Manuel Faißt (born 11 January 1993) is a German Nordic combined athlete.
Career Faißt has relations to other people who are Nordic combined athletes. His father has been a Nordic combined athlete himself and worked as a coach at Faißt's home club of Baiersbronn. 4-year-old Manuel skied down the outrun of the 10-metre hill at Bergergrund and at age 5, he had already made his first jumps. Soon, Faißt's ambitious personality paid off, and he started collecting medals and trophies from competitions that he won, even in his younger years. In 2009, Faißt won the European Youth Olympic Festival in Szczyrk and the OPA Games at his home venue in Baiersbronn, as well as making his debut in the World Cup at Lillehammer. He achieved his first World Cup Top Ten result in 2011 at Ramsau am Dachstein with a career-best seventh rank.
In his most successful season so far (2012/13), Faißt dominated the Junior World Championships at Liberec, walking away with all possible gold medals in the two individual and one team event as well as getting started at university in Freiburg where Faißt studied law.
Personal life Faißt's hobbies include biking, cooking, and football.
Olympic Games results Year Individual NH Individual LH Team LH 2022 — 4 Silver
World Championship results Year Individual LH Individual NH Team NH Team sprint/Mixed team 2017 — 17 — — 2019 14 — — — 2021 19 — — — 2023 20 5 — — 2025 22 — — —
Individual podiums No.SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace12015-16 20 December 2015 Ramsau HS98 / 10 km 3rd22016-17 11 February 2017 Sapporo HS134/ 10 km 3rd32017-18 3 February 2018 Hakuba HS134/ 10 km 3rd42020-21 29 November 2020 Ruka HS142 / 10 km 3rd52021-22 11 December 2021 Otepää HS97 / 10 km 3rd62023-24 15 December 2023 Ramsau HS98 / 10 km 3rd7 14 January 2024 Oberstdorf HS106 / 7.5 km 3rd
Team podiums No.SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace12012-13 3 February 2013 Sochi HS140 / 4x5 km 1st22013-14 1 December 2013 Ruka HS142 / 4x5 km 2nd32014-15 31 January 2015 Val di Fiemme HS134 / 2x7.5 km 2nd42015-16 4 March 2016 Schonach HS106 / 4x5 km 2nd52019-20 25 January 2020 Oberstdorf HS140 / 4x5 km 2nd6 29 February 2020 Lahti HS130 / 2x7.5 km 2nd72021-22 4 December 2021 Lillehammer HS98 / 4x5 km 2nd82022-23 6 January 2023 Otepää HS97 / 2x2.5 km+ km2x5 km 2nd
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