Thomas Morgenstern

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German crime writer of the same name, see Thomas B. Morgenstern .

Thomas Morgenstern
Thomas Morgenstern 2012
nation	Austria
birthday	October 30, 1986
place of birth	Spittal an der Drau ,  Austria
size	184 cm
Weight	68 kg
job	Helicopter pilot
Career
society	SV Villach
Pers. Best	232.0 m ( Planica 2011)
status	resigned
End of career	September 26, 2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 8 × 2 × 1 × SFWM medals 3 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 3 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Large hill gold 2006 Turin team gold 2010 Vancouver team silver 2014 Sochi team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2005 Oberstdorf Team normal hill gold 2005 Oberstdorf Team large hill gold 2007 Sapporo team bronze 2007 Sapporo Normal hill gold 2009 Liberec team gold 2011 Oslo Normal hill gold 2011 Oslo Team normal hill gold 2011 Oslo Team large hill silver 2011 Oslo Large hill silver 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed team gold 2013 Val di Fiemme team  Ski flying world championships bronze 2004 Planica team bronze 2006 Bad Mitterndorf singles gold 2008 Oberstdorf team gold 2010 Planica team gold 2012 Vikersund team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 2003 Sollefteå team gold 2003 Sollefteå Normal hill gold 2004 Stryn team silver 2004 Stryn Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 29, 2002
World Cup victories (individual)	23 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	16 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 2007/08 , 2010/11 )
Ski flying world cup	03rd (2010/11)
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 2010/11 )
Nordic Tournament	01st (2006)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 22nd 26th 23  Ski flying 1 4th 0  Team jumping 16 8th 6th  Mixed team jumping 0 1 0
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	01. ( 2003 , 2007 , 2011 )

Thomas Morgenstern (born October 30, 1986 in Spittal an der Drau ) is a former Austrian ski jumper . With fourteen gold medals won (eight at Nordic World Ski Championships, three at Olympic Winter Games and three at Ski Flying World Championships) he is one of Austria's most successful medalists, although twelve of these fourteen gold medals were won in team competitions. He won the two individual medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin on the large hill and at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo on the normal hill . He is also the winner of the Four Hills Tournament in the 2010/11 season and overall World Cup winner in the 2007/08 and 2010/11 seasons . Thomas Morgenstern is one of the five athletes (besides him Espen Bredesen , Matti Nykänen , Jens Weißflog and Kamil Stoch ) who have won the four most important competitions in ski jumping (Olympics, World Championships, Overall World Cup and Four Hills Tournament). On September 26, 2014, at the age of 27, he announced his retirement from active sports.

Career

Thomas Morgenstern began his World Cup career in the 2002/03 season . After showing three wins and a second place in the Continental Cup in December 2002 , he celebrated his World Cup debut in the course of the Four Hills Tournament 2002/03 . With 9th place in Oberstdorf , 25th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , 12th in Innsbruck and 6th in Bischofshofen , Morgenstern made it to the top of the world. In the end, he finished 10th in the tour rating. Only five days after the end of the tour he won his first world cup competition in Liberec, Czech Republic . In February 2003 Morgenstern was then in Sollefteå both in individual jumping and with the team junior world champion.

He was able to confirm these successes in the following 2003/04 season . Morgenstern had a hard crash in the opening competition in Kuusamo . He overturned several times due to a strong gust of wind, but only got away with bruises, cuts and a concussion and got fit again in time for the Four Hills Tournament . There he took second place in Oberstdorf behind the eventual tour winner Sigurd Pettersen . With three further placements among the ten best at the events in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, Morgenstern finished fourth in the tour rating. At the Junior World Championships held in Stryn in February , he won the silver medal behind Mateusz Rutkowski from Poland and the gold medal with the team. Morgenstern took sixth place in the overall World Cup ranking.

