Stefan Horngacher Explained

Stefan Horngacher
Birth Date:	20 September 1969
Birth Place:	Wörgl, Austria
Personalbest:	203 m (666 ft) Planica, 16-18 March 2001
Seasons:	1988–1994 1996–2002
Wins:	2
Teamwins:	4
Totalpodiums:	15
Teampodiums:	13
Individual Starts:	228
Team Starts:	16
Updated:	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.^[1]

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.^[2]
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
scope=row align=center	—	127	N/A	N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	—	96	N/A	N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	—	60	N/A	N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	4	5	align=center bgcolor=silver		N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	29	45	—	N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	8	—	14	N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	20	36	—	N/A	N/A
scope=row align=center	35	40	32	N/A	34
scope=row align=center	35	22	32	47	34
scope=row align=center	13	8	28	18	12
scope=row align=center	8	7	14	4	7
scope=row align=center	9	11	18	20	9
scope=row align=center	8	5	12	6	N/A
scope=row align=center	12	12	N/A	12	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	1		24 February 1991		Kulm K185	FH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	2		16 January 1999		Wielka Krokiew K116	LH

Notes and References

Web site: Kamil Stoch: Stefan Horngacher? Poradzi sobie. 12 May 2016.
Web site: 86. Plebiscyt na Najlepszego Sportowca Polski 2020 Roku.