Alexander Herr

Medal record
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Alexander Herr
Men's ski jumping
World Championships
Gold 2001 Lahti Team large hill
Bronze 2001 Lahti Team normal hill
Men's ski flying
World Championships
Bronze 2006 Bad Mitterndorf Team

Alexander Herr (born October 4, 1978 in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg) is a German ski jumper who competed 1993 to 2006, them came out of retirement in 2009 to compete for the 2010 Winter Olympics. He won a two medals at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti with a gold in the team large hill and a bronze in the team normal hill events.

Herr finished 21st in the individual normal hill at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He also finished third in the team event at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2006.

Herr's best individual finish was 2nd in the large hill in Finland in 2004. In 1997-98, Herr won the Ski jumping Continental Cup.

Herr quit the German team after not being chosen for the large hill event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. In 2006/07, Herr planned to compete for the Swedish ski jumping team, but he did not receive the naturalization he had planned for in Scandinavia.[1] So he wrote a letter to the trainer of the Polish ski jumping team expressing his desire to compete for them.

References

  1. ^ Eurosport Splash
1982: Norway (Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth & Olav Hansson) * 1984: Finland (Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen & Matti Nykänen) * 1985: Finland (Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen & Jari Puikkonen) * 1987: Finland (Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli & Pekka Suorsa) * 1989: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen & Risto Laakkonen) * 1991: Austria (Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori Stefan Horngacher & Andreas Felder) * 1993: Norway (Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg & Espen Bredesen) * 1995: Finland (Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen & Ari-Pekka Nikkola) * 1997: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen & Janne Ahonen) * 1999: Germany (Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma & Martin Schmitt) * 2001: Germany (Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr & Martin Schmitt) * 2003: Finland (Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi & Matti Hautamäki) * 2005: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern & Martin Höllwarth) * 2007: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern) * 2009: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Martin Koch, Thomas Morgenstern & Gregor Schlierenzauer) * 2011: Austria (Gregor Schlierenzauer, Martin Koch, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern)