Heiko Hunger
Heiko Hunger ( * June 24, 1964 in Sebnitz ) is a former German ski jumpers and Nordic combined.
Hunger began his sporting career as a Nordic skier at SC Dynamo Klingenthal and won at the Junior World Championships in 1983 in Kuopio gold medal in the individual competition. A year later he won the team competition at the World Junior Championships with the team of the GDR. In the same year he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships and finished with the team to fourth place. At the beginning of the season 1984/1985 he won his only World Cup competition in Upper Wiesenthal. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1985, he missed the victory of the German Hermann wine book in fourth place just a medal. In the World Cup he finished fifth this season. He also won the 1985 East German championship in the individual standings. Two years later he won the national championships silver medal in the individual competition as well as the Klingenthaler the GDR team title in the team standings. In 1987, he joined this also in ski jumping and won the victories in the individual competition on the large hill and team competition, two more DDR Championships. The triumph in the individual competition he could repeat in 1988. In 1989 he took in this competition and in the team competition, respectively the silver medal. Also at the German Championships in 1991, it was enough for him in ski jumping from the 70 - meter jump to 2nd place.
Hunger, which has always been a strong jumpers, changed in the late 1980s to the ski jumping and launched in March 1988 for the first time in a World Cup ski jumping. In the Norwegian Meldal, he finished eighth. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 in Lahti, he took the victory by Jens Weißflog the 30th place on the normal hill. His best result as a ski jumper, he reached the World Cup in Canada Thunder Bay at the beginning of the season 1990 /1991. He just missed the podium and finished fourth. This season he won his first and only international medal. Hunger won at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 together with Jens Weißflog, Dieter Thoma and Andre Kiesewetter the bronze medal in the team competition. A year later, hunger was in singles competition at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville the best German ski jumper. He finished the victory of Ernst Vettori seventh place while jumping on the normal hill. With the German team, he finished fifth. His coaches were, inter alia, Jürgen Meinel, Henry Glaß, Jürgen Wolf and Herbert Leonhardt.
Hunger ended his active career. He has two sons and currently lives with his wife alternately in Stuttgart and Siebenhitz in the Saxon Vogtland.