Andreas Kofler

Andreas Kofler
Andreas Kofler 2015
nation	Austria
birthday	17th May 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Innsbruck ,  Austria
size	180 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
society	SV Innsbruck-Bergisel
Pers. Best	233 m ( Vikersund 2012)
status	resigned
End of career	May 6, 2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 0 × SFWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 4 × 6 × 9 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin team silver 2006 Turin Large hill gold 2010 Vancouver team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2007 Sapporo team silver 2011 Oslo Normal hill gold 2011 Oslo Team normal hill gold 2011 Oslo Large hill team  Ski flying world championships gold 2008 Oberstdorf team gold 2012 Vikersund team  Austrian championships silver 2005 Bischofshofen Large hill bronze 2006 Innsbruck Large hill bronze 2006 Stams Normal hill silver 2007 Ramsau Normal hill silver 2008 Oberstdorf Normal hill silver 2008 Oberstdorf Large hill bronze 2009 Bischofshofen Large hill silver 2010 Stams Normal hill bronze 2010 Innsbruck Large hill gold 2011 Hinzenbach team bronze 2013 Villach Normal hill bronze 2013 Villach team gold 2014 Innsbruck Large hill gold 2014 Stams Normal hill bronze 2015 Bischofshofen Large hill silver 2016 Villach team bronze 2016 Bischofshofen Large hill bronze 2017 iron ore Normal hill gold 2017 iron ore team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	2002/03
World Cup victories (individual)	12 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	15 ( details )
Overall World Cup	03rd ( 2011/12 )
Ski flying world cup	12. (2011/12)
Four Hills Tournament	01st ( 2009/10 )
Nordic Tournament	02. (2007)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 12 13 11  Team jumping 15th 5 5
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Grand Prix victories (individual)	2 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	4 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	03rd ( 2006 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 3 0  Team jumping 4th 0 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
COC wins (individual)	3 ( details )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 2 2
last change: May 6, 2019

Andreas Kofler (born May 17, 1984 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian ski jumper . He was a member of the national team of the ÖSV , multiple world and Olympic champion with the team at the Olympic Winter Games and winner of the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 .

Career

Andreas Kofler made the leap into the World Cup squad of the ÖSV in the 2002/03 season and attracted attention from the start with good results. On December 12, 2002 he celebrated his first podium in the World Cup with third place in Titisee-Neustadt and just a few weeks later he finished his first Four Hills Tournament in fourth place overall.

Two less successful years followed before he achieved his final breakthrough in the world class in the 2005/06 season . Kofler celebrated his first victory in the World Cup on February 4, 2006 in Willingen , and one day later he and the team achieved second place in the team competition.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics , he won the silver medal on the large hill with a deficit of only 0.1 points on his teammate Thomas Morgenstern and the gold medal in the team competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo , he was also able to win the gold medal with the team in jumping on the large hill and took 6th place on the normal hill. At the end of the season he reached second place overall at the Nordic Tournament behind Adam Małysz .

The 2007/08 season started well for Kofler with second places each in the jumping competitions in Trondheim and Engelberg behind his team mate Thomas Morgenstern . In the second event in Engelberg, he fell at the daily maximum distance of 139 m, but was uninjured. At the start of the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08 in Oberstdorf , he fell again after a failed landing and crashed into the advertising delimitation. Then he fell into a form low and could not achieve good results in the World Cup in the next season. He achieved two victories in the Continental Cup .

It was not until the beginning of the 2009/10 season that Kofler achieved a podium again with third place in Engelberg. After that, at the start of the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 in Oberstdorf, he won ahead of the Finn Janne Ahonen and finally won the overall standings from Janne Ahonen and Wolfgang Loitzl .

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he fell well short of expectations in jumping from the normal hill with 19th place, and then missed the podium by just one point on the large hill. He won the team competition together with Wolfgang Loitzl , Thomas Morgenstern and Gregor Schlierenzauer in front of Germany and thus got his second gold medal.

