Thomas Diethart
Diethart Thomas ( born February 25, 1992 Tulln an der Donau) is an Austrian ski jumper. He completed an apprenticeship in teaching industrial clerk and attended for 3 years, the vocational school Mitterndorf in Muerztal.
Career
Diethart reached on 19 January 2008 iron ore on his debut in the FIS Cup the 23th Place. A day later, he already finished as 13th place. Until the 2008/09 season was followed by other operations in the FIS Cup, where a 2nd place on 4 March 2009 in the Japanese Zaō his best result was. In addition, he jumped in the Alps Cup.
On 3 July, the Slovenian Velenje he gave his debut in the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup and finished at the end of the 5th Place. The next day he was in Kranj 16 On 5 July he managed with a second place his best result to date in the Continental Cup. It was followed by other missions and in the end he finished sixth in the overall standings. On 12 September 2009 he won the Alpine Cup in Einsiedeln, Switzerland.
In December 2009 Diethart launched several times in the Alpine Cup and made it a single time in the top ten. On January 23, 2010, and January 24, 2010, he stepped back to the Continental and missed at two competitions the second passage. On February 13, 2010, he finished third in the FIS Cup in Villach ( Austria ) the 5th Place. Then he won this season, two Alpine Cup.
In July 2010, operations followed in the Continental Cup and FIS World Cup in Villach. Due to the successes he was the end of August first used in Japan in Hakuba Ski Jumping Grand Prix. In qualifying he was indeed disqualified, but as participating only 32 more Springer, he could still participate in the two competitions. On August 28, he finished in 35th place out of 43 jumpers. A day later Diethart finished in 36th and last place, as the Kazakh Yevgeny Ljowkin was disqualified. This summer, yet then served in the Continental Cup, where he was second in Oslo. At the Grand Prix in Liberec, he managed to qualify and finished on October 1, the 44th.
In December 2010 he again won an Alpine Cup, this time in Seefeld, Austria. In the third competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck Diethart was nominated in the national group. On 2 January 2011, he qualified through the 38th place in qualifying for the competition. The next day he won the 28th for the first time in his career World Cup points. He benefited from the disqualification of the Bulgarian Vladimir Sografski, against whom he had lost in the knockout round. On February 6, 2011, he won in Brotterode first time jumping in the Continental Cup.
Diethart achieved in summer and in December 2013, five top ten results in the Continental Cup, including a third place on 21 September 2013 Klingenthal, so that he was nominated for the World Cup event in Engelberg in December 2013. After almost three years of World Cup abstinence and participation in competitions, unterklassigen Diethart qualified there for the main competitions, which he finished with a fourth and a sixth. The first podium finish at a World Cup competition he reached the following week during the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf with space 3 When the second event of the Four Hills Tournament, the New Year's competition in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he followed up his third place in the first competition and won clearly ahead of his teammate Thomas Morgenstern and Simon Ammann from Switzerland. He thus achieved in his sixth competition in the FIS World Cup his first victory. After a fifth place at only a ranked passage in Innsbruck Diethart succeeded in the last tour in Bischofshofen his second World Cup victory, which he at the same time secured the overall victory of the Four Hills Tournament.
On January 18, 2014 he won the team competition in Zakopane third place with the Austrian team, reaching his first team podium in the World Cup.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, he reached in the team competition with Thomas Morgenstern, Gregor Schlierenzauer and Michael Hayböck the 2nd place and on the normal hill in fourth place.