Morgenstern also showed his skills in the 2004/05 season . He finished third in the Four Hills Tournament, won gold in the team at the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf from both big and small Bakken and secured seventh place in the World Cup ranking.

At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , Thomas Morgenstern was Olympic champion on the large hill with a lead of just 0.1 points over his teammate Andreas Kofler . Both outclassed the competition due to their long jumps of 140 and 139.5 m in the second round. The bronze medalist, Lars Bystøl , was already 26.2 points behind the Olympic champion. Furthermore, he and his teammates Andreas Widhölzl , Martin Koch and Andreas Kofler won the gold medal in the team competition on the large hill. In addition, Thomas Morgenstern won the Nordic Tournament this season with ranks five, two, one and two and a total of 14.5 points ahead of the Swiss Andreas Küttel .

At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo , together with Wolfgang Loitzl , Gregor Schlierenzauer and Andreas Kofler, he won the gold medal in the team competition on the large hill and the bronze medal in the individual competition on the normal hill. In the summer of 2007 he won the overall ranking of the Summer Grand Prix with four individual victories .

Thomas Morgenstern at the “Night of Sports” 2008

The 2007/08 season was very successful for the Carinthian: He was the first jumper in history to win the first six competitions of a World Cup season. In addition to Janne Ahonen , Matti Hautamäki and Gregor Schlierenzauer , Morgenstern is the only ski jumper who managed to win six World Cup competitions in a row. Six competitions before the end of the season he was the winner of the overall World Cup.

Morgenstern announced a change of ski brand in October 2008 and switched from Fischer to Atomic in the 2008/09 season . At the beginning of the 2009/10 season he switched back to Fischer (because Atomic stopped producing jump skis). On October 22, 2008 he was voted Austrian Sportsman of the Year .

The beginning of the season did not go according to plan and Thomas Morgenstern did not reach a podium. Just before the world championship , he took second place twice behind his teammate Gregor Schlierenzauer in the jumping competitions in Whistler and Sapporo . At his declared highlight of the season, the world championship, he landed in the second round on the normal hill at 101.5 m. Thus Morgenstern was the furthest in this round and on the way to the gold medal, but fell after the telemark landing and was only 8th in the team competition, he and his colleagues Gregor Schlierenzauer , Wolfgang Loitzl and Martin Koch secured the gold medal.

In the 2009/10 season , Morgenstern won another World Cup competition after almost two years of dry spell: on January 6, 2010, he won the final competition of the 58th Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen . After landing in midfield in the subsequent ski flying on the Kulm , he confirmed his good form with a win in Sapporo. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver he reached 8th place in jumping on the normal hill and 5th on the large hill. Together with Wolfgang Loitzl , Andreas Kofler and Gregor Schlierenzauer , he won the team competition in front of Germany and thus got his third Olympic gold medal.

The 2010/11 season was also extremely successful. At the turn of the year 2010/11, Morgenstern won the Four Hills Tournament for the first time with two daily victories (in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck) . Shortly afterwards, on January 9th, 2011 in Harrachov, he won his first ski flying victory. On February 13, 2011 he secured his second overall World Cup victory with a fifth place at Vikersundbakken three competitions before the end of the season. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , Morgenstern was world champion on the normal hill in both individual and team competitions. It was his first individual gold medal at world championships. This made him one of four jumpers at the time who had won Olympic gold , gold at world championships , the overall World Cup and the Four Hills Tournament . He was also world champion on the large hill in the team competition, in the individual competition he only had to admit defeat to Gregor Schlierenzauer and added silver to his collection of medals for the first time.

Morgenstern in March 2013

In June 2011 it was announced that Thomas Morgenstern is committed to the development work of ski jumping in Romania.

