Bastian Kaltenböck (born 23 July 1983 in

Hallein Hallein () is a historic town in the Austrian state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg. It is the capital of Hallein (district), Hallein district. Geography The town is located in the ''Tennengau'' region south of the City of Salzburg, stretching alo ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

) is a ski jumper from Austria. Kaltenböck competed in the

Ski jumping World Cup The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup is the world's highest level of ski jumping and the FIS Ski Flying World Cup as the subdivisional part of the competition. It was founded by Torbjørn Yggeseth for the 1979/80 season and organized by the Internati ...

between 2003 and 2009. He also has nine individual Continental Cup-wins. In the

2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancouver 2010 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with ...

Kaltenböck ended his career as a trialjumper. The new bindings system, first used by

Simon Ammann Simon Ammann (; born 25 June 1981) is a Swiss ski jumper. He is one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four individual Winter Olympic gold medals in 2002 Winter Olympics, 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010. ...

was Kaltenböck's idea.

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* 1983 births Living people Austrian male ski jumpers Winter World University Games medalists in ski jumping FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Austria Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade Skiers from Salzburg (federal state) Sportspeople from Hallein {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub