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Thomas Morgenstern (born 30 October 1986) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2014. He is one of the most successful contemporary ski jumpers, having won the World Cup twice; the Four Hills Tournament and the Nordic Tournament once each; the Grand Prix three times; and 12 gold medals at the World Championships and Winter Olympics. ==Career== Morgenstern began his ski jumping career in the Continental Cup, winning three events out of four attempts.〔Morgenstern's (FIS-Ski Continental Cup Results )〕 He made his senior level World Cup debut at the 2002–03 Four Hills Tournament, where he finished 9th in Oberstdorf, 25th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 9th in Innsbruck and 6th in Bischofshofen; this placed him 10th overall in the final tournament standings. Five days after the end of the tournament, he won his first World Cup event in Liberec.〔Morgenstern's (FIS-Ski World Cup Results )〕 In the following summer, he won the Ski jumping Grand Prix for the first time.〔Morgenstern's (FIS-Ski Grand Prix Results )〕 At the start of the 2003–04 season, Morgenstern suffered a violent accident in Kuusamo, in which he was hit by a gust of wind just after takeoff, forcing him to flip over in mid-air and land hard on his back.〔("Morgenstern hospitalised after another crash" ). ''Gulf Times''. 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2014-10-12.〕 He only sustained minor injuries, and managed to recover quickly to continue his success. He was second overall to Sigurd Pettersen during most of that season's Four Hills tournament, finally ending up in fourth place. He won his first team medal with a 3rd place at the Ski-Flying World Championships.〔Morgenstern's (FIS-Ski-Flying World Championships Results )〕 In the next season, Morgenstern won gold medals in both team events (normal hill and large hill) at the Nordic World Ski Championships.〔Morgenstern's (FIS-Ski World Championships Results )〕 During the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medals in the individual and team large hill competitions.〔Morgenstern's (Olympic Winter Games Results )〕 Further, he won the bronze medal in the single event at the Ski-Flying World Championships in Bad Mitterndorf.〔 By ending up as 5th, Morgenstern achieved his best ranking in the world cup so far.〔 In the 2006–07 season, he won the large hill team event at the Nordic World Ski Championships. Further, by reaching the 3rd place in the normal hill event he won his first individual medal at world championships.〔 As in 2003, Morgenstern won the Ski jumping Grand Prix.〔 At the beginning of the 2007–08 season, he won the first six competitions, which is an all-time record.〔Der Standard: (Und wieder Morgenstern ), 14 December 2007 (German)〕 With these six wins he also tied the record for most wins in a row, previously set by Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki and Gregor Schlierenzauer.〔Der Standard: (Küttel nimmt Morgenstern den Druck ), 23 December 2007 (German)〕 In early 2008, Morgenstern won a gold medal at the Ski-Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf. Morgenstern won the world cup for the first time, 233 points ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer. During the 2008–09 season, Morgenstern could not win any competition, but won a team gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec.〔 The 2009–10 world cup again was very modest with only two victories. However, Morgenstern won gold medals in the team events at the Ski-Flying World Championships and the 2010 Winter Olympics.〔〔 The season 2010–11 again started very successful by winning four of the first six competitions. Morgenstern further won the Four Hills Tournament for the first time in this season. In January 2011, he won his first ski flying event in Harrachov, and fixed his second victory of the ski jumping world cup with a 5th place at the ski flying competition in Vikersund on 13 February. At the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo he won gold on the normal hill. It was his first gold medal in an individual event at world championships. In the following he further won gold medals in the team events (normal hill and large hill), both times together with Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch and Gregor Schlierenzauer, as well as the silver medal in the individual large-hill event. On 10 January 2014 he suffered serious head injuries during training for the ski flying event in Bad Mitterndorf.〔http://sport.orf.at/stories/2199016/2199015/〕 He recovered in time to take part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he placed 14th in the normal hill and 40th in the large hill men's individual ski jumping events.〔sochi2014.com/en/athlete-thomas-morgenstern〕 On September 26, 2014 Morgenstern announced his retirement from competitive ski jumping.〔http://www.foxsports.com/olympics/story/three-time-olympic-ski-jump-champion-thomas-morgenstern-retires-092614〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Morgenstern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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