Severin Freund | |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1988 |
Birth Place: | Freyung, West Germany |
Height: | 1.85 m |
Club: | WSV DJK Rastbüchl |
Personalbest: | 245m (804feet) Vikersund, 15 February 2015 |
Seasons: | 2008–2017 2019–2022 |
Wins: | 22 |
Teamwins: | 6 |
Totalpodiums: | 53 |
Teampodiums: | 21 |
Individual Starts: | 250 |
Team Starts: | 38 |
Wcoveralls: | 1 (2015) |
Show-Medals: | no |
Severin Freund (born 11 May 1988) is a German former ski jumper and current TV expert. He competed at World Cup level from 2008 to 2022, and is one of the most successful ski jumpers from Germany, having won the overall World Cup title in 2015, and scoring 22 individual World Cup wins. As a member of the German national team, Freund won a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics and later became the 2015 World Champion on both the large hill and mixed team competitions.
Having made his Continental Cup debut in December 2004, his best result is the victory from Lillehammer in September 2008. He won a gold medal in the team competition at the 2008 Junior World Ski Championships. He made his World Cup debut in December 2007 in Engelberg, and his best result before the 2011 season was a 12th place from Sapporo in January 2010.
On 29 December 2010, he reached the 6th place of the first event of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf. On 15 January 2011, he achieved his first ever World Cup victory at the first competition at Sapporo. In the same season, he won his first world championship medal finishing third with the team in the Team normal hill competition in Oslo. He finished seventh in the 2011 World Cup season.
Severin Freund has been a ski jumping expert for ZDF since February 2023.[1]
Event | Normal hill | Large hill | Team LH | Mixed Team NH | ||||
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align=left | 2011 Oslo | 7 | 12 | 4 | align=center bgcolor=#A57164 | |||
align=left | 2013 Predazzo | 4 | 9 | align=center bgcolor=silver | align=center bgcolor=#A57164 | |||
align=left | 2015 Falun | align=center bgcolor=silver | align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37 | 5 | align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37 | |||
align=left | 2021 Oberstdorf | – | 22 | align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37 | – |
Event | Individual | Team | |||
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align=left | 2012 Vikersund | 4 | align=center bgcolor=silver | ||
align=left | 2014 Harrachov | align=center bgcolor=gold | Cancelled | ||
align=left | 2016 Bad Mitterndorf | 6 | align=center bgcolor=silver | ||
align=left | 2022 Vikersund | 12 | align=center bgcolor=silver |
Season | Overall | ||||||||||
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scope=row align=center | 68 | 39 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | — | |||
scope=row align=center | 48 | 57 | — | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | — | |||
scope=row align=center | 42 | 60 | 31 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 39 | |||
scope=row align=center | 7 | 12 | 15 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | 8 | 7 | 9 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | 4 | 13 | 12 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | align=center bgcolor=#A57164 | 16 | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37 | 8 | align=center bgcolor=silver | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | align=center bgcolor=silver | align=center bgcolor=silver | 6 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | 21 | 35 | — | — | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | — | — | — | — | — | N/A | — | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | 73 | — | — | 42 | — | — | N/A | N/A | |||
scope=row align=center | 2020/21 | 29 | 27 | 32 | N/A | 32 | N/A | 24 | N/A | ||
scope=row align=center | 2021/22 | 30 | 33 | 22 | 23 | N/A | N/A | 30 | N/A |
No. | Season | Date | Location | Hill | Size | ||
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scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 1 | 15 January 2011 | Ōkurayama HS134 (night) | ||||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 2 | 30 January 2011 | Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 3 | 24 November 2012 | Lysgårdsbakken HS100 (night) | ||||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 4 | 1 December 2012 | Rukatunturi HS142 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 5 | 8 December 2013 | Lysgårdsbakken HS138 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 6 | 26 February 2014 | Lugnet HS134 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 7 | 28 February 2014 | Salpausselkä HS130 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 8 | 9 March 2014 | Holmenkollbakken HS134 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 9 | 21 March 2014 | Bloudkova velikanka HS139 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 10 | 14 December 2014 | Tramplin Stork HS134 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 11 | 10 January 2015 | Kulm HS225 | ||||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 12 | 1 February 2015 | Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 13 | 7 February 2015 | Hochfirstschanze HS142 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 14 | 15 February 2015 | Vikersundbakken HS225 | FH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 15 | 10 March 2015 | Puijo HS100 (night) | NH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 16 | 12 March 2015 | Granåsen HS140 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 17 | 14 March 2015 | Holmenkollbakken HS134 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 18 | 15 March 2015 | Holmenkollbakken HS134 | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 19 | 5 December 2015 | Lysgårdsbakken HS100 (night) | NH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 20 | 13 December 2015 | Tramplin Stork HS134 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 21 | 29 December 2015 | Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night) | LH | |||
scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 22 | 26 November 2016 | Kuusamo/Ruka | Rukatunturi HS142 (night) | LH |