Willi Pürstl
Willi Pürstl (born 10 January 1955 in Schoder, Styria ) is a former Austrian ski jumper
Willi Pürstl was winning the championship in the 23 Four Hills Tournament 1974/75 with the victory in Oberstdorf. He pulls itself as a second Austrian, twenty years after Sepp Bradl, the overall rating of the jumping tournament. With this tour victory, he became the protagonist of the successful Austrian ski jumping team of the 1970s, which spawned even athletes like Anton Innauer, Karl Schnabl, Alois Lipburger, Edi Federer, Hans Millonig, Hans Wallner, Alfred Pungg, Rupert Gürtler and Walter Schwabl under coach Baldur Preiml. In association with the older, successful jumpers Rudi Wanner and Reinhold Bachler this young team in 1975 Austria made her the leading ski jumping nation.
At various ski big events Willi Pürstl reached nine places in the top ten.
After ending his playing career, he worked as manager of the Spanish ski jumper. After that, he was a coach in Canada, where he achieved success among other things, Horst Bulau and Steve Collins.
In 1988 he emigrated to Canada. Currently, employs Willi Pürstl as a news producer (news producer) at the Canadian Television ( CHUM News Service ) in Ottawa, Ontario. He also owns his own film company ( Skyfly Productions ) in which his elder son works as an editor.
Willi Pürstl is a father of four and married for the second time.