Martin Koch

Martin Koch is an Austrian former ski jumper, born on 22 January 1982. He started his World Cup career in 1999 and finished in the top three in all ski jumping events eighteen times, including two victories, the first on 8 January 2011 in Harrachov. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Ski Flying World Championships and six gold medals in team events at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the World Championships. Regarded as a ski flying specialist, he held the Austrian national distance record with a jump of 241.5 metres in Vikersund in 2011, until his countryman Gregor Schlierenzauer beat it in the same event. He made his last World Cup jump on 22 March 2014 on the large hill in Planica, and he is the nephew of the ski jumper Armin Kogler.