Manuel Faißt
Manuel Faißt (born 11 January 1993) is a German nordic combined athlete.
Manuel Faißt | |||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||
Born | Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany | 11 January 1993||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Ski club | SV Baiersbronn | ||||||||||||||
Personal best | 227.5 m (746 ft) Oberstdorf, 17 March 2022 | ||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||
Seasons | 2012–present | ||||||||||||||
Individual wins | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Team wins | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Indiv. podiums | 5 | ||||||||||||||
Team podiums | 8 | ||||||||||||||
Indiv. starts | 202 | ||||||||||||||
Team starts | 13 | ||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 – (10th in 2019, 2020, 2021) | ||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
World Championship results
Year | Individual LH | Individual NH | Team NH | Team sprint/ Mixed team |
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2017 | — | 17 | — | — |
2019 | 14 | — | — | — |
2021 | 19 | — | — | — |
2023 | 20 | 5 | — | — |
References
- "FAISST Manuel - Athlete Information".
- "Nordic Combined - Athlete: Manuel FAISST". www.fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013.
- "FAISST Manuel - Athlete Information".