Ski jumper Eric Frenzel convinces both on the hill and on the cross-country ski run.
In the Nordic combined he was multiple Olympic champion.
The
ski jumper
and Nordic combined athlete
Eric Frenzel
is a real family man
.
With his track record, the father of three is Germany's most successful skier to date.
His World Cup debut was celebrated on January 13, 2007. Altogether he has won the overall World Cup five times.
An overview of his greatest successes:
Eric Frenzel has
won gold three times
as an
Olympic
champion.
He achieved a
hill record
on the Langenwaldschanze
Eric Frenzel has already been
world champion
three times
Eric Frenzel
is
at home
with his disciplines in
Nordic Combined
.
In 2003 he was appointed to the
national
team and competed in lower-class international competitions.
He finished the Nordic
Junior World Ski Championships
with his first
world title
in the sprint and the silver medal in the
team competition
.
He also reached eighth place in the Gundersen competition.
At his first
World Cup in
2007 in Lago die Tessero, he finished 44th, but was nominated for the
Nordic World Ski Championships
shortly afterwards
.
In his second
World Cup race
, he worked his way up to fourth place.
His first
World Cup
victory came
in January 2008 in Klingenthal, where he
reached the podium
in the
mass start
.
Eric Frenzel has been on the road to success since 2011
Eric Frenzel has been
proving since 2011 that a
ski jumper can
also be successful on a well-established trail.
Frenzel managed a series of successes at the
World Cup
that no one before him had achieved: Between 2013 and 2017, he was
on the podium
five times as the
overall World Cup winner
in Nordic combined.
From the
Olympic Games in
2010, 2014 and 2018, the
Olympic champion
went home with gold three times.
At the first games in
Vancouver
in 2010
, he achieved the
bronze medal
with the team
.
In
Pyeonchang
,
Korea
, he was given the honor of leading the German team as the
flag bearer
.
Eric Frenzel also celebrated successes at the world championships in his discipline.
He was world
champion a
total of seven times in a team and in individual competitions
.
For the first time he was on the highest podium in 2009.
Frenzel was able to
set
hill
records
several
times.
He reached 148.5 meters on the Finnish Rukatunturi hill and 138.5 meters in Val di Fiemme.
With his record, Frenzel is considered a
record earner
in the Nordic combined.
Its main sponsors are the heating manufacturer
Viessmann
,
Adidas
and the ski outfitter
Fischer
.
Eric Frenzel with an early start in family life
Eric Frenzel
became a father for the first time shortly after graduating from high school at the age of 18.
His wife Laura was just 15 years old at the time.
The two now have three children together.
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The family lives in
Flossenbürg
in the Upper Palatinate, the hometown of Laura Frenzel.
His wife not only accompanies him with the children to the training camp in Oberwiesenthal, but also organizes fan trips to competitions.
Eric Frenzel is a sports soldier.
The
ski jumper
holds the rank of sergeant major and is a member of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group.
In 2019 he was voted
Sports Soldier of the Year
.
In 2014 and 2015 he was named
athlete of the year
as an individual
athlete
, and in 2015 with the team.
Also in 2015 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal, Norway's highest award in skiing.
As an
Olympic champion
, he was awarded the
Silver Laurel Leaf
in 2014
by the then Federal President Joachim Gauck.
In 2018 he became an
honorary citizen of
his hometown Geyer.
The
SSV Geyer
named the junior jumps by Eric Frenzel.
