Manuel Faißt

German nordic combined athlete

Manuel Faißt
Faißt in 2016
CountryGermany
Born (1993-01-11) 11 January 1993 (age 31)
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
Starts223
Podiums7
Wins0
Overall titles0 – (10th in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023)
Discipline titles0
Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Team LH

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

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 4 Silver

World Championship results

Year Individual LH Individual NH Team NH Team sprint/
Mixed team
2017 17
2019 14
2021 19
2023 20 5

Individual podiums

No. Season Date Location Discipline Place
1 2015-16 20 December 2015 Austria Ramsau HS98 / 10 km 3rd
2 2016-17 11 February 2017 Japan Sapporo HS134/ 10 km 3rd
3 2017-18 3 February 2018 Japan Hakuba HS134/ 10 km 3rd
4 2020-21 29 November 2020 Finland Ruka HS142 / 10 km 3rd
5 2021-22 11 December 2021 Estonia Otepää HS97 / 10 km 3rd
6 2023-24 15 December 2023 Austria Ramsau HS98 / 10 km 3rd
7 14 January 2024 Germany Oberstdorf HS106 / 7.5 km 3rd

Team podiums

No. Season Date Location Discipline Place
1 2012-13 3 February 2013 Russia Sochi HS140 / 4x5 km 1st
2 2013-14 1 December 2013 Finland Ruka HS142 / 4x5 km 2nd
3 2014-15 31 January 2015 Italy Val di Fiemme HS134 / 2x7.5 km 2nd
4 2015-16 4 March 2016 Germany Schonach HS106 / 4x5 km 2nd
5 2019-20 25 January 2020 Germany Oberstdorf HS140 / 4x5 km 2nd
6 29 February 2020 Finland Lahti HS130 / 2x7.5 km 2nd
7 2021-22 4 December 2021 Norway Lillehammer HS98 / 4x5 km 2nd
8 2022-23 6 January 2023 Estonia Otepää HS97 / 2x2.5 km+ km2x5 km 2nd

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".

External links

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Manuel Faißt at FIS (Nordic combined)Edit on Wikidata
  • Manuel Faißt at OlympediaEdit on Wikidata


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