Rico Meinel

Rico Meinel (born 3 April 1974) is a former German ski jumper.

The Klingenthaler Meinel jumped from 1991 in Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC ). In his first season in 1992/93 he reached the 15th place in the COC overall standings with 43 ​​points. On March 18, 1992, he reached in the team event at the Junior World Championship in Finland Vuokatti the bronze medal. After he was able to achieve good results in the Continental also the beginning of the following season, he was nominated for the A national team and played on 5 December 1992, in Falun, Sweden his first jump in the ski jumping World Cup and was used in that season in the ski flying World Cup. He was about in Kulm end of January 1993 two days of competition behind Christof Duffner with the rankings 26 and 27 each second best German Springer. However, in his first two World Cup seasons, he remained otherwise largely unsuccessful. Only on 4 January 1995 he was able to jump in Innsbruck in 5th place for the first time in the top ten. Even in the remaining competition of the season he reached several times the points. So he reached the end of the season 1994 /95, the 31st place in the World Cup overall standings. Already in the overall standings of the Four Hills Tournament 1994/95 he was successful with 17th place. Until 1997, Meinel jumped nor parallel in the Continental Cup and the World Cup, but has had little success. Therefore, he finished in 1997 his active ski jumping career.

After his career he has worked as a manager and coach of a fitness center in Chemnitz.