Klaus Ofner
Klaus Ofner ( born August 15, 1968 in Murau, Styria ) is a former Austrian Nordic combined.
Career
The Styrian Ofner counted in the early 1990s to the best athletes in the Nordic combined and grew up in the wake of the success of his team-mates Klaus Sulzenbacher the second Austrian Nordic combined approach of international stature. The graduate of Skigymnasium Stams announced on December 29, 1988 his debut in the World Cup Nordic Combined. He reached in Upper Wiesenthal as the second right off the bat his first podium. In January, he was fifth in Reit im Winkl.
His greatest success Klaus Ofner at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme in 1991, when he was named jointly with Klaus Sulzenbacher and Günter Csar world champion in the team competition and behind Fred Børre Lundberg from Norway and Klaus Sulzenbacher won the bronze medal in the individual competition.
In its most successful World Cup season 1991/92 Ofner reached the podium in Malmesbury and Lahti. Although not a victory in the season jumped out there, he finished the season in fourth place overall.
His second bronze medal was won by Murauer at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 together with Stefan and Klaus Kreiner Sulzenbacher in the team event. The Austrians were defeated at the time of the squadrons from Japan and Norway.
After the retirement of Sulzenbacher Czar and it came in the Nordic combined in Austria to a generational change. With the help of the now arrivierten Ofner it was to build a completely new team. His last major success came Ofner with this young team led by Mario Stecher, Robert Stadelmann and Georg Riedelsperger, which could reach the fifth place at the World Championships in Thunder Bay in 1995.
Achievements
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
- Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline
Olympic games
- Bronze medal in the team competition in 1992 Albertville
World Championships
- Gold medal and World Champion in the team competition in Val di Fiemme 1991
- Bronze medal in the individual event in Val di Fiemme 1991.
- 5th place in the team competition in Thunder Bay in 1995