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Thomas "Morgi" Morgenstern (born October 30,
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 has four gold medals in the team competitions at the
FIS Nordic World Ski
Championships, sweeping both hill events in 2005 (normal
and large) and winning the large hill event in 2007 and 2009. He
finally won his first individual medal at the championships when he
earned a bronze in the individual normal hill in 2007.
During the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won the
gold medals in the individual and team large hill competitions.
At the beginning of the 2007-08
season, he won the first six competitions, which is an all-time
record. 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. As of
2009, he has 12 World Cup victories:
At the FIS Ski Flying World
Championships, Morgenstern has one gold (Team: 2008) and two
bronzes (Individual: 2006), Team: 2004).
Victories
References
| Olympic champions
in men's ski jumping team large hill |
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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) |
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World champions in men's ski jumping team large
hill |
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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) * 2007: Austria ( Wolfgang Loitzl, Gregor
Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern) * 2009: Austria ( Wolfgang
Loitzl, Martin Koch, Thomas Morgenstern & Gregor
Schlierenzauer) |
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