Andreas Kofler

Andreas Kofler is an Austrian former ski jumper born on 17 May 1984 in Innsbruck, who grew up in Tyrol and jumped for the club SV Innsbruck-Bergisel alongside Gregor Schlierenzauer. He won his first individual World Cup event on 4 February 2006 and went on to win the silver medal in the individual competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, only 0.1 points behind his teammate Thomas Morgenstern, with whom he later took the Olympic team gold. He won team gold at the 2007 Nordic Ski World Championships in Sapporo, and in the 2009 to 10 season he won the Four Hills Tournament ahead of Janne Ahonen and Wolfgang Loitzl. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver he finished fourth on the large hill and won the team competition, his second Olympic gold after 2006.