Michael Neumayer
Michael Neumayer ( born January 15, 1979 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a German ski jumper. He won the silver medal each in the team competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf 2005 in Val di Fiemme in 2013 with the German team.
Career
After leaving school he worked as a tax consultant in his father's accounting firm, before he studied business economics at the University of Applied Sciences Kempten began in 2004. Also to be able to sports and studies agree better Neumayer moved to Schöllang. The proximity to Oberstdorf offers him good training conditions without long travel times. His biggest sporting successes are the silver medals in the team competition on the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf and 2013 in Val di Fiemme.
On his 27th birthday, he surprisingly won with his teammates ( Alexander Herr, Michael Uhrmann and Georg Späth ) at the Ski Flying World Cup 2006 in Bad Mitterndorf ( Kulm ) the team bronze medal.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006, he was with space eleven second best German on the normal hill. At a mere addition of the lengths of the two passages Neumayer had taken first place. Neumayer coach Peter Rohwein said: Alone by Michael Neumayer meters would become Olympic champion. So we have not done everything wrong. But landing and aesthetics did not correspond to what the judges like to see.
In the season 2006/ 07 he started with a promising fifth place in the opening event in Kuusamo, then retired but before the second competition in Lillehammer a torn ACL, which is why it turned out for the entire season. Nine months later he was at the Summer Grand Prix in Zakopane his comeback and was able to immediately decide the first passage for himself and win the sixth place in the overall standings.
When New Year's event of the Four Hills Tournament 2007/ 08 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he ended up with third place for the first time as part of a World Cup competition on the podium. In the overall standings of the tour, he also reached the third place. Two years later he ersprang 6 February 2010 while jumping on Mühlenkopfschanze in Willingen in the FIS Team Tour 2010 for the second time in his career the bronze medal at a World Cup competition. The next day he won the German team, which included yet Pascal Bodmer, Martin Schmitt and Michael watch men besides him, the team jumping on the same jump.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he reached in jumping on the normal hill on the 16th and on the large hill the 6th Place. In the Olympic team competition Neumayer won silver with Andreas Wank, Martin Schmitt and Michael watch men.
On 27 February 2011 Michael Neumayer won at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo together with Martin Schmitt, Michael Uhrmann and Severin Freund the bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill. Nearly two years later, he performed at the ski flying in Vikersund on January 27, 2013 231 meters a new German record. In this competition, he achieved his best World Cup result with second place.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he won with his team-mate Andreas Wank, Severin Freund and Richard Freitag behind Austria the silver medal in the team competition on the large hill, after the Norwegian team afterwards for a miscalculation of the start-up the silver medal was stripped. The advance of the now third -placed Poland was only 0.8 points.
In an interview Neumayer announced his intention to end his active career in Sochi after the Winter Olympics in 2014.