Horst Bulau (born August 14, 1962 in Gloucester , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ski jumper . He is the most successful Canadian ski jumper of all time. However, since ski jumping is more of a marginal sport in Canada, more attention was paid to his successes in Europe than in his homeland.
1979 Bulau became junior world champion in ski jumping. In the following years he was also very successful with senior citizens on an international level. He won a total of 13 World Cup competitions in his career, all between 1981 and 1983. In the overall World Cup he came third in the 1980/81 and 1981/82 seasons, second in 1982/83 and eighth in 1983/84 . At the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984 he reached the 38th place on the normal hill and tenth place on the large hill.
From 1986 onwards he usually did not play a whole World Cup season, but often only took part in the Four Hills Tournament and the jumping competitions in Thunder Bay , Canada . When he competed, he still often achieved placements in the top ten until the early 1990s, most recently in Trondheim in 1991. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 in Calgary , he was only 44th on the normal hill and seventh on the large hill. He then skipped the 1988/1989 and 1989/1990 seasons entirely. After the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , which were disappointing for him , he ended his career.
The Viennese singer-songwriter duo Christoph and Lollo processed a fictional life story of Bulau in the song Das Lied is Bulau, which includes all kinds of problems and precipitation.
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