Martin Koch (born 22 January 1982) is an Austrian former

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Career

Koch started his

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career in 1999 and finished in the top 3 in all ski jumping events eighteen times. This included two victories with the first being on 8 January 2011 in

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. He also won a silver medal at the 2008 Ski Flying World Championships and six gold medals in team events at the

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and World Championships. He made his last World Cup jump on 22 March 2014 on the large hill in

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. Regarded as a

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specialist,"Noriaki Kasai writes history"
.

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. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2015-01-15. Koch held the Austrian national distance record with a jump of 241.5 metres in

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, until this was beaten by countryman

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in the same event. Koch is the nephew of Armin Kogler.

World Cup

Standings

Wins

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References

* * * 1982 births Austrian male ski jumpers Living people Ski jumpers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Austria Olympic ski jumpers of Austria Olympic medalists in ski jumping FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Universiade medalists in ski jumping Sportspeople from Villach Universiade bronze medalists for Austria Competitors at the 2005 Winter Universiade 21st-century Austrian people {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub