Hunger began his sporting career as a Nordic combined athlete at SC Dynamo Klingenthal and won the gold medal in the individual competition at the Junior World Championships in 1983 in Kuopio . A year later he was able to win the team competition of the Junior World Championships with the GDR team. In the same year he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships and took fourth place with the team. At the beginning of the 1984/1985 season he won his only World Cup competition in Oberwiesenthal . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 , he just missed a medal in fourth place when the German Hermann Weinbuch won . In the overall World Cup, he finished fifth this season. In addition, he won the GDR championship in the individual ranking in 1985. Two years later he won the silver medal in the individual competition in the national championships and the GDR championship title in the team classification with the Klingenthal team. In 1987 he also competed in ski jumping and won two more GDR championships with victories in the individual competition on the large hill and the team classification. He was able to repeat his triumph in the individual ranking in 1988. In 1989 he won the silver medal in this competition and in the team competition. Also at the German Championships in 1991 it was enough for him in ski jumping from the 70 meter hill to 2nd place.
Hunger, who was always a strong ski jumper, switched to the special jumpers at the end of the 1980s and started in a ski jumping World Cup for the first time in March 1988. He took eighth place in Meldal , Norway . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1989 he finished 30th on the normal hill when Jens Weißflog won. He achieved his best result as a ski jumper at the World Cup in Thunder Bay, Canada at the beginning of the 1990/1991 season. There he narrowly missed the podium and finished fourth. This season he was able to win his first and only international medal. Hunger won the bronze medal in the team competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 together with Jens Weißflog, Dieter Thoma and André Kiesewetter . A year later, Hunger was the best German ski jumper in the individual competition at the Winter Olympics in Albertville . When Ernst Vettori won, he finished seventh in jumping from the normal hill. With the German team he finished fifth. His trainers were u. a. Jürgen Meinel, Henry Glaß , Jürgen Wolf and Herbert Leonhardt.
Hunger ended his active career. He has two sons and currently lives with his wife alternately in Stuttgart and Siebenhitz in the Saxon Vogtland.
German Democratic Republic of Germany
