Sven Hannawald
Sven Hanna Wald ( born November 9, 1974 in Erlabrunn as Sven Poehler ) is a former German ski jumper and current racecar driver. Hanna Forest won the 2002 Four Hills Tournament with wins in all four competitions, and four medals at the Nordic Ski World Championships and three Olympic medals and Ski Flying World Championships.
- 3.1 World Cup wins
- 3.2 World Cup rankings
- 3.3 hill records
Life
In Erlabrunn as Sven Pöhler ( his parents married after his birth ) born Sven Hanna forest grew up in the neighboring city of Johann George Town on the Ore Mountains. At twelve, he moved to the children's and youth sports school ( KJS ) in Klingenthal and coached at SC Dynamo Klingenthal. When his parents and six years younger sister in 1991 from the Erzgebirge Jettingen -Scheppach in the district of Günzburg ( Bavarian Swabia ) crossed, he moved to the Skiinternat Furtwangen in the Black Forest, where he completed an apprenticeship as an electronics technician after school ( high school ). He then enlisted in the army and trained to 2001 as a sports soldier in a sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Todtnau -Fahl.
Sven Hanna forest lives in Munich and is a member of the ski clubs in Hinterzarten. He was romantically involved with Alena Gerber and has a son.
Sports career
Hanna forest already took the age of seven on a ski course. He first ran the Nordic combined, but soon it was clear that his strengths were clearly in ski jumping. In order to have better training facilities, he moved to the KJS. He was East German champion in ski jumping and students won in the Children 's and Youth in the winter sports 1987 in Oberwiesenthal in three disciplines, two of them jumping and nordic combined once.
The first successes as a ski jumper
After his move to Hinterzarten 1992, he was third in the team competition of the World Youth Championship and 1994 with his German club team champion in the team competition.
1998 Hanna won the forest at the Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf and silver at the Olympics in Nagano silver in the team competition.
1998/99 season
In the 1998/99 season he finished fifth in the overall World Cup ski jumping. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 in Ramsau he won in individual competition on the large hill silver behind Martin Schmitt and the team competition on the large hill gold.
Season 1999/ 00
From 12 to 14 February 2000 in Vikersund (Norway ) discharged the ski flying World Cup, which was not as planned, each with two runs on two days, but on the following Monday decided by chaotic weather conditions over the weekend with three runs in just one day. With jumps of 179.5, 188 and 196.5 meters and 536.8 points Hanna forest was first ski flying world champion.
Season 2000/ 01
The team competition on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 had to be postponed by three days due to poor conditions and was discharged only on 24 February. Hanna forest showed with 120 meters one of the best jumps of the entire first round. With 110.5 meters, it was in the second round best jumper in his starting group and there is only one of two athletes who achieved a jump more than 100 meters. The German team was in the cast Hanna Wald, Michael Uhrmann, Mr. Alexander and Martin Schmitt defend the two years previously won world titles and almost 40 points prevail ahead of Finland and Austria at the end. From the normal hill, the German team in the same team also won the bronze medal.
Season 2001/ 02
The following winter 2001/ 02 was the most successful in the career of Sven Hanna forest.
Triumph at the Four Hills Tournament
Through the good finishes ahead of the Four Hills Tournament with the victory in Titisee -Neustadt early December Hanna forest was one of the best 15 jumpers overall, which qualified automatically at the time for the competition. Hanna forest was then all four skills of jumping and had since jumped in the Four Hills Tournament in the first round in Ko mode and the result of the qualification of the corresponding Springer pairings decides to compete against the winners of each qualification.
In the first competition on December 30th in Oberstdorf, he sat down with 122 meters clearly against the Austrians Andreas Widhölzl by and was after the first round with almost 10 points ahead of Switzerland's Simon Ammann lead. With exactly the same distance he had to in the second round, although the Austrian Martin Höllwarth beaten, the more jumped seven meters. Due to the better style points and the projection of the first passage Hanna Forest won yet with eight points ahead Höllwarth the first competition of the tour.
When the second event, the New Year's competition in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, repeated on the first pass, the duel between Hanna and forest Widhölzl. With 122.5 meters Hanna forest jumped half a meter further than the Austrians, however, was able to prevail by the somewhat better style points with 0.6 points ahead. Hanna forest came forth as the second best of the first passage on the rating of the top five losers. With the longest jump of 125 meters in the second round he then succeeded in the second jumping second victory with a slim margin of 1.7 points ahead of Widhölzl.
In the third competition on January 4 in Innsbruck, Hanna forest could in the first round not only clearly prevail against Martin Höllwarth, who had jumped in second place eight feet shorter, but presented with 134.5 meters and a new hill record, which still exists today. In the second round he again succeeded with the longest jump of 128 meters and with the lead of 23 points ahead of Poland's Adam Malysz he extended his lead in the overall standings of the tour to well over 40 points out.
In the final Epiphany in Bischofshofen Hanna improved forest with 139 meters the three years before even drawn up by him hill record by two meters and could thus argue in a duel against the Finns Matti Hautamäki. Although he was further jumped five meters, he was poorer by style points just ahead of the Slovenes Robert Kranjec and Hautamäki. With 131.5 meters in the final jump and 2.5 points ahead of Hautamäki Hanna Forest celebrated his fourth victory in the fourth jump.
Hanna Forest won becoming the first and so far only ski jumper all four sub competitions in the Four Hills Tournament in a season and is the tenth German tour winner. By achieving 1077.6 total points he made at that time also set a new record, but this was surpassed in subsequent years.
Olympic Winter Games
With a win in Willingen and two second places in Zakopane Hanna forest had continued the successful series of the Four Hills Tournament seamlessly and was thus at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as one of the top favorites for the Olympic title.
On 10 February, he was jumping on the normal hill after the first round with a jump of 97 meters behind the Swiss Simon Ammann ranked second with 99 meters achieved Hanna forest in the second pass, the longest jump, remained in the overall standings but 1.5 points behind Ammann and thus won the silver medal.
In its stronger discipline, jumping on the large hill, he spent three days later with 132.5 meters after the first round tied with Ammann in the lead. When the length of 131 meters Hanna forest fell in the second round, which threw him back to fourth place. Despite the fall, he missed a medal and was only just 0.7 points behind the bronze medal. Ammann was able to hold the lead from the first run and was re- Olympic champion.
In the final team competition on February 17, Hanna went to the forest with Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann and Martin Schmitt. Hanna forest reached 123 meters in the first and 120.5 meters in the second round respectively the second- best result in the Springer group, in both rounds was better the Finn Matti Hautamäki. After a hard-fought duel with the Finnish team the German jumpers managed to end up with a narrow margin of only 0.1 points winning the gold medal.
Ski Flying World Championships
Next, jumping after the Olympic Games was held in early March, the ski flying World Cup in Harrachov, in which Hanna forest as the defending champion went to the start. Unlike its competitors, he succeeded two equal jumps, each 202 meters, so he was in the lead after the first day. Due to the bad weather conditions, the jumping had to be canceled on the second day, so as two years earlier the overall rating was decided in just one day. Hanna forest was able to successfully defend his title as the first Springer.
In the overall World Cup ranking Hanna forest occupied at the end of the season in second place behind Poland's Adam Malysz. For his achievements, he was named Sportsman of the Year 2002.
Season 2002/ 03
The 2002/03 season was an excellent success for Hanna forest. He won six World Cup competitions, won second place in the Four Hills Tournament and finished at the end of the second place in the overall World Cup standings. One of the six wins this season he ersprang at the first competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf. Sven Hanna forest has thus won five tour jumping in a row.
On 8 February 2003, he won the World Cup competition in Willingen. For his first jump, he was doing five times the grade 20 - a rating that have so far received only five jumpers. For his second jump Hanna forest received four marks of 20 and even 19.5 and thus 20 nine times in a jump competition.
Season 2003/ 04
In the 2003 / 04 season, it is no longer as hoped ran for Hanna forest. His best finish was a fourth place in Trondheim (Norway). As a consequence, he ended the season prematurely.
Hanna forest was over a longer period subject to discussion about anorexia. At a height of 1.84 m, he weighed 64 kg ( Information from its official website ).
End of career
On 29 April 2004 it was announced that Hanna forest suffered from the so-called burnout and had gone for treatment in a specialist clinic. In the meantime, he was on the mend and has already passed back some public appearances. On 3 August 2005 Hanna Wald said that he after successful treatment of his burnout no longer wanted to expose the rigors of professional sport, and thus ended his career. On 8 July 2006, he was adopted at the night of the eagle in Oberkirch.
On 9 March 2007 Sven Hanna forest was at the 5th Wok World Championships in Innsbruck, together with Markus Beyer, Christina Surer and Susi Kentikian as a pilot of 4- woks of the Seat teams Wok World Champion 2007. According to end of his career he was often as interview partners at the World Cup coverage on the microphone. In the Four Hills Tournament 2007/ 08 he served first at ZDF next to Jens Weißflog as an expert.
Since late 2009, Hanna forest trained in the football department of TSV Neuried, where it is mainly used on the outer web of the second men's team.
His biography " My high-flying, my crash landing in my life " was released on 5 September 2013.
Motorsport career
Sven Hanna forest denied in 2005 his first car race. He had a guest appearance in the season finale at the Hockenheimring in the Seat Leon Supercopa. In the 2008 season, he joined the team Schnabl Engineering in a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup for the first time in several races of the ADAC GT Masters. In 2009, he was in a race for the team Buchbinder Racing at the start.
In 2010 Hanna forest had for the first time in the ADAC GT Masters a fixed cockpit. He drove a Corvette Z06.R GT3 for the team, Callaway, along with his teammate Thomas Jäger. In the second race at the Sachsenring he reached the second place, which he scored his first podium finish and also his first championship points.
After a break in 2012 and lodged only sporadically attended events, he takes since 2013 in a Mercedes -Benz SLS AMG GT3 is the racing team Rowe Racing at the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring.
Achievements
World Cup wins
World Cup rankings
Hill records
Awards
- 2002: Golden spring special price for the sympathetic way in which he presented the sport in the media
- 2002 Sportsman of the Year ( Germany )
- 2012: Order of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg