Manuel Faißt (born 11 January 1993) is a German

nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first ever Winter Olympics in 1924, while the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup ...

athlete.

Career

Germany's Manuel Faißt has relations to other people who are

athletes. In Faißt's case, his father has been a Nordic Combined athlete himself and worked as a coach at Faißt's home club of Baiersbronn. 4-year-old Manuel skied down the outrun of the 10-metre hill at Bergergrund and at age 5, he had already made his first jumps. Soon, Faißt's ambitious personality paid off, and he started collecting medals and trophies from competitions that he won, even in his younger years. In 2009, Faißt won the

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in Szczyrk and the OPA Games at his home venue in Baiersbronn, as well as making his debut in the World Cup at Lillehammer. He achieved his first World Cup Top Ten result in 2011 at Ramsau am Dachstein with a career-best seventh rank. In his most successful season so far (2012/13), Faißt dominated the Junior World Championships at Liberec, walking away with all possible gold medals in the two individual and one team event as well as getting started at university in

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

where Faißt studied law.

Personal life

Faißt's hobbies include biking, cooking, and football.

Olympic Games results

World Championship results

References

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* * 1993 births German male Nordic combined skiers Living people People from Furtwangen im Schwarzwald Sportspeople from Freiburg (region) Nordic combined skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in Nordic combined Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics 21st-century German people {{Nordic-skiing-bio-stub