Heinz Kuttin
Heinz Kuttin (born 5 January 1971) is an Austrian former ski jumper.
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Country | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Gassen, Austria | 5 January 1971||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 1988–1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual wins | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team wins | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiv. podiums | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team podiums | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiv. starts | 102 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team starts | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 10 February 2016. |
Career
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he won a silver medal in the Team large hill and a bronze Medal in the Individual large hill. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he won a bronze medal in the Team large hill.
Kuttin's biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships where he earned four medals, including two golds (Individual normal hill and Team large hill: 1991) and two bronzes (Team large hill: 1993; Individual normal hill: 1989). He worked as an assistant coach of the Austrian national team in 2002–2003, coached the Polish B team in 2003 and then the Polish national team from 2004 to 2006.
Since as of 2014 he is the official head coach of the national Austrian ski jumping team after the retirement of the prior coach Alexander Pointner.