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| Born | 18 February 1988 Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, East Germany |
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| Club | WSV Oberhof 05 | ||||||||||||
| Skis | Fischer | ||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2004-present | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Additional podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||
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Andreas "Crafty" Wank (born 18 February 1988 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German ski jumper and has a military rank of Corporal in the sports promotion of the Bundeswehr in Oberhof.
Wank, who starts for the WSV Oberhof 05, began early on with ski jumping. At only 12 years old, he was the 2000 German Masters students. In 2001, he reached 3rd place in the Schülercup in the overall standings. He also earned 3rd Place in the overall standings of the Germany Cup. In 2002, he was on the team for the German Championships. He won the silver medal in team competition. A year later he started again in junior ranking and became German Vice-Junior Champion. In addition, he again reached 3rd Place in the overall standings of the Germany Cup. From 2004, Wank started in the Continental Cup and achieved in his second jump in Rovaniemi, with his first podium place 3. Then Wank was in the National Group for World Cup jumping in Oberstdorf in the Four Hills Tournament 2004/05. In his first jump in the highest ski-series, he reached 45th Place. In 2005, he made German Junior Champion in singles and was also on the team. At the German Senior championships, he finished sixth overall. In 2007, his team won the gold medal at the German championships.
On 27 February 2008 he became Poland's Zakopane in the junior world champion in singles, the biggest success of his career. Two days later, he also won the title in the team jumping. In 2008/09 he first belonged to the A-national squad for the World Cup ski jumping. In the end, he reached the 59th Place in the World Cup overall standings.
On 19 July 2009 Andreas Wank won the individual competition of the German championship in ski jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with complete surprise jumps of 135 meters and 139 meters in front of Michael Neumayer and Michael Uhrmann.
His previous best finish in an individual jump, he reached the summer Grand Prix on 3 Klingenthal October 2009, when he was the 7th.
Andreas Wank is originally from Domnitz in Saxony-Anhalt, but has been living since his 10th Birthday in Oberhof, where he attended a sports school graduating in 2007. At the end of March 2008, he enrolled at the University of Ansbach, planning on getting a Bachelor's degree in International Management, a program that has been adapted to the HS Anspach and designed specifically for top athletes.
He is 1,89m tall and weighs 72 kg.