Reinhold Bachler

Reinhold Bachler is an Austrian former ski jumper. He was born in Eisenerz, and competed from 1968 to 1978.

Career

His best-known finish was a silver medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. He later worked as a coach from 1982 to 2000.
On 12 March 1967, he set the ski jumping world record distance at 154 metres on Vikersundbakken hill in Vikersund, Norway.
On 20 March 1977, as trial jumper set his personal best and hill record at the same time, which lasted for two years at 172 metres on Velikanka bratov Gorišek K165 in Planica, Yugoslavia.