Thomas Hörl is a retired Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n ski jumper

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

 and former ski jumping world record-holder.

Biography

At the age of 15 Thomas Hörl won the Alpencup in 1996.After winning medals in junior-competitions he became a professional in Bischofshofen, Austria on January 8, 2000. As a nobody in the international ski-jumping scene, he managed to stand a 224,5m-jump in Planica, Slovenia which was a world record. The very next day Andreas Goldberger

Andreas Goldberger

Andreas Goldberger is a former ski jumper.He was one of the best in his sport during the 1990s...

 flew to the mark of 225m.
He retired in 2003.

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