As Vice Olympic Champion and World Champion, Karl Geiger is one of the most successful ski jumpers.
He regularly proves this at the World Cup.
The German
ski jumper
Karl Geiger was born on February 11, 1993 in Oberstdorf.
He competes for his hometown club SC Oberstdorf and is also part of the customs ski team.
The athlete competed in his first major competition in March 2012 - the second-rate Continental Cup.
Only six months later, he took his first podium at the summer jumping competition in Tchaikovsky and finished in third place.
A few days later he even managed to place second in Klingenthal.
All of this earned him
fifth place
overall in the
Grand Prix
.
The ski jumping coach Werner Schuster nominated the young ski jumper in 2014 for the
Four Hills Tournament 2014/2015
, but he was eliminated in the first round.
Geiger had to wait a few more years for placements on the medal ranks in this competition.
Karl Geiger achieved his greatest successes from 2018, beginning with his participation in the
Olympics
in Pyeongchang.
The ski jumper reached seventh place on the large hill and tenth place on the normal hill.
The team successes of the ski jumper at the Olympics and his achievements at the World Cup
In the
team competition
was
a ski jumper
successful and won together with Andreas Wellinger, Richard Freitag and Stephan Leyhe the
silver medal
.
For this achievement he was honored with the silver bay leaf.
His first
World Cup
victory
in the
team was not long in coming and even before he had the award in his hands, he
won
on the
large hill
in Lahti.
He succeeded in doing this together with Richard Freitag, Andreas Wellinger and this time also Markus Eisenbichler.
Karl Geiger
waited
a little longer
for
his first
individual
World Cup
victory.
In December 2018 he finally succeeded on the large hill in Engelberg.
He has repeated this first place six more times:
February 16, 2019 in Willingen on the large hill
January 11, 2020 in Predazzo on the normal hill
January 12, 2020 in Predazzo on the normal hill
February 21, 2020 in Rȃșnov on the normal hill
March 1st, 2020 in Lahti on the large hill
December 29, 2020 in Oberstdorf on the large hill
Karl Geiger's path to world champion and the Four Hills Tournament
In 2019 the Nordic World Ski Championships were coming up and
Karl Geiger's
success story continued.
The
ski jumper
secured
the silver medal
on the large hill
, but was also further ahead in the team.
With his teammates he won the gold medal in team jumping and thus became
world champion
.
The second gold medal followed in the
mixed team competition
with Markus Eichenbichler, Juliane Seyfarth and Katharina Althaus.
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Geiger didn't have to wait long for his first individual world title.
In 2020 the time had
finally
come in
Planica
and with an overall rating of 877.2 he secured the title.
The
ski flying world champion
was also one of the big favorites at the
Four Hills Tournament
2019/2020, but could not fully meet expectations.
In the overall standings, he came in third.
In the subsequent 2020/2021 tour, on the other hand, he was ahead of the game in the opening competition and decided it for himself.
In the end he finished second behind Kamil Stoch.
By Sophie Neumärker