Wolfgang Loitzl

Wolfgang Loitzl
Loitzl in Engelberg, 2014
Country	Austria
Born	(1980-01-13) 13 January 1980 Bad Ischl, Austria
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Personal best	213.5 m (700 ft) Planica, 20 Mar 2010
World Cup career
Seasons	1997–2015
Individual wins	4
Team wins	10
Indiv. podiums	20
Team podiums	27
Indiv. starts	356
Team starts	34
Four Hills titles	1 (2009)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 0 0 World Championships 7 0 1 Ski Flying World Championships 1 0 1 Total 9 4 2 Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Team LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 Lahti Team NH 2005 Oberstdorf Team NH 2005 Oberstdorf Team LH 2007 Sapporo Team LH 2009 Liberec Individual NH 2009 Liberec Team LH 2013 Val di Fiemme Team LH 2001 Lahti Team LH Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2010 Planica Team 2004 Planica Team
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Wolfgang Loitzl (born 13 January 1980) is an Austrian former ski jumper.

Career

He won seven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with six golds (Individual normal hill: 2009, Team normal hill: 2001, 2005; Team large hill: 2005, 2007, 2009) and one bronze (Team large hill: 2001). He earned a bronze medal in the team event at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 and finished 15th at the individual competition at those same championships. Loitzl has seven individual career victories from 1998 to 2003.

Loitzl won the 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament. In the final competition of the tournament in Bischofshofen, he received the maximum score (20) for the first jump from all five judges. In ski jumping history, only Anton Innauer (1976), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1998), Sven Hannawald (2003) and Hideharu Miyahira (2003) have matched this feat.

On 21 February 2009 Loitzl won the individual gold on the normal hill at the World Championships at Liberec ahead of fellow Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer and Switzerland's Simon Ammann. Further success followed on 28 February the same year when Loitzl won gold as part of the Austrian quartet in the team large hill event.

His son Benjamin was born on 12 January 2005, his second child Nikolas was born on 10 February 2007. He has been married to Marika since 11 June 2006.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	SF	JP	4H	NT
1996/97	–	–	–	71	–
1997/98	31	–	28	31	25
1998/99	12	14	12	16	8
1999/00	22	20	25	21	21
2000/01	7	19	N/A	9	9
2001/02	29	N/A	N/A	36	34
2002/03	60	N/A	N/A	46	–
2003/04	28	N/A	N/A	35	13
2004/05	18	N/A	N/A	13	16
2005/06	29	N/A	N/A	22	–
2006/07	13	N/A	N/A	16	6
2007/08	10	N/A	N/A	16	16
2008/09	03 !	12	N/A	01 !	7
2009/10	6	9	N/A	03 !	7
2010/11	13	12	N/A	9	N/A
2011/12	30	25	N/A	31	N/A
2012/13	12	11	N/A	17	N/A
2013/14	29	12	N/A	15	N/A
2014/15	79	–	N/A	–	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Size
1	2008/09	1 January 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS140	LH
2		4 January 2009	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS130	LH
3		6 January 2009	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS140 (night)	LH
4		16 January 2009	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night)	LH

External links

• Wolfgang Loitzl at the International Ski Federation
• Official website (German)