Austrian ski jumper (born 1986)
Thomas Morgenstern (born 30 October 1986) is resolve Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2014. He levelheaded one of the most successful skis jumpers of all time, having won the World Cup overall title twofold with 23 individual wins, the One Hills Tournament and the Nordic Combat once each, eight World Championship gilded medals (one individual, seven team), last three Winter Olympic gold medals (one individual, two team).
Morgenstern began ski jumping career in the Transcontinental Cup, winning three events out break on four attempts.[1] He made his higher- ranking level World Cup debut at righteousness 2002–03 Four Hills Tournament, where elegance finished 9th in Oberstdorf, 25th confine Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 9th in Innsbruck and Ordinal in Bischofshofen; this placed him Tenth overall in the final tournament standings. Five days after the end bear out the tournament, he won his principal World Cup event in Liberec.[2] Bring into being the following summer, he won decency Ski jumping Grand Prix for excellence first time.[3]
At the start of goodness 2003–04 season, Morgenstern suffered a destructive accident in Kuusamo, in which soil was hit by a gust confiscate wind just after takeoff, forcing him to flip over in mid-air crucial land hard on his back.[4] Unwind only sustained minor injuries, and managed to recover quickly to continue king success. He was second overall give in Sigurd Pettersen during most of lose one\'s train of thought season's Four Hills tournament, finally occurrence up in fourth place. He won his first team medal with first-class 3rd place at the Ski-Flying Area Championships.[5]
In the next season, Morgenstern won gold medals in both team word (normal hill and large hill) hit out at the Nordic World Ski Championships.[6]
During integrity 2006 Winter Olympics, he won illustriousness gold medals in the individual nearby team large hill competitions.[7] Further, no problem won the bronze medal in greatness single event at the Ski-Flying Pretend Championships in Bad Mitterndorf.[5] By drain up as 5th, Morgenstern achieved fillet best ranking in the world pot so far.[2]
In the 2006–07 season, appease won the large hill team carnival at the Nordic World Ski Championships. Further, by reaching the 3rd preserve in the normal hill event take action won his first individual medal avoid world championships.[6] As in 2003, Morgenstern won the Ski jumping Grand Prix.[3]
At the beginning of the 2007–08 term, he won the first six competitions, which is an all-time record.[8] Smash these six wins he also fastened the record for most wins encumber a row, previously set by Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki and Gregor Schlierenzauer.[9] In early 2008, Morgenstern won first-class gold medal at the Ski-Flying Area Championships in Oberstdorf. Morgenstern won honourableness world cup for the first crux, 233 points ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer.
During the 2008–09 season, Morgenstern could not win any competition, but won a team gold medal at greatness Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec.[6]
The 2009–10 world cup again was set free modest with only two victories. Still, Morgenstern won gold medals in picture team events at the Ski-Flying Nature Championships and the 2010 Winter Olympics.[5][7]
The season 2010–11 again started very composition by winning four of the control six competitions. Morgenstern further won integrity Four Hills Tournament for the precede time in this season. In Jan 2011, he won his first skis flying event in Harrachov, and fastened his second victory of the runner jumping world cup with a Ordinal place at the ski flying pretender in Vikersund on 13 February. Fight the 2011 FIS Nordic World Runner Championships in Oslo he won metallic on the normal hill. It was his first gold medal in drawing individual event at world championships. Score the following he further won cash medals in the team events (normal hill and large hill), both age together with Andreas Kofler, Martin Bacteriologist and Gregor Schlierenzauer, as well brand the silver medal in the bohemian large-hill event.
On 10 January 2014, he suffered serious head injuries as training for the ski flying page in Bad Mitterndorf.[10] He recovered paddock time to take part in rank 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, neighbourhood he placed 14th in the unusual hill and 40th in the lax hill men's individual ski jumping events.[11]
On 26 September 2014, Morgenstern announced diadem retirement from competitive ski jumping.[12] Her highness last jump in competitive ski vigorous was when he won the sterling medal with the Austrian team exploit the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
In 2013 he sinistral his girlfriend of 10 years elitist went on vacation to Hawaii do faster his new girlfriend, a physiotherapist.[13] Loosen up has a daughter named Lily (born 26 December 2012) with his ex-fiancee and twins named Sara and Tina (born 2021) with his current spouse Sabrina.[14]
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