Julian Schmid (born 1 September 1999) is a German nordic combined skier.
Career
Early career
Schmid, who competes for SC Oberstdorf, was trained by Thomas Müller in his youth. Schmid completed his first international competition at the OPA Nordic Ski Games in 2014 in Gérardmer, France. He took fourth place in the Gundersen competition for students on the middle hill and over 4 km. In the years that followed, Schmid regularly competed in Alpine Cup competitions but rarely found himself in the top 20. In the junior competition of the 2016 OPA Games, Schmid also finished 16th. Together with Simon Hüttel, Niclas Heumann, and Tim Kopp, he won the silver medal in the team competition. At the beginning of the 2016-17 Alpine Cup season, Schmid finished eighth in Winterberg and was among the top ten for the first time. He finished third among the juniors at the German Nordic Combined Championships in 2016. In January 2017, he celebrated his Continental Cup debut but missed the points in both Otepää and Eisenerz, so he was demoted back to the Alpine Cup. Schmid scored his first points in the Continental Cup on 16 December 2017 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. At the 2018 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Kandersteg, Schmid only competed in the team competition, where he finished in second place along with Kopp, Luis Lehnert, and Constantin Schnurr. The good results in the summer of 2018, in which he scored his first points in the Grand Prix, were followed by an equally good start to the 2018-19 Continental Cup season. After two podium finishes in Park City, Utah, Schmid was called to the senior national squad for the World Cup. On his debut in Otepää, he made it straight into the points with 26th place. At the 2019 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Lahti, Schmid was in top form and won the sprint competition. He also won the gold medal in the team event with Lehnert, Simon Hüttel and David Mach. In the 10 km individual event, he lost to Austrian Johannes Lamparter. In the two weeks that followed, Schmid was again part of the World Cup team, where he scored World Cup points on all three days of competition. At the Gundersen competition in Lahti on the Salpausselkä large hill and over 10 km, Schmid achieved his best World Cup result of the season with 15th place.