In 1979/80 he won the Four Hills Tournament and was also the winner of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, which was held for the first time this winter . The following winter he won the tour again, in the World Cup he was fourth. At the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 , he won a silver medal each. In the 1983/84 season he again reached second place in the overall standings. He played his last World Cup competition on January 6, 1985 at the Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen . At a young age, together with Armin Kogler, he was part of the Austrian ski jumping wonder team around Karl Schnabl , Anton Innauer , Alois Lipburger and Willi Pürstl , which Baldur Preiml had formed in the early 1970s. Hubert Neuper and Armin Kogler prolonged the success story of the Austrian national ski jumping team well into the 1980s. Neuper achieved 50 top ten placements at major ski jumping events from 1977 to 1985.
He announced his resignation on January 23, 1985 in Seefeld on the occasion of the Nordic World Ski Championships taking place there . After the end of his career, Neuper first worked in his profession as a pilot and at the same time ran his father's ski school. In 1996 he was the organizer of the ski flying world championship in Bad Mitterndorf / Tauplitz . Between 1997 and 2000 Neuper was the managing director of Österreichische Sporthilfe . In this role he initiated the World Sports Awards of the Century . This sports gala took place on November 19, 1999 in the Vienna State Opera . A jury chaired by the then IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch selected the greatest athletes of the century for the occasion. The World Sports Awards Foundation emerged from this event , on whose behalf Neuper organized another gala with many sports greats in London in 2001. In the following years this gala series was merged with the Laureus Awards , which are now presented annually in Monte Carlo. Neuper has a seat on the supervisory board of the associated foundation. He is also managing director of Neuper & Team GmbH, which organized the ski flying world cup on the Kulm every year .
Hubert Neuper has been married since 1984 and has two daughters. In 2003 he published his autobiography under the title Flatline .
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