Karl Schnabl

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Karl Schnabl Ski jumping
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday March 8, 1954
place of birth Achomitz ,  Austria
Career
society SV Achomitz
National squad since 1972
Pers. Best 151 m (Kulm 1975)
status resigned
End of career 1978
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
SFWM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Innsbruck 1976 Large hill
bronze Innsbruck 1976 Normal hill
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold Innsbruck 1976 Large hill
bronze Innsbruck 1976 Normal hill
FIS Ski flying world championships
bronze Kulm 1975 singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 2. (1975/76)
 

Karl Schnabl (born March 8, 1954 in Achomitz, Hohenthurn municipality , Carinthia ) is an Austrian Olympic champion in ski jumping .

Athletic career

The talented jumper of the bilingual sports club Achomitz / Športno društvo Zahomec with the famous club trainer Franz Wiegele was discovered in 1970 by the then ÖSV trainer Baldur Preiml and brought to the ski school in Stams ( Tyrol ). There he was soon able to come up with good performances. A few years later, Karl Schnabl and Anton Innauer, together with Alois Lipburger , Willi Pürstl and Reinhold Bachler, were the protagonists of the Austrian ski jumping wonder team of the 1970s that Baldur Preiml had formed. In the 1974/1975 season, Karl Schnabl was the world's most successful ski jumper. At the Four Hills Tournament he won the three competitions from the New Year's competition onwards, but the very wrong starting competition with rank 35 prevented the overall victory. - Also in 1975/1976 he dominated the ski jumping circuit.

After numerous individual victories and a third place at the ski flying world championships on Kulm, Schnabl went to the Olympic Games in Innsbruck as one of the favorites in 1976 . At these "home games" he was able to withstand the pressure from the media and secured a bronze medal on the normal hill and the Olympic victory on the large hill. In the second round he was able to intercept Anton Innauer , who was already clearly leading . At various major ski jumping events, Karl Schnabl achieved 13 top ten placements, whereby it should be noted that there was no ski jumping World Cup at that time and Karl Schnabl achieved successes at countless events that would later have been run as FIS World Cup events. However, there was an FIS world ranking published in early June 1976 in which he was ranked first with Toni Innauer with 119 points - and only one point ahead of Hans-Georg Aschenbach .

In 1976, after his Olympic victory, the festive reception of his home community, which is located in the German-Slovenian-speaking area of ​​Carinthia, caused a scandal by German national circles who wanted to disrupt the bilingual celebration with whistles, heckling and switching off the microphone.

The season after the Olympic victory did not go as planned for the Austrian national team and also for Karl Schnabl. Nothing fit with the suits and skis. The start of the 1977/78 season did not go as planned either, so he decided to skip the two competitions in Germany for the time being at the Four Hills Tournament. Schnabl tried to regain his form with trainings in Tarvisio and started on January 4th on the Bergiselschanze , where he finished 30th, and in Bischofshofen he was thirteenth.
At the World Championships in Lahti in 1978 , he was fourth on the normal hill. In training for the Große Schanze he suffered a torn ligament on February 23 and ended his career shortly afterwards.

After the sports career

After the end of his career in 1978, Schnabl began studying medicine in Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1984. He found his first job as a doctor in the Villach regional hospital. In 1987 he received the sports doctor diploma from the Austrian Academy of Doctors . In 1989 he opened his own sports medicine practice in Innsbruck and was also the team doctor for the Austrian ski jumpers. Schnabl has headed the Sports Medicine Institute of the State of Carinthia since 1994 .

Private

Karl Schnabl is married and has one son. He lives in Latschach ( Magdalensberg municipality ), Carinthia.

Sporting successes

  • 13 top ten placements at major FIS ski jumping events, world championships and Olympic Games, etc. a. Holmenkollensieg on March 14, 1976

winter Olympics

World championships

Four Hills Tournament

  • 1973: 27th place (30th Oberstdorf, 33rd Garmisch, 25th Innsbruck, 33rd Bischofshofen)
  • 1975: 3rd place (35th Oberstdorf, 1st Garmisch, 1st Innsbruck, 1st Bischofshofen)
  • 1976: 2nd place (7th Oberstdorf, 2nd Garmisch, 2nd Innsbruck, 4th Bischofshofen)
  • 1977: 7th place (29th Oberstdorf, 21st Garmisch, 4th Innsbruck, 2nd Bischofshofen)
  • 1978: 66th place (30th Innsbruck, 13th Bischofshofen)

Austrian championships

  • 1972: Normal hill, Feldkirchen - 3rd place
  • 1975: Normal hill, Andelsbuch - 1st place
  • 1976: Normal hill, Bad Goisern - 1st place
  • 1977: Normal hill, Schwarzach - 1st place
  • