Andreas Wellinger

Andreas Wellinger
Andreas Wellinger
	Wellinger in Klingenthal, 2017
Country	Germany
Born	28 August 1995; Ruhpolding, Germany
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Ski club	SC Ruhpolding
Personal best	245 m (804 ft) ; Vikersund, 18 March 2017
World Cup career
Seasons	2012–present
Individual wins	3
Team wins	6
Indiv. podiums	23
Team podiums	19
Indiv. starts	123
Team starts	28
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
World Championships
Men's ski flying
World Championships
	Updated on 23 March 2018.

Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German ski jumper. His career-best achievements include winning an individual gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, individual silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics, mixed team gold at the 2017 Ski Jumping World Championships, and team silver at the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships. Wellinger's best finish in the World Cup overall standings is fourth, in the 2016/17 season.

Career

Wellinger's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in 2012 on competition on small hill in Lillehammer. He led after the first round but in the second round, he fell on fifth place. The same year, he won the large hill team event in Kuusamo and got two individual podiums in Sochi and Engelberg as well. During the 2012/2013 season, he reached 393 points and finished in World cup in 20th place.

He won the summer Grand Prix FIS Ski Jumping in 2013, ahead of Slovene ski jumper Jernej Damjan. At the first competition in season 2013/2014 in Klingenthal, he was second and that was his third podium. In Engelberg, the same year, he also finished second. He ended the Four Hills Tournament in 10th place. Then he won in Wisla 2014. He was in Germany's ski jumping 2014 Winter Olympics team. He was sixth on a small individual hill and won a gold medal with Germany on a team event. He ended 2013/2014 season on 9th place. He started season 2014/2015 in Klingenthal with 3rd place. In Ruka he had a bad fall and broke his collarbone and next jumped on the 6th of March in Lahti.

2018: Winter Olympic Games

Andreas Wellinger won the gold medal in the Men's Normal Hill Individual Ski Jumping event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. He also won the silver in the Men's Individual Large Hill Ski Jumping event, and another silver as part of the German Team in the Men's Team Ski Jumping event.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	RA	W5	P7
2012/13	20	9	45	N/A	N/A	N/A
2013/14	9	10	12	N/A	N/A	N/A
2014/15	35	—	—	N/A	N/A	N/A
2015/16	17	12	—	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016/17	4	22			N/A	N/A
2017/18	6		26	19	5	24

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2013/14	16 January 2014	Wisła	Malinka HS134 (night)	LH
2	2016/17	29 January 2017	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145	LH
3	2017/18	3 December 2017	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS134 (night)	LH

Record

Olympic Games

Event	Normal hill	Large hill	Team
2014 Sochi	6th	45th	Gold
2018 Pyeongchang	Gold	Silver	Silver

External links

Andreas Wellinger at International Olympic Committee

Andreas Wellinger at German Olympic Committee (German)

Andreas Wellinger at Sports Reference (Olympic results)

Andreas Wellinger at FIS (ski jumping)

Andreas Wellinger at FIS (Nordic combined)

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