Gold Medal
Germany
Andreas Wank
Andreas Wank (born 18 February 1988) competes internationally for Germany as a ski jumper. He is 1.90 m tall and weighs 72 kg.
Andreas Wellinger
Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German ski jumper.
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 already won the large hill team event in Kuusamo and got two individual podiums in Sochi and Engelberg. In season 2012/2013, he reached 393 points and finished in World cup as 20th.
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.
Marinus Kraus
Marinus Kraus (born 13 February 1991) is a German ski jumper.
Kraus's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in January 2013 in Vikersund. His best result in World Cup is a second place in Kuusamo in November 2013.
Severin Freund
Severin Freund (born 11 May 1988) is a German ski jumper. He hails from Waldkirchen.
Having made his Continental Cup debut in December 2004, his best result is the victory from Lillehammer in September 2008. He won a gold medal in the team competition at the 2008 Junior World Ski Championships. He made his World Cup debut in December 2007 in Engelberg, and his best result before the Season 2010/11 was a 12th place from Sapporo in January 2010.
On 29 December 2010, he reached the 6th place of the first event of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf. On 15 January 2011, he achieved his first ever World Cup victory at the first competition at Sapporo. In the same season, he won his first world championship medal finishing third with the team in the Team normal hill competition in Oslo. He finished the 2010/2011 world cup season as number seven.
USA
10th Place
Peter Frenette
Peter Frenette (born February 24, 1992) is an American ski jumper who has competed since 2009. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 11th in the team large hill, 32nd in the individual large hill, and 41st in the individual normal hill events.
Though he has not competed in the World Cup, Frenette's best finish has been second in an HS 102 event in an FIS Cup event in Germany in January 2010.
Frenette grew up in Saranac Lake, NY in the upstate New York Adirondacks.
Anders Johnson
Anders Johnson (born April 23, 1989 in Plattsburgh, New York) is an American ski jumper who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 11th in the team large hill at Vancouver in 2010. Johnson also finished 49th in the individual normal hill at those same games.
He finished 40th in the individual large hill event and 48th in the individual normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.
Johnson's best World Cup finish was 29th in the individual large hill event at Whistler Olympic Park in January 2009.
He attended The Winter Sports School in Park City, graduating in 2006.
Nick Fairall
Height: 5-11
Weight: 150 lbs
Birthplace: New London, N.H.
School: Proctor Academy, Westminster College, DeVry University
Club: Andover Outing Club
Website: www.nickfairall.com
OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
2014 Olympic Winter Games, 50th place in qualifying of men's individual NH
HIGHLIGHTS
23rd World Cup, Bad Mitterndorf, Austria
24th, World Cup, Bad Mitterndorf, Austria
1st FIS Cup, Eisenerz, Austria
3rd, U.S. Nationals, fall 2010
BIOGRAPHY
Nick Fairall grew up enjoying skiing, water skiing, lacrosse, soccer, and many other sports, but the one thing he loved the most was ski jumping. His love for ski jumping has never lost its ability to be fun. Trying to keep school at the same level, Fairall attended Westminster College for the 2007 fall semester and enrolled in the aviation program. After one semester, Fairall realized that ski jumping and school was difficult to balance, forcing him to ask himself what was most important to him. Fairall made the decision to withdraw from classes to become a full-time ski jumper. Since then, he has become one of ski jumping's young hopefuls for the future of the sport in the U.S.
Nicholas Alexander
Nicholas "Nick" Alexander (born August 24, 1988) is an American ski jumper from Lebanon, New Hampshire, who has competed internationally since 2007. He is a member of the US Men's Ski Jumping Team and he is an Olympian who competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Alexander learned to ski and ski jump from members of the Lebanon Outing Club at the Storrs Hill Ski area.
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