Stefan Horngacher

Stefan Horngacher

Horngacher in 2000
Personal information
Nationality	Austria
Born	(1969-09-20) 20 September 1969 Wörgl, Austria
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Sport
Sport	Skiing
World Cup career
Seasons	1988–1994 1996–2002
Indiv. starts	228
Indiv. podiums	15
Indiv. wins	2
Team starts	16
Team podiums	13
Team wins	4
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	203 m (666 ft) Planica, 16-18 March 2001
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Team LH 1998 Nagano Team LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 Val di Fiemme Team LH 2001 Lahti Team NH 1993 Falun Team LH 1999 Ramsau Team LH 2001 Lahti Team LH
Updated on 10 February 2016

Stefan Horngacher (born 20 September 1969) is an Austrian ski jumping coach and former ski jumper. Since April 2019 he is coaching the German national team.

Career

Horngacher won a bronze medal in the team large hill at the Winter Olympics in both 1994 and 1998. He also competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, with his best finish being fourth in the team large hill event. At the 1991 Ski Jumping World Championships, he won gold in the team large hill event and followed that with three bronzes over the next ten years (1993, 1999 and 2001); he also won gold in the 2001 team normal hill event.

After retiring from the sport, he became a ski jumping coach and has coached the national Polish team since 2016.

• 2016–17 Four Hills Tournament, gold and silver
• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 – Team large hill, gold
• Coach of the year 2017 in Poland.
• 2017–18 Four Hills Tournament, gold and four consecutive wins

Since April 2019 he is coaching the German national team, succeeding Werner Schuster.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT	JP
1987/88	—	127	N/A	N/A	N/A
1988/89	—	96	N/A	N/A	N/A
1989/90	—	60	N/A	N/A	N/A
1990/91	4	5		N/A	N/A
1991/92	29	45	—	N/A	N/A
1992/93	8	—	14	N/A	N/A
1993/94	20	36	—	N/A	N/A
1995/96	35	40	32	N/A	34
1996/97	35	22	32	47	34
1997/98	13	8	28	18	12
1998/99	8	7	14	4	7
1999/00	9	11	18	20	9
2000/01	8	5	12	6	N/A
2001/02	12	12	N/A	12	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	1990/91	24 February 1991	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm K185	FH
2	1998/99	16 January 1999	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K116	LH

External links

• Stefan Horngacher at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Stefan Horngacher at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)