Josefa Frandl

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Josefa Frandl Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 5th July 1930 (age 90)
place of birth Mandling , Austria
size 168 cm
Weight 68 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
society SC Radstadt
status resigned
End of career 1960
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Cortina 1956 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Cortina 1956 Giant slalom
silver Bad Gastein 1958 slalom
bronze Bad Gastein 1958 combination
 

Josefa "Putzi" Frandl , also: Josefin (e) Frandl , married Crotty (born July 5, 1930 in Mandling , Radstadt municipality , Land Salzburg ) is a former Austrian ski racer . It celebrated numerous victories in international races from the mid-1950s, won the silver medal in the giant slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics , a total of three world championship medals and four Austrian championship titles . After the end of her active career in 1960, she moved to the United States, where she worked as a ski instructor into old age.

biography

Frandl skied for the first time as a two-year-old and received his first skiing lessons from her uncle, a ski instructor. After completing elementary school and secondary school , she completed an apprenticeship as a tailor , after having passed a journeyman's examination, she first worked as a tailor for alterations and later as a sporting goods seller in a sports store in Radstadt. Frandl belonged to the Radstadt ski club, was in the team of the Salzburg State Ski Association for some time and, after success in the junior sector, was accepted into the team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) in 1950. Her first major successes came in the winter of 1951/1952 when she celebrated her first victory in an FIS race on the Tschagguns descent, alongside several podium places and her first of a total of six Salzburg state championship titles . After further podium places in the next two years, Frandl achieved the final breakthrough when she celebrated two important victories in the slalom of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel and in the combination of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in winter 1954/1955 . She also won a giant slalom in Lermoos and was Austrian champion in giant slalom.

After a short injury break, the winter of 1955/1956 initially did not bring top results, but Frandl qualified for a major international event for the first time within the Austrian team, the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , which - as usual until 1980 - also served as world championships counted. In Cortina, Frandl won the silver medal in the giant slalom behind the German Ossi Reichert , was fifth in the slalom as well as in the three-way combination, which was only evaluated as a World Cup competition, and 13th in the downhill. After the games she won all the races in Zermatt . In the following winter of 1956/1957, Frandl celebrated several victories: She won the slalom of the Hahnenkamm races for the second time, won downhill, slalom and combined in Quebec, Canada , and was North American champion in the two-man combination downhill / slalom in Squaw Valley .

Frandl started the winter of 1957/1958 with two victories in the giant slalom in Saalfelden and the SDS races in Grindelwald , in which she had achieved three second places in the previous year. At her “home world championship” in Bad Gastein in 1958 , the Salzburg woman was one of the big medal candidates and she won the silver medal in slalom behind the Norwegian Inger Bjørnbakken in the very first competition . In the downhill she finished fifth, but in her previously strongest discipline, the giant slalom, she only finished eleventh, which was still enough for the bronze medal in the combination of three. Three weeks after the World Cup, Frandl became three-time Austrian champion in downhill, giant slalom and combined in Bad Hofgastein . A little later she won the slalom and combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton as well as the descent and combination of the Holmenkollen-Kandahar races in Norway (descent in Voss , slalom on the Rødkleiva hill near Oslo ).

In the summer of 1958, Frandl completed a summer training session with the Austrian national team in Oregon in the United States . She then stayed in the USA for the entire winter of 1958/1959, only took part in races in North America and did not start in Europe. She won Downhill and Combined at the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley that winter and came second in Downhill and Combined in Aspen . In the winter of 1959/1960 Frandl returned to Europe to preserve her chance to participate in the 1960 Winter Olympics . She only competed in a few races in the run-up to the Games and, according to some coaches, did not have the required qualifications, but with her results in the ÖSV team she still achieved a starting place for the Olympics. At the games that were played in Squaw Valley in the United States, however, Frandl disappointed. She was only 16th in slalom, 21st in giant slalom and 39th downhill, thus 12th in the world championship combination. She celebrated her last victory at the subsequent North American races, in which she won the downhill race of the Harriman Cup for the second time and was second in the combined. After that, she ended her active career.

In 1961 Frandl finally moved to the United States and initially worked as a ski instructor in Aspen, where she met her future husband. The two married in 1965, had three children and after several relocations settled in Littleton, south of Denver in the US state of Colorado . Frandl-Crotty began playing tennis and was once a Colorado champion in her age group. She worked as a ski instructor at Copper Mountain until the winter of 2008/2009 before she broke her shoulder in 2009 and her husband passed away that same year. Frandl-Crotty repeatedly received guests from her old home in the USA, including many former and still active ski racers, but rarely traveled back to Austria herself. Her visit to Austria in 2001 on the occasion of her inclusion in the Radstadt "Walk of Sports" was her first home visit in over three decades.

successes

winter Olympics

(The Olympic Games also counted as World Championships. An exception was the Alpine Combined, which was held during the Games, but was only counted as a World Championship competition.)

