Successful coach Hermann Weinbuch will support the Nordic Combineers at least until next year’s World Championships in Seefeld. This was confirmed by the German Ski Association on Friday on the fringes of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
In Seefeld/Austria this could close a circle – Weinbuch had celebrated his greatest success as an active participant at the 1985 World Championships with double gold.
“We are pleased that we will continue our cooperation with Hermann Weinbuch beyond the Olympic season,”said sports director Karin Orgeldinger. Weinbuch has been in office since 1996.
Since the World Cup in Oslo in 2011, Weinbuch has only been thinking from year to year, his successor – should he ever stop – has already been decided in Ronny Ackermann. In Weinbuch’s time, the combiners won 15 gold medals at World Championships and Olympic Games, the youngest gold medal was won by Eric Frenzel on Wednesday.
Weinbuch’s sporting career was short, but he was all the more successful: In 1985 he became double world champion in Seefeld, won team gold in 1987 in Oberstdorf and then retired at the age of 27. Without a wine book, the DSV team won the Olympics in Calgary in 1988, but the subsequent downfall was dramatic. At the six World Championships from 1989 to 1999, Germany won a single bronze medal.