Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fin ...

. His career-best achievements include winning an individual gold medal at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

, individual silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics, mixed team gold at the 2017 Ski Jumping World Championships, and team silver at the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships. Wellinger's best finish in the World Cup overall standings is fourth, in the 2016/17 season.

Career

Wellinger's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in 2012 on competition on small hill in Lillehammer. He led after the first round, but in the second round he dropped to fifth place. The same year, he won the large hill team event in Kuusamo and got two individual podiums in Sochi and Engelberg as well. During the 2012/2013 season, he reached 393 points and finished in World cup in 20th place. He won the summer Grand Prix FIS Ski Jumping in 2013, ahead of Slovene ski jumper

Jernej Damjan Jernej Damjan (born 28 May 1983) is a Slovenian former ski jumper. Career Damjan won a bronze medal in the team normal hill event at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, and finished 6th in the individual normal hill ev ...

. At the first competition in season 2013/2014 in Klingenthal, he was second and that was his third podium. In Engelberg, the same year, he also finished second. He ended the Four Hills Tournament in 10th place. Then he won in Wisla 2014. He was on Germany's ski jumping

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ...

team. He was sixth on a small individual hill and won a gold medal with Germany in a team event. He ended 2013/2014 season in 9th place. He started season 2014/2015 in Klingenthal with 3rd place. In Ruka he had a bad fall and broke his collarbone and next jumped on 6 March in Lahti.

2018: Winter Olympic Gametes

Andreas Wellinger won the gold medal in the Men's Normal Hill Individual Ski Jumping event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. He also won the silver in the Men's Individual Large Hill Ski Jumping event, and another silver as part of the German Team in the Men's Team Ski Jumping event.

World Cup

Season standings

Wins

Record

Olympic results

World Championship results

FIS Ski Flying World Championships

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wellinger, Andreas 1995 births Living people German male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping People from Traunstein (district) Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria Youth Olympic gold medalists for Germany 21st-century German people