Severin Freund
Severin Freund (born 11 May 1988 in Freyung ) is a German ski jumper with Lives in Forest churches. He was at the Ski Flying World Championships 2014 in Harrachov, in the individual competition and World Champion with the German team at the Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi Olympic champion. He also won two silver medals in the team competition at the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in Vikersund and the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, Italy. He also won the World Cup bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill in 2011 in Oslo and in the inaugural Mixed Competition 2013 in Val di Fiemme.
Career
Friend started up in 1993 with the Nordic combined and changed in 1995 to the special jumping. Since 2002, he went in the Alpine Cup and at international junior competitions at the start. In February 2003, he raced in Sollefteå first time at the Junior World Championships, finishing in 30th place in the individual and the 11th place with the team. In the season 2004/ 05 he started for the first time in the Continental Cup (COC ), but where he could not prevail, and always missed the second round. In addition, he continued to advocate on FIS - jumping. When held in Rovaniemi Junior World Championship 2005, he showed places 26 (single ) and Elf (Team ). In January 2006 he first was able to reach the points at a COC in Titisee -Neustadt. Also in the national junior level he was able to celebrate a number of successes in 2006. So he was both in individual as well as with the team German youth champion, next he could win the overall title of the Germany Cup. In this year staged in Kranj World Junior Championships, he finished 13th place in the individual. In summer 2006, he participated in several COC summer jumping, but was able to reach the second round only one. After he was 07 did not compete in the Winter 2006/ 2007 Summer in first second to the German youth championship, shortly after he won in the discharged in Winterberg German Championships 2007, the silver medal in the team competition.
Although he could not convince in taking place in the summer of 2007, the Continental Cup, he rose in the winter and was able to achieve so far his best result on 13 December 2007 in Rovaniemi, after he had performed already on the two preceding days, stable performance in midfield. He was then appointed to the World Cup team and launched on 22 December, 2007 Engelberg first time at an international first-class jumping. In the following Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf, he could get his first World Cup as a 30 - point. A week later, on January 6, 2008, he was the last competition of the Tournament in Bischofshofen which was influenced by wind, even occupy the 20th place. After he then participated again at some COC- jumping, he was in Zakopane Junior World Champion 2008 in the team competition, the individual he was only 31 by the end of the winter he took part in some Continental Cup. In the summer of 2008, he successfully launched at the Matt jumping Continental Cup. He celebrated his first win in Lillehammer 13 September 2008, in another three competitions he took the podium. In the Contintalcup - Appreciation of the summer 2008, he finished third.
His first World Cup victory won Friend 15 January 2011 in Sapporo, Japan in front of the Austrian Thomas Morgenstern and Poland's Adam Malysz. This was also the first German World Cup victory in nearly four years and has been celebrated in the media as " Sensation". The next day he took after taking the lead in the first round in second place behind Andreas Kofler. At the World Cup competition in Zakopane January 21, 2011, he reached another podium with third place. On January 30, he recorded his second World Cup victory in the Hessian town of Willingen. It was also the first success of a German ski jumper on the Mühlenkopfschanze since Sven Hanna Woods win in 2003.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo took friend on the normal hill on the 7th place in the individual. In the team competition he won on The summit along with Martin Schmitt, Michael Uhrmann and Michael Neumayer bronze behind Austria and Norway. At the German Championships 2011 in Hinterzarten he could erspringen the team title and also the first time the singles title as last year with the team in Bavaria.
In April 2012, suffered friend a herniated disc, after he had to suffer from persistent back problems. He then had to have surgery and take a forced break of several months. After he already took second place in his comeback on 30 September 2012 in the Austrian Hinzenbach, he could win the first three days later Summer Grand Prix victory of his career at the Grand Prix Final in Klingenthal. In Klingenthal he was 2012 German champion in singles at the German Championships. After winning the World Cup opener on November 24, 2012 in Lillehammer, Norway, his first victory in a World Cup team competition six days later succeeded him in the team event in Kuusamo with the German team.
As a mixed team competition was held at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme for the first time, he won the German team alongside Carina Vogt, Ulrike Gräßler and Richard Freitag behind Japan and Austria the bronze medal. Previously, he was jumped by jumping on the normal hill in fourth short of a medal. With his team-mate Andreas Wank, Michael Neumayer and Richard Friday, he won the silver medal behind Austria in the team competition on the large hill, after the Norwegian team retrospectively 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.
Friend launched successfully in the Ski Jumping World Cup 2013/14, but then entäuschte at the Four Hills Tournament. He then killed himself with two second places at the home World Cup in Willingen in the circle of favorites for the Olympic Games in Sochi. He missed on the normal hill a good placement after falling in the first round. On the large hill, he reached the fourth place, after he had stood in the first round in third place. Two days later, on 17 February 2014 was friend together with his teammates Andreas Wank, Marinus Kraus and Andreas Wellinger Olympic champion in the team competition. Shortly thereafter, he celebrated in Falun a World Cup victory with a considerable margin of 15.9 points. In the Ski Flying World Championships 2014 in Harrachov lies already in the lead after the first two passes of the individual competition on the day before friend was 2014 Ski Flying World Champion by the cancellation of the third and fourth passage on March 15.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games
- Sochi 2014: 1st team large hill, individual large hill 4, 31 individual normal hill
Nordic World Ski Championships
- Oslo 2011: 3rd team normal hill, team large hill 4th, 7th individual normal hill, individual large hill 12
- Val di Fiemme 2013: 2nd team large hill, 3rd Mixed Team normal hill, 4 individual normal hill, individual large hill 9
Ski Flying World Championships
- Vikersund 2012: 2nd team, 4th single
- Harrachov 2014: 1 Single
World Cup victories in individual
World Cup victories with the team
World Cup rankings
Summer Grand Prix wins
Summer Grand Prix rankings
Others
End of March 2008 at the Hochschule Ansbach friend started a bachelor's degree in International Management, a course of study that has been adapted to the HS Ansbach and designed for top athletes.