Anton ("Toni") Innauer (born 1 April 1958 in Bezau, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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.
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. 1987-1989, he was a ski jumper and ski jumping coach. In 1989-1992 and 2001–2002, he was coach of the Austrian ski jumping team. In 1993-2001 and since 2002, he has been director of Nordic skiing in the Austrian Ski Federation (ÖSV). He is also the ski jumping expert for German TV channel ZDF.
At a 1976 ski jumping event in Oberstdorf, Germany, Innauer became the first person to achieve perfect marks from all five judges (20 points maximum). This mark has been matched by only four others since: Kazuyoshi Funaki at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Sven Hannawald and Hideharu Miyahira 2003 at the same World Cup competition in Willingen, Germany , and Wolfgang Loitzl at Bischofshofen, Austria in 2009 during the 2008-09 Four Hills Tournament .
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Ski jumper |
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Armin Kogler