Manuel Faißt Explained

Manuel Faißt
Nationality:Germany
Birth Date:11 January 1993
Birth Place:Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany
Height:1.71 m
Club:SV Baiersbronn
Personalbest:227.5m (746.4feet)
Oberstdorf, 17 March 2022
Seasons:2012–present
Wins:0
Teamwins:1
Totalpodiums:7
Teampodiums:8
Individual Starts:223
Team Starts:13
Wcoveralls:0 – (10th in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023)
Wctitles:0

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]

World Championship results

YearIndividual LHIndividual NHTeam NHTeam sprint/
Mixed team

Individual podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
scope=row12015-1620 December 2015 RamsauHS98 / 10 km3rd
scope=row22016-1711 February 2017 SapporoHS134/ 10 km3rd
scope=row32017-183 February 2018 HakubaHS134/ 10 km3rd
scope=row42020-2129 November 2020 RukaHS142 / 10 km3rd
scope=row52021-2211 December 2021 OtepääHS97 / 10 km3rd
scope=row62023-2415 December 2023 RamsauHS98 / 10 km3rd
scope=row714 January 2024 OberstdorfHS106 / 7.5 km3rd

Team podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
scope=row12012-133 February 2013 SochiHS140 / 4x5 km1st
scope=row22013-141 December 2013 RukaHS142 / 4x5 km2nd
scope=row32014-1531 January 2015 Val di FiemmeHS134 / 2x7.5 km2nd
scope=row42015-164 March 2016 SchonachHS106 / 4x5 km2nd
scope=row52019-2025 January 2020 OberstdorfHS140 / 4x5 km2nd
scope=row629 February 2020 LahtiHS130 / 2x7.5 km2nd
scope=row72021-224 December 2021 LillehammerHS98 / 4x5 km2nd
scope=row82022-236 January 2023 OtepääHS97 / 2x2.5 km+ km2x5 km2nd

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FAISST Manuel - Athlete Information .
  2. Web site: Nordic Combined - Athlete: Manuel FAISST . www.fis-ski.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131208032629/http://www.fis-ski.com/nordic-combined/athletes/athlete=faisst-manuel-128597/ . 2013-12-08.
  3. Web site: FAISST Manuel - Athlete Information .