Alexander Stoeckl

Alexander Stoeckl
Alexander Stöckl in Val di Fiemme, 2013
nation	Austria
birthday	11th December 1973 (age 46)
place of birth	St. Johann in Tirol ,  Austria
job	Ski jumping coach
Career
National squad	since 1992
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 6, 1993
Overall World Cup	59th ( 1992/93 )
Ski flying world cup	18th (1992/93)
Four Hills Tournament	70th ( 1992/93 )
last change: January 26, 2020

Alexander Stöckl (born December 11, 1973 in St. Johann in Tirol ) is a former Austrian ski jumper and today's head coach of the Norwegian national ski jumping team.

Career

As a ski jumper

Stöckl began his international career in 1992 in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . After he reached the 39th place in the overall ranking with 22 points in his first season in 1992/93 , he was nominated for the first time on January 6, 1993 for jumping as part of the Ski Jumping World Cup in Bischofshofen . From the large hill he reached the 37th place. On January 30, 1993, he won his first and only World Cup point in ski flying on the Kulm with 15th place. With this one point he finished the 1992/93 World Cup season in 59th place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the ski flying rating, he took 18th place. After two more unsuccessful years in the Continental Cup, Stöckl ended his active ski jumping career in 1995.

As a ski jumping trainer

From 1996 to 1999 Stöckl was assistant coach of the Austrian national ski jumping team, initially at Andreas Felder's side for a year , then from 1997 to 1999 under Mika Kojonkoski . After studying sports science, he became head coach of the Austrian junior national team in 2007. At the same time, he worked for many years at the Stams ski school.

In March 2011, Stöckl was appointed coach of the Norwegian national ski jumping team as the successor to Mika Kojonkoski , who had not renewed his contract. Kojonkoski had suggested to the Norwegian association that Stöckl be committed. The association's decision was criticized by the Norwegian top jumper Anders Bardal , who had spoken out in favor of the previous assistant trainer Geir Ole Berdahl . In the meantime, Bardal had even thought about the end of his career. Despite this criticism, Stöckl succeeded in his first season in making Bardal the first Norwegian since Espen Bredesen ( 1993/94 ) to become the overall World Cup winner and to lead the Norwegian team to second place in the nations' ranking. Due to these successes, the Norwegian Ski Association extended the contract with Stöckl ahead of schedule until the 2015 World Championships , which took place in Falun, Sweden .

Stöckl wrote the lyrics for the official song of the ski flying world championship 2012 in Vikersund "Flying into the future" (composer: Jörn Atle Stöa). Together with his father Paul Stöckl, an engineer, he devised a special further development of the ski jumping shoe in 2012, which should make it stiffer with a kind of sleeve. This change should allow more pressure on the ski when jumping off the take-off table. This further development, which was used for the first time by Anders Jacobsen and Tom Hilde in competition at the World Cup in Engelberg, Switzerland and which caused a sensation during the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13 with Jacobsen's victories in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen , was christened "Stöckl-Schuh" by the press.

At the beginning of September 2017, Stöckl extended his contract prematurely for another four years until the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.

The Norwegian team under Stöckl is committed to climate protection . Stöckl is concerned about the future of skiing in the face of global warming ; he once said:

“We have to live with that, because it doesn't get better, it just gets worse. In 20 years we will almost certainly have no more snow. One still believes: Next year will definitely be a better winter, but no, it won't. "

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1992/93	59.	1

Web links

Commons : Alexander Stöckl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alexander Stöckl in the database of the International Ski Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ krone.at of March 23, 2011
2. ^ Aftenposten, May 26, 2011
3. ↑ List of teachers ( Memento from July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Ny landslagstrener i hopp ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ “Half-time balance: What's new, what's proven?” At www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
6. ^ "Bardal: Decision a disappointment" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
7. ^ "Ski jumping: Schnitzel with carbon" , Berliner Zeitung of January 2, 2013.
8. ↑ "Alex Stöckl extends in Norway" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
9. ^ "Alex Stöckl writes World Cup song" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
10. ^ "Jacobsen and his Stöckl-Schuh" , Saarbrücker Zeitung of January 3, 2013.
11. ^ “Discussion about Norway's Stöckl shoe” , Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of January 4, 2013.
12. ↑ skispringen.com: Norway's jumping boots as the secret of success? at www.skispringen.com, accessed on February 26, 2013.
13. ↑ skispringen.com: Alexander Stöckl: " Wanted to bring unrest to the scene" at www.skispringen.com, accessed on February 26, 2013.
14. ↑ Alexander Stöckl renews in Norway , on skispringen.com, from September 5, 2017. Accessed September 7, 2017.
15. ↑ Team Norway combats climate change , on berkutschi.com, May 30, 2019. Accessed January 2, 2020.
16. ↑ Concerns among ski jumpers: "In 20 years we will have no more snow" , on Frankfurter Allgemeine, from December 23, 2019. Retrieved on January 2, 2020.