Gerhard Niederhammer

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Gerhard Niederhammer Ski jumping
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday July 20, 1940
place of birth Eisenerz ,  German Empire
size 171 cm
Weight 58 kg
job Miner
Career
society WSV Eisenerz
status resigned
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 20th ( 1961/62 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 0 2 2
 

Gerhard Niederhammer (born July 20, 1940 in Eisenerz ) is a former Austrian skier.

Career

Niederhammer began his sporting career as an alpine ski racer after the Second World War . He started ski jumping at the beginning of the 1950s . In 1958 he was invited to the Kongsberg Cup in Gstaad by Willi Egger , without having previously achieved any major success . There Niederhammer surprised the competition and came third. At the following Montgomery Cup he was fourth and then received a place in the Austrian national team. In 1959 he was Austrian youth champion. A little later Niederhammer was able to achieve second place at the Kongsberg Cup in Bischofshofen .

With the Four Hills Tournament in 1960/61 Niederhammer made his breakthrough in the national team. His best placement was 29th place on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen . In the overall ranking he reached 40th place. A year later he achieved a significant increase in performance at the Four Hills Tournament in 1961/62 . Niederhammer jumped from Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck to 16th place, which was his best individual result in all tour participations. In the overall ranking he was in 20th place after the tour was over. Because of this success he got a starting place at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1962 . However, Niederhammer only started from the normal hill and landed on the 57th place after jumps on 55 and 58.5 meters.

After these successes, it was difficult for Niederhammer to achieve similarly good performance in the following years due to his job as an employee in a mine. After rank 38 in the overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament 1962/63 and rank 84 in the Four Hills Tournament 1963/64 , he was only a substitute for the Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. However, there he was not used. Niederhammer was only used as a forerunner. After the Games, Niederhammer ended his active ski jumping career at the age of only 23.

After the end of his career, Niederhammer gave up his job and became a trainer at the Nordic training center in Eisenerz. For more than ten years he looked after the Austrian C-Juniors.

In 2000 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria by the Styrian regional government .

In addition to his winter sports career, Niederhammer played soccer at WSV Eisenerz in the Regionalliga Mitte .

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season space Points
1960/61 40. 737.0
1961/62 20th 797.5
1962/63 38. 634.7
1963/64 84. 341.1

Private

Niederhammer and his wife Hertha had two children, a son Johannes and a daughter Barbara.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 160
  2. ↑ Honorary sign holder of Styria ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Styrian Provincial Government 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verwaltung.steiermark.at
personal data
SURNAME Niederhammer, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian skier and soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenerz , German Empire