Ski jump world champion Svenja Würth stops

She won World Cup gold in ski jumping

“Heavy loss”: German world champion stops

As a ski jumper, Svenja Würth started her career, and ends her as a Nordic combined man. Now she continues with the federal police.

German world champion Svenja Würth ends her career. This was announced by the German Ski Association. In Oslo, the Nordic combined team starts one last time. “It was always a lot of fun for me, and in my eyes it is also worth something. But the most important finding seems to me that you should do what you enjoy, and not what others say! It was the right way for me,” said Würth.

Now she wants to continue her professional path away from ski jump and trail. “I will take my further career with the federal police and I am incredibly grateful for this professional protection,” she said.

National coach Florian Aichinger spoke of a “severe loss that also hurts”. “Especially in the past two years, it has been an integral part of the Nordic Combination national team. With her experience and what she could give our young athletes on the way, she has a very, very large proportion of the success,” said Aichinger.

Actually, Würth was not a combined man at all. Her career started as a ski jumper. In 2012 she started for the first time at a World Cup – and became fifth. She celebrated her greatest success in Lahti in Finnish in 2017 when she became world champion with the mixed team.

At the end of her career, she successfully changed discipline and tried in the Nordic combination. At the World Championships in Oberstdorf (2021) and Planica (2023), she made it into the top 20 in the Gundersen singles.