Marco Steinauer
Marco Steinauer ( born April 13, 1976 in Einsiedeln ) is a retired Swiss ski jumper.
Career
Steinauer started regularly from the 1994/95 season in the World Cup, after he had already obtained in January 1992, two inserts when discharged in Switzerland jumping. Although he had won the World Cup at this time no point, he was part of the Swiss team at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay. There he was able to prove a fourteenth place on the normal hill and a fifth with the team on the big hill he left, however, from after the first passage. At the beginning of the 1995/96 season he was able to achieve several results in the top ten, from the beginning of January his form but gradually he always took a stable places in midfield. However, in 1996 he was able to secure the title at the Swiss Championship. Always places between He always fought for a place in the second round and took, except for a few outliers ( such as a sixth place in November 1999 in Kuopio ): From the following season 1996/97, its power remained in the World Cup for several years largely constant Rank 25 and 45. From 2003 he often went to in the second-class Continental and took there seats in the upper middle. In 2006 he finished finally, after 128 starts in the World Cup, his career. During this he had participated in the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2002. Though he still started well at the Ski Flying World Championships in 1996, 1998 and 2000 at five other Nordic World Ski Championships, he was able to continue with any more of his rankings from 1995 in Thunder Bay.
Steinauer is a qualified Plumber and practiced his profession in addition to the athletic career on a part- time basis. Since end of his career he has worked full time in Unterägeri.