Thomas Morgenstern

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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Gold	2006 Turin	Individual large hill
Gold	2006 Turin	Team large hill
World Championships
Gold	2005 Oberstdorf	Team normal hill
Gold	2005 Oberstdorf	Team large hill

Thomas Morgenstern also known as "Morgi" (born 30 October 1986 in Spittal an der Drau) is an Austrian ski jumper.

He is one of the biggest natural ski jumping talents in Austria. At the 2002-3 Four Hills Tournament, he made his ski jumping debut. During this season he finished 9th in Oberstdorf, 25th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 9th in Innsbruck and 6th in Bischofshofen. Five days after the end of the tournament, he won his first World Cup jump, in Liberec, Czech Republic.

He continued his success well into the 2003-4 season. He was second overall to Sigurd Pettersen during most of the Four Hills tournament, finally ending up in fourth place.

Morgenstern won both team Competitions at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Normal and Large Hills).

During the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medals in the individual and team large hill competitions.

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• FIS Profile

Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill

1924: Jacob Tullin Thams | 1928: Alf Andersen | 1932: Birger Ruud | 1936: Birger Ruud | 1948: Petter Hugsted | 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann | 1956: Antti Hyvärinen | 1960: Helmut Recknagel | 1964: Toralf Engan | 1968: Vladimir Belussov | 1972: Wojciech Fortuna | 1976: Karl Schnabl | 1980: Jouko Törmänen | 1984: Matti Nykänen | 1988: Matti Nykänen | 1992: Toni Nieminen | 1994: Jens Weissflog | 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki | 2002: Simon Ammann | 2006: Thomas Morgenstern

Olympic Champions in men's ski jumping team large hill

1988 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Matti Nykänen, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Jari Puikkonen 1992 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Laakkonen, & Toni Nieminen 1994 Germany Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Jens Weissflog 1998 Japan Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada, & Kazuyoshi Funaki 2002 Germany Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann, & Martin Schmitt 2006 Austria Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch, & Thomas Morgenstern

World Champions in men's ski jumping team large hill

1982 Norway Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth, & Olav Hansson 1984 Finland Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen, & Matti Nykänen 1985 Finland Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen, & Jari Puikkonen 1987 Finland Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Pekka Suorsa 1989 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen, & Risto Laakkonen 1991 Austria Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori, Stefan Horngacher, & Andreas Felder 1993 Norway Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg, & Espen Bredesen 1995 Finland Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen, & Ari-Pekka Nikkola 1997 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen, & Janne Ahonen 1999 Germany Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Martin Schmitt 2001 Germany Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr, & Martin Schmitt 2003 Finland Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi, & Matti Hautamäki 2005 Austria Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, & Martin Höllwarth