Alfred Groyer
Alfred Groyer (born 8 January 1959 in Villach ) is a former Austrian ski jumper.
Career
His first international jumping denied Groyer, who started for his hometown club SV Villach, on January 4, 1978 in the Four Hills Tournament 1977/78 in Innsbruck. He reached the 39th place. A year later he reached his hitherto best finish with a 18th place in Innsbruck. Groyer belonged to the A national team for the newly Ski Jumping World Cup in season 1979 /80. Already in his first competition on December 27, 1979 in Cortina d' Ampezzo he could jump with 3rd place on the podium. He repeated this success three days later at the opening event of the Four Hills Tournament 1979/80 in Oberstdorf. At the end of the tour Groyer finished 5th in the overall standings.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid Groyer reached the 7th place on the normal hill. Shortly after the World Cup he could jump in Lahti once again in the Top 10, reaching the 9th place in World Cup competition. After that, his performance was noticeably after and so he came in the following jumping mostly in the Top 20 Only in the Jumping Four Hills Tournament for 1980/81 was denied him this yourself. It was only on 21 March 1981, he was able to make the jump on the large hill in Planica again attention to himself and reached the fourth place. A day later, he stood on the same ski jump for the third time in his career on the podium and reached the 3rd place. It was then almost a year until he reached in his career this place for the fourth and last time. In the World Cup competitions in Lahti he mounted the podium for the last time. After this World Cup he could once again jump into the top 10, but despite reaching the end of the 12th place in the overall World Cup standings. The start of the 1982/83 was so bad that he retired for a year from the international ski jumping. However, he did not made it in 1984 back to the world class and ended after three hapless jumping on January 21, 1984 in Sapporo his active career Springer.