Josef Bradl

Sepp Bradl
Full name	Josef Bradl
nation	Austria German Empire Austria
birthday	January 8, 1918
place of birth	Wasserburg am Inn ,  Germany
job	Retail salesman , restaurateur and hut keeper
date of death	March 3, 1982
Place of death	Innsbruck ,  Austria
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Cross-country skiing Nordic combined Alpine skiing
society	SC Mühlbach am Hochkönig, SC Bischofshofen, SC Salzburg
National squad	since 1936
End of career	1956
Medal table
World Championship medals (jumping) 1 × 0 × 0 × DM medals (jumping) 2 × 0 × 0 × ÖM medals (jumping) 7 × 1 × 0 × ÖM medals (Northern Combination) 1 × 0 × 1 × ÖJM medals (combination of three) 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1939 Zakopane Jump run  Austrian championships gold 1947 Tschagguns Large hill gold 1948 Bad Hofgastein Large hill gold 1951 Windischgarsten Jump run gold 1952 Semmering Jump run gold 1953 Igls / Innsbruck Jump run gold 1954 Bad Hofgastein Jump run silver 1955 Semmering Jump run gold 1956 Lienz Jump run  Austrian championships bronze 1947 Tschagguns Nordic combination gold 1955 Semmering Nordic combination  German championships gold 1939 Oberhof Large hill gold 1941 Spindleruv Mlyn Large hill Austrian youth championships gold 1936 Mallnitz Combination of three gold 1938 Aflenz Combination of three
Placements at the Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament 1. ( 1953 ), 3. ( 1953/54 ), 2. ( 1955/56 )

Josef "Sepp" Bradl (also Bubi or Buwi Bradl ; born January 8, 1918 in Wasserburg am Inn , Bavaria ; † March 3, 1982 in Mühlbach am Hochkönig , Salzburg ) was an Austrian ski jumper and ski jumping coach; from 1938, after the "Anschluss" of Austria , until 1941 he started in the team of the German Reich . In 1936 he was the first person to jump over 100 m on skis.

Career

Bradl was born in 1918 to a Tyrolean miner who worked in the copper mine in Mühlbach am Hochkönig , and an Upper Austrian. His father died in an accident while climbing the Hochkönig in the arms of his then 12-year-old son. A ski club was founded in Mühlbach in 1908 and the children were able to ski as part of the school gymnastics lessons. In 1912, initiated by the Norwegian director of the mine, the first ski jumping hill in the country was built, and Bradl also began training on it. In 1933, at the age of 15, he made his first 50-meter jump there. In the same year, Peter Radacher , himself a Nordic skier and at that time leaseholder of the Arthurhaus not far from the ski jump, sent him to Innsbruck, where the ski jumper Birger Ruud (winner of the normal hill at the 1932 Olympic Winter Games ) taught.

At the IV Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in February 1936, he had a serious fall while training and was supposed to spend two weeks in the hospital. However, the day before the competition, he left to take part and finished in 19th place. A month after the game, a ski jumping took place on the newly built Bloudkova Velikanka , the largest ski jumping hill at the time, in Planica , Slovenia . On March 15th, Bradl managed the first jump of a person with skis over 100 m with a distance of 101.5 m.

Since his school days he had been unemployed because his widowed mother's dues could not muster for an apprenticeship, and had only irregularly a little merit in volunteer work service . Now he received an apprenticeship at the traditional costume company Lanz, whose owner Willi Lanz promoted him and always released him for training. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1937 he was fifth, and fourth at the 1938 World Championships in Lahti the following year . In the same year he managed to improve his world record to 107 meters again on the hill in Planica.

With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, he became part of the German team. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1939 on the large hill in Zakopane , he became world champion. In the same year he also won the German championship in Oberhof , a success that he was able to repeat in Spindleruv Mlyn in 1941 .

After the end of the Second World War , he was imprisoned in the Glasenbach camp because of his membership in the SS and was not allowed to travel to the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . At the Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he fell in the first round. On January 7, 1951, on the other hand, he had won on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck in front of Kjell Knarvik (NOR) and Fritz Tschannen (SUI) and he successfully finished the first Four Hills Tournament in 1953 as the overall winner . From 1947, the first Austrian championships after the Second World War, to 1956, Bradl won eight gold and one silver and one bronze medal at Austrian championships .

From 1958 Bradl was active as a trainer. Among other things, he looked after the German and, for many years, the Austrian national ski jumping team. Among the jumpers he supervised were Otto Leodolter , Reinhold Bachler , Willi Egger , Walter Habersatter , Willi Köstinger , Walter Steinegger , Peter Müller and Baldur Preiml . In 1973 he stopped working as a trainer. Until his death, he and his wife Paula ran the Alpengasthof Rupertihaus in Mühlbach am Hochkönig, which he had expanded into a training center with training rooms and two ski jumps.

The Sepp-Bradl-Stadium in Bischofshofen with the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze is named after him. On the right side of the landing hill there is the Buwi Bradl monument erected in his honor.

successes

winter Olympics

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 19th ski jump
• Oslo 1952 : DNF ski jumping
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 : 12th normal hill jump

World championships

• Chamonix 1937 : 5th normal hill jump
• Lahti 1938 : 4th normal hill jump
• Zakopane 1939 : 1st normal hill jump
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1941 : 5th normal hill (unofficial)
• Falun 1954 : 10th normal hill jump

National championships

Austrian Ski Championships:

• Tschagguns 1947 : 1st jump run; 3rd Nordic combined (1st combined ski run, 7th combined cross-country run)
• Bad Hofgastein 1948 : 1st jump run
• Windischgarsten 1951 : 1st jump run
• Semmering 1952 : 1st jump run
• Innsbruck 1953 : 1st jump run
• Bad Hofgastein 1954 : 1st jump run
• Semmering 1955 : 2nd jump run; 1. Nordic combined
• Lienz 1956 : 1st jump run

German Ski Championships:

• Oberhof 1939 : 1st jump run
• Spindleruv Mlyn 1941 : 1st jump run

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Planica	Slovenia	101.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	March 15, 1936	1938
Planica	Slovenia	107.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	1938	1941
Bischofshofen	Austria	86.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 26, 1947	December 27, 1947
Bischofshofen	Austria	94.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 27, 1948	February 27, 1949
Bischofshofen	Austria	107.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 27, 1948	January 6, 1952
Bischofshofen	Austria	101.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 11, 1952	January 11, 1953

literature

• My way to the world champion. With a foreword by Hans Hofmann. Key Publishing House, Innsbruck 1948.

Web links

• Josef Bradl in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Josef Bradl in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Photo of the Buwi Bradl monument on the Bischofshofen ski club website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Upper Austrian News : Sepp Bradl: Bubis Leap into History , March 12, 2011
2. ↑ First superstar of the jumping scene on ORF on March 14, 2011, accessed on March 15, 2011.
3. ↑ Gerd Falkner : 100 Years of the German Ski Association - Chronicle of German Skiing from the Beginnings to the Present. Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 166 and 176.
4. ↑ Johannes Hochsteger: Biographical study on Austrian sports idols from 1933-1945 , 2014, diploma thesis at the UNI Vienna ( online )
5. ↑ «A record race is expected»; second column, from row 3 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 6, 1951, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ « You have to make the first jump» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 9, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ ski jumping area at www.bischofshofen.com