Andreas fields

Andreas fields
nation	Austria
birthday	March 6, 1962
place of birth	Hall in Tirol ,  Austria
size	183 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
society	Heeressportverein Absam
National squad	since 1980
Pers. Best	191 m ( Bad Mitterndorf 1986)
status	resigned
End of career	1992
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 3 × 1 × SFWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville Team K120  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1982 Oslo Team K120 silver 1985 Seefeld Team K120 silver 1985 Seefeld K70 gold 1987 Oberstdorf K90 bronze 1987 Oberstdorf Team K120 gold 1991 Val di Fiemme Team K120  Ski flying world championships gold 1986 Bad Mitterndorf singles  Ski jumping junior world championship bronze 1980 Örnsköldsvik K70
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	4th January 1980
World Cup victories (individual)	25 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1990/91 )
Ski flying world cup	03rd (1991/92)
Four Hills Tournament	02. ( 1990/91 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 22nd 11 8th  Ski flying 3 4th 1  Team jumping 2 0 0

Andreas Felder (born March 6, 1962 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian ski jumper . In the 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most successful athletes in his discipline , alongside Matti Nykänen and Jens Weißflog . With a total of 25 victories in the World Cup, Felder was for a long time the most successful Austrian ski jumper before he was overtaken by Gregor Schlierenzauer in 2009 . From April 20, 2018 to mid-March 2020, he was the head coach of the ÖSV men's ski jumping squad.

Career

Felder made his first World Cup appearance on January 4, 1981 at the Four Hills Tournament on Innsbruck's Bergisel . He won his first medal at world championships in Oslo in 1982 , and won silver with the Austrian team.

After a few years in midfield, he made his breakthrough in the 1984/85 season. He celebrated his first World Cup victory on December 8, 1984 in Thunder Bay, Canada . Although he won six competitions this season, he was only second behind Nykänen in the overall World Cup ranking. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 in Seefeld , Austria , he won silver on the normal hill and with the Austrian team.

In the two following years he reached third place in the overall World Cup ranking. In 1986 he became world ski flying champion on the Kulm in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf with a world record distance of 191 meters. In 1987 he became world champion on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and also won bronze with the Austrian team. In the same year he was voted Austria's Sportsman of the Year .

In the following two years his career stalled a bit, but then things picked up again: In the 1990/91 season he won the overall World Cup for the first and only time, and came third the following year. At the World Championships in Val di Fiemme he won team gold again and team silver at the 1992 Winter Olympics . In the autumn of his sports career, he easily managed to switch from the classic jumping style (parallel style) to the V-style. He ended his career with a win: on March 29, 1992, he won ski flying in Planica .

In total, Andreas Felder achieved 118 top ten placements at major ski jumping events. Together with Ernst Vettori , he carried the great successes of the Austrian ski jumping wonder team of the 1970s, which Baldur Preiml formed, into the 1990s.

Career steps

Andreas Felder completed the commercial school and the state trainer training in jumping. From 1980 to 1992 he was a member of the national jumping team. After the end of his career, he was the coach of the B-squad ski jumping in the ÖSV from 1992 to 1995, then from 1995 to 1997 he was head coach of the ÖSV ski jumping team. From 1997 to 2000 he was the head coach of the German national team in the Nordic combined , from 2000 to 2006 he was the trainer for the Nordic combined of training group I in the ÖSV. On April 20, 2018 he was presented again as the head coach of the men's ÖSV ski jumping team and thus as successor to Heinz Kuttin . After two years of work, Felder decided to resign despite several successes and cited private reasons for the surprising decision.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 8, 1984	Thunder Bay	Normal hill
2.	December 9, 1984	Thunder Bay	Large hill
3.	15th December 1984	Lake Placid	Normal hill
4th	December 16, 1984	Lake Placid	Large hill
5.	March 3, 1985	Lahti	Large hill
6th	March 8, 1985	Falun	Large hill
7th	February 15, 1986	Vikersund	Ski jump
8th.	February 16, 1986	Vikersund	Ski jump
9.	February 23, 1986	Engelberg	Large hill
10.	March 14, 1987	Planica	Ski jump
11.	March 21, 1987	Oslo	Large hill
12.	March 4th 1990	Lahti	Normal hill
13.	March 7, 1990	Örnsköldsvik	Normal hill
14th	March 17, 1990	Raufoss	Normal hill
15th	December 1, 1990	Lake Placid	Normal hill
16.	December 8, 1990	Thunder Bay	Normal hill
17th	December 9, 1990	Thunder Bay	Large hill
18th	January 1, 1991	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
19th	January 6, 1991	Bischofshofen	Large hill
20th	March 2, 1991	Lahti	Normal hill
21st	March 3, 1991	Lahti	Large hill
22nd	January 1, 1992	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
23.	January 17, 1992	St. Moritz	Normal hill
24.	January 19, 1992	Engelberg	Large hill
25th	March 29, 1992	Planica	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1980/81	13.	60
1981/82	14th	71
1982/83	46.	10
1983/84	15th	75
1984/85	02.	198
1985/86	03.	170
1986/87	03.	177
1987/88	23.	38
1988/89	14th	56
1989/90	03.	236
1990/91	01.	260
1991/92	03.	218

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Falun	Sweden	115.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	March 8, 1985	December 6, 1992
Bad Mitterndorf / Tauplitz	Austria	191.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 9, 1986	February 8, 1996
Bischofshofen	Austria	115.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 6, 1987	January 6, 1992
Planica	Slovenia	191.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 14, 1987	March 14, 1987
Oberstdorf	Germany	188.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	January 24, 1992	February 23, 1995
Bischofshofen	Austria	122.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 22, 1992	January 6, 1993

More Achievements

August 31, 1986: Victory ahead of Ernst Vettori and Jens Weißflog in the mat jumping in Hinterzarten .

Web links

• Andreas Felder in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas fields in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gregor Schlierenzauer the best ÖSV eagle of all time ( memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 19, 2009
2. ↑ Andreas Felder is the new coach of the ÖSV ski jumpers. Retrieved April 20, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung , accessed April 20, 2018
4. ↑ Andreas Felder is leaving the Austrian ski jumping head coach , in: skispringen.com from March 23, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020.
5. ^ "Fields won before Vettori" in "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 202 of September 2, 1986, page 13; POS .: Column 1, second title