Thomas Morgenstern

Thomas Morgenstern
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Morgenstern
Born	(1986-10-30) 30 October 1986 Spittal an der Drau, Austria
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Professional information
Club	SV Villach
Skis	Fischer
Personal best	232,0 m (Planica 2011)
World Cup
Wins	23 (+1 Ski Flying +16 Team)
Additional podiums	53 (+4 Ski Flying +14 Team)
Total podiums	76 (+5 Ski Flying +30 Team)
Medal record Competitor for  Austria Men's ski jumping Olympic Games Gold 2006 Turin Individual large hill Gold 2006 Turin Team large hill Gold 2010 Vancouver Team large hill World Championships Gold 2005 Oberstdorf Team normal hill Gold 2005 Oberstdorf Team large hill Gold 2007 Sapporo Team large hill Gold 2009 Liberec Team large hill Gold 2011 Oslo Individual normal hill Gold 2011 Oslo Team normal hill Gold 2011 Oslo Team large hill Gold 2013 Val di Fiemme Team large hill Silver 2011 Oslo Individual large hill Silver 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed normal hill Bronze 2007 Sapporo Individual normal hill Ski Flying Championships Gold 2008 Oberstdorf Team flying hill Gold 2010 Planica Team flying hill Gold 2012 Vikersund Team flying hill Bronze 2004 Planica Individual flying hill Bronze 2006 Bad Mitterndorf Individual flying hill Junior World Ski Championships Gold 2003 Solleftea Team Gold 2003 Solleftea Individual Gold 2004 Stryn Team Silver 2004 Stryn Individual
Updated on 14 December 2013.

Thomas Morgenstern (born 30 October 1986 in Spittal an der Drau) is an Austrian ski jumper. Having won the world cup twice, the Four Hills Tournament and the Nordic Tournament once each, the Grand Prix three times, and 12 gold medals at world championships and Olympic games, he is one of the most successful contemporary jumpers.

Personal life

In 2013 he left his girlfriend of 10 years and went on vacation to Hawaii with his new girlfriend, a physiotherapist. ^[1] At the time he had a three-month-old baby with his ex-girlfriend.

Career

Thomas Morgenstern is one of the biggest natural ski jumping talents in Austria. After winning three continental cup events (out of four starts),^[2] he made his ski jumping debut at the 2002–03 Four Hills Tournament. He finished 9th in Oberstdorf, 25th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 9th in Innsbruck and 6th in Bischofshofen, finishing up as 10th in the final ranking. Five days after the end of the tournament, he won his first World Cup jump, in Liberec, Czech Republic.^[3] In the following summer, he won the Ski jumping Grand Prix for his first time.^[4]

He continued his success well into the 2003–04 season. He was second overall to Sigurd Pettersen during most of the 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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 on the Vikersundbakken 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.

As of 14 December 2013, Morgenstern has 23 World Cup victories, 3 Olympic gold medals, and 11 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals at world championships.

On 10 January 2014 he suffered a serious head injury in training at Kulm for the ski jump worldcup. ^[10]

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

Results

Olympic Games

• 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy: Normal hill: 9, Large hill: 1, Team: 1
• 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada: Normal hill: 8, Large hill: 5, Team: 1

FIS Ski Flying Championships

• FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 in Planica, Slovenia: Individual: 13, Team: 3
• FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2006 in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria: Individual: 3, Team: 4
• FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2008 in Oberstdorf, Germany: Individual: 7, Team: 1
• FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2010 in Planica, Slovenia: Individual: 7, Team: 1

World Ski Championships

Morgenstern at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011

• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme, Italy: Normal hill: 16
• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf, Germany: Normal hill: 18, Large hill: 15, Team: 1
• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan: Normal hill: 3, Large hill: 5, Team: 1
• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic: Normal hill: 8, Large hill: 10, Team: 1
• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, Norway: Normal hill: 1, Team normal hill: 1, Large hill: 2, Team large hill: 1

Junior World Ski Championships

• FIS Junior Ski Jumping World Championships 2003 in Solleftea, Sweden: Individual: 1, Team: 1
• FIS Junior Ski Jumping World Championships 2004 in Stryn, Norway: Individual: 2, Team: 1

World Cup

• Single ski jumping: 71 podiums, 23 victories
• Single ski flying: 5 podiums, 1 victory
• Team: 30 podiums, 16 victories^[3]

Single Season Date Country/Venue 2002–03 11 January 2003 Liberec 2005–06 10 March 2006 Lillehammer 2007–08 1 December 2007 Kuusamo 8 December 2007 Trondheim 9 December 2007 Trondheim 13 December 2007 Villach 14 December 2007 Villach 22 December 2007 Engelberg 30 December 2007 Oberstdorf 2 February 2008 Sapporo 3 February 2008 Sapporo 8 February 2008 Liberec 2009–10 6 January 2010 Bischofshofen 16 January 2010 Sapporo 2010–11 4 December 2010 Lillehammer 5 December 2010 Lillehammer 17 December 2010 Engelberg 18 December 2010 Engelberg 29 December 2010 Oberstdorf 3 January 2011 Innsbruck 9 January 2011 Harrachov 2011–12 6 January 2012 Bischofshofen 2013–14 14 December 2013 Titisee-Neustadt

Team Season Date Country/Venue 2002–03 8 March 2003 Oslo 2004–05 12 February 2005 Pragelato 2005–06 4 March 2006 Lahti 2006–07 10 March 2007 Lahti 2008–09 7 February 2009 Willingen 7 March 2009 Lahti 14 March 2009 Vikersund 2009–10 27 November 2009 Kuusamo 2010–11 27 November 2010 Kuusamo 29 January 2011 Willingen 6 February 2011 Oberstdorf 12 March 2011 Lahti 19 March 2011 Planica 2011–12 27 November 2011 Kuusamo

Single overview Season WC SF 4H NT 2002–03 20  – 10 13 2003–04 6  – 4 9 2004–05 7  – 3 8 2005–06 5  – 20 1 2006–07 6  – 4 17 2007–08 1  – 2 6 2008–09 7 18 8 8 2009–10 3 18 6 3 2010–11 1 3 1  – 2011–12 2 WC: World Cup, SF: Ski Flying, 4H: Four Hills Tournament, NT: Nordic Tournament

Summer Grand Prix

• Single: 25 podiums, 10 victories
• Team: 8 podiums, 6 victories^[4]

Single Season Date Country/Venue 2003 10 August 2003 Hinterzarten 2005 14 August 2005 Courchevel 2007 12 August 2007 Hinterzarten 18 August 2007 Einsiedeln 24 August 2007 Zakopane 2011 17 July 2011 Wisła 20 July 2011 Szczyrk 23 July 2011 Zakopane 7 August 2011 Hinterzarten 13 August 2011 Courchevel

Team Season Date Country/Venue 2003 9 August 2003 Hinterzarten 2004 4 August 2004 Hinterzarten 2007 11 August 2007 Hinterzarten 2008 26 July 2008 Hinterzarten 2011 22 July 2011 Zakopane 6 August 2011 Hinterzarten

Single overview Season Place 2003 1 2004 4 2005 3 2006 26 2007 1 2008 7 2009 52 2010 4 2011 1

Continental Cup

• Single: 4 podiums, 3 victories^[2]

Single Season Date Country/Venue 2002–03 15 December 2002 Lahti 21 December 2002 Liberec 22 December 2002 Liberec

Single overview Season Place 2002–03 18

References

External links

• Thomas Morgenstern at the International Ski Federation
• Thomas Morgenstern's Biography and Olympic Results at Sports-Reference.com
• Thomas Morgenstern's Personal Website (German)

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