Ernst Vettori
Ernst Vettori ( born June 25, 1964 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian ski jumper. He was Olympic champion and winner of the Four Hills Tournament, with the team also world champion.
Career
1982 was living in Absam 18 -year-old Ernst Vettori Junior World Champion. He was twice winner of the Four -Hills-Tournament ( 1985/86 and 1986 /87) and 1992 Olympic champion in ski jumping on the normal hill in Albertville. During his career as a top athlete, he was able to win 15 World Cup victories.
In addition, Vettori was at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 in Predazzo World Champion in the team competition with Heinz Kuttin, Andreas Felder and Stefan Horngacher. In the same year he was awarded the Holmenkollen medal. At the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 he won the silver medal in the team competition. In Nordic World Ski Championships he still won three other medals with the team ( silver in 1985, bronze in 1987 and bronze in 1993 ) and in 1987 a bronze medal on the large hill.
Successor to the Austrian ski jumping miracle team
With 142 top-ten finishes in ski big events from 1981 to 1994 he sat in the 1980s until well into the 1990s with his "twin" Andreas fields the great successes of the Austrian ski jumping miracle team continued the Professor Baldur Preiml in the 1970s formed had. As Andreas Felder succeeded Ernst Vettori early 90s the transition from the classical style (parallel style) on the V - style. He has won both styles victories.
From 1995 to 1999 Vettori was on the side of Dirk Thiele co- commentator for ski transfers on euro sport, he took a job as head of marketing in the Nordic Austrian Ski Federation.
In March 2010 it was announced that is Vettori 's successor Toni Innauer on the post of the Austrian Ski Federation sports director.
Private
Ernst Vettori is married to the former Austrian alpine skier and Junior World Champion Sieglinde Winkler.