Sven Hannawald

Sven Hannawald
Hannawald in 2019
Country	Germany
Born	(1974-11-09) 9 November 1974 Erlabrunn, East Germany
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Personal best	220 m (720 ft) Planica, 23 March 2002
World Cup career
Seasons	1993–2004
Indiv. starts	174
Indiv. podiums	40
Indiv. wins	18
Team starts	11
Team podiums	7
Team wins	1
Four Hills titles	1 (2002)
Ski Flying titles	2 (1998, 2000)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Team LH 1998 Nagano Team LH 2002 Salt Lake City Individual NH World Championships 1999 Ramsau Team LH 2001 Lahti Team LH 1999 Ramsau Individual LH 2001 Lahti Team NH Men's ski flying World Championships 2000 Vikersund Individual 2002 Harrachov Individual 1998 Oberstdorf Individual
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Sven Hannawald (German pronunciation: [svɛn ˈhanaˌvalt] ; born 9 November 1974) is a German former ski jumper. Having competed from 1992 to 2004, his career highlight was winning the 2002 Four Hills Tournament, on that occasion becoming the first athlete to win all four events of said tournament. He also finished runner-up twice in the World Cup season, winning four medals at the Ski Jumping World Championships, as well as three medals each at the Winter Olympics and Ski Flying World Championships.

Early life

Hannawald was born in Erlabrunn and grew up in the nearby town of Johanngeorgenstadt by SC Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt in the Ore Mountains. At age twelve, he was sent to a special school for young athletes in Klingenthal (SG Dynamo Klingenthal), also in Saxony. In 1991 his family moved to Jettingen-Scheppach near Ulm where he transferred to the Furtwangen Ski Boarding School, where he completed an apprenticeship in Communication Electronics.

Ski jumping career

Hannawald in 2004

In 1998, Hannawald won a silver medal at the 1998 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf as well as a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Nagano in the team large hill event.

In the 1998/99 season, he finished fifth place overall in World Cup Ski Jumping. At the world championships in Ramsau, he won a silver medal in the individual large hill behind Martin Schmitt, as well as winning a gold medal in the team large hill event.

In 2000, Hannawald won the Ski-flying World Championships in Vikersund. He also won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival that year.

In the 2000/01 season, Hannawald won gold in the team large hill event and bronze in the team normal hill event at the world championships in Lahti.

The following winter of 2001/02 was the most successful of his career: Hannawald ended second in the World Cup, winning all four Individual jumping titles at the Four Hills Tournament, the first to do so. He successfully defended his title of Ski Flying World Champion. At the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, he won gold in the team large hill and silver in the individual normal hill, and was even nominated for Sportsman of the Year in Germany. Despite all of his successes, however, Hannawald could not top Adam Malysz in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the 2002/03 season, he finished again second in the world rankings and managed to set another highlight of his career: at the Worldcup competition in Willingen, Germany [1] Archived 19 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, he became the third person in history to achieve perfect marks from all five judges (20 points maximum) – 27 years after the first one (Anton Innauer) and five years after the second one (Kazuyoshi Funaki). This mark has been matched only about one hour later at the same World Cup competition by Hideharu Miyahira, who finished sixth. Then it took another six years until Wolfgang Loitzl at Bischofshofen, Austria in 2009 during the 2008/09 Four Hills Tournament [2] Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine became the fifth one.

In the 2003/04 season, Hannawald performed well below personal expectations. His best result was fourth in Trondheim. As a consequence of that, Hannawald ended his season prematurely. On 29 April 2004, he revealed that he was suffering from burnout and had put himself into psychiatric treatment. During this time, Hannawald managed to recover and reappeared to the public.

On 3 August 2005, he ended his career as a ski jumper, explaining through his managers that, after successfully dealing with his burnout, he no longer wished to suffer the stresses of professional sport.

Post-retirement

On 26 September 2008, Hannawald signed a two-year contract with the football club TSV Burgau of the German Kreisliga, where he played as a striker.

In 2010, Hannawald gave his debut as a racing driver in the ADAC GT Masters. He drove his first race on 10 April 2010 at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.

World Cup results

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT	JP
1992/93	—	59	—	N/A	N/A
1993/94	90	60	—	N/A	N/A
1994/95	63	—	—	N/A	N/A
1995/96	—	65	—	N/A	—
1996/97	59	34	—	55	55
1997/98	6				9
1998/99	6	11	9		5
1999/00	4	4			5
2000/01	9	4	9	—	N/A
2001/02			N/A		N/A
2002/03			N/A	4	N/A
2003/04	24	12	N/A	—	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	1997/98	6 January 1998	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120	LH
2		24 January 1998	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze K185	FH
3	1999/00	19 February 2000	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm K185	FH
4		10 March 2000	Trondheim	Granåsen K120 (night)	LH
5		12 March 2000	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken K115	LH
6		19 March 2000	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek K185	FH
7	2001/02	2 December 2001	Titisee-Neustadt	Hochfirstschanze K120 (night)	LH
8		30 December 2001	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115	LH
9		1 January 2002	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze K115	LH
10		4 January 2002	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K120	LH
11		6 January 2002	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120	LH
12		12 January 2002	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze K130	LH
13	2002/03	22 December 2002	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K125	LH
14		29 December 2002	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115	LH
15		18 January 2003	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K120	LH
16		19 January 2003	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K120	LH
17		2 February 2003	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm K185	FH
18		8 February 2003	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze K130	LH

External links

• Official website
• Sven Hannawald at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation