Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German ski jumper. His career-best achievements include an individual gold and silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He also won a team gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics and a team silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, a mixed team gold at the 2017 and 2023 Ski Jumping World Championships, and individual silver medals at the 2017 and 2023 World Championships and the 2024 Ski Flying World Championships.
Wellinger's best finish in the World Cup overall standings is third place, in the 2023–24 season.
Career Wellinger's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in 2012 on competition on small hill in Lillehammer. He led after the first round, but in the second round he dropped to fifth place. The same year, he won the large hill team event in Kuusamo and got two individual podiums in Sochi and Engelberg as well. During the 2012/2013 season, he reached 393 points and finished in World cup in 20th place.
He won the summer Grand Prix FIS Ski Jumping in 2013, ahead of Slovene ski jumper Jernej Damjan. At the first competition in season 2013/2014 in Klingenthal, he was second and that was his third podium. In Engelberg, the same year, he also finished second. He ended the Four Hills Tournament in 10th place. Then he won in Wisla 2014. He was on Germany's ski jumping 2014 Winter Olympics team. He was sixth on a small individual hill and won a gold medal with Germany in a team event. He ended 2013/2014 season in 9th place. He started season 2014/2015 in Klingenthal with 3rd place. In Ruka he had a bad fall and broke his collarbone and next jumped on 6 March in Lahti.
2018: Winter Olympic Games Andreas Wellinger won the gold medal in the Men's Normal Hill Individual Ski Jumping event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. He also won the silver in the Men's Individual Large Hill Ski Jumping event, and another silver as part of the German Team in the Men's Team Ski Jumping event.
Major tournament results Olympic Games EventNormal hillLarge hillTeam LHTeam Mixed 2014 Sochi 6 45 – 2018 Pyeongchang –
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships EventNormal hillLarge hillTeam LHMixed Team 2015 Falun 11 DNS — — 2017 Lahti 4 2019 Seefeld — 32 — — 2023 Planica 13 5 2025 Trondheim 10 4 4
FIS Ski Flying World Championships EventIndividualTeam 2014 Harrachov 13 Cancelled 2016 Bad Mitterndorf 14 2018 Oberstdorf 7 4 2022 Vikersund 14 2024 Bad Mitterndorf
World Cup Season standings Season Tour StandingsOverall2012/1320 9 45 N/A2013/149 10 12 N/A2014/1535 — — N/A2015/1617 12 — N/A2016/174 22 N/A2017/186 26 19 5 242018/1918 31 22 33 19 252020/21— 62 — — — —2021/2229 31 25 29 N/A 172022/237 11 9 22 N/A 172023/24 7 6 N/A 152024/257 N/A
Wins No. Season Date Location Hill Size12013/14 16 January 2014 Wisła Malinka HS134 LH22016/17 29 January 2017 Willingen Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 LH32017/18 3 December 2017 Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS134 LH42022/23 11 February 2023 Lake Placid LH518 February 2023 Râșnov Râșnov Ski Jump HS97 NH62023/24 29 December 2023 Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH74 February 2024 Willingen Mühlenkopfschanze HS147 LH8 2024/25 1 December 2024 Ruka Rukatunturi HS142 LH915 March 2025 Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS240 FH
See also List of Olympic medalists in ski jumping List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals
References
External links
Andreas Wellinger at Milano Cortina 2026