Hans-Georg Aschenbach

Hans-Georg Aschenbach.

Hans-Georg Aschenbach

Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
	1976 Innsbruck	Individual normal hill
World Championships
	1974 Falun	Individual normal hill
	1974 Falun	Individual large hill
Men's ski flying
	1973 Oberstdorf	Individual

Hans-Georg Aschenbach (born 20 October 1951 in Brotterode) is an East German former ski jumper. In 1969 Aschenbach became junior world champion, and two years later he won his first national championship (DDR). He won the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in 1973.

1974 was a banner year for Aschenbach, winning the Four Hills Tournament, and both ski jumping events at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun. He also won the gold medal in the individual normal hill event at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

Aschenbach later admitted he had taken anabolic steroids for eight years. He described his 1976 Olympic victory as both his greatest and most anxious moment in sports. This was due to the doping controls in place at the time.

References

• Hans-Georg Aschenbach at the International Ski Federation
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Ski Jumping: Normal Hill, Individual". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 259.

Awards
Preceded by Roland Matthes	East German Sportsman of the Year 1974	Succeeded by Roland Matthes