Martin Schmitt

Martin Schmitt ( born January 29, 1978 in Villingen -Schwenningen ) is a former German ski jumper. He starts for the ski club Furtwangen. His and Sven Hanna Forest successes between 1997 and 2002 made ​​the ski jumping at times one of the most popular spectator sports in Germany.

Career

Martin Schmitt was one in particular from 1998 to 2001 for the best in the world in ski jumping. He celebrated 28 World Cup victories and won the overall World Cup twice (1998/99, 1999/2000). In Nordic World Ski Championships Schmitt was a total of 10 medals won ( including 4 world titles ), the Olympic Games, he won one gold and two silver medals, respectively in the team competition at the Ski Flying World Championships he won one silver.

Martin Schmitt began at the age of three years with the alpine skiing. In 1984 he accompanied his brother to a jumping on a 20 - meter hill in Menzenschwand. Because a participant could not attend Schmitt jumped in as a substitute and was runner-up. So he came to the Nordic combined, but quickly changed to the ski jumping. In 1991 he was admitted to the Nachswuchskader the DSV.

First he scored great success already as a student of Skiinternats Furtwangen ( Otto -Hahn -Gymnasium ), the bronze medal in the team at the World Championships 1997 in Trondheim. Previously, he had qualified when Stefani jumping in St. Moritz with 3rd place for the Four Hills Tournament, where he recorded his first World Cup points. In the following season, Schmitt won at the Olympics in Nagano in 1998 with the team silver.

1998/99 could Schmitt win the overall World Cup for the first time and won at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 in Ramsau both on the large hill and in the team competition. He defended his victory in the World Cup 1999 / 00th On the occasion of this victory, the southern expressway in Martin Schmitt street was renamed in the town of Furtwangen in the Black Forest. At times, Schmitt held even the ski flying world record, which he set up on 19 March 1999 with 214.5 m. In the first round he had flown even 219 m, but could not stand the plunge.

In the 2000 /01 season he reached the World Cup again top results, but was overtaken by the superior Adam Malysz. At the 2001 World Championships in Lahti he again won individual and team competition on the large hill. In addition, he was able to win the silver medal in singles and bronze in the team competition on the normal hill. Thus he is the only ski jumper who won four medals at a World Cup ski jumping (along with Thomas Morgenstern 2011).

After the 2001 season, Schmitt has been increasingly thrown back from injury problems. However, in the 2001/ 02 season he again won team gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as well as silver at the Ski Flying World Championships 2002 in Harrachov. His last World Cup victory came on 1 March 2002 in Lahti. After that he could not go on its previous successes.

After many setbacks in the season 2004/ 05 he went for several weeks out from the World Cup to prepare for the upcoming 2005 World Cup in Oberstdorf can, where he won the silver medal in the team competition on the normal hill. In 2006, Schmitt took part in Winter Olympics for the third time.

In the season 2006/ 07 Schmitt returned slowly to the top. At his home World Cup in Titisee -Neustadt, he crashed on landing, but he withdrew a concussion, a laceration on his chin and a jaw upsetting to. He paused in the World Cup, but at the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo he could start again. On 11 March 2007, he surprised everyone with 3rd place at the Nordic Tournament in Lahti.

In the 2007/2008 season Schmitt launched following a subdued start of the season for a short time in the Continental Cup, the second tier of ski jumping, to prepare for the upcoming Four Hills Tournament. In Continental Cup he won the opening competition of the new ski jump in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and was next day fourth. When Vierschanzentournee he managed a decent comeback in the World Cup, where he graduated with a 8th place in the overall standings and a fourth place at the last competition in Bischofshofen.

In the 2008/2009 season he celebrated with consistently strong jumps, some fourth and two third places in Innsbruck and Zakopane after almost seven years of absence from the ski jumping elite comeback. The Four Hills Tournament, he finished fourth at the 2009 World Championships in Liberec Schmitt won the large hill silver. At the normal hill he managed a 5th place. After the last ski flying in Planica Schmitt finished the season with 829 points in 6th place in the overall World Cup.

In the following season 2009/2010 Schmitt started successfully. Together with his team-mate Michael Uhrmann, Michael Neumayer and Pascal Bodmer succeeded the Black Forest, the second place in the opening event in Kuusamo, what the most successful start in nine years meant for the German national team. This success could not be continued this season, after a disappointing 21st place in the Four Hills Tournament 2010 Schmitt paused because of a probably diet-related fatigue syndrome. In Klingenthal and Willingen Schmitt returned to the World Cup and was also placed in the top 15 and make a decisive contribution that Germany could again win a World Cup team on February 7, 2010 in Willingen first time in five years.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he reached in jumping on the normal hill on the 10th and on the large hill to the 30th place. In the Olympic team competition Schmitt won silver with Michael Neumayer, Andreas Wank and Michael watch men.

Voices were raised for a resignation of Martin Schmitt repeatedly by the critics and the media. Before the start of the 2010/2011 season Schmitt announced imagine being able to be active until 2012. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, he won the bronze medal with the team in the team competition. From the normal hill he was previously the 14th, after he finished the qualification on the ninth.

The 2011/2012 season was difficult for Martin Schmitt and good results in the individual competition were from increasingly. His last appearance in the World Cup until then he at the Four Hills Tournament 2011/2012 on 1 January 2012 at the New Year 's event in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, where he retired as the 38th after the first run. For the rest of the season Martin Schmitt was not nominated by head coach Werner Schuster for the German World Cup team.

Despite these setbacks sporting Martin Schmitt decided to continue his career. The 2012/2013 season, he started in the second-class Continental Cup, in which he he showed better performances again. With a victory when jumping in Engelberg one day before the start of the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13, he qualified at the last moment for the 12 - man squad of the DSV, including the national group that was started only in the first two competitions in Germany. This was his 17th participation in a Four Hills Tournament.

In qualifying for the first competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13 in Oberstdorf Martin Schmitt confirmed his good form, finishing in 21st place. Head coach Werner Schuster said, the winner of a Continental - jumping have the skills to place themselves in the top 15 to 20 of the World Cup. Schmitt confirmed the assessment and was in the subsequent competition 16 This was a successful return to the Ski Jumping World Cup after almost a year's absence. In the second competition of the Four Hills Tournament, he was 14 Subsequently Schmitt was appointed to the six-man squad for the two to be held in Austria jumping tour, where he held the positions 12 and 24 occupied. The tour he finished in 10th place.

Due to his achievements Schmitt decided his career, in the 2013/2014 season to continue. He prepared himself outside of a training group individually at the base Hinterzarten ago. Since he was not included in the A-Team, he started the season in the Continental Cup. Due to its results for the first competition of the winter, he was nominated for the German stations the Four Hills Tournament 2013/14. In the first two competitions of the tour, he finished 36th and 27th place, after which he was not nominated for the rest of the tour.

On January 31, 2014 Martin Schmitt gave a press conference his official resignation. Martin Schmitt lives in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Achievements

Four Hills Tournament

World Cup wins

World Cup victories in team

World Cup rankings

Grand Prix (Summer)

Summer Grand Prix rankings

Awards

  • Sportsman of the Year 1999 ( Categories athletes and team)

Social Commitment

Schmitt is committed to an "ambassador " for the Foundation as well as the longing after-care clinic Tannheim whose patients he regularly invites to visit him during training. He is also on the Board of the German Childhood Cancer follow-up care, a foundation for chronically ill children, whose work focuses on the care and rehabilitation of families with cancer, cardiac and cystic fibrosis ill children, adolescents and young adults.

Family

Schmitt's brother is former nordic combined skier Thorsten Schmitt.

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