Heinz Kuttin

Heinz Kuttin
Heinz Kuttin 2006
nation	Austria
birthday	January 5, 1971
place of birth	Alleys ,  Austria
Career
society	SV Villach
National squad	since 1987
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 5 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1992 Albertville Large hill silver 1992 Albertville team bronze 1994 Lillehammer team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1989 Lahti Normal hill gold 1991 Val di Fiemme Team large hill gold 1991 Val di Fiemme Normal hill bronze 1993 Falun Team large hill  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1988 Saalfelden Normal hill gold 1988 Saalfelden team gold 1989 Vang team gold 1990 Štrbské Pleso Normal hill gold 1990 Štrbské Pleso team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1987
World Cup victories (individual)	2 ( details )
Overall World Cup	7th ( 1990/1991 )
Four Hills Tournament	7th ( 1993/94 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 6th 4th  Ski flying 0 0 1  Team jumping 2 0 0

Heinz Kuttin (born January 5, 1971 in Gassen , Carinthia ) is a former Austrian ski jumper . From April 2014 to April 2018 he was the coach of the Austrian national ski jumping team and is a member of SV Villach .

Career

Kuttin already reached eighth place when he made his World Cup debut in 1987 at the age of 16. Shortly thereafter, in 1988, he won his first junior world championship title in the team (February 4) and in the individual (February 7). His five titles at Junior World Championships are still unmatched. His career highlight followed in 1991 with the double world championship title in Predazzo, shortly afterwards he also won his first world cup competition in Trondheim . His career was repeatedly impaired by injuries, so he ended his active career in 1995 and ran the Nordic ski center - the Villacher Alpenarena  - in Villach until mid-2002 . In the 2002/03 season he was co-trainer with Stefan Horngacher in the Austrian national team under head coach Hannu Lepistö . From spring 2003 he was the main coach of the Polish B-team. Between 2004 and 2006, Kuttin coached the Polish national team.

Until the 2013/2014 season he worked as a base coach in Villach for the ÖSV . On April 11, 2014, he succeeded Alexander Pointner as Austrian head coach. On April 3, 2018, he announced his resignation. For the 2018/19 season he took over as coach of the Chinese women's national team with the long-term goal of preparing for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing . In March 2020, however, he announced his resignation from the Chinese team and became head coach of the French men's national team in early May of the same year. Shortly afterwards, however, Kuttin withdrew his acceptance. A few days later it became public that he was going to be the jumping coach of the German combined athletes.

Private

His son Philipp Kuttin , born January 7, 1998, is a Nordic combined skier at the "Schigemgemeinschaft Klagenfurt" and was a member of the Austrian team (Samuel Mraz, Mika Vermeulen, Daniel Rieder), which took place on January 28, 2015 at the European Youth Festival ( EYOF) won the gold medal. Heinz Kuttin's brothers, Klaus (born January 16, 1968) and Kurt (born June 6, 1972), were also ski jumpers (Klaus was in the youth team of the ÖSV ).

successes

• 2-time world champion 1991 in Predazzo (normal hill and team with Ernst Vettori , Andreas Felder and Stefan Horngacher )
• Bronze medal at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer in the team with Andreas Goldberger , Christian Moser and Stefan Horngacher
• Bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Courchevel on the large hill and silver medal with the team
• Bronze medal at the 1989 World Championships in Lahti (normal hill)
• Bronze medal at the World Championships in Falun in 1993 in the team with Andreas Goldberger, Ernst Vettori and Stefan Horngacher
• 3 times Austrian champion
• 5-time junior world champion (2 in singles, 3 in teams)

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 13, 1991	Trondheim	Large hill
2.	March 8, 1992	Trondheim	Large hill

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Trondheim	Norway	119.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	March 13, 1991	March 11, 1992

Awards

• 1992: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1994: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Furthermore, in 1991 he was voted "Carinthian Sportsman of the Year" by the Carinthian Sports Press Club.

literature

• Landesschiverband and Kleine Zeitung (ed.): From Großglockner to Klammer-Stich - 100 years of skiing in Carinthia . P. 55–60, Heinz Kuttin: The great Heinz flew too short, Carinthia Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2 .

Web links

• Heinz Kuttin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Heinz Kuttin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austria: Heinz Kuttin succeeds Pointner skispringen.com, April 11, 2014
2. ↑ Heinz Kuttin no longer coach of the ÖSV jumpers | Sky Sport Austria . In: Sky Sport Austria . April 3, 2018 ( skysportaustria.at [accessed April 3, 2018]).
3. ↑ Heinz Kuttin becomes head coach in China , on berkutschi.com, July 9, 2018. Accessed September 11, 2018.
4. ↑ Ski jumping: Kuttin will be the head coach of France's men's team , on derstandard.at, on May 4, 2020. Accessed on May 4, 2020.
5. ↑ Heinz Kuttin does not take over France's World Cup team on sport1.de , accessed on May 10, 2020
6. ↑ Kuttin will be jumping coach in the German team at sport.ORF.at , accessed on May 12, 2020
7. ↑ ^{a b} List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 11, 2015.