Andreas Goldberger

Andreas Goldberger
Andreas Goldberger 2011
nation	Austria
birthday	29th November 1972 (age 47)
place of birth	Ried im Innkreis ,  Austria
size	172 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
society	SC Waldzell
Pers. Best	225.0 m ( Planica 2000)
status	resigned
End of career	2005
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 4 × SFWM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1994 Lillehammer team bronze 1994 Lillehammer Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1993 Falun team bronze 1993 Falun Large hill silver 1993 Falun Normal hill silver 1995 Thunder Bay Large hill bronze 1997 Trondheim Normal hill bronze 2001 Lahti Team large hill gold 2001 Lahti Team normal hill  Ski flying world championships silver 1992 Harrachov singles gold 1996 Bad Mitterndorf singles bronze 2004 Planica team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	4th January 1991
World Cup victories (individual)	20 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	04 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1992/93 , 1994/95 , 1995/96 ) 00
Ski flying world cup	01. (1994/95, 1995/96)
Jump World Cup	02. (1995/96)
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 1992/93 , 1994/95 )
Nordic Tournament	23rd (2002)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 15th 21st 14th  Ski flying 5 4th 4th  Team jumping 4th 4th 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	01. ( 1995 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 3 2
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	1991
COC wins (individual)	2 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	60th ( 1994/95 )

Goldberger in 2007

Andreas "Andi" Goldberger (born November 29, 1972 in Ried im Innkreis , Upper Austria ) is a former Austrian ski jumper . He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of the 1990s. His greatest successes include two overall victories in the Four Hills Tournament , three overall World Cup victories , the 2001 team world championship title and the 1996 ski flying world champion title, as well as two bronze medals at the Winter Olympics . He also posted 175 top ten placements at ski jumping events from 1991 to 2005. This enabled him to complete the success story of the Austrian ski jumping wonder team of the 1970s and early 1980s with Karl Schnabl and Anton Innauer , Hubert Neuper and Armin Kogler , which Professor Baldur Preiml had shaped, and continue the successes of the two "twins" Andreas Felder and Ernst Vettori in the 1980s and early 1990s with his career.

Career

Childhood and first years in ski jumping

Goldberger, who was often just called "Goldi" by his teammates and the press, grew up with his two siblings Johanna and Rudolf in Waldzell in Upper Austria , where his parents Herta and Rudolf ran a farm. He began skiing at an early age and did his first test jumps on skis at the age of seven. After his father noticed this, Goldberger began intensive and sponsored training. He joined the Upper Austrian regional team as a student and took part in the student cup. After success there, he was accepted into the youth squad and Goldberger went to Stams to the local ski school . Under Paul Ganzenhuber Goldberger's performance got better and better and in 1987 he was accepted into the national B-squad. At the age of 18 he made his debut in the Ski Jumping World Cup in Innsbruck on January 4, 1991 , after he got a place in the national group for the two Austrian jumps of the Four Hills Tournament 1990/91 . As 35th, however, he clearly missed the second round in both competitions. He achieved the points for the first time in ninth place in ski flying, his later favorite discipline on March 23, 1991 in Planica . At the urging of Toni Innauer in Austria , Goldberger was again part of the squad for the 1991/92 Four Hills Tournament and surprisingly achieved his first World Cup podium with second place in Innsbruck on the Bergiselschanze . After this success he was nominated as a substitute for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where he stayed on site, but was not used. A few weeks later he reached another podium in ski flying in Oberstdorf .

For the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1992 in Harrachov he was after his success in Oberstdorf to the medal favorites, just the had to end after good jumps Japanese Noriaki Kasai admit defeat and took silver. Since this success was also counted for the World Cup, at the end of his first - but not complete - professional season he reached eighth place in the overall World Cup ranking.

Breakthrough in the World Cup and first tour victory

For the 1992/93 season , Goldberger, who was part of the Austrians' senior squad for the first time from the start of the season, finally achieved the breakthrough. In the second competition of the season in Falun , Sweden , he was second on the podium with Lasse Ottesen . In the following Four Hills Tournament in 1992/93 he had to admit defeat to the jumpers from Germany and Japan in the jumping competitions in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen , but triumphed in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen with his first two victories in the World Cup. In the end, he also won the overall tour standings ahead of the Japanese Noriaki Kasai and the Czechoslovak Jaroslav Sakala . At the end of January Goldberger was part of the team in Predazzo , together with Stefan Horngacher , Ernst Vettori and Werner Rathmayr , which the four Austrians won well ahead of the team from Germany. A few days later he was twice on the podium as third in ski flying on the Kulm .

In February Goldberger traveled with the team to the Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun. In team competition he won the bronze medal behind the teams from Norway and Czechoslovakia together with Horngacher, Vettori and Heinz Kuttin . In the following individual on the large hill, Goldberger won his first individual World Championship medal with bronze two days later. Jumping from the normal hill went even better, so that he could finally win the silver medal behind the Japanese Masahiko Harada . At the Austrian Championships in 1993, Goldberger won the silver medal on both the normal and the large hill towards the end of the season. In addition, after another podium in the individual from Planica, he also succeeded in winning the overall World Cup.

In the following winter of 1993/94 Goldberger often had to admit defeat to the Norwegian Espen Bredesen and the German Jens Weißflog . He achieved only two individual victories over the course of the entire season. As in the overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament 1993/94 , Bredesen and Weißflog were ahead of Goldberger in the overall World Cup ranking. He also had to admit defeat to both of them at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and only won bronze in the individual competition on the large hill. Goldberger did not get past seventh on the normal hill. Before that, he had already won another bronze medal in team jumping together with Christian Moser , Heinz Kuttin and Stefan Horngacher. At the ski flying world championship in Planica in 1994 , Goldberger convinced with a jump over 200 meters in training, but had to admit defeat in the competition and only came in 13th in the end.

Dominance in the World Cup

In the winters of 1994/95 and 1995/96 Goldberger finally celebrated its most successful period. Until January 1995 he was at least second in all World Cups. He clearly won the Four Hills Tournament 1994/95 after three second places and the victory in Bischofshofen. After seven more World Cup victories, Goldberger traveled as one of the favorites to the 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay . There, however, he missed every chance for a medal in sixth place on the normal hill as well as with the team. In the individual on the large hill he had to admit defeat to the Norwegian Tommy Ingebrigtsen and only won silver. So he remained without a victory at a major event. At the end of the season, in which Goldberger was also able to win his second national title, he equalized the record of 10 wins this season set by the Finn Matti Nykänen . He won the overall World Cup with confidence. After starting the following season with good performances, Goldberger showed first weaknesses in December in Chamonix , Oberhof and Oberstdorf and only landed in the middle or lower positions. After a fourth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he won the jumping in Innsbruck. After Goldberger reached fifth place in Bischofshofen, he won his third tour in 1995/96 with the Four Hills Tournament , the second in a row. At the ski flying world championship in 1996 on the Kulm, Goldberger won a title at a world championship for the first time and won gold in individual flying . With another win of the season in Oslo at the end of the season, he also won the overall World Cup for the third time. After this success, he was voted Sportsman of the Year for the second time by Austrian sports journalists.

Performance slump & drug scandal

For the 1996/97 season Goldberger did not manage to build on the successes of the past two years. So he remained without a win the entire season. The 1997 Nordic World Ski Championships did not go as hoped for the reigning overall World Cup winner either. Although he won another bronze medal in the individual on the normal hill, he could not win another medal with the team as fourth. In the singles on the large hill, Goldberger only finished 47th.

On April 20, 1997, Goldberger admitted to having used cocaine on Austrian television (ORF) . The ÖSV was suspended for almost six months for doping . Shortly afterwards, Goldberger's license was withdrawn by the ÖSV. Goldberger wanted to change the association and start for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , but finally stayed with the ÖSV, but could no longer build on earlier successes. He even temporarily accepted Serbian citizenship, which he gave back after the ÖSV had taken him back. The rapper K. Ronaldo published a song called "Andi Goldberger" on the mixtape "I Wanted to Kill Myself but Today is my Mothers Birthday" in August 2016, in which parts of the 1997 interview are used and Andreas Goldberger calls "Kokaingott" becomes.

Return to the national team

Even before the start of the 1997/98 season , a media-effective reconciliation was officially carried out between the ÖSV and Goldberger. After this Goldberger got a place in the national team again, but was not able to build on the successes of the previous years. Although he still got a few top 10 placements, he mostly found himself in the middle of the field. He only just managed to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. There Goldberger only started on the normal hill, where he finished 22nd. He was not considered for the team competition. The 1998/99 season was even more disappointing for Goldberger . After internal elimination competitions, he missed the qualification for the home World Cup in Ramsau am Dachstein . Although he traveled with the team, he was not a substitute for any jumping event.

With the coach change in the national team, Goldberger's success came back a little later. Thanks to the new trainer Alois Lipburger , who dealt intensively with Goldberger, he found his way back to his old consistency at the 1999 Summer Grand Prix . Also in the 1999/2000 season he showed his good form with 14 top 6 placements and ended up fifth in the overall World Cup. At the season finale in Planica he set a new ski flying world record of 225 meters. He had previously flown into eighth place at the 2000 World Ski Flying Championships in Vikersund .