World championships

Victories in FIS races

  • Departure from Tschagguns in 1952
  • Slalom of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel in 1955
  • Combination in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains 1955
  • Giant slalom in Lermoos 1955
  • Downhill, slalom and combination in Zermatt 1956
  • "Long descent" of the Gornergrat derby in Zermatt 1956
  • Giant slalom at the "Three Summit Race" in Arosa on March 24, 1956
  • Slalom of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel on January 20, 1957 (also 5th place in the downhill on January 19th and 3rd place in the combination)
  • Downhill, slalom and combination at the "Quebec Cup" in Mont Tremblant in early March 1957
  • Combination of the North American Championships in Squaw Valley 1957
  • Giant slalom of the SDS races in Grindelwald 1958, plus 3rd place in another giant slalom
  • Giant slalom in Saalfelden on January 26, 1958
  • Slalom and combination (and 5th place in the downhill) of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton 7th / 8th. March 1958
  • Downhill and combination of the Holmenkollen-Kandahar races (“Holmenkollen Ski Week”) in Voss / Rødkleiva 1958
  • Downhill and combination of the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley 1959
  • Departure of the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley 1960

Austrian championships

Further placements:
1957 in Schruns : 8th place in giant slalom, 2nd place in downhill, slalom and combined

Other important placements

  • 3rd place in the giant slalom at the »Wallberg-Schild« in Rottach-Egern on March 4th, 1956
  • 3rd place in the downhill and 2nd place in the slalom as well as 3rd place in the combination at Kandahar in Sestriere on 9/10. March 1956
  • 2nd place in slalom, downhill and combined in Grindelwald on 10/11. January 1957
  • 2nd place in the slalom on January 31, 1957 at the »11. Garmisch Winter Sports Week «
  • 2nd place in slalom on April 7, 1957 in Squaw Valley
  • 3rd place in the giant slalom and 2nd place in the downhill run on the Hahnenkamm (January 17/18, 1958)

literature

  • Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 80-81.
  • Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the Snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , pp. 131–132 and 336.
  • Josefa “Putzi” Frandl: In 1957 she was the world's best! In: Ski Austria. Official magazine of the Austrian Ski Association. Issue 3 2010/11, pp. 26-27.
  • Birthdays: Josefa "Putzi" Frandl. In: SLSV Intern. Association information of the Salzburg State Ski Association. No. 81, September 2010, pp. 16-17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United States Ski Association (Ed.): A History. United States Ski Association. Colorado Springs 1967, p. 83.
  2. ^ Molterer and Frandl winners in Zermatt . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 17, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ All winners to the Austrians . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 18, 1956, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Frandl and Werner win in Zermatt . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 20, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Rieder wins, Molterer third . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 25, 1956, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ Toni Sailer as good as in Cortina . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 20, 1957, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ The victor who is not fit for a hero . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 22, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ Victories in all ski fields . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 5, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ The first skiing success of the new season . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 10, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ↑ A second and a third place in Grindelwald . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 11, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ↑ Toni Sailer back to old strength? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 28, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ↑ "Daniele Telinge won the downhill" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 8, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  13. ^ "Karl Schranz distanced everyone"; Subline: "Putzi Frandl won the slalom and the combination" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1958, p. 36 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  14. ↑ «Schranz and Putzi Frandl won» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 14, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. ↑ "Schranz and Frandl Holmenkollensieger" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 16, 1958, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  16. ^ "Putzi Frandl wins before Hilde Hofherr" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 28, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  17. ^ "Josl Rieder and Karl Schranz in the dead race" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 1, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  18. ^ "The second title for Karl Schranz", subtitle: "A tenth of a second decided for Kathi Hörl" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1958, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  19. ^ "The alpine competitions began" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 8, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  20. ^ "Hilde Hofherr victorious for the second time" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 10, 1957, p. 26 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  21. ^ "Toni Sailer wins all competitions" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  22. ↑ "The daily Skisiege the Austrians" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 6, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  23. ^ "Anderl Molterer won the downhill race" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 10, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  24. ^ "Madeleine Berthod Kandahar Winner" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 11, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  25. ↑ »Putzi Frandl in second place« . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 11, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  26. ^ "Carla Marchelli's third victory" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 12, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  27. ↑ "Again the victory was denied" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 1, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  28. ↑ »Descent with artificial obstacles« . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 9, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  29. ^ "The Austrians are stronger than ever" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 18, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  30. ^ "Austrian triumphs in downhill skiing" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 19, 1958, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Frandl, Josefa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frandl, Putzi; Frandl, Josefine; Frandl, Josefin; Crotty, Josefa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mandling (Radstadt municipality) , Austria