Matjaž Zupan

Matjaž Zupan
Matjaž Zupan in Oslo 2011
nation	Slovenia
birthday	September 27, 1966
place of birth	Kranj ,  Yugoslavia
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Calgary 1988 team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 13, 1986
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 0  Team jumping 0 0 1

Matjaž Zupan (born September 27, 1966 in Kranj ) is a Slovenian ski jumping trainer and former ski jumper .

He initially worked as an assistant coach under Heinz Koch for the Austrian national team. Since the 1999/2000 season he has been the coach of the Slovenian national ski jumping team. Zupan was 20 years ski jumper and reached the World Cup next to a 2nd place at the ski flying in Planica (1988) with the Yugoslav team also 2nd place in the team at the Olympic Games in Calgary.

Coach successes

As a coach, his team has regularly achieved good placements, such as the silver medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf on the normal hill in the 2004/05 season . Highlights were, for example, the successes of Peter Žonta in the 2003/04 season (3rd place in the Four Hills Tournament, top 10 placement in the overall World Cup) or the world championship title for Rok Benkovič in 2005 in Oberstdorf (normal hill). Zupan resigned after the 2005/06 season as the head coach of the Slovenian team, his successor was Vasja Bajc . Zupan looked after the Czech B-squad for two years, until it was announced in April 2008 that he would replace Bajc's successor Ari-Pekka Nikkola as head coach in Slovenia.

For the 2011/12 season , Zupan took over the French team as head coach and in April 2012 extended his contract in France until 2014. In 2014 he took over the Russian national team together with David Jiroutek .

In October 2017, Zupan took over the post of Bulgarian head coach from Alexander Pointner to prepare the team for the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Web links

Commons : Matjaž Zupan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ skispringen.com: skispringen.com: Matjaz Zupan was French head coach until 2014. In: skijumping.de. Retrieved May 24, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Matjaz Zupan Nowym trenerem w Bułgarii. In: sportsinwinter.pl. October 17, 2017, accessed February 7, 2019 (Polish).