Andreas Kofler

Kofler in 2011

Country

Austria

Born

17 May 1984 (age 32)
Innsbruck, Austria

Height

1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Ski club

SV Innsbruck Bergisel

Personal best

233 m (764 ft)
Vikersund, 26 February 2012

World Cup career

Seasons

2002–present

Individual wins

Team wins

Indiv. podiums

Team podiums

Yellow bibs

Indiv. starts

308

Team starts

Four Hills titles

1 (2010)

Medal record

Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
	2006 Turin	Individual LH
	2006 Turin	Team LH
	2010 Vancouver	Team LH
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
	2007 Sapporo	Team LH
	2011 Oslo	Team NH
	2011 Oslo	Team LH
	2011 Oslo	Individual NH
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
	2008 Oberstdorf	Team
	2012 Vikersund	Team

Updated on 16 February 2017.

Andreas Kofler (born 17 May 1984) is an Austrian ski jumper who currently competes for the Austrian Ski Federation (ÖSV).

Andreas Kofler grew up in Tyrol, in the Austrian Alps. He is a member of the ski jumping club SV Innsbruck-Bergisel, together with Gregor Schlierenzauer.

Kofler won his first individual competition in the World Cup on 4 February 2006. Two days later, he came in second place in the team competition. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Kofler won the silver medal in the individual competition, finishing only 0.1 points behind Thomas Morgenstern, his teammate on the squad with whom he would later win the Olympic gold medal in the team competition. At the Nordic Ski World Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan, Kofler won the gold medal in the team competition and finished in sixth place in the individual competition. At the end of the season, he arrived in second place at the Nordic Tournament, beaten only by Adam Małysz.

After starting well into the 2007/08 season, finishing in second place behind Morgenstern twice, Kofler crashed twice during competitions, in Engelberg and in Oberstdorf. Despite not being seriously injured, Kofler struggled to shake off his poor form for this and the next season.

In the 2009-2010, Kofler came in third place in Engelberg, ending his bad streak. During the same season, Kofler managed to win the prestigious Four Hills Tournament, ahead of Janne Ahonen and Wolfgang Loitzl, after winning the first event of the tournament in Oberstdorf. Kofler could not meet expectations in the first event (on the normal hill) of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, coming in 19th place. Nonetheless, he finished in fourth place on the large hill, only one point from the podium, and won the team competition with his teammates Wolfgang Loitzl, Thomas Morgenstern and Gregor Schlierenzauer—his second Olympic gold medal after 2006.

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