Bernhard Gruber

{{Infobox skier

| name = Bernhard Gruber

| image = FIS Worldcup Nordic Combined Ramsau 20161217 DSC 7345.jpg

| nationality = Austria

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|8|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria

| height = 1.85 m

| club = SC Bischofshofen-Salzburg

| personalbest =

| seasons = 2003–2021

| wins = 7

| totalpodiums = 27

| individual_starts = 243

| show-medals = no

| medaltemplates =

}}

Bernhard Gruber (born 12 August 1982) is an Austrian former nordic combined skier who competed between 2003 and 2021.

Career

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he won a gold in the 4 x 5 km team and a bronze in the 10 km individual large hill events.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Gruber finished fifth in the 4 x 5 km team, 11th in both the 10 km individual large hill and individual normal hill events, and 22nd in the 10 km mass start event.

He had seven World Cup victories in his career. His first wins came in 2008. One of these wins that year was in the 15 km individual event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in Oslo.

He retired in 2021 after his second heart surgery.{{Cite web |url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/pongau/c-sport/ich-wuerde-schon-noch-gern-voll-andruecken_a4538894 |title=Ich würde schon noch gern voll andrücken |last=Holzmann |first=Alexander |date=25 March 2021 |website=meinbezirk.at |language=DE |access-date=27 March 2021 }}

Record

=Olympic Games=

4 medals – (1 gold, 3 bronze)

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
Year !Individual NH !Individual LH !Team LH
align=left \|2010 \| — \| style="background:#cfaa88;"\|Bronze \| style="background:gold;"\|Gold
align=left \|2014 \| — \| 5 \| style="background:#cfaa88;"\|Bronze
align=left \|2018 \| 20 \| 21 \| style="background:#cfaa88;"\|Bronze

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

Year

!Individual NH

!Individual LH

!Team LH

align=left |2010

| —

| style="background:#cfaa88;"|Bronze

| style="background:gold;"|Gold

align=left |2014

| —

| 5

| style="background:#cfaa88;"|Bronze

align=left |2018

| 20

| 21

| style="background:#cfaa88;"|Bronze

=World Championship=

9 medals – (3 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)

class="wikitable" "text-align:center;" ! Year ! Individual NH ! Individual LH ! Team NH ! Team LH ! Mass start NH ! Team sprint LH
align=center \| 2009	11	11	{{n/a}}	5	22	{{n/a}}
align=center \| 2011	—	—	style="background:gold;"\|Gold	style="background:gold;"\|Gold	{{n/a}}	{{n/a}}
align=center \| 2013	13	style="background:silver;"\|Silver	5	{{n/a}}	{{n/a}}	style="background:silver;"\|Silver
align=center \| 2015	10	style="background:gold;"\|Gold	5	{{n/a}}	{{n/a}}	7
align=center \| 2017	7	9	style="background:#cfaa88;"\|Bronze	{{n/a}}	{{n/a}}	4
align=center \| 2019	style="background:silver"\|Silver	10	style="background:#cfaa88;"\|Bronze	{{n/a}}	{{n/a}}	style="background:#cfaa88;"\|Bronze