Werner Schuster (athlete)

Werner Schuster
Werner Schuster in Oslo 2011
nation	Austria
birthday	4th September 1969 (age 50)
place of birth	Hirschegg ,  Austria
Career
National squad	since 1986
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0January 6, 1986
Ski flying world cup	16. ( 1992/93 )
Jump World Cup	26. ( 1987/88 )
Four Hills Tournament	55th ( 1992/93 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 0
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	17. ( 1995 )
last change: July 31, 2018

Werner Schuster (born September 4, 1969 in Hirschegg ) is a former Austrian ski jumper and today's ski jumping trainer. From 2008 to March 24, 2019, he was the national coach of the German national ski jumping team.

Career

Career as a ski jumper

The Vorarlberg Werner Schuster, son of the active also as a ski jumper Willy Schuster , from 1986 to 1995 active ski jumpers. However, he mostly did not get beyond the second-rate competition series European Cup and Continental Cup . In the 1990/91 season he won the Black Forest tour integrated in the European Cup and was also second in the overall European Cup standings. His best placement in the World Cup was a second place in jumping in Sapporo in December 1987 . In addition, since 1994, together with his colleague Matthias Wallner , he has held the all-time hill record of 158.0 meters on Copper Peak , the world's smallest ski flying hill , which was closed after this jump. While still active, he began studying sport and psychology at the University of Innsbruck (graduated in 2001 with the diploma thesis “Sport-oriented versatility training as a guiding principle for coordinative-technical training in ski jumping”).

Career as a ski jumping trainer

After finishing his active career, he trained as a ski jumping trainer in Innsbruck . From 1998 he worked as a trainer at the ski school in Stams . In 2007 he became the head coach of the Swiss national team. In March 2008 he was appointed coach of the German national team as the successor to Peter Rohwein . With the move to Schuster, the DSV initiated a fundamental change. When Schuster competed, no DSV athlete was among the top 15 in the overall World Cup, so the national coach first had to make long-term structural changes together with the sports director Horst Hüttel . The first sporting successes were already evident at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , when Martin Schmitt won the silver medal on the large hill. While it is difficult to attribute the achievements of a single athlete to the national coach, the successes of the German team as a whole reflect the work of Schuster. He celebrated his greatest success as a trainer at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi by winning the gold medal in team jumping. The victory of the Nations Cup of the World Cup 2014/15 is just as highly valued if it was only the second time after the 2001/02 season that Germany succeeded. After all, the German team took first place at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld and thus won the first team world championship title under Schuster's leadership. In total, Germany has had ten team World Cup victories since 2009.

In addition, Schuster and his coaching staff succeeded in shaping individual athletes into world-class athletes. As the trainer of Severin Freund , Andreas Wellinger , Richard Freitag and Markus Eisenbichler , he looked after ski jumpers who won major titles under his aegis or who were able to jump onto the podium in the overall World Cup. The Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun will be remembered , where Freund was the first German to win individual gold again after 15 years. Schuster commented on this success with the sentence: "I would never have thought that I would be able to wave off a world champion one day."

He ended his work as national coach for the German ski jumping team, which he began in 2008, on March 24, 2019, and was succeeded by Stefan Horngacher .

In May 2019, Schuster announced that he would be working again as a personal trainer for Gregor Schlierenzauer in preparation for the 2019/20 season .

Schuster is married and has two children.

successes

European Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 2, 1991	Titisee-Neustadt	K-110
2.	March 3, 1991	Schönwald	K-85

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 6, 1994	Calgary	K-89

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1987/88	26th	030th
1988/89	57.	006th
1990/91	43.	010
1991/92	48.	004th
1992/93	54.	002
1993/94	52.	047
1994/95	93.	001

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up	Record up
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	82.5 m (HS: 89 m)	1987	current
Iron Mountain	United States	122.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	1991	February 18, 1996
Ironwood	United States	158.0 m (HS: 180 m)	January 23, 1994	current

Web links

• Werner Schuster in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Werner Schuster in the berkutschi.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Schuster leaves when it is most beautiful. In: tagesspiegel.de. March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 . 
2. ^ Ironwood MI - Copper Peak . skisprungschanzen.com. Retrieved on May 5, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Holdings of the Austrian National Library
4. ↑ DSV: Werner Schuster replaces Peter Rohwein ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Werner Schuster continues work in the DSV. In: deutscherskiverband.de. November 19, 2014, accessed June 12, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Severin Freund: World Champion on the large hill. In: badische-zeitung.de. February 27, 2015, accessed June 12, 2019 . 
7. ↑ https://www.sportschau.de/wintersport/skispringen/werner-schuster-der-skisprungtrainer-sagt-servus-100.html
8. ↑ New job for former national coach Schuster. In: t-online.de. May 7, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .