Thomas Morgenstern

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Thomas Morgenstern
Thomas Morgenstern departure to Sochi.jpg
Morgenstern in 2014
Country Austria
Born (1986-10-30) 30 October 1986 (age 34)
Spittal an der Drau, Austria
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Personal best232 m (761 ft)
Planica, 19 March 2011
World Cup career
Seasons2003–2014
Individual wins23
Team wins16
Indiv. podiums76
Team podiums31
Indiv. starts245
Team starts31
Overall titles2 (2008, 2011)
Four Hills titles1 (2011)
Nordic titles1 (2006)
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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 1 0
World Championships 8 2 1
Ski Flying World Championships 3 0 2
Total 14 3 3
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Turin Individual LH
Gold medal – first place 2006 Turin Team LH
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver Team LH
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Team LH
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Oberstdorf Team NH
Gold medal – first place 2005 Oberstdorf Team LH
Gold medal – first place 2007 Sapporo Team LH
Gold medal – first place 2009 Liberec Team LH
Gold medal – first place 2011 Oslo Individual NH
Gold medal – first place 2011 Oslo Team NH
Gold medal – first place 2011 Oslo Team LH
Gold medal – first place 2013 Val di Fiemme Team LH
Silver medal – second place 2011 Oslo Individual LH
Silver medal – second place 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed NH
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Sapporo Individual NH
Men's ski flying
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Oberstdorf Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Planica Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Vikersund Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Planica Team
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Bad Mitterndorf Individual
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Thomas Morgenstern (born 30 October 1986) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2014. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won the World Cup overall title twice, the Four Hills Tournament and the Nordic Tournament once each, eight World Championship gold medals (one individual, seven team), and three Winter Olympic gold medals (one individual, two team).

After winning gold medal individually in Oslo 2011.
Andreas Kofler, Thomas Morgenstern, Adam Małysz in Oslo 2011 – medal ceremony (men individual, normal hill)
Ski flying world cup in Vikersund 2011
During the team competition on 2 March 2013.
Individual competition on World Championship 2013 in Val di Fiemme on large hill.
Medal ceremony at World Championship 2013 in Val di Fiemme (team competition).

Career[]

Morgenstern began his ski jumping career in the Continental Cup, winning three events out of four attempts.[1] He made his senior level World Cup debut at the 2002–03 Four Hills Tournament, where he finished 9th in Oberstdorf, 25th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 9th in Innsbruck and 6th in Bischofshofen; this placed him 10th overall in the final tournament standings. Five days after the end of the tournament, he won his first World Cup event in Liberec.[2] In the following summer, he won the Ski jumping Grand Prix for the first time.[3]

At the start of the 2003–04 season, Morgenstern suffered a violent accident in Kuusamo, in which he was hit by a gust of wind just after takeoff, forcing him to flip over in mid-air and land hard on his back.[4] He only sustained minor injuries, and managed to recover quickly to continue his success. He was second overall to Sigurd Pettersen during most of that season's Four Hills tournament, finally ending up in fourth place. He won his first team medal with a 3rd place at the Ski-Flying World Championships.[5]

In the next season, Morgenstern won gold medals in both team events (normal hill and large hill) at the Nordic World Ski Championships.[6]

During the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medals in the individual and team large hill competitions.[7] Further, he won the bronze medal in the single event at the Ski-Flying World Championships in Bad Mitterndorf.[5] By ending up as 5th, Morgenstern achieved his best ranking in the world cup so far.[2]

In the 2006–07 season, he won the large hill team event at the Nordic World Ski Championships. Further, by reaching the 3rd place in the normal hill event he won his first individual medal at world championships.[6] As in 2003, Morgenstern won the Ski jumping Grand Prix.[3]

At the beginning of the 2007–08 season, he won the first six competitions, which is an all-time record.[8] With these six wins he also tied the record for most wins in a row, previously set by Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki and Gregor Schlierenzauer.[9] In early 2008, Morgenstern won a gold medal at the Ski-Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf. Morgenstern won the world cup for the first time, 233 points ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer.

During the 2008–09 season, Morgenstern could not win any competition, but won a team gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec.[6]

The 2009–10 world cup again was very modest with only two victories. However, Morgenstern won gold medals in the team events at the Ski-Flying World Championships and the 2010 Winter Olympics.[5][7]

The season 2010–11 again started very successful by winning four of the first six competitions. Morgenstern further won the Four Hills Tournament for the first time in this season. In January 2011, he won his first ski flying event in Harrachov, and fixed his second victory of the ski jumping world cup with a 5th place at the ski flying competition in Vikersund on 13 February. At the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo he won gold on the normal hill. It was his first gold medal in an individual event at world championships. In the following he further won gold medals in the team events (normal hill and large hill), both times together with Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch and Gregor Schlierenzauer, as well as the silver medal in the individual large-hill event.

