Nico Ihle
Nico Ihle ( born December 2, 1985 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a German speed skater. He is the younger brother of Denny Ihle.
Nico Ihle starts for the Chemnitz skater community, where he is first trained by Heiko Walther, since 2005 by Klaus Ebert. His World Cup debut Ihle 2005/ 06 in a World Cup in Salt Lake City. In the race for the German championship in 2006 he finished third in the 500 -meter track. In 2007 he was vice-champion in the 100 meters and third in the sprint four-way battle. Seven times he was German junior champion.
In the Sprint World Championships 2008 Ihle ended up with 25th place in the midfield. The 2008/09 season began with the German Single Distances Championships in Berlin where he gained a bronze medal over 1000 meters and its first national title over 500 meters.
In the last World Cup race in the 2009/10 season before the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver to Ihle could qualify over 1000 m for the Olympics with seventh place in Salt Lake City with a German record. At his first Olympic participation in Vancouver, he reached a respectable 18th place on the 500 m.
His international breakthrough came Ihle in the 2010/2011 season with numerous top - ten finishes over 500 m and 1000 m, the best of which was a fourth place 29 January 2011 at the World Cup in Moscow.
In the Sprint World Championship on 26-27. January 2013 in Salt Lake City, he won with 34.87 s the now lost German record of his brother back, and a day later corrected him again sharply to 34.64 s in the overall standings he came to the tenth place. He surpassed 137.945 its own national points record. On 2 March 2013, finished the 1000 - meter race in Erfurt third place and reached the podium for the first time in the World Cup.
At the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi Ihle took over 500 m in eighth place and thus made for the best Olympic result of a German participant in this discipline since 1992. Than 1000 m reached Ihle even fourth place, narrowly missing the bronze medal by only 0.12 seconds. On 8 and 9 March 2014 Ihle enter Inzell with the third and second place on 500 m two podium finishes in the World Cup.
Essent ISU World Cup rankings
(As of season 2011 /12)