The 2010/11 season began very successfully for Kofler with victory in the opening competition in Kuusamo, Finland . It was the third World Cup victory in his career. In the same season he was able to record two more wins. At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo , he and the team won the gold medal and silver on the normal hill. He just missed bronze on the large hill as fourth behind the Swiss Simon Ammann , who with his third place also prevented an Austrian triple success in this competition.

Due to back problems, Kofler had to suspend longer parts of the preparation for the 2011/12 season. Nevertheless, he was able to win the first three competitions of the season. At the end of the season he achieved his best result to date with third place behind Anders Bardal and Gregor Schlierenzauer in the overall World Cup.

In the winter of 2012/13 Kofler started weakly with the team as twelfth in Lillehammer. In the individual he did not get above 15th place on the normal hill and 23rd place on the large hill. In Kuusamo he found his old strength and jumped back into the top 10 in eighth place. At the following Olympic dress rehearsal on the ski jumps in Sochi he won his eleventh individual World Cup after a third place in the first competition on the second day. He was also at the top of the podium at the following World Cup in Engelberg. The following Four Hills Tournament 2012/13 ended Kofler in 15th place overall. He achieved his best individual placement with 13th place in Bischofshofen . In Zakopane he celebrated another podium with the team in third behind Slovenia and Poland. For the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 Kofler missed the qualification. A year later, Kofler missed qualifying for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi due to the high number of successes in the Austrian national team . In March 2014, however, he convinced again in the World Cup and was on the podium again as second from the large hill in Trondheim . In Planica he and the team celebrated another World Cup victory.

Kofler started the season 2014/15 mixed. After he was eliminated in the first round in Klingenthal, he was fourth in Ruka. He started the Four Hills Tournament 2014/15 with a fifth place in Oberstdorf. After he was well placed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen again in twelfth place, he clearly missed the final on both Austrian hills. In the end it was only enough for 23rd place overall. From the spring of 2015, Kofler also started increasingly in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup .

In October 2016, Kofler won the gold medal at the Austrian Championships 2016 in Eisenerz together with Elias Tollinger , Clemens Aigner and Manuel Fettner in the team competition. He also won bronze in the individual competition on the normal hill. There was a sense of achievement for him in December 2016 in Engelberg, when he finished third in the World Cup show jumping; it would be his last World Cup podium finish in his career.

For the 2017/18 season, Kofler was appointed to the Continental Cup squad by national coach Kuttin. At the Four Hills Tournament 2018/19 he took part in the qualification for the jumping in Austria, but missed the competition. As in the previous year, Kofler remained in the B-squad for the entire winter of 2018/19.

On May 6, 2019, Kofler announced his resignation at a press conference in Vienna and will serve the police. In September 2019, Kofler completed the first part of the ski jumping trainer training.

successes

winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

• Normal hill: 11.
• Large hill: silver
• Team jumping: gold

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

• Normal hill: 19.
• Large hill: 4.
• Team jumping: gold

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01.	February 4, 2006	Willingen	Large hill
02.	December 29, 2009	Oberstdorf	Large hill
03.	November 28, 2010	Kuusamo	Large hill
04th	December 19, 2010	Engelberg	Large hill
05.	January 16, 2011	Sapporo	Large hill
06th	November 27, 2011	Kuusamo	Large hill
07th	December 3, 2011	Lillehammer	Normal hill
08th.	4th December 2011	Lillehammer	Large hill
09.	December 18, 2011	Engelberg	Large hill
10.	4th January 2012	innsbruck	Large hill
11.	December 9, 2012	Sochi	Normal hill
12.	December 15, 2012	Engelberg	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01.	March 4, 2006	Lahti	Large hill
02.	February 11, 2007	Willingen	Large hill
03.	March 10, 2007	Lahti	Large hill
04th	February 7, 2009	Willingen	Large hill
05.	November 27, 2009	Kuusamo	Large hill
06th	January 30, 2010	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
07th	November 27, 2010	Kuusamo	Large hill
08th.	January 29, 2011	Willingen	Large hill
09.	February 6, 2011	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
10.	March 12, 2011	Lahti	Large hill
11.	March 19, 2011	Planica	Ski jump
12.	November 27, 2011	Kuusamo	Large hill
13.	March 3, 2012	Lahti	Normal hill
14th	March 17, 2012	Planica	Ski jump
15th	March 22, 2014	Planica	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
01.	August 12, 2006	Einsiedeln	Large hill
02.	August 1, 2008	Einsiedeln	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01.	August 5, 2006	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
02.	August 11, 2007	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
03.	July 26, 2008	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
04th	August 6, 2011	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
01.	August 31, 2002	Falun	Normal hill
02.	March 1, 2009	Wisła	Large hill
03.	March 22, 2009	Kuusamo	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2002/03	16.	0506
2003/04	21st	0263
2004/05	40.	0082
2005/06	07th	0699
2006/07	07th	0727
2007/08	13.	0627
2008/09	36.	0102
2009/10	04th	0893
2010/11	04th	1128
2011/12	03.	1203
2012/13	17th	0473
2013/14	12.	0468
2014/15	29	0173
2015/16	38.	0062
2016/17	23.	307