Another form crisis and plans to resign

Goldberger could not continue his success from the previous season in the new 2000/01 season . Furthermore, he remained without a World Cup victory. After he had meanwhile become a leader in the Austrian team, he traveled with his teammates to the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Lahti . There he stayed in the midfield in the individual competitions, but was able to win the gold medal with the team on the normal hill and the bronze medal on the large hill. In the winter of 2001/02 Goldberger only managed to jump on the podium in an individual World Cup when jumping from Titisee-Neustadt . He was only able to reach the podium with the team in Willingen and Planica, with the jumping in Willingen being another World Cup victory for Goldberger. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , he had again traveled as a substitute for the team, but returned home without being used. At the beginning of the 2002/03 season, Goldberger achieved the last podium places in the World Cup. After that, he often only found himself in the back of the table and therefore at the end of the season played with the idea of ​​ending his career for the first time. But he stayed in the squad and also took part in World Cup competitions. At the ski flying world championship in 2004 , however, Goldberger missed the qualification for the individual jumping for the first time and was only able to start with the team. In team flying, he won bronze with the team. After he didn't even reach the second round in every competition, he also missed the qualification for the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf.

End as an active athlete and further career

After 14 years of World Cup history , Goldberger officially ended his career on May 29, 2005. He has been working as a co-commentator and ski jumping expert for ORF since winter 2005/06 . He also works for his manager Edi Federer 's company. His last appearance as an active jumper was on January 13, 2006 at the Ski Flying World Championships on the Kulm . Hubert Neuper organized A Tribute to Andreas Goldberger on this day . In 2008 he took part in the Wasalauf and finished the race 2284th out of 15,000 starters.

Goldberger has been pursuing other hobbies since he was very young, including tennis , golf , motocross driving, using computers and playing soccer .

On June 13, 2013, Goldberger married his long-time girlfriend Astrid Brandauer, whom he had already met in 2004 while skiing. The marriage took place at the registry office in St. Johann im Pongau and then at the church at Buchberg near Bischofshofen. Their son Alexander was born on February 2, 2016. The couple's second son, Tobias, was born on August 22, 2017.

From March 10, 2006 Goldberger took part in the second season of the ORF show Dancing Stars . Together with dance partner Julia Polai he reached second place behind Manuel Ortega .

Today Goldberger is also an ambassador for the Wings for Life Foundation and competes in various Red Bull sporting events, including Red Bull 400 and Red Bull Dolomitenmann . Together with Red Bull, Goldberger has also organized the Goldi Cup, a kind of talent scouting competition for ski jumpers, every year since 2007 . He also competed in cycling races and completed the Salzkammergut Mountain Bike Trophy several times .

In September 2019 Goldberger completed the first part of the ski jumping trainer training.

successes

winter Olympics

1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer

• Bronze in individual jumping (large hill)
• Bronze in team competition (large hill)

World championships

World Cup 1993 in Falun

• Silver in individual jumping (normal hill)
• Bronze in individual jumping (large hill)
• Bronze in team competition (large hill)

World Cup 1995 in Thunder Bay

• Silver in individual jumping (large hill)

World Cup 1997 in Trondheim

• Bronze in individual jumping (normal hill)

World Cup 2001 in Lahti

• Gold in team jumping (normal hill)
• Bronze in team competition (large hill)

Ski flying world championships

• Silver in Harrachov 1992
• Gold in Tauplitz 1996
• Bronze with the team in Planica 2004

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 3, 1993	innsbruck	Large hill
2.	January 6, 1993	Bischofshofen	Large hill
3.	17th December 1993	Courchevel	Large hill
4th	4th January 1994	innsbruck	Large hill
5.	December 11, 1994	Planica	Normal hill
6th	January 6, 1995	Bischofshofen	Large hill
7th	January 8, 1995	Willingen	Large hill
8th.	January 21, 1995	Sapporo	Normal hill
9.	January 28, 1995	Lahti	Normal hill
10.	February 8, 1995	Lillehammer	Large hill
11.	February 12, 1995	Oslo	Large hill
12.	February 18, 1995	Vikersund	Ski jump
13.	February 19, 1995	Vikersund	Ski jump
14th	February 25, 1995	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
15th	January 4, 1996	innsbruck	Large hill
16.	January 14, 1996	Engelberg	Large hill
17th	January 21, 1996	Sapporo	Large hill
18th	January 28, 1996	Zakopane	Large hill
19th	February 11, 1996	Tauplitz	Ski jump
20th	March 9, 1996	Harrachov	Ski jump

