Wolfgang Auderer (born 26 May 1981) is a retired

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freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

who specialized in the

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discipline. He was born in

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, Austria, and represented the sports club WSV Jerzens while he was active. He made his World Cup debut in November 2002 in

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, with a 25th place. He finished among the top twenty for the first time one year later, with a twelfth place in November 2003 in

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. The rest of the 2003–04 season was mediocre, but he then opened the 2004–05 season with an eighth place in Saas-Fee in October. He followed up with a twelfth place in

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, but then dropped into the mid-range, rounding off the season with a seventeenth place at the 2005 World Championships. Since then he has finished occasionally among the top twenty, having equalled his World Cup best of twelfth once, in March 2008 in

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. He finished 21st at the 2007 World Championships in

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.. Retrieved 1 February 2009. His last race was a World Cup race at

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, in 2010. He finished in 43rd place.

References

1981 births Living people Austrian male freestyle skiers {{Austria-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub