Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
Michael Neumayer |
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Michael Neumayer (GER)
Michael Neumayer (ski jumping)
B-world cup winner 2002/2002
Biographical Information
Name: Michael Neumayer
Date of birth: January 15th, 1979
Domicile, Team: Bad Reichenhall, SC Berchtesgaden
Education, Profession: Employee at a tax consultant
Hobbies: Sports of all varieties, beach holidays in the sun, to spend time with good friends
Characteristics
regarding sports: hard-working during training (“I have fun during training unlike many other sportsmen”), high energy capacity – very energetic jumps, athletic
regarding private life: reserved, but nevertheless self-confident, ready to help, conservative-modern, loves the nature, down-to-earth, feel most comfortable at the family
Portrait
Michael Neumayer – a new A-squad athlete
Michael Neumayer cannot be pressed into a cliché. A high-flyer? – No, it was hard work with continuous improvements – nothing happened own its own. He is not a genie, not a shooting star, who appeared from nowhere – at 21 years old a jumper, who achieved place 10 to place 20 within the European Cup, then within the season 2000/2001 a top-ten jumper within the B-world cup. The following season he became a reliable medal candidate due to the winning of the B-world cup sovereign with 1225 points – this was not a surprise, but a preliminary high light which resulted in him becoming a member of the A-squad.
A ski-jumping freak? – No, a down-to-earth young man, who already knows, that there is a life after and beside sport. Without profession like many other top-class sportsmen? – No, as an employee at a tax consultant, he works out of the season at the tax chambers of his father and is trying to balance out sport and profession. – Now he is exempted from work for his first world cup season – balances will now be replaced with ski-jump ramps!
Aims? – “To stabilize the place in the A-squad and to jump constantly amongst the top 30 would be a great success.”
The journalists are looking for comparisons – the way he is, so self-composed and down-to-earth – a German Ahonen? – No, no, for heaven’s sake. Part of a Boy-Group? – No, what does this mean? With regard to the understatement like Stefan Edberg? – A second “Schmitt”, a second “Hannawald”? – “No, these two have never won the B-world cup.”
The laconic replies disappear, as far as it relates to ski jumping itself:
It would be a fantastic feeling, an act of self-liberation, a sport that cannot be carried out by many people. – Ski flying, the aim of the season, although his parents are little worried. Which pressure of expectation actually exists? – “It will not arise any pressure, if you only envisage realistic aims.”
If he could achieve something great this season? – “…it would be the result of hard work!”. Do you resemble someone closely? – “… I am Michael Neumayer!”
Sporting Aims
To continuously achieve a top 30 place within the world cup, including the Four Ramp Tour, establishment within the A-squad (“a great success would be a place within the team for the world championship”).
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