Marko Baacke

Marko Baacke ( born February 10, 1980 in Friedrichroda ) is a former German nordic combined.

Career

His first success came, who grew up in the mountain town of Ruhla westthüringischen Baacke, which began at the age of six years with the ski, at the German school championships in 1995, where he won the title in his age group. 1995 and 1997 he was German youth champion in singles.

In 1997 he made ​​his international debut in B- World Cup Nordic Combined. On January 9, 1999 Baacke thereby succeeded in Garmisch -Partenkirchen with second place, his first podium place. In the same year he became German Junior Champion in singles. He also undertook in 1999 as a sports soldier in the army. As a member of the sports promotion group in Oberhof, he won his first B- World Cup in Reit im Winkl in December.

In January 2000, he made his debut in the World Cup Nordic Combined. He missed in Oberwiesenthal Reit im Winkl the points still significantly before it as 29 won his first two World Cup points in Schonach. In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2000 in Štrbské Pleso he won the silver medal behind Alexei Zvetkov in singles. In the sprint, he had only the Finns Petter Kukkonen beaten and also won silver. At the German Championships 2000, he won the bronze medal in singles and Sprint.

In Hakuba he reached in February 2000 for the first time a top 10 placement. At the end of the season, he raced for the first time in the team mass start and missed the team's fourth just under his first podium in Santa Caterina. In the Summer Grand Prix 2000 Baacke succeeded the victory in Stams.

In his most successful season 2000/ 01 Baacke started with his first podium finish in third place in Kuopio. In January 2001, he again succeeded with the team in Park City fourth place in the team mass start, before moving to Steamboat Springs reached second place in the individual the best individual result of his career.

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti, he won his first and only world title in the sprint. With the team, he missed a second medal in fourth. In individual he reached eighth. At season's end, he reached again finished third at Holmenkollen in Oslo. In the season overall standings he finished number seven. In the sprint World Cup he finished fifth.

After a serious training accident on 20 November 2001, he had to be removed a kidney and the spleen. Therefore, a return to the world top was denied him. In the World Cup he landed mostly in the midfield. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme, he landed in the sprint to rank 23

In September 2004, he ended his active Kombiniererlaufbahn.

In April 2007, he began his graduate studies at the Coach Trainer Academy in Cologne, which he successfully completed in 2010. He currently manages several young German talent. His father Klaus Baacke, who coached him even over several years, is a long-standing, successful youth coach in skiing.

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
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup Bundeswehr Oberhof, Germany Santa Caterina di Valfurva Park City (Utah) Steamboat Springs, Colorado FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 Fiemme Valley Berliner Morgenpost Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Bjarte Engen Vik Johnny Spillane Ronny Ackermann Bill Demong Eric Frenzel
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