Gregor Schlierenzauer

Gregor Schlierenzauer
Country	Austria
Born	(1990-01-07) 7 January 1990 Innsbruck, Austria
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Ski club	SV Innsbruck–Bergisel
Personal best	243.5 m (799 ft) Vikersund, 12 Feb 2011
World Cup career
Seasons	2006–present
Individual wins	53
Team wins	16
Indiv. podiums	88
Team podiums	32
Yellow bibs	44
Indiv. starts	215
Team starts	39
Overall titles	2 (2009, 2013)
Four Hills titles	2 (2012, 2013)
Ski Flying titles	3 (2009, 2011, 2013)
Nordic titles	2 (2008, 2009)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Team LH 2014 Sochi Team LH 2010 Vancouver Individual NH 2010 Vancouver Individual LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 Sapporo Team LH 2009 Liberec Team LH 2011 Oslo Team NH 2011 Oslo Individual LH 2011 Oslo Team LH 2013 Val di Fiemme Team LH 2009 Liberec Individual NH 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed NH 2013 Val di Flemme Individual NH 2015 Falun Individual LH 2015 Falun Team LH Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2008 Oberstdorf Individual 2008 Oberstdorf Team 2010 Planica Team 2012 Vikersund Team 2010 Planica Individual
Updated on 6 Jan 2016.

Gregor Schlierenzauer (pronounced [ˈʃliːʁənt͡saʊ̯ɐ]; born 7 January 1990) is an Austrian ski jumper.

He began his senior career in 2005/06 with one win and three additional podiums in the Ski Jumping Grand Prix, and made his World Cup debut in the 2005/06 season. During the 2008/09 World Cup, which he won, he set a series of records, including breaking Janne Ahonen's record of 12 season victories with 13 victories, and also tying Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki and Thomas Morgenstern's record of six consecutive victories. Schlierenzauer also won gold medals, one team medal at 2007 World Championships, and both individual and team medals at the 2008 FIS Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf. His personal best is 243.5 metres, jumped during the 2010/11 season, in Vikersund, Norway. On 26 January 2013, Schlierenzauer equaled Matti Nykänen's long standing record of 46 World Cup ski jumping victories, and currently has 53 victories to his name.

Early and personal life

Gregor Schlierenzauer was born on 7 January 1990 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, to Paul and Angelika Schlierenzauer. The second of three children, he has an older sister, Gloria, and a younger brother, Lukas. His uncle is Markus Prock, the winner of three Winter Olympic medals in men's luge, who settled him a contract with Fischer Skis in 2001 and a few years later with Red Bull. Schlierenzauer is deaf in the left ear from birth. At age eight, Schlierenzauer began training in ski jumping at SV Innsbruck–Bergisel club. He attended an ordinary Austrian grammar school, however, due to tight schedules in both sport and school, he had problems keeping up with his class work. Schlierenzauer then enrolled at Skigymnasium Stams in Austria, the worlds oldest ski-sport training center and boarding secondary school. He currently resides in Fulpmes, Tyrol.

Schlierenzauer began competing professionally in the 2005/06 season in the Continental Cup, then only fifteen years old. In February 2006, he won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Kranj, Slovenia and then Alex Pointner, the coach of the Austrian professional team, called him to compete in the World Cup. Schlierenzauer debuted in the Word Cup finishing in 24th place at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival on 12 March 2006.

Professional career

2006/07 World Cup

On 3 December 2006, Schlierenzauer took his first World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway, and became one of the youngest jumpers to ever win in Lillehammer. He also won in Oberstdorf, Germany, at the Four Hills Tournament 2006/07. During the Four Hills Tournament, Finnish newspapers claimed that Schlierenzauer was extremely underweight, however, no evidence has ever been found to substantiate this accusation. He won the fourth competition, in Bischofshofen, Austria, on his 17th birthday, but finished the tournament in second place, behind Anders Jacobsen (Norway), and in front of Simon Ammann (Switzerland).