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season , Morgenstern fell on December 15 in Titisee-Neustadt and suffered a broken finger, abrasions on his face, bruises and bruises all over his body after celebrating his 23rd World Cup victory the day before. He was able to start again at the Four Hills Tournament and took second place in the overall standings. On January 10, 2014, he fell again while training for the Ski Flying World Cup on the Kulm and suffered critical injuries to his head and lungs. Nevertheless, he was able to take part in the Olympic Games in Sochi just a month later . There he took 14th place on the normal hill, on the large hill he did not reach the second round, with the team he won the silver medal. After the Winter Games, Morgenstern decided to end the 2013/14 season early and to think about retiring. On September 26, 2014, he announced his resignation at a press conference. He justified this with the psychological stress after the two serious falls in the Olympic season.

Private

Thomas Morgenstern is the nephew of ski racer Alois Morgenstern . He broke off an apprenticeship with the Austrian Federal Police that had started in 2007 in April 2008. Instead, he successfully completed his pilot training in autumn 2008. In 2012 he obtained his helicopter pilot license.

On April 11, 2013, Morgenstern announced the separation from his girlfriend, with whom he had been in a relationship for 10 years, via Facebook. He has a daughter with her who was born in December 2012.

successes

winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

• Normal hill: 9.
• Large hill: gold
• Team jumping: gold

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

• Normal hill: 8.
• Large hill: 5.
• Team jumping: gold

2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi

• Team jumping: silver

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01	January 11, 2003	Liberec	Large hill
02	March 10, 2006	Lillehammer	Large hill
03	December 1, 2007	Kuusamo	Large hill
04th	December 8, 2007	Trondheim	Large hill
05	December 9, 2007	Trondheim	Large hill
06th	December 13, 2007	Villach	Normal hill
07th	December 14, 2007	Villach	Normal hill
08th	December 22, 2007	Engelberg	Large hill
09	December 30, 2007	Oberstdorf	Large hill
10	February 2, 2008	Sapporo	Large hill
11	February 3, 2008	Sapporo	Large hill
12	February 8, 2008	Liberec	Large hill
13	January 6, 2010	Bischofshofen	Large hill
14th	January 16, 2010	Sapporo	Large hill
15th	4th December 2010	Lillehammer	Large hill
16	5th December 2010	Lillehammer	Large hill
17th	December 17, 2010	Engelberg	Large hill
18th	December 18, 2010	Engelberg	Large hill
19th	December 29, 2010	Oberstdorf	Large hill
20th	January 3, 2011	innsbruck	Large hill
21st	January 9, 2011	Harrachov	Ski jump
22nd	January 6, 2012	Bischofshofen	Large hill
23	December 14, 2013	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01	March 8, 2003	Oslo	Large hill
02	February 12, 2005	Pragelato	Large hill
03	March 4, 2006	Lahti	Large hill
04th	March 10, 2007	Lahti	Large hill
05	February 7, 2009	Willingen	Large hill
06th	March 7, 2009	Lahti	Large hill
07th	March 14, 2009	Vikersund	Ski jump
08th	November 27, 2009	Kuusamo	Large hill
09	November 27, 2010	Kuusamo	Large hill
10	January 29, 2011	Willingen	Large hill
11	February 6, 2011	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
12	March 12, 2011	Lahti	Large hill
13	March 19, 2011	Planica	Ski jump
14th	November 27, 2011	Kuusamo	Large hill
15th	March 3, 2012	Lahti	Large hill
16	March 17, 2012	Planica	Ski jump

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
01	August 10, 2003	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
02	August 14, 2005	Courchevel	Large hill
03	August 12, 2007	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
04th	August 18, 2007	Einsiedeln	Large hill
05	August 24, 2007	Zakopane	Large hill
06th	July 17, 2011	Wisła	Large hill
07th	July 20, 2011	Szczyrk	Normal hill
08th	July 23, 2011	Zakopane	Large hill
09	August 7, 2011	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
10	August 13, 2011	Courchevel	Large hill

Grand Prix victories as a team

No.	date	place	Type
01	August 9, 2003	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
02	August 4, 2004	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
03	August 11, 2007	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
04th	July 26, 2008	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
05	July 22, 2011	Zakopane	Large hill
06th	August 6, 2011	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 14, 2002	Lahti	Large hill
2.	December 21, 2002	Liberec	Large hill
3.	December 22, 2002	Liberec	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2002/03	20th	0385
2003/04	06th	0696
2004/05	07th	1138
2005/06	05.	0846
2006/07	06th	0756
2007/08	01.	1794
2008/09	07th	0795
2009/10	03.	0944
2010/11	01.	1757
2011/12	07th	1014
2012/13	25th	0312
2013/14	15th	0438

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
2002/03	10.	0913
2003/04	04th	1013
2004/05	03.	0986
2005/06	20th	0825
2006/07	04th	0916
2007/08	02.	1066
2008/09	08th.	1001
2009/10	06th	0987
2010/11	01.	0959
2011/12	02.	0908
2012/13	16.	0848
2013/14	02.	0994

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2003	01.	223
2004	04th	273
2005	03.	466
2006	26th	096
2007	01.	569
2008	07th	234
2009	52.	023
2010	04th	383
2011	01.	620
2012	22nd	096

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2002/03	18th	0380

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Oberstdorf	Germany	140.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 29, 2003	December 29, 2003
Kuusamo	Finland	146.5 m ( HS : 142 m)	December 1, 2007	December 1, 2007
Harrachov	Czech Republic	214.5 m ( HS : 205 m)	January 18, 2008	current

Awards (excerpt)

Sportsman of the year 2011, with Elisabeth Görgl

Sportsman of the year 2008, with Mirna Jukić

• Carinthian regional order in silver
• 2004: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 2005: Part of the Austrian team of the year (national ski jumping team)
• 2006: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2008: Austria's Sportsman of the Year
• 2008: Part of the Austrian Team of the Year (national ski jumping team)
• 2009: Part of the Austrian team of the year (national ski jumping team)
• 2011: Austria's Sportsman of the Year
• 2011: Part of the Austrian team of the year (national ski jumping team)
• 2012: Part of the Austrian team of the year (national ski jumping team)

He was also voted “Carinthian Sportsman of the Year” six times (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013) by the Carinthian Sports Press Club.

literature

• Thomas Morgenstern: The natural talent . In: Michael Kummerer (Ed.): From Großglockner to Klammer Stich - 100 years of skiing in Carinthia . Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2 , pp. 89-92.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Morgenstern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thomas Morgenstern in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Thomas Morgenstern in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website by Thomas Morgenstern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ February 17, 2014: Gold for the German ski jumpers in Sochi , in: berkutschi.com from February 17, 2020, accessed on February 17, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Morgenstern leaps into a new life . derStandard.at, September 26, 2014; accessed on September 27, 2014.
3. ↑ And again Morgenstern Der Standard, January 3, 2008.
4. ^ Küttel takes Morgenstern to print Der Standard, January 22, 2008.
5. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern provides development aid in Romania skispringen.com, June 14, 2011.
6. ↑ All-clear from Thomas Morgenstern skispringen.com, December 15, 2013, accessed on December 18, 2013.
7. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern wins in Titisee-Neustadt skispringen.com, December 14, 2013, accessed on December 18, 2013.
8. ↑ No all-clear at Morgenstern ORF, January 10, 2014.
9. ↑ Bruchpilot Morgenstern hopes for a medal miracle Die Welt online, February 9, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2014.
10. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern ends the season prematurely skispringen.com, accessed on February 27, 2014.
11. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern announces resignation skispringen.com, September 26, 2014.
12. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern's helicopter pilot training. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
13. ↑ His brutal jump. News.at, April 18, 2013.
14. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern is a father. Courier, December 26, 2012.
15. ↑ The favorite for Carinthia's athlete of the year is "Mathias Mayer" Mediathek Villach, accessed on December 28, 2015.