Sven Hannawald

German ski jumper (born 1974)

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Sven Hannawald

Hannawald in 2019

Country

Germany

Born

(1974年11月09日) 9 November 1974 (age 50)
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
Gold medal – first place	2002 Salt Lake City	Team LH
Silver medal – second place	1998 Nagano	Team LH
Silver medal – second place	2002 Salt Lake City	Individual NH
World Championships
Gold medal – first place	1999 Ramsau	Team LH
Gold medal – first place	2001 Lahti	Team LH
Silver medal – second place	1999 Ramsau	Individual LH
Bronze medal – third place	2001 Lahti	Team NH
Men's ski flying
World Championships
Gold medal – first place	2000 Vikersund	Individual
Gold medal – first place	2002 Harrachov	Individual
Silver medal – second place	1998 Oberstdorf	Individual

Updated on 10 February 2016.

Sven Hannawald (German pronunciation: [svɛnˈhanaˌvalt] ⁱ; 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

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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

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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.^[1] At the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, he won gold in the team large hill and silver in the individual normal hill,^[2] 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,^[3] 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 ^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6]

Post-retirement

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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.^[7]

In 2010, Hannawald gave his debut as a racing driver in the ADAC GT Masters.^[8]^[9] He drove his first race on 10 April 2010 at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.^[10]

World Cup results

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Standings

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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	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	1st place, gold medalist(s)	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	9
1998/99	6	11	9	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	5
1999/00	4	4	1st place, gold medalist(s)	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	5
2000/01	9	4	9	—	N/A
2001/02	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	1st place, gold medalist(s)	N/A	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	N/A
2002/03	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	N/A	4	N/A
2003/04	24	12	N/A	—	N/A

Wins

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