Toni Innauer
ski jumper
Anton Innauer (born 1 April 1958) is an Austrian former ski jumper.
Career
His best-known success was at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, where he won a gold medal in the individual normal hill event. Innauer also won a silver medal in the individual large hill at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1975. He also won the silver medal at the Ski flying World Championships in Vikersund in 1977.
On 5 March 1976, he set the ski jumping world record distance at 174 metres (571 ft). And again two days later improved world record at 176 metres (577 ft), both of them set in Oberstdorf, West Germany.
Innauer retired from competitions in 1980 due to an ankle injury. In 1987, he graduated from the University of Graz with a degree in philosophy, psychology, and sports science. His thesis was on the sociology of ski jumping. Between 1987 and 1989, he was a ski jumper and ski jumping coach.
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