Toni Innauer

Toni Innauer
Toni Innauer
Country	Austria
Born	1 April 1958 (age 66); Bezau, Austria
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Personal best	176 m (577 ft); Oberstdorf, 7 March 1976
World Cup career
Seasons	1980
Indiv. starts	10
Indiv. podiums	3
Indiv. wins	2
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
	Updated on 10 February 2016.

Anton Innauer (born 1 April 1958) is an Austrian former ski jumper.

Career

His best-known success was at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, where he won a gold medal in the individual normal hill event. Innauer also won a silver medal in the individual large hill at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1975. He also won the silver medal at the Ski flying World Championships in Vikersund in 1977.

On 5 March 1976, he set the ski jumping world record distance at 174 metres (571 ft).^[1]^[2] And again two days later improved world record at 176 metres (577 ft), both of them set in Oberstdorf, West Germany.^[3]

Innauer retired from competitions in 1980 due to an ankle injury. In 1987, he graduated from the University of Graz with a degree in philosophy, psychology, and sports science. His thesis was on the sociology of ski jumping. Between 1987 and 1989, he was a ski jumper and ski jumping coach. In 1989–1992 and 2001/02, he trained the Austrian ski jumping team. In 1993–2001 and since 2002, he has been director of Nordic skiing in the Austrian Ski Federation (ÖSV). He is also the ski jumping expert for German TV channel ZDF.^[4]

At a 1976 (March 5–7) ski jumping event in Oberstdorf, Germany, Innauer became the first person to achieve perfect marks from all five judges (20 points maximum). This mark has been matched by only five others since: Kazuyoshi Funaki at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Sven Hannawald and Hideharu Miyahira at the same 2003 World Cup competition in Willingen, Germany,^[5] Wolfgang Loitzl at Bischofshofen, Austria in 2009 during the 2008/09 Four Hills Tournament.^[6] and Peter Prevc in 2015 World Cup competition in Planica^[7]

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H
1979/80	9	35

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	1979/80	27 December 1979	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Trampolino Italia K92	NH
2	1979/80	2 March 1980	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K116	LH

Ski jumping world records

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
5 March 1976	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze K175	Oberstdorf, West Germany	174	571
7 March 1976	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze K175	Oberstdorf, West Germany	176	577

References

^ "Dva sta poletela 174 m! (page 8)" (in Slovenian). Delo. 6 March 1976.
^ "Toni Innauer & Falko Weißpflog - Oberstdorf 1976 - 174 m - World record". YouTube. 5 March 1976. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
^ "Innauer zdaj pri 176 m! (page 9)" (in Slovenian). Delo. 8 March 1976.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Toni Innauer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
^ ""ruhrgas" FIS World Cup Ski-Jumping" (PDF). Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). fis-ski.com (2003)
^ "FIS World Cup Ski Jumping" (PDF). Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). fis-ski.com (2009)
^ "Double victory for Slovenia". fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.