Ammann, Simon
Weltcup
World Championships
Olympic Winter Games:
Skiflying World Championships
CareerAmmann joined the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Circuit in December 1997, when the then 16-year-old got 15th place at the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf ... in 2001, he achieved his first individual Top Ten result in the World Cup placing seventh in Engelberg and second at the second competition at the same place ... Ammann crowned his young career winning two Olympic Gold medals in Salt Lake City (USA) without having won a World Cup competition before ... on March 17th, 2002, he got first place at the World Cup final in Oslo ... he had to wait until December 2006 before achieving his second World Cup victory ... in 2007, Ammann came back strongly winning Gold and Silver at the Sapporo Nordic World Ski Championships ... in 2009, he added a normal hill bronze medal to his collection in Liberec; later in the summer, he won the FIS Overall Summer Grand Prix, the first Swiss athlete to do so in history ... in 2010, Ammann achieved nine World Cup victories and the overall title, won two Olympic Gold Medals in Vancouver (CAN), and placed first at the Ski Flying World Championships in Planica, Slovenia ... in the 2010/11 season he won the bronze medal on the large hill at the World Championships in Oslo and finished second in the overall World Cup Career highlights> Four times Olympic Champion in 2002 and 2010 > 2009/10 Overall World Cup Winner > 2010 Ski Flying World Champion > 2007 Large Hill World Champion and 2007 Normal Hill runner-up, Bronze at World Championships 2011 (LH) Personal info> 2002, after his Olympic victories, Ammann received an invitation to the David Letterman Show and was voted Swiss athlete of the year > At this time, Ammann was called “Harry Potter” because of his resemblance to the famous “child wizard” > After his victories at the 2010 Olympics, the media compared Ammann with Tennis superstar Roger Federer. Ammann replied that he admires Federer’s consistency on a very high level and that he considers himself to be more the guy for very special occasions > Ammann likes playing golf, driving motorcycles, parachuting, and mountain climbing > He climbed his first 4000 m summit in the summer 2010, reaching the top of the 4164 m high Breithorn in the Monte-Rosa- Massif > On the day of his 29th birthday, on 25.06.2010, Ammann married his Russian fiancée Yana Yanovskaya |
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