Andreas Wellinger

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 2018 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.

Andreas Wellinger
Wellinger in Klingenthal, 2017
CountryGermany
Born (1995-08-28) 28 August 1995
Ruhpolding, Germany
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Ski clubSC Ruhpolding
Personal best245 m (804 ft)
Vikersund, 18 March 2017
World Cup career
Seasons2012–present
Individual wins3
Team wins6
Indiv. podiums24
Team podiums20
Indiv. starts149
Team starts29
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 2 0
Ski Jumping World Championships 1 2 0
Ski Flying World Championships 0 1 0
Total 3 5 0
Olympic Games
2014 SochiTeam LH
2018 PyeongchangIndividual NH
2018 PyeongchangIndividual LH
2018 PyeongchangTeam LH
World Championships
2017 LahtiMixed NH
2017 LahtiIndividual NH
2017 LahtiIndividual LH
Men's ski flying
World Championships
2016 Bad MitterndorfTeam
Updated on 24 March 2019.

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 6 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

Season standings
 Season  Tour Standings
Overall 4H SF RA W5 P7
2012/13 20945N/AN/AN/A
2013/14 91012N/AN/AN/A
2014/15 35——N/AN/AN/A
2015/16 1712—N/AN/AN/A
2016/17 422N/AN/A
2017/18 62619524
2018/19 183122331925

Wins
No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2013/1416 January 2014   WisłaMalinka HS134 (night)LH
2 2016/1729 January 2017   WillingenMühlenkopfschanze HS145LH
3 2017/183 December 2017   Nizhny TagilTramplin Stork HS134 (night)LH

Olympic results
Year
Normal hill Large hill Team
2014 Sochi 6th 45th Gold
2018 Pyeongchang Gold Silver Silver

World Championship results
Year Normal hill Large hill Team LH Mixed team
201511DNS——
20172241
2019—32——
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See also
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