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 24, 1993	Predazzo	Large hill
2.	March 5, 1994	Lahti	Large hill
3.	March 15, 1996	Oslo	Large hill
4th	January 13, 2002	Willingen	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 27, 1995	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	17th December 1994	Lahti	Large hill
2.	January 31, 1996	Seefeld in Tyrol	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1990/91	37.	0016
1991/92	08th.	0123
1992/93	01.	0206
1993/94	03.	0927
1994/95	01.	1571
1995/96	01.	1416
1996/97	06th	0817
1997/98	17th	0327
1998/99	17th	0400
1999/00	05.	1034
2000/01	14th	0373
2001/02	13.	0419
2002/03	12.	0556
2003/04	18th	0299
2004/05	36.	0094

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1994	03.	0668
1995	01.	1007
1996	18th	0071
1998	06th	0215
1999	02.	0300
2000	13.	0159
2001	02.	0364
2002	19th	0066
2003	17th	0060
2004	52.	0005

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
1993/94	71.	0107
1994/95	60.	0160
1995/96	89.	0100

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	114.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	4th January 1994	January 3, 1995
Willingen	Germany	125.0 m ( HS : 145 m)	January 8, 1995	January 8, 1995
Engelberg	Switzerland	125.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 15, 1995	January 15, 1995
Engelberg	Switzerland	127.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 15, 1995	January 14, 1996
Willingen	Germany	126.5 m ( HS : 145 m)	January 29, 1995	February 1, 1997
Vikersund	Norway	179.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 18, 1995	February 19, 1995
Vikersund	Norway	188.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 18, 1995	March 1, 1998
Engelberg	Switzerland	127.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 14, 1996	December 15, 2001
Harrachov	Czech Republic	201.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 9, 1996	March 9, 1996
Harrachov	Czech Republic	204.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 9, 1996	January 13, 2001
Stams	Austria	114.5 m ( HS : 115 m)	August 22, 1999	August 22, 1999
Vikersund	Norway	196.0 m ( HS : 207 m)	February 11, 2000	February 11, 2000
Vikersund	Norway	207.0 m ( HS : 207 m)	February 11, 2000	January 11, 2007
Planica	Slovenia	225.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 18, 2000	March 20, 2003

Records

• On March 17, 1994, Goldberger was the first person to jump over 200 meters in Planica , but could not stand the jump. The first official "two hundred" is therefore credited to Toni Nieminen , who jumped 203 meters on the same day.
• On March 18, 2000, Goldberger also managed a 225-meter jump in Planica, with which he set a new ski flying world record.

Awards

• 1993: Austria's athlete of the year
• 1994: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 1996: Austria's athlete of the year
• 1996: Honorary citizen of the Waldzell community
• 2005: Austria's Sportsman of the Year "Special Award: Unique Career"

literature

• Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger.Garber, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 99-100 .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Goldberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andreas Goldberger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Andreas Goldberger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Literature by and about Andreas Goldberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Andreas Goldberger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Austrian ski stars from AZ, p. 99
2. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1992 - Men's K180 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's Team K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
5. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Austrian ski stars from AZ, p. 100
7. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Men's Large Hill, Individual. In: sports-reference.com. February 20, 1994, accessed March 5, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Austria Ski Jumping at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games - Olympics at. In: sports-reference.com. February 20, 1994, accessed March 5, 2017 . 
9. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1994 - Men's K180 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
10. ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 - Men's K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
11. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1996 - Men's K180 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
12. ↑ World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
13. ↑ World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's Team K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
14. ↑ World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
15. ^ Doping in Austria. In: sport.oe24.at. October 14, 2008, accessed March 5, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Julia Karzel: Andreas Goldberger: Sport, drugs and love. In: kurier.at. June 11, 2013, accessed March 5, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Mixtape - K. Ronaldo - I Wanted To Kill Myself But Today Is My Mothers Birthday (25.08.). Retrieved August 29, 2016 . 
18. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2000 - Men's K180 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
19. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's Team K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
20. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's Team K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
21. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 - Men's K185 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on March 5, 2017
22. ↑ Worldloppet Ski Federation - Vasaloppet 03/02/2008 90 km CT. In: worldloppet.com. Retrieved March 6, 2017 . 
23. ↑ From a portrait of Andi Goldberger, broadcast in 1998 on ARD .
24. ↑ Andreas Goldberger is a father. In: salzburg.orf.at. February 3, 2016, accessed March 5, 2017 . 
25. ↑ Andreas Goldberger became a father for the second time
26. ↑ ^{a b} Goldi Today. In: andreasgoldberger.at. Retrieved March 6, 2017 . 
27. ↑ Goldi Talente Cup 2017 & Goldi Summer Camp. In: redbull.com. February 11, 2017, accessed March 6, 2017 . 
28. ↑ Christoph Geiler: Ski jumping coach in a wheelchair: Lukas Müller has his first diploma. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
29. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)