Martin Höllwarth

Martin Höllwarth
nation	Austria
birthday	April 13, 1974
place of birth	Schwaz ,  Austria
job	Regular soldier
Career
society	SC Mayrhofen
Pers. Best	222.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 3 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville Large hill silver 1992 Albertville Normal hill silver 1992 Albertville team bronze 1998 Nagano team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1999 Ramsau Large hill team gold 2001 Lahti Team normal hill bronze 2001 Lahti Normal hill bronze 2001 Lahti Large hill team gold 2005 Oberstdorf Team normal hill gold 2005 Oberstdorf Large hill team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 1991 Reit im Winkl Normal hill bronze 1992 Vuokatti Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	1st December 1991
World Cup victories (individual)	08 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	06 ( details )
Overall World Cup	05th ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Ski flying world cup	07. (1999/00)
Jump World Cup	17. (1999/00)
Four Hills Tournament	02. ( 1991/92 , 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Nordic Tournament	05th (2003)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 8th 6th 14th  Ski flying 0 0 1  Team jumping 6th 3 4th
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	02. ( 2004 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 5 2  Team jumping 2 2 1

Martin Höllwarth (born April 13, 1974 in Schwaz , Tyrol ) is a former Austrian ski jumper . Until September 2009 he was also the head coach of the Estonian national ski jumping team.

Career

Martin Höllwarth jumps from the hill

Höllwarth has been in the squad of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) since 1989 . He celebrated his first international success in 1991 when he won the Junior World Championship in Reit im Winkl . At the Four Hills Tournament in 1992, when he was 17, he finished second behind Toni Nieminen from Finland . Seven weeks later, he won at the Winter Olympics in Albertville three silver medals.

In the following years, Höllwarth was unable to preserve this shape. Despite two victories in World Cup ski jumping (1993 in Sapporo and 1997 in Willingen ) Höllwarth did not land in the top places in the overall World Cup ranking. It was not until the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano that he took third place and thus won the bronze medal in the team competition again on the podium. A year later he won his first World Championship medal among adults with the Austrian team at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau am Dachstein in 1999 with third place in the team competition on the large hill.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Lahti , he was world champion with the Austrian national ski jumping team in the team competition on the 90 m hill. He won two more bronze medals in the individual competition on the 90 m hill and in the team competition on the 120 m hill.

The following seasons brought confirmation of these results. Between 2001/02 and 2003/04 he was twice sixth and once fifth in the overall World Cup standings. Höllwarth also celebrated successes at the Four Hills Tournament with third place in 2002, second place in 2004 behind the Norwegian Sigurd Pettersen and second place in 2005 behind Janne Ahonen . With his victory in the final competition of the 2004/05 tour in Bischofshofen , he also prevented Ahonen from winning all four competitions of a tour as the second jumper after Sven Hannawald .

Höllwarth experienced a dark point on February 4, 2001 in a traffic accident in which he was driving a car and in which the then head coach of the Austrian ski jumpers, Alois Lipburger , lost his life. Höllwarth and Andreas Widhölzl , also sitting in the car, survived the accident with minor injuries.

On March 14, 2007, Höllwarth was deleted from the ÖSV entry list because, according to an ÖSV broadcast, he had "damaged the reputation of the ÖSV jumpers team and its employees with statements within the team and towards third parties". These statements are the result of differences between Höllwarth and assistant trainer Marc Nölke. After an apology and a conversation with the Nordic director, Toni Innauer , Höllwarth was allowed to participate in the next competition, the ski flying competition in Planica, as it became known on March 19.

In April 2008, Höllwarth announced the end of his career as an active jumper and then worked as the head coach of the Estonian national team. In the summer of 2008 he took part in the ORF soccer show " Das Match ". The Estonian Ski Association ended the cooperation with Höllwarth in September 2009 for financial reasons and due to the lack of sporting success of the Estonian ski jumping team.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 10, 1992	Predazzo	Normal hill
2.	December 19, 1992	Sapporo	Large hill
3.	February 5, 1997	Willingen	Large hill
4th	December 7, 2002	Trondheim	Large hill
5.	December 14, 2002	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
6th	December 15, 2002	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
7th	January 18, 2004	Zakopane	Large hill
8th.	January 6, 2005	Bischofshofen	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 12, 1992	Predazzo	Large hill
2.	March 28, 1992	Planica	Large hill
3.	March 15, 1996	Oslo	Large hill
4th	January 13, 2002	Willingen	Large hill
5.	February 12, 2005	Pragelato	Large hill
6th	March 10, 2007	Lahti	Large hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1991/92	10.	0112
1992/93	13.	0055
1993/94	90.	0002
1994/95	53.	0037
1995/96	26th	0244
1996/97	19th	0293
1997/98	11.	0568
1998/99	18th	0385
1999/00	16.	0347
2000/01	13.	0374
2001/02	06th	0737
2002/03	06th	0925
2003/04	05.	0731
2004/05	05.	1179
2005/06	40.	0059
2006/07	18th	0284
2007/08	53.	0026th

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 8, 2001	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
2.	September 14, 2003	innsbruck	Large hill
3.	September 26, 2004	Hakuba	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 9, 2003	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
2.	August 1, 2004	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1994	32.	408
1995	50.	202
1996	40.	015th
1997	03.	246
1998	14th	113
1999	15th	066
2000	15th	155
2001	04th	333
2002	04th	306
2003	03.	176
2004	02.	362
2005	17th	103
2006	18th	115
2007	57.	026th

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Planica	Slovenia	196.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 17, 1994	March 17, 1994
Willingen	Germany	130.0 m ( HS : 145 m)	February 1, 1997	January 29, 1999
Oberstdorf	Germany	126.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 29, 2000	December 29, 2000
Stams	Austria	116.0 m ( HS : 115 m)	August 18, 2001	October 17, 2009
innsbruck	Austria	135.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	September 13, 2002	September 11, 2004

Private life

Höllwarth is a regular soldier in the Austrian Armed Forces and a member of the Army Sports Association . He has been married since April 2001 and has three children.

Web links

• Martin Höllwarth in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Martin Höllwarth in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on December 27, 2011.
2. ↑ Ski jumping: Martin Höllwarth ends his career . diepresse.com. April 3, 2008. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
3. ↑ Suusaliit loobus koostööst Martin Höllwarthiga . www.ohtuleht.ee/. September 18, 2009. Archived from the original on September 28, 2009. 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. Retrieved December 8, 2009.