“After this season is the perfect moment”
Four “hill tournament records stops
Updated on 05.02.2025 – 4:59 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Michael Hayböck holds two ski jump records on the four -hill tour. After this season he will stop.
Michael Hayböck will end his career after this season. This was explained by the Austrian ski jumper at a press conference in Salzburg.
“The decision to draw a line is of course not that you can meet over the past. Over the past few months, the gut feeling has been more and more evident that after this season the perfect moment is to be happy to do the career End.
For the ski jumping circus, Hayböck’s departure will become a big loss. Because the Austrian is part of the absolute top of the world.
He won a total of nine medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships – especially silver in team jumping in Sochi 2014 together with Gregor Schlierenzauer, Thomas Morgenstern and Thomas Diethart.
There are also four World Cup victories in singles and twelve with the team. Its best conclusion in the World Cup was fourth in the 2015/16 season. Hayböck, born in Linz, became sixth last season.
The Austrian also regularly succeeded in the four -hill tour. In 2014/15 he finished second behind his team and room colleague Stefan Kraft and set up a skanclor at 138 meters on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck.
In 2025 he also succeeded in the New Year’s jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he also holds the ski jump record with a set of 145 meters.