Albert Wursthorn

Albert Wursthorn
nation	Germany
birthday	1954
Career
society	SZ Breitnau
National squad	since 1972
status	resigned
End of career	1981
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
Overall World Cup	32nd ( 1981/82 )

Albert Wursthorn (* 1954 ) is a former German ski jumper and ski jumping trainer.

Career

Wursthorn, the 13 years younger brother of Ernst Wursthorn , jumped regularly from 1972 as part of the Four Hills Tournament . He contested his first jumping on December 30, 1972 at the start of the Four Hills Tournament 1972/73 in Oberstdorf . however, there were no good placements over the years, so that he never competed in all four competitions of a tour even before the introduction of the ski jumping World Cup . On December 30, 1979 he made his debut in the newly created World Cup and reached 63rd place in Oberstdorf. The following jumping of the Four Hills Tournament 1979/80 were unsuccessful for him. It was only when he was ski flying in Vikersund on March 2, 1980, his first jump after the tour, that he made it into the World Cup for the first time with 13th place. By winning these three World Cup points, he finished 92nd in the overall ranking at the end of the 1979/80 World Cup season . The following season 1981/82 was far more successful for him. Even if he again fell short of expectations in the jumping competitions in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he made it into the points ranks in Ironwood with 13th place in first and 6th place in ski flying. Even when jumping from the large hill in Thunder Bay , he was able to win World Cup points with 7th place. His last World Cup competition on February 28, 1982 in Saint-Nizier , he finished with a 15th place, also winning one World Cup point. At the end of the season he finished 32nd. Despite this success, he subsequently ended his active ski jumping career.

During his active ski jumping career, he began training as a retail salesman, but then switched to the armed forces and thus also to the local sports promotion group. After the end of his career, Wursthorn completed an apprenticeship as a specialist teacher for sport and technology. He trained the Black Forest school squad and the ARGE team with Dieter Thoma . After only one year in Renningen , he went to Schonach in the Black Forest to take up a job at the sports school. In 1993 he got the post of head of the ski boarding school in Furtwangen . There he trained athletes like Thorsten and Martin Schmitt as well as the combined athlete Georg Hettich in ski jumping for over five years .

Web links

• Albert Wursthorn in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Albert Wursthorn in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
• Portrait of Albert and Ernst Wursthorn in the Badische Zeitung on February 28, 2009