Schlierenzauer took fourth place in World Cup 200/07. He was second, but Adam Małysz from Poland ended up taking the first-place position from Anders Jacobsen, so Schlierenzauer finished third. His coach deemed the event in Planica too demanding for 17-year-old Schlierenzauer, so he did not compete there and ended finishing fourth, behind Adam Małysz, Anders Jacobsen and Simon Ammann.

2007/08 World Cup

At the beginning of the World Cup 2007/08, Schlierenzauer took 2nd place on the World Cup list, behind his team mate Thomas Morgenstern. He also took 2nd place in Oberstdorf,Germany, during the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08. He won 1st place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,Germany. He took 8th place at the competition in Bischofshofen which was originally to be held in Innsbruck but was moved due to strong winds. He was one of the favorites for the tournament, but, due to variable weather conditions, arrived only in 42nd position in the first series and did not enter the second series. At the end of the Four Hills Tournament, he ended up in 12th place.

He skipped the competitions in Predazzo, where Tom Hilde from Norway took his first World Cup victory, and in Harrachov. On 25 January 2007, Schlierenzauer took his second World Cup victory in Zakopane, Poland. He also skipped the competition in Sapporo, ruining his chance to take the first-place position from his Austrian teammate Thomas Morgenstern.

After two-second-place finishes in Liberec and an eighth-place finish in Willingen, he took part in the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf in 2008. After four series of competing, he won the gold medal, on 23 February 2008. The next day, on 24 February, the Austrian team, composed of (Schlierenzauer-Thomas Morgenstern-Koch-Kofler) won gold in the team competition.

He also took part in the 2008 Nordic Tournament. He took the second and fourth place at the two competitions in Kuopio and in Lahti which was moved to Kuopio because of bad weather). Winning at the competitions in Lillehammer and Oslo, he won the 2008 Nordic Tournament.

After consecutively winning the last four individual competitions of the season, Schlierenzauer ranked second overall in the 2007/08 World Cup, 233 points behind his teammate Thomas Morgenstern. In March 2008, he improved the Austrian national record on flying hills to 233.5 meters, which was also the longest jump of Planica 2008 ski jumping events.

2008/09 World Cup

On 11 February 2009, Schlierenzauer became only the fourth jumper to win 6 consecutive World Cup events, tying the record held by Austrian teammate Thomas Morgenstern and Finns Janne Ahonen and Matti Hautamäki. The run of victories came to an end in Oberstdorf during the ski flying event on 14 February, when Schlierenzauer arrived in 8th position.

On 21 February he won silver in the individual normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec behind fellow Austrian and Four Hills winner Wolfgang Loitzl. One week later, Schlierenzauer won gold in the team large hill event.

He returned to winning ways in individual competition on 8 March at Lahti, Finland, taking his number of wins to 11 for that season, one victory shy of Janne Ahonen's record of 12 wins in one season.

On 20 March he won the ski flying event at Planica, taking his number of wins to 13 for the season record, record of 20 podiums in a season and clinching the 2008–09 world cup title with two flying events left to run. He also achieved a record of 2083 points in the World Cup over a single season, becoming the first person to obtain more than 2000 points.

2009/10 World Cup

In the 2009/10 World Cup, Schlierenzauer finished second behind Simon Ammann. He celebrated 8 World Cup victories including wins in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck during the Four Hills Tournament. Later on he won two individual bronze medals at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, and a gold medal in the team competition with Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Kofler and Thomas Morgenstern.

2010/11 World Cup

At the beginning of the 2010/11 World Cup, Schlierenzauer suffered an injury and missed the first two events of the Four Hills Tournament. Even though he was recovering from injury, he managed to take two victories at the Vikersund ski flying hill and, later in the season, won three gold medals at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Holmenkollen in Oslo.

