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Andreas Goldberger

Andreas Goldberger
Andreas Goldberger (2011).jpg
Country  Austria
Born (1972-11-29) 29 November 1972 (age 44)
Ried im Innkreis, Austria
Height 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Personal best 225 m (738 ft)
Planica, 18 March 2000
World Cup career
Seasons 19912005
Individual wins 20
Team wins 4
Indiv. podiums 63
Team podiums 12
Yellow bibs 28
Indiv. starts 288
Team starts 15
Overall titles 3 (1993, 1995, 1996)
Four Hills titles 2 (1993, 1995)
Ski Flying titles 2 (1995, 1996)
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Andreas "Andi" Goldberger (born 29 November 1972) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 1991 to 2005.

In a career spanning nearly fifteen years, he won the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup three times (1993, 1995, 1996), the Four Hills Tournament twice (1992/93, 1994/95), with multiple medals in the Ski Jumping World Championships and Winter Olympics.

Despite his success at ski jumping, Goldberger preferred ski flying—a more extreme version of normal ski jumping, in which distances are far greater. In 1994, during training for the Ski Flying World Championships in Planica, he recorded a jump of 202 metres; this made him the first man to ever to jump over 200 metres, but he touched the snow upon landing, thus making the jump invalid as an official world record (Finland's Toni Nieminen would later land a 203 m jump at the same event). In 2000, also at Planica, he jumped 225 m and set a world record which stood until 2003.

In 1997 Goldberger admitted to the use of cocaine, and was given a six-month ban from the Austrian Ski Association. As a result of that ban, in November 1997, he even declared he would, from that moment on, compete under the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Yet, after reaching an agreement with the Austrian Ski Association, he continued competing for his native Austria.


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