stats

The table shows the achieved placings in detail.

  • Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
  • Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
  • Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
  • Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline

Weblink

  • Hans -Peter Pohl in the database of the FIS ( English)
  • Hans -Peter Pohl at Sports- Reference.com (English)
  • Hans -Peter Pohl in Munzinger archive

1988: Müller, Pohl, Black | 1992: Mikata, Kono, Ogiwara | 1994: Kono Abe, Ogiwara | 1998: Skard, Braaten, Vik, Lundberg | 2002: Lajunen, Mantila, Tallus, Manninen | 2006: M. Gruber, Bieler, Gottwald, trigger | 2010: B. Gruber, Kreiner, Gottwald, Stecher

1982: Dotzauer, Schmieder, Winkler | 1984: Andersen, Bøgseth, Sandberg | 1985: Müller, black, wine book | 1987: wine book, Pohl, Müller | 1989: T. E. Elden, Bredesen, B. J. Elden | 1991 Csar, Ofner, Sulzenbacher | 1993: Kono, Abe, K. Ogiwara | 1995: Abe, T. Ogiwara, K. Ogiwara, Kono | 1997: Skard, Vik, Apeland, Lundberg | 1999: Manninen, Nurmela Mantila, Lajunen | 2001: Braaten, Rotevatn, Vik, Hammer | 2003: M. Gruber, Denifl, Bieler, Gottwald | 2005: Tande, Klementsen, Moan, hammer | 2007: Koivuranta, Ryynänen, Tallus, Manninen | 2009: Minato, Katō, Watabe, Kobayashi | 2011 large hill: Kreiner, B. Gruber, Gottwald, Stecher; Normal hill: Kreiner, B. Gruber, Gottwald, trigger | 2013: Braud, Laheurte, Lacroix, Lamy Chappuis

  • Nordic Combined ( Germany )
  • Olympian ( Germany )
  • World Champion (Nordic Combined)
  • Olympic champion (Nordic Combined)
  • German master (Nordic Combined)
  • German
  • Born in 1965
  • Man
Winter Olympic Games FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup Bundeswehr Hermann Weinbuch FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 Fiemme Valley List of Olympic medalists in Nordic combined Kenji Ogiwara Kenneth Braaten Bjarte Engen Vik Jari Mantila Jaakko Tallus Michael Gruber (skier) Christoph Bieler Felix Gottwald Mario Stecher Bernhard Gruber David Kreiner List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Uwe Dotzauer Konrad Winkler (skier) Espen Andersen Tom Sandberg Trond Einar Elden Klaus Ofner Klaus Sulzenbacher Tapio Nurmela Kristian Hammer Wilhelm Denifl Akito Watabe Integrated Authority File
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