Armin Kogler

Armin Kogler
nation	Austria
birthday	4th September 1959
place of birth	Schwaz ,  Austria
size	178 cm
Weight	73 kg
job	Traffic pilot
Career
society	WSV Vomp
National squad	since 1977
Pers. Best	180 m (Oberstdorf 1981)
status	resigned
End of career	1985
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 × SFWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1982 Oslo Team K120 gold 1982 Oslo Normal hill bronze 1982 Oslo Large hill silver 1985 Seefeld Team K120  Ski flying world championships gold 1979 Planica singles silver 1981 Oberstdorf singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 27, 1979
World Cup victories (individual)	13 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1980/81 , 1981/82 )
Four Hills Tournament	02. ( 1980/81 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 13 12 11  Ski flying 0 0 1

Armin Kogler (born September 4, 1959 in Schwaz ) is a former Austrian ski jumper .

Career

Athletic career

As a child, Kogler came to ski jumping through his father Helmut, as he took part in jumping himself in his youth. At the age of ten, Kogler began regular training at WSV Vomp. On February 15, 1976 he was one of the forerunners in Karl Schnabl's victory at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, where he fell so badly before the second jump in the championship that he had to be operated on.
He joined the national team in 1977 through various junior successes , and coach Max Golser quickly brought him to the top of the world. Already in the winter of 1977/78 he proved his ability by winning the Austrian championship title on the large hill. He was also a participant in the World Championships in Lahti , where he came in 15th as a substitute for the injured Karl Schnabl when jumping on the large hill on February 25th. Kogler also impressed internationally and set a new American jumping record of 117 meters in the United States . There was also a victory in Canada on the 70m hill at Thunder Bay .
In 1979 Kogler became world ski flying champion at the ski flying world championship in Planica . In January 1980 he won his first two competitions in the Ski Jumping World Cup on the Big Thunder in Thunder Bay .

At the following Olympic Winter Games in 1980 in Lake Placid , Kogler reached 12th place on the normal hill. On the large hill, he narrowly missed a medal in fifth. In March, three more World Cup victories followed at Holmenkollen in Oslo , in Lahti and in Štrbské Pleso . In the end he finished second in the overall ranking of the ski jumping World Cup 1979/80 . On March 27, 1980, he improved the ski flying world record in Harrachov to 176 meters. He only improved this to 180 meters at the Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf in 1981 . He didn’t win the world championship, but finished second and took silver.

In the 1980/81 season , Kogler again celebrated three World Cup victories. In the end, after further podium finishes, he was the overall winner of the World Cup. Before that, he only had to admit defeat to his team-mate Hubert Neuper in the overall ranking of the 1980/81 Four Hills Tournament and finished second.

In the winter of 1981/82 Kogler found it difficult to find his strength. Although he won two more World Cups, his trainer Max Golser was exposed to severe criticism because of poor form. But at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo he found his strength back and secured the world championship title on the normal hill. He also won a silver and a bronze medal at the world championships. In the following World Cup competitions he never ended up outside the top eight and was thus able to celebrate his second victory in the overall World Cup at the end of the season. It was his last victory.

In the following season 1982/83 Kogler started again cautiously and was only twelfth overall in the Four Hills Tournament 1982/83 . Only once was he at the top of the podium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and celebrated his 12th World Cup victory. Kogler achieved his 13th and last victory in March on Skuibakken in Bærum . In the overall standings, he finished third. At the ski flying world championship in 1983 in Harrachov, he just missed his third medal in a row, finishing fourth.

For the 1983/84 Olympic season, Kogler's form finally collapsed. Like his team-mates, he could not find his old strength in any World Cup competition and missed the podium in all competitions. Despite this failure, he was part of the squad again at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . In jumping on the normal hill, Kogler disappointed as 52nd, but was again the best Austrian on the large hill in sixth.

With the 1984/85 season, Kogler wanted to end his international career. The highlight was the 1985 Nordic World Ski Championships in his home town of Seefeld in Tyrol . Although he was only moderately convincing in the individual competitions as 20th on the normal hill and 13th on the large hill, he and his team- mates Andreas Felder , Günther Stranner and Ernst Vettori won the silver medal in the team competition. After the end of the 1984/85 season , Kogler finally ended his active ski jumping career.

Professional career

In 1985, Kogler completed his pilot training and got a job as a commercial pilot with Tyrolean Airways and as a co-commentator and analyzer for ski jump broadcasts for the ORF . At the end of February 2007 he got testicular cancer and was therefore unable to comment on the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo. In the 2007/08 season he resumed his work as a co-commentator for ORF.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	country
01	January 19, 1980	Thunder Bay	Canada
02	January 20, 1980	Thunder Bay	Canada
03	March 5, 1980	Lahti	Finland
04th	March 16, 1980	Oslo	Norway
05	March 25, 1980	Štrbské Pleso	Slovakia
06th	January 6, 1981	Bischofshofen	Austria
07th	February 14, 1981	Sapporo	Japan
08th	March 10, 1981	Falun	Sweden
09	January 17, 1982	Sapporo	Japan
10	January 27, 1982	St. Moritz	Switzerland
11	February 21, 1982	Oslo	Norway
12	January 1, 1983	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany
13	March 11, 1983	Bærum	Norway

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	02.	220
1980/81	01.	205
1981/82	01.	189
1982/83	03.	211
1983/84	11.	85

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Harrachov	Czech Republic	176.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 27, 1980	March 19, 1983
Iron Mountain	United States	121.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	1980	1991
Bischofshofen	Austria	108.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 6, 1981	January 6, 1983
Falun	Sweden	90.5 m ( HS : 100 m)	March 10, 1981	March 6, 1984
Oberstdorf	Germany	180.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 26, 1981	March 16, 1984
Planica	Slovenia	134.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	March 22, 1981	March 27, 1993
Oberwiesenthal	Germany	94.0 m ( HS : 106 m)	1981	1983

Awards

Kogler was elected Austrian Sportsman of the Year three times in 1979, 1981 and 1982 , and in 1979 he was the first ever ski jumper to receive this award. Before he was the first Austrian to receive the Holmenkollen Medal in 1984 . Kogler's ski jumping skis are now a permanent exhibit at the winter sports exhibition in the Jenbacher Museum.

Private

Kogler married his wife Susanne Groyer in 1985 and had daughters Anna-Maria (* 1987) and Sabrina (* 1988) with her. His nephew is the Austrian ski jumper Martin Koch , who, in a transfer with Andreas Goldberger, took over the work of co-commentator from his uncle Armin Kogler.

In his spare time, Kogler continues to play actively, including tennis, golf and swimming. As a golfer, he is also president of his home club, GC Mieminger Plateau.

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 205-206.

Web links

• Armin Kogler in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Armin Kogler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Lipburger cheated of gold" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1978, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ "Sensational victory by Kogler" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 13, 1978, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ "Athletes 79: Moser, Kogler, Team" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1979, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ^ Columns 2 and 3, below: "Sportsman of the year" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 21, 1981, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ The LOTTERY GALA “Night of Sports 2010” . In: Active Sport . Retrieved December 28, 2014.
6. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
7. ^ Jenbacher Museum . In: Karwendel Silver Region . Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 28, 2014. 
8. ↑ Golfmieming.at , accessed on October 17, 2011