On 10 January 2014, he suffered serious head injuries during training for the ski flying event in Bad Mitterndorf.[10] He recovered in time to take part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he placed 14th in the normal hill and 40th in the large hill men's individual ski jumping events.[11]

On 26 September 2014, Morgenstern announced his retirement from competitive ski jumping.[12] His last jump in competitive ski jumping was when he won the silver medal with the Austrian team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

World Cup[]

Standings[]

Season Overall 4H SF NT
2002/03 20 10 N/A 9
2003/04 6 4 N/A 9
2004/05 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) N/A 8
2005/06 5 20 N/A 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2006/07 6 4 N/A 17
2007/08 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) N/A 6
2008/09 7 8 18 8
2009/10 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 18 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2010/11 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) N/A
2011/12 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7 N/A
2012/13 25 16 — N/A
2013/14 15 2nd place, silver medalist(s) — N/A

Wins[]

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2002/03 11 January 2003   Czech Republic Liberec Ještěd A K120 (night) LH
2 2005/06 10 March 2006   Norway Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS134 (night) LH
3 2007/08 1 December 2007   Finland Kuusamo Rukatunturi HS142 (night) LH
4 8 December 2007   Norway Trondheim Granåsen HS131 (night) LH
5 9 December 2007   Norway Trondheim Granåsen HS131 LH
6 13 December 2007   Austria Villach Villacher Alpenarena HS98 NH
7 14 December 2007   Austria Villach Villacher Alpenarena HS98 (night) NH
8 22 December 2007   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
9 30 December 2007   Germany Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night) LH
10 2 February 2008   Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH
11 3 February 2008   Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 LH
12 8 February 2008   Czech Republic Liberec Ještěd A HS134 (night) LH
13 2009/10 6 January 2010   Austria Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS140 (night) LH
14 16 January 2010   Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH
15 2010/11 4 December 2010   Norway Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS138 (night) LH
16 5 December 2010   Norway Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS138 LH
17 17 December 2010   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
18 18 December 2010   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
19 30 December 2010   Germany Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night) LH
20 4 January 2011   Austria Innsbruck Bergiselschanze HS130 LH
21 9 January 2011   Czech Republic Harrachov Čerťák HS205 FH
22 2011/12 6 January 2012   Austria Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS140 (night) LH
23 2013/14 14 December 2013   Germany Titisee-Neustadt Hochfirstschanze HS142 LH

Honours[]

  • Gold Merit Badge of Austria: 2004
  • Grand Decoration of Austria: 2006
  • Austrian Sportspersonality of the year: 2008, 2011
  • Part of the Austrian Sportsteam of the year, together with the Austrian ski jumping team: 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011
  • Carinthian Sportspersonality of the year: 4 times, including 2008, 2010

Personal life[]

In 2013 he left his girlfriend of 10 years and went on vacation to Hawaii with his new girlfriend, a physiotherapist.[13] He has a daughter named Lily (born 26 December 2012) with his ex-fiancee.

References[]

  1. ^ Morgenstern's FIS-Ski Continental Cup Results Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Morgenstern's FIS-Ski World Cup Results Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Morgenstern's FIS-Ski Grand Prix Results Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Morgenstern hospitalised after another crash". Gulf Times. 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Morgenstern's FIS-Ski-Flying World Championships Results
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c Morgenstern's FIS-Ski World Championships Results
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Morgenstern's Olympic Winter Games Results
  8. ^ Der Standard: Und wieder Morgenstern, 14 December 2007 (German)
  9. ^ Der Standard: Küttel nimmt Morgenstern den Druck, 23 December 2007 (German)
  10. ^ "Schädelverletzung bei Morgenstern". orf.at. 10 January 2014.
  11. ^ sochi2014.com/en/athlete-thomas-morgenstern
  12. ^ "Three-time Olympic ski jump champ Morgenstern retires". foxsports.com. 26 September 2014.
  13. ^ Morgenstern dumps partner and three-month-old baby for affair with massage therapist Austrian Independent, 19 April 2013

External links[]

Awards
Preceded by
Thomas Vanek
Jürgen Melzer 		Austrian Sportsman of the year
2008
2011 		Succeeded by
Wolfgang Loitzl
Marcel Hirscher
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