2011/12 World Cup

Schlierenzauer celebrated his first victory of the 2011/12 season in Harrachov on 9 December 2011. On 6 January 2012, Schlierenzauer won the 4 Hills Tournament for the first time. As of 5 February 2012, Schlierenzauer has 40 World Cup victories, 1 gold and 2 bronze Olympic medals, and 8 gold and 2 silver medals at World championships.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	SF	4H	NT
2005/06	73	N/A	–	50
2006/07	4	N/A		24
2007/08		N/A	12
2008/09
2009/10			4	4
2010/11	9		36	N/A
2011/12		8		N/A
2012/13				N/A
2013/14	6		8	N/A
2014/15	10	18	7	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Size
1	2006/07	3 Dec 2006	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 138	LH
2		16 Dec 2006	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137	LH
3		30 Dec 2006	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS 137 (night)	LH
4		7 Jan 2007	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS 140 (night)	LH
5		7 Feb 2007	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena HS 140 (night)	LH
6	2007/08	1 Jan 2008	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS 140	LH
7		25 Jan 2008	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS 134 (night)	LH
8		7 Mar 2008	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 138 (night)	LH
9		9 Mar 2008	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS 128	LH
10		14 Mar 2008	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 215	FH
11		16 Mar 2008	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 215	FH
12	2008/09	6 Dec 2008	Trondheim	Granåsen HS 140 (night)	LH
13		21 Dec 2008	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137	LH
14		10 Jan 2009	Tauplitz	Kulm HS 200	FH
15		11 Jan 2009	Tauplitz	Kulm HS 200	FH
16		17 Jan 2009	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS 134 (night)	LH
17		24 Jan 2009	Whistler	Whistler Olympic Park HS 140	LH
18		25 Jan 2009	Whistler	Whistler Olympic Park HS 140	LH
19		31 Jan 2009	Sapporo	Okurayama HS 134 (night)	LH
20		8 Feb 2009	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS 145 (night)	LH
21		11 Feb 2009	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena HS 140 (night)	LH
22		8 Mar 2009	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS 97	NH
23		15 Mar 2009	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 207 (night)	FH
24		20 Mar 2009	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 215	FH
25	2009/10	5 Dec 2009	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 138 (night)	LH
26		19 Dec 2009	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137	LH
27		10 Jan 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS 140	LH
28		3 Jan 2010	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS 130	LH
29		10 Jan 2010	Tauplitz	Kulm HS 200	FH
30		22 Jan 2010	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS 134 (night)	LH
31		23 Jan 2010	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS 134 (night)	LH
32		6 Feb 2010	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS 145 (night)	LH
33	2010/11	12 Feb 2011	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 225 (night)	FH
34		13 Feb 2011	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 225	FH
35		18 Mar 2011	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 215	FH
36	2011/12	9 Dec 2011	Harrachov	Čerťák HS 142 (night)	LH
37		30 Dec 2011	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS 137 (night)	LH
38		1 Jan 2012	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS 140	LH
39		21 Jan 2012	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS 134 (night)	LH
40		4 Feb 2012	Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben HS 134 (night)	LH
41	2012/13	25 Nov 2012	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 138	LH
42		8 Dec 2012	Soči	RusSki Gorki HS 106 (night)	NH
43		16 Dec 2012	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137	LH
44		4 Jan 2013	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS 130	LH
45		6 Jan 2013	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS 140 (night)	LH
46		26 Jan 2013	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 225	FH
47		2 Feb 2013	Harrachov	Čerťák HS 205	FH
48		3 Feb 2013	Harrachov	Čerťák HS 205	FH
49		17 Mar 2013	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS 128	LH
50		22 Mar 2013	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 215	FH
51	2013/14	29 Nov 2013	Kuusamo	Rukatunturi HS 142 (night)	LH
52		7 Dec 2013	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 100 (night)	NH
53	2014-15	6 Dec 2014	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 138 (night)	LH

External links

• Official website
• Gregor Schlierenzauer at the International Ski Federation