Manuel Faißt

Manuel Faißt (born 11 January 1993) is a German nordic combined athlete.

Manuel Faißt
Faißt in 2016
CountryGermany
Born (1993-01-11) 11 January 1993
Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ski clubSV Baiersbronn
Personal best227.5 m (746 ft)
Oberstdorf, 17 March 2022
World Cup career
Seasons2012–present
Individual wins0
Team wins1
Indiv. podiums5
Team podiums8
Indiv. starts202
Team starts13
Overall titles0 – (10th in 2019, 2020, 2021)
Discipline titles0
Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2022 BeijingTeam LH

Career

Germany's Manuel Faißt has relations to other people who are nordic combined athletes. In Faißt's case, his father has been a Nordic Combined athlete himself and worked as a coach at Faißt's home club of Baiersbronn. 4-year-old Manuel skied down the outrun of the 10-metre hill at Bergergrund and at age 5, he had already made his first jumps. Soon, Faißt's ambitious personality paid off, and he started collecting medals and trophies from competitions that he won, even in his younger years. In 2009, Faißt won the European Youth Olympic Festival in Szczyrk[1] and the OPA Games at his home venue in Baiersbronn, as well as making his debut in the World Cup at Lillehammer. He achieved his first World Cup Top Ten result in 2011 at Ramsau am Dachstein with a career-best seventh rank.

In his most successful season so far (2012/13), Faißt dominated the Junior World Championships at Liberec,[2] walking away with all possible gold medals in the two individual and one team event as well as getting started at university in Freiburg where Faißt studied law.

Personal life

Faißt's hobbies include biking, cooking, and football.[3]

Olympic Games results
Year Individual NH Individual LH Team LH
2022-4Silver

World Championship results
Year Individual LH Individual NH Team NH Team sprint/
Mixed team
2017—17——
201914———
202119———
2023205——

References
  1. "FAISST Manuel - Athlete Information".
  2. "Nordic Combined - Athlete: Manuel FAISST". www.fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013.
  3. "FAISST Manuel - Athlete Information".


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