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Simon Ammann
Personal information
Full name	Simon Ammann
Nickname	Simi
Date of birth	June 25, 1981 (age 25)
Place of birth	Grabs, Switzerland
Professional information
Club	RG Churfirsten
Skis	Elan
World Cup
Seasons	1997-
Wins	3
Podiums	14
Total podiums	17

Medal record

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MedalTableTop |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center ! colspan="4" | Athletics |- bgcolor=#cccccc align=center ! colspan="3" | Olympic Games |- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle |bgcolor=gold| Gold || 2000 Sydney || 400 m |- bgcolor=#cccccc align=center ! colspan="3" | Commonwealth Games |- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor="#cc9966"| Bronze || 2006 Melbourne || 400 m |}

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|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center ! colspan="4" | Men's ski jumping |- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center ! colspan="3" | Olympic Games |- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle |bgcolor=gold| Gold || 2002 Salt Lake City || Individual normal hill |- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle |bgcolor=gold| Gold || 2002 Salt Lake City || Individual large hill |- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center ! colspan="3" | World Championships |- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle |bgcolor=gold| Gold || 2007 Sapporo || Individual large hill |- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor=silver| Silver || 2007 Sapporo || Individual normal hill |} Simon Ammann (born June 25, 1981 in Grabs) is a Swiss ski jumper. He grew up in Unterwasser where his parents still live. He currently lives in Schindellegi, Switzerland.

He made his debut as a 16-year-old unknown during the 1997-1998 Ski jumping World Cup season. Ammann qualified for the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, where he finished 35th.

Before the 2002 Winter Olympics, he crashed and suffered injuries. In Salt Lake City, he surprised everyone by winning the individual gold medal in not just the short hill, but also the long hill event. Ammann was only the second person to accomplish this feat. (The first was Matti Nykänen in 1988.) Ammann quickly became a huge star in Switzerland and also made appearances on American talk shows, such as David Letterman. Much of his stardom can be credited to his uncanny resemblance to Harry Potter, a comparison Ammann personally disliked.

Ammann also won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2002 and 2007.

He made his third Olympic appearance in 2006 in Turin. His nickname is "Simi".

Apart from his athletic career, Ammann is also a student of information technology and electrical engineering at ETH Zurich since 2006.

On February 24, 2007, he won his first medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a victory in the individual large hill in Sapporo. Ammann would follow this with a silver in the individual normal hill the following week.

• FIS Profile
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

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Olympic champions in ski jumping individual normal hill

1964: Veikko Kankkonen * 1968: Jiří Raška * 1972: Yukio Kasaya * 1976: Hans-Georg Aschenbach * 1980: Toni Innauer * 1984: Jens Weissflog * 1988: Matti Nykänen * 1992: Ernst Vettori * 1994: Espen Bredesen * 1998: Jani Soininen * 2002: Simon Ammann * 2006: Lars Bystøl

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Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill

1924: Jacob Tullin Thams * 1928: Alf Andersen * 1932: Birger Ruud * 1936: Birger Ruud * 1948: Petter Hugsted * 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann * 1956: Antti Hyvärinen * 1960: Helmut Recknagel * 1964: Toralf Engan * 1968: Vladimir Belussov * 1972: Wojciech Fortuna * 1976: Karl Schnabl * 1980: Jouko Törmänen * 1984: Matti Nykänen * 1988: Matti Nykänen * 1992: Toni Nieminen * 1994: Jens Weissflog * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki * 2002: Simon Ammann * 2006: Thomas Morgenstern

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World champions in ski jumping individual large hill

1925: Willen Dick * 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams * 1927: Tore Edman * 1929: Sigmund Ruud * 1930: Gunnar Andersen * 1931: Birger Ruud * 1933: Marcel Reymond * 1934: Kristian Johansson * 1935: Birger Ruud * 1937: Birger Ruud * 1938: Asbjørn Ruud * 1939: Josef Bradl * 1950: Hans Bjørnstad * 1954: Matti Pietikäinen * 1958: Juhani Kärkinen * 1962: Helmut Recknagel * 1966: Bjørn Wirkola * 1970: Gariy Napalkov * 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach * 1978: Tapio Räisänen * 1982 Matti Nykänen * 1985 Per Bergerud * 1987: Andreas Felder * 1989: Jari Puikkonen * 1991: Franci Petek * 1993: Espen Bredesen * 1995: Tommy Ingebrigtsen * 1997: Masahiko Harada * 1999: Martin Schmitt * 2001: Martin Schmitt * 2003: Adam Małysz * 2005: Janne Ahonen * 2007: Simon Ammann