Toni Innauer

Anton Innauer, known as Toni Innauer, born on 1 April 1958, is an Austrian former ski jumper. He won the individual normal hill gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and the silver in the individual large hill at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, as well as the ski jumping event at the 1975 Holmenkollen ski festival and silver at the 1977 Ski Flying World Championships in Vikersund. In March 1976 at Oberstdorf he set the world distance record twice, at 174 and then 176 metres, and became the first jumper to receive perfect marks from all five judges. He retired in 1980 with an ankle injury, graduated from the University of Graz, and later coached the Austrian team, directed Nordic skiing for the Austrian Ski Federation and worked as a ski jumping expert for German television.