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Wolfgang "Wolfi" Loitzl (born January 13, 1980) is an Austrian ski jumper who has competed since 1997. His son Benjamin was born on January 12, 2005, his second child Nikolas was born on February 10, 2007. He is married to Marika since June 11, 2006. He won five medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with four golds (Team normal hill: 2001, 2005; Team large hill: 2005, 2007) and one silver (Team large hill: 2001). Loitzl also finished in the 6th in the individual normal hill at the 2005 championships.
He earned a bronze medal in the team event at the 2004 Ski-flying World Championships and finished 15th at those same championships. Loitzl has seven individual career victories from 1998 to 2003.
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World Champions in men's ski jumping team large hill |
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1982 Norway - Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth & Olav Hansson * 1984 Finland - Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen & Matti Nykänen * 1985 Finland - Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen & Jari Puikkonen * 1987 Finland - Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli & Pekka Suorsa * 1989 Finland - Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen & Risto Laakkonen * 1991 Austria - Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori Stefan Horngacher & Andreas Felder * 1993 Norway - Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg & Espen Bredesen * 1995 Finland - Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen & Ari-Pekka Nikkola * 1997 Finland - Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen & Janne Ahonen * 1999 Germany - Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma & Martin Schmitt * 2001 Germany - Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr & Martin Schmitt * 2003 Finland - Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi & Matti Hautamäki * 2005 Austria - Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern & Martin Höllwarth * 2007 Austria - Wolfgang Loitzl, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern |
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