Andreas Felder
Andreas Felder ( born March 6, 1962 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian ski jumper. He was in the 1980s and early 1990s alongside Matti Nykänen and Jens Weißflog for many years one of the most successful sportsmen of its discipline. With a total of 25 victories in the World Cup fields has long been the most successful Austrian ski jumper before he was overtaken by Gregor Schlierenzauer 2009.
Career
His first World Cup appearance was Fields on January 4 1981 at Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck Bergisel. His first medal at the world championships he won in 1982 in Oslo, with the Austrian team, he won silver.
After a few years in the sporting midfield he succeeded in the 1984/85 season of the breakthrough. His first World Cup victory he celebrated on 8 December 1984 in the Canadian Thunder Bay. Although he won six competitions in this season, left him in the World Cup Ranking only second place behind Nykänen. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1985 in Lahti, he won on the normal hill and with the Austrian team each silver.
In the following two years he reached each third place in the World Cup overall standings. In 1986 he was on the Kulm in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf with the world record distance of 191 meters ski flying world champion. In 1987 he was at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf world champion on the large hill and also won bronze with the Austrian team. In the same year he was elected to Austria's sportsman of the year.
In the following two years, his career came to a halt a little, but then it went back up the hill: In the 1990/91 season, he won his first and only time the World Cup, the year after he finished third. At the World Championships in Val di Fiemme, he won team gold again at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games team silver. He's in the twilight of his career as an athlete also easily to switch from classic jump style (parallel style) mastered on the V - style. His career ended with a victory: On March 29, 1992, he won the ski flying in Planica.
In sum Andreas Felder scored 118 top- ten finishes in ski big events, and he wore in association with Ernst Vettori the great successes of the Austrian ski jumping miracle team of the 1970s, the Baldur Preiml has formed, until the 1990s,.
Career Moves
Andreas Felder graduated from the business school and the state coaches jumping training. From 1980 to 1992 he was a member of the national squad in ski jumping. After End of career, he was coach of the B-team jumping in the Austrian Ski Federation from 1992 to 1995. Subsequently, he was from 1995 to 1997 the head coach jumping in the Austrian Ski Federation. From 1997 to 2000 he was head coach of the German national team Nordic combined. Since 2000 he has been a trainer for the Nordic Combined training group I in the Austrian Ski Federation.