Andreas Felder
Andreas Felder 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 FIS [Ski Jumping World Cup|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. 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 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 at the World Cup official training on Velikanka bratov Gorišek
in Planica, Yugoslavia. On the next day he landed at 191 metres 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.