Ski jumper Severin Freund secured world championships, Olympic victories and more.
After several injuries, he returned completely to the hill in 2020.
Severin Freund
has been
active
in
ski flying
since 1995
and starts for the
WSV-DJK Rastbüchl
.
The
ski jumper
won numerous World Cup victories, world championship titles and Olympic gold, among other things.
After several injuries, he took part in the World Cup for the first time from the beginning in the 2020/2021 season.
Severin Freund
was born on May 11, 1988 in Freyung, Lower Saxony.
The German
ski jumper
starts for the
WSV-DJK Rastbüchl
.
He has also been a member of the Zoll ski team since 2015.
Freund currently lives in Munich.
In 1993 he started his sporting activity in Nordic combined.
In 1995, however, the later
World Cup
winner decided to switch to specialty jumping.
In this discipline he took part in international youth competitions for the first time in 2002 and also in the Alpine Cup.
The young ski jumper celebrated several successes at the national level in 2006. He was named German Youth Champion both individually and in a team and also won the overall ranking of the German Cup.
Severin Freund also took part in the Junior World Championships in Kranj and came in 13th in the individual.
The
ski jumper
made it
into the World Cup team
in the coming year
.
In
December 2007 he was able to prove
his talent in
ski flying
for the first time in a first-class international jumping event.
Freund finished the following Four Hills Tournament with rank 30 and thus got his first World Cup point.
A week later, he even made it to 20th place in Bischofshofen.
The ski jumper suffered a herniated disc, but made a successful comeback
A "sensation", as it was described in numerous media reports, occurred on January 15, 2011. Severin Freund celebrated his first World Cup victory in Sapporo, Japan.
At the same time it was the first victory of a German in four years.
On January 30th he achieved his second first place in the World Cup, this time in Willingen in Hesse.
This victory also had a double meaning, because it was the first of a German in eight years on this hill.
Due to a herniated disc in April 2012 and the associated operation, the
ski jumper
had to take a break for several months.
But already in September he celebrated his comeback and the medal hunt for the
World Cup
winner
continued.
In Klingenthal, he not only achieved his first Summer Grand Prix victory.
He also won the title of German individual champion.
Only a few weeks later he was also victorious in the World Cup team competition in Kuusamo.
But
Severin Freund
celebrated his greatest successes in the
2014/2015
season. Among other things, he made it to first place in the
overall World Cup
.
The Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun finally made Freund the individual
world champion
for the first time
.
The athlete topped all of this with a victory at the Olympic Games in Sochi together with the German team.
Severin Freund continued to celebrate successes until several injury breaks followed
The particularly successful 2014/2015 season was followed by numerous other medals such as:
2015: Silver at the Nordic World Ski Championships on the normal hill
2015: Gold at the German championship in individual and team
2016: Silver in the team at the Ski Flying World Championships
Another
operation
followed in the 2015/2016
season
, this time on the hip.
Despite the severe restrictions in preparation for the 2016/2017 World Cup,
Severin Freund won
on November 26, 2016 and took the
lead
in the
overall World Cup
.
However, the
Olympic champion
did not make it to the podium afterwards.
There were further breaks in injury, again due to
cruciate ligament tears
and a meniscus operation.
In the 2020/2021 season, the
ski jumper
took part
in a World Cup for the first time from the beginning.
In the individual competition on November 29, 2020, he secured a
top ten placement for
the first time in four years
.
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By Sophie Neumärker