Andreas Felder

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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Silver 1992 Albertville Team large hill
World Championships
Gold 1987 Oberstdorf Individual large hill
Gold 1991 Val di Fiemme Team large hill
Silver 1982 Oslo Team large hill
Silver 1985 Seefeld Individual normal hill
Silver 1985 Seefeld Team large hill
Bronze 1987 Oberstdorf Individual normal hill
Men's ski flying
World Championships
Gold 1986 Bad Mitterndorf Individual

Andreas Felder (born 6 March 1962 in Hall, (Tyrol) is an Austrian ski jumper who competed in the 1980s and early 1990s. He dominated ski jumping together with Jens Weißflog and Matti Nykänen. He finished in the top three overall six times in the World Cup, including a #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.

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. 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 career with victory on 29 March 1992 when he won the Ski-flying World cup competition in Planica, Slovenia.

Felder also won the ski jumping competition at the 1987 Holmenkollen ski festival.

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1925: Willen Dick (TCH) • 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) • 1927: Tore Edman (SWE) • 1929: Sigmund Ruud (NOR) • 1930: Gunnar Andersen (NOR) • 1931: Birger Ruud (NOR) • 1933: Marcel Reymond (SUI) • 1934: Kristian Johansson (NOR) • 1935: Birger Ruud (NOR) • 1937: Birger Ruud (NOR) • 1938: Asbjørn Ruud (NOR) • 1939: Josef Bradl (GER)
World War II
1950: Hans Bjørnstad (NOR) • 1954: Matti Pietikäinen (FIN) • 1958: Juhani Kärkinen (FIN) • 1962: Helmut Recknagel (GDR) • 1966: Bjørn Wirkola (NOR) • 1970: Gariy Napalkov (URS) • 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach (GDR) • 1978: Tapio Räisänen (FIN) • 1982: Matti Nykänen (FIN) • 1985: Per Bergerud (NOR) • 1987: Andreas Felder (AUT) • 1989: Jari Puikkonen (FIN) • 1991: Franci Petek (YUG) • 1993: Espen Bredesen (NOR) • 1995: Tommy Ingebrigtsen (NOR) • 1997: Masahiko Harada (JPN) • 1999: Martin Schmitt (GER) • 2001: Martin Schmitt (GER) • 2003: Adam Małysz (POL) • 2005: Janne Ahonen (FIN) • 2007: Simon Ammann (SUI) • 2009: Andreas Küttel (SUI) • 2011: Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT)
1982: Norway (Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth & Olav Hansson) * 1984: Finland (Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen & Matti Nykänen) * 1985: Finland (Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen & Jari Puikkonen) * 1987: Finland (Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli & Pekka Suorsa) * 1989: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen & Risto Laakkonen) * 1991: Austria (Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori Stefan Horngacher & Andreas Felder) * 1993: Norway (Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg & Espen Bredesen) * 1995: Finland (Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen & Ari-Pekka Nikkola) * 1997: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen & Janne Ahonen) * 1999: Germany (Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma & Martin Schmitt) * 2001: Germany (Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr & Martin Schmitt) * 2003: Finland (Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi & Matti Hautamäki) * 2005: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern & Martin Höllwarth) * 2007: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern) * 2009: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Martin Koch, Thomas Morgenstern & Gregor Schlierenzauer) * 2011: Austria (Gregor Schlierenzauer, Martin Koch, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern)
Individual
1972: Walter Steiner (SUI) * 1973: Hans-Georg Aschenbach (GDR) * 1975: Karel Kodejška (TCH) * 1977: Walter Steiner (SUI) * 1979: Armin Kogler (AUT) * 1981: Jari Puikkonen (FIN) * 1983: Klaus Ostwald (GDR) * 1985: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1986: Andreas Felder (AUT) * 1988: Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl (NOR) * 1990: Dieter Thoma (FRG) * 1992: Noriaki Kasai (JPN) * 1994: Jaroslav Sakala (CZE) * 1996: Andreas Goldberger (AUT) * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) * 2000: Sven Hannawald (GER) * 2002: Sven Hannawald (GER) * 2004: Roar Ljøkelsøy (NOR) * 2006: Roar Ljøkelsøy (NOR) * 2008: Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) * 2010: Simon Ammann (SUI) * 2012: Robert Kranjec (SLO)
Team
Awards
Preceded by
Austria Michael Hadschieff		 Austrian Sportsman of the year
1987		 Succeeded by
Austria Peter Seisenbacher



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