Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German

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. His career-best achievements include winning an individual gold medal at the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

, 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

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overall standings is fourth, in the 2016/17 season.

Career

Wellinger's debut in

FIS Ski Jumping World Cup The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup is the world's highest level of ski jumping and the FIS Ski Flying World Cup as the subdivisional part of the competition. It was founded by Torbjørn Yggeseth for the 1979/80 season and organized by the Internation ...

took place in 2012 on competition on small hill in

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. He led after the first round, but in the second round he dropped to fifth place. The same year, he won the large hill team event in

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and got two individual podiums in

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and

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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

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. At the first competition in season 2013/2014 in

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, he was second and that was his third podium. In

, the same year, he also finished second. He ended the

Four Hills Tournament The Four Hills Tournament (german: link=no, Vierschanzentournee) or the German-Austrian Ski Jumping Week (german: link=no, Deutsch-Österreichische Skisprung-Woche) is a ski jumping event composed of four World Cup events and has taken place in ...

in 10th place. Then he won in Wisla 2014. He was on Germany's ski jumping

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

team. He was sixth on a small individual hill and won a gold medal with Germany in a team event. He ended 2013/2014 season in 9th place. He started season 2014/2015 in

with 3rd place. In

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he had a bad fall and broke his collarbone and next jumped on 6 March in Lahti.

2018: Winter Olympic Gametes

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

Wins

Record

Olympic results

World Championship results

FIS Ski Flying World Championships

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wellinger, Andreas 1995 births Living people German male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping People from Traunstein (district) Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria Youth Olympic gold medalists for Germany 21st-century German people