Katharina Schmid Explained

Katharina Schmid
Nationality:Germany
Birth Date:23 May 1996
Birth Place:Oberstdorf, Germany
Height:1.57 m‌
Club:SC 1906 Oberstdorf
Personalbest:198.5m (651.2feet)
Vikersund, 19 March 2023
Seasons:2012–present
Wins:15
Teamwins:2
Totalpodiums:52
Teampodiums:6
Individual Starts:213
Team Starts:13
Show-Medals:no
Updated:21 March 2024

Katharina Schmid (née Althaus, born 23 May 1996) is a German ski jumper.

She is an individual world champion (with additional six team titles) and two time olympic runner-up.

In Planica 2023 she became the first and only ski jumper in history, both men and women, with at least four medals in total, achieved at a single FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

Career

She has competed at World Cup level since the 2011/12 season. She finished 2nd in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 World Cup overall, and won individual silver medals at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.

She became the mixed team ski jumping world champion together with her German teammates Carina Vogt, Richard Freitag, and Severin Freund in Falun at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015.[1] She took her first World Cup win on 12 February 2017 in Ljubno.[2]

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 in Planica she won medals in all four disciplines (two Individual and two team events), three gold and one bronze medal.

Major Tournament results

Winter Olympics

YearPlaceIndividualMixed
scope=row align=center2014 Sochi23align=center style=color:#696969N/A
scope=row align=center2018 Pyeongchangalign=center bgcolor=silver2align=center style=color:#696969N/A
scope=row align=center2022 Beijingalign=center bgcolor=silver29

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

YearPlaceIndividualTeam
NormalLarge WomenMixed
align=center style=color:#696969N/A align=center style=color:#696969N/A
align=center style=color:#696969N/A align=center style=color:#696969N/A bgcolor=gold1
align=center style=color:#696969N/A align=center style=color:#696969N/A
bgcolor=silveralign=center style=color:#696969N/A bgcolor=goldbgcolor=gold1
bgcolor=gold1
bgcolor=goldbgcolor=goldbgcolor=gold1

World Cup

Standings

 Season Overall
scope=row align=center2011/1228 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2012/1322 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2013/1413 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2014/159 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2015/1612 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2016/174 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2017/18align=center bgcolor=silverN/A N/A align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2018/19align=center bgcolor=silverN/A N/A align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37align=center bgcolor=silveralign=center bgcolor=#A57164
scope=row align=center2019/205 N/A N/A N/A 4 N/A
scope=row align=center2020/219 N/A N/A N/A N/A 8
scope=row align=center2021/224 7 32 N/A 20 N/A
scope=row align=center2022/23align=center bgcolor=silver5 N/A N/A align=center bgcolor=silverN/A
scope=row align=center2023/2410 N/A N/A N/A 4 N/A

Wins

No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"112 February 2017   Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"2align=center rowspan=32 December 2017   Lysgårdsbakken HS98 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"33 December 2017   Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"43 March 2018   Trambulina Valea Cărbunări HS97 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"5align=center rowspan=32 December 2018   Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"615 December 2018   Les Tuffes HS90 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"716 December 2018   Les Tuffes HS90 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"84 December 2021   Lysgårdsbakken HS98 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"9align=center rowspan=73 December 2022   Lysgårdsbakken HS98 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1011 December 2022   Hochfirstschanze HS142 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"117 January 2023   Ōkurayama HS137 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1228 January 2023   Adler Ski Stadium HS111 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"134 February 2023   Mühlenkopfschanze HS147 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1417 February 2023   Trambulina Valea Cărbunări HS97 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1515 March 2023   Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH

Notes and References

  1. Web site: German mixed team takes Gold in Falun. International Ski Federation. 22 February 2015. 12 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20151203032204/http://www.fis-ski.com/ski-jumping/news-multimedia/news/article=german-mixed-team-takes-gold-falun.html. 3 December 2015. dead.
  2. Web site: German podium sweep in Ljubno. International Ski Federation. 12 February 2017. 12 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213175712/http://www.fis-ski.com/ski-jumping/news-multimedia/news/article=german-podium-sweep-ljubno.html. 13 February 2018. dead.