Wolfgang Loitzl

Who is Wolfgang Loitzl?

Wolfgang "Wuff" Loitzl is an Austrian ski jumper who has competed since 1997. He won seven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with six golds and one bronze.

He earned a bronze medal in the team event at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 and finished 15th at the individual competition at those same championships. Loitzl has seven individual career victories from 1998 to 2003.

Loitzl won the 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament. In the final competition of the tournament in Bischofshofen, he received the maximum score for the first jump from all five judges. In ski jumping history, only Anton Innauer, Kazuyoshi Funaki, Sven Hannawald, and Hideharu Miyahira have matched this feat.

On February 21, 2009, Loitzl won the individual gold on the normal hill at the World Championships at Liberec ahead of fellow Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer and Switzerland's Simon Ammann. Further success followed on February 28 the same year when Loitzl won gold as part of the Austrian quartet in the team large hill event.