Andreas Felder

Andreas Felder
Country  Austria
Born (1962-03-06) 6 March 1962
Hall, Austria
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Personal best 191 m (627 ft)
Kulm, 9 Mar 1986
World Cup career
Seasons 19801992
Individual wins 25
Indiv. podiums 51
Team podiums 2
Yellow bibs 37
Indiv. starts 166*
Team starts 2
Overall titles 1 (1991)
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Andreas Felder (born 6 March 1962) is an Austrian former ski jumper. During this period he dominated the sport, together with contemporaries Jens Weißflog and Matti Nykänen. Felder finished in the top three overall six times in the World Cup, including a No. 1 ranking in the 1990/91 season. He won his first international championship medal at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo with a silver medal in the team large hill competition.

Career

His big breakthrough came in the 1984–85 season. In December that year he won the World cup competition in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He won six competitions in that season, but ended in 2nd place overall behind Matti Nykänen. At the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld, he won silver medals both in the individual normal hill and the team large hill. He won the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1986 in Bad Mitterndorf, the 1987 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf with gold in the individual large hill and bronze in the team large hill events. Felder also won the ski jumping competition at the 1987 Holmenkollen ski festival. In the 1990/91 season, Felder won his only Overall World Cup title and also won the team large hill gold medal at the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme. He also won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Felder finished his World Cup career with victory on 29 March 1992 when he won the ski jumping competition in Planica, Slovenia.

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall SF 4H
1979/80 N/A 112
1980/81 13 N/A 74
1981/82 14 N/A 55
1982/83 46 N/A
1983/84 15 N/A 10
1984/85 2nd, silver medalist(s) N/A 6
1985/86 3rd, bronze medalist(s) N/A 15
1986/87 3rd, bronze medalist(s) N/A 12
1987/88 23 N/A 28
1988/89 14 N/A 19
1989/90 3rd, bronze medalist(s) N/A 14
1990/91 1st, gold medalist(s) 10 2nd, silver medalist(s)
1991/92 3rd, bronze medalist(s) 3rd, bronze medalist(s) 6

Wins

No. Season Date Place Hill Size
1 1984/85 8 December 1984 Canada Thunder Bay Big Thunder K89 NH
2 8 December 1984 Canada Thunder Bay Big Thunder K120 LH
3 15 December 1984 United States Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale K114 LH
4 16 December 1984 United States Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale K86 NH
5 3 March 1985 Finland Lahti Salpausselkä K113 LH
6 8 March 1985 Sweden Falun Lugnet K112 LH
7 1985/86 15 February 1986 Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken K155 FH
8 16 February 1986 Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken K155 FH
9 23 February 1986 Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120 LH
10 1986/87 14 March 1987 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Planica Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 FH
11 21 March 1987 Norway Oslo Holmenkollbakken K105 LH
12 1989/90 4 March 1990 Finland Lahti Salpausselkä K90 NH
13 7 March 1990 Sweden Örnsköldsvik Paradiskullen K82 NH
14 17 March 1990 Norway Raufoss Lønnbergbakken K90 NH
15 1990/91 1 December 1990 United States Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale K86 NH
16 8 December 1990 Canada Thunder Bay Big Thunder K90 NH
17 8 December 1990 Canada Thunder Bay Big Thunder K120 LH
18 1 January 1991 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze K107 LH
19 6 January 1991 Austria Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K111 LH
20 2 March 1991 Finland Lahti Salpausselkä K90 NH
21 3 March 1991 Finland Lahti Salpausselkä K114 LH
22 1991/92 1 January 1992 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze K107 LH
23 17 January 1992 Switzerland St. Moritz Olympiaschanze K95 NH
24 19 January 1992 Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120 LH
25 29 March 1992 Slovenia Planica Bloudkova velikanka K120 LH

References

Awards
Preceded by
Michael Hadschieff
Austrian Sportsman of the year
1987
Succeeded by
Peter Seisenbacher


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