Andreas Felder

Andreas Felder
Country	Austria
Born	(1962-03-06) 6 March 1962 Hall, Austria
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Personal best	191 m (627 ft) Kulm, 9 March 1986 Planica,14 March 1987
World Cup career
Seasons	1980–1992
Indiv. starts	166
Indiv. podiums	51
Indiv. wins	25
Team starts	2
Team podiums	2
Overall titles	1 (1991)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 1992 Albertville Team LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 Oberstdorf Individual LH 1991 Val di Fiemme Team LH 1982 Oslo Team LH 1985 Seefeld Individual NH 1985 Seefeld Team LH 1987 Oberstdorf Individual NH Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1986 Bad Mitterndorf Individual
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. He finished in the top three overall six times in the World Cup and won the 1990/91 overall. 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 event.

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. He won the ski jumping competition at the 1987 Holmenkollen ski festival. In the 1990/91 season and won his only World Cup overall and also won the team large hill gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1991.

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. After his retirement he became a manager in the Austrian Ski Federation (until March 19, 1997). Afterwards he was a manager in the German Ski Federation's Nordic Combined Team.

Ski flying

On 9 March 1986, he tied the world ski jumping distance record with Matti Nykänen at 191 metres (627 ft) at FIS Ski Flying World Championships on Kulm hill in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Austria.

On 13 March 1987, he touched the ground at world record distance at 192 metres (630 ft) at the World Cup official training on Velikanka bratov Gorišek in Planica, Yugoslavia. On the next day he landed at 191 metres (627 ft) and only tied his personal best, as this jump was achieved in the repeated third round, after and because of the world record by Piotr Fijas.

Coaching

In 1995 Felder replaced Heinz Koch as the head coach of Austrian ski jumping team. He led Reinhard Schwarzenberger to third place in Four Hills Tournament, and Andreas Goldberger to victory in the 1995-96 World Cup, and a gold medal during the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1996. In the following season he helped Goldberger win bronze medal during the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 in Trondheim. After the end of the season Felder resigned. He became team's head coach once again in 2018, replacing Heinz Kuttin. With Felder as his coach, Stefan Kraft won bronze in Seefeld in 2019, and won the 2019-20 World Cup.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF
1979/80	—	112	N/A
1980/81	13	74	N/A
1981/82	14	55	N/A
1982/83	46	—	N/A
1983/84	15	10	N/A
1984/85		6	N/A
1985/86		15	N/A
1986/87		12	N/A
1987/88	23	28	N/A
1988/89	14	19	N/A
1989/90		14	N/A
1990/91			10
1991/92		6

Wins

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

Ski jumping world records

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
9 March 1986	Kulm K185	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Austria	191	627
13 March 1987	Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185	Planica, Yugoslavia	192	630

  Not recognized! Touched the ground at world record distance.

External links

• Andreas Felder at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Andreas Felder at Olympics.com
• Andreas Felder at Olympedia (archive)
• "Holmenkollen winners since 1892". Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 19 March 2007. – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)