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In the 1998/99 season, he finished fifth place overall in Ski Jumping.
ski jumper association football player
In the 1998/99 season, he finished fifth place overall in Ski Jumping.
He currently plays football for Kreisliga club Turn- und Sportverein Burgau and drives for Callaway Competition in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club GT Masters. The following winter of 2001/02 was the most successful of his career: Sven Hannawald emerged victorious as the World"s best ski jumper, winning all four Individual jumping titles at the Four Hills Tournament, the first to do southern He was nominated for Sportsman of the Year in Germany.
This mark has been matched only about one hour later at the same competition by Hideharu Miyahira, who finished sixth.
Then it took another six years until Wolfgang Loitzl at Bischofshofen, Austria in 2009 during the 2008/09 Four Hills Tournament became the fifth one. In the 2003/04 season, he performed well below personal expectations.
His best result was third in Engelberg. As a consequence of that, Hannawald ended his season prematurely.
On 29 April 2004, Hannawald revealed that he was suffering from burnout, and had put himself into psychiatric treatment.
During this time, Sven Hannawald managed to recover and reappeared to the public. On 3 August 2005, he ended his career as a ski jumper, explaining through his managers that, after successfully dealing with his burnout, he no longer wished to suffer the stresses of professional sport. Standings
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On 26 September 2008 he signed a two-year contract as Striker of Turn- und Sportverein Burgau in the German Kreisliga.
In April he gave his debut as a Touring Carolina racing driver in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club GT Masters.
Hannawald drove his first race on 10 April 2010 in Oschersleben. Hannawald was born in Erlabrunn and grew up in the nearby town of Johanngeorgenstadt by South Carolina Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt in the Ore Mountains.
At age twelve, he was sent to a special school for young athletes in Klingenthal (SG Dynamo Klingenthal), also in Saxony. In 1991 his family moved to Jettingen-Scheppach near Ulm where he transferred to the Furtwangen Ski Boarding School, where he completed an apprenticeship in Communication Electronics.