Toni Innauer

Anton " Toni" Innauer ( born April 1, 1958 in Bezau, Vorarlberg, Austria) is a former Austrian ski jumper and ski coach.

2.1 World Cup wins
2.2 World Cup rankings

Biography

Career as an athlete

Anton Innauer received his athletic training in the ski school Stams (Tirol ) the then Austrian Ski Coach Baldur Preiml. Anton Innauer is a protagonist of the Austrian ski jumping miracle team of the 1970s by Karl Schnabl, Alois Lipburger, Willi Pürstl, Hans Wallner, Reinhold Bachler, Hans Millonig, Edi Federer, Rupert Gürtler, Walter Schwabl, Rudi Wanner and Alfred Pungg, the coach Baldur Preiml and assistant coach Max Gols was formed.

Innauer immediately did the age of 15 at the World Championships in Falun, Sweden and was twice in a row Junior European champion. In 1976 he was of his team-mate Karl Schnabl on the large hill just defeated at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck and won silver. However, four years later, in 1980 in Lake Placid, he succeeded on the normal hill of Olympic victory, even though he was thrown back in the intervening years, again and again through injury.

In 1976 Innauer improved the world record in ski flying twice ( at 174 m and 176 m). In December 1979 he won the first World Cup Ski Jumping in Cortina d' Ampezzo, which belonged to the then newly created ski jumping World Cup.

Innauer was the first ski jumper in history, five times the note was given for a perfect flight over 176 m in ski flying in 1976 in Oberstdorf from the Jumping Judges 20 - an evaluation, which have so far received only four other knight to him.

Early end of the athletes career

After a serious ankle injury in December 1980 Innauer finished his career with 22 years.

From 1981 he studied at the Universities of Innsbruck and Graz. He graduated in 1987 with a master's degree in the teaching of philosophy / psychology and sports. As a student Innauer worked as a journalist for the Austrian media, and 3 years as a representative and coordinator of the company ellesse, the first official sponsor of the newly formed Ski Jumping World Cup. He gained valuable experience complementary to the athlete perspective and main ideas for his later work in the Austrian and International Ski Federation. In his thesis The Show Sports ski jumping: the sociological and philosophical interpretation of competitive sports with Prof. Ernst Topitsch much has flowed from it.

Coach and sporting director in the Austrian Ski Federation

From 1987-89 he worked as a coach and teacher at Skigymnasium Stams. 1989 to 1992 he led the Austrian ski jumper as head coach to new successes. In 1992 he presented the entire team over to the new V- style. His athletes won with this coup 5 of 7 medals at the Olympic Games in Albertville.

From 1993 he worked as a racing manager for Nordic skiing in the Austrian Ski Federation. After the 1999 World Cup in Ramsau am Dachstein and winning the gold medal in the men's relay team in cross-country skiing he made his jurisdiction for cross-country skiing and biathlon and served as director of the racing departments ski jumping and Nordic combined in the Austrian Ski Federation. For many years Innauer was involved worked as a representative of ÖSVs and much more on various committees of the International Ski Federation ( FIS ) at crucial rule changes and the developments of the telegenic sport ski jumping. Examples include the introduction of a minimum weight based on body size (the so-called BMI - rule), the enforcement of prize money for the athletes, development of modern television USEFULLY competition formats with qualification and final round.

As of February 2001 Innauer was again coach. He took over the job on an interim basis after the tragic accident in which his best friend and former Austrians head coach Alois Lipburger was killed. He drew the consequences of the double burden as sports director and head coach of the end of the 2001/02 season and gave the coaching role at Hannu Lepisto from.

In February 2007, the Austrian Ski Federation announced that Anton Innauer 'm going to work until at least 2010 as Racing Director for ski jumping and Nordic combined on. Innauer should ensure that even in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver a powerful Nordic Team is available.

On March 10, 2010 Innauer was simultaneously with the presentation of his second book on the pulse of success his resignation from Austrians and FIS.

He works as a consultant, seminar trainer, freelance writer and journalist. Innauer holds a lecture on project and quality management in the power range at Salzburg University and has worked as a ski expert at major events for ZDF.

Since 2011 he is an entrepreneur and founded with business partner Wolfgang Schwarzmann the company Innauer facts based in Innsbruck and Dornbirn.

Private

Anton Innauer is married to the former cross-country skier Marlene ( Resch ), with whom he has three children, Mario, James and Lisa. His younger son Mario was also a ski jumper and gave in the 2006/07 season his World Cup debut.

Published in 1992 Innauer his autobiography The critical point. My path to success. In it, he describes his adventurous life, which began in the seclusion of the Bregenz Forest, to make him the sport to a celebrity and gave access to education and university degree. He draws a first interim balance his life as an athlete and coach.

In spring 2010 he published his second book on the pulse of success.

Achievements

World Cup wins

World Cup rankings

Awards, honors (excerpt)

Honour for athletic performance in gold the State of Vorarlberg
Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (1996 )
Austrian Ambassador for Fair Play (1998)
Special Award - Sportsman of the Year (2010)

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