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2002	26th	045
2003	27.	032
2004	24.	062
2005	07th	200
2006	03.	397
2007	09	230
2008	05.	318
2009	49.	030th
2010	46.	023
2012	48.	029
2013	30th	101
2014	-	000
2015	59.	032
2016	31.	079
2017	61.	015th
2018	22nd	088

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Oslo	Norway	139.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	March 14, 2010	March 5, 2011
Oslo	Norway	141 m ( HS : 136 m)	March 5, 2011	March 9, 2019
Lillehammer	Norway	105 m ( HS : 100 m)	December 3, 2011	current

Awards (excerpt)

• 2006: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2012: Part of the Austrian team of the year (national ski jumping team)

Private

Andreas Kofler lives like his ÖSV teammate Gregor Schlierenzauer in the Tyrolean town of Fulpmes , where he also grew up. He is a graduate of the Stams Ski School and jumps for SV Innsbruck-Bergisel . After his basic military service, Kofler worked from August 9, 2004 to May 31, 2007 as a soldier in the Austrian Armed Forces in competitive sports. He achieved the rank of corporal and during this time was able to win silver and gold at the 2006 Olympic Games, his first "Individual" World Cup victory and the first three "Team" World Cup victories. In 2007, Kofler began the four-year training course for top police athletes to become an executive officer of the Austrian Federal Police in the Salzburg Security Academy's training center . In May 2011, Kofler passed the final exam and thus completed his training.

On May 20, 2017, Andreas Kofler married his long-time girlfriend Mirjam in Mieders . Their daughter Luise was born on June 1, 2018.

Web links

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

• Andreas Kofler in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas Kofler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website by Andreas Kofler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kofler fell badly at the start In: DerStandard . December 30, 2007, accessed December 14, 2011
2. ↑ tumult in red-white-red. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 6, 2010, accessed November 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Kofler leads ÖSV triple triumph. In: derstandard.at . November 27, 2011, accessed November 22, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Alex Aigner: "I'm more of the jump-off type". In: derstandard.at . November 25, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Markku Datler: Ski jumping: Kofler wins in Lillehammer. In: DiePresse.com . December 4, 2011, accessed November 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Austrian Championships 2016: Results of the normal hill team competition ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on the website of the Austrian Ski Association (PDF). Retrieved January 29, 2017. 
7. ↑ Ski jumper power in Ahonen's footsteps. In: derstandard.de. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Christoph Geiler: Ski jumping coach in a wheelchair: Lukas Müller has his first diploma. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
9. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
10. ↑ Army athlete successful again. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Army athletes get gold in Sapporo. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
12. ^ First win of the season in ski jumping by corporal Andreas Kofler. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Ski jumping: Andreas Kofler completes police training In: skijumping.de . May 26, 2010, accessed December 14, 2011
14. ↑ Sigi Lützow: With serenity in your back. In: derstandard.at . December 5, 2011, accessed November 22, 2017 . 
15. ↑ jump into marriage: Ski jumper Kofler married girlfriend Miriam. In: kleinezeitung.at. May 20, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Young dad Andreas Kofler is also on the upswing in terms of sport , accessed on May 6, 2019