Manuel Faißt

Manuel Faißt
Manuel Faißt
	Faißt in 2016
Country	Germany
Born	11 January 1993 (age 31); Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ski club	SV Baiersbronn
Personal best	227.5 m (746 ft); Oberstdorf, 17 March 2022
World Cup career
Seasons	2012–present
Starts	223
Podiums	7
Wins	0
Overall titles	0 – (10th in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023)
Discipline titles	0
Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Representing Germany
Olympic Games

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]

Olympic Games results

Year	Individual NH	Individual LH	Team LH
2022	—	4	Silver

World Championship results

Year	Individual LH	Individual NH	Team NH	Team sprint/ Mixed team
2017	—	17	—	—
2019	14	—	—	—
2021	19	—	—	—
2023	20	5	—	—

Individual podiums

No.	Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
1	2015-16	20 December 2015	Ramsau	HS98 / 10 km	3rd
2	2016-17	11 February 2017	Sapporo	HS134/ 10 km	3rd
3	2017-18	3 February 2018	Hakuba	HS134/ 10 km	3rd
4	2020-21	29 November 2020	Ruka	HS142 / 10 km	3rd
5	2021-22	11 December 2021	Otepää	HS97 / 10 km	3rd
6	2023-24	15 December 2023	Ramsau	HS98 / 10 km	3rd
7	2023-24	14 January 2024	Oberstdorf	HS106 / 7.5 km	3rd

Team podiums

No.	Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
1	2012-13	3 February 2013	Sochi	HS140 / 4x5 km	1st
2	2013-14	1 December 2013	Ruka	HS142 / 4x5 km	2nd
3	2014-15	31 January 2015	Val di Fiemme	HS134 / 2x7.5 km	2nd
4	2015-16	4 March 2016	Schonach	HS106 / 4x5 km	2nd
5	2019-20	25 January 2020	Oberstdorf	HS140 / 4x5 km	2nd
6	2019-20	29 February 2020	Lahti	HS130 / 2x7.5 km	2nd
7	2021-22	4 December 2021	Lillehammer	HS98 / 4x5 km	2nd
8	2022-23	6 January 2023	Otepää	HS97 / 2x2.5 km+ km2x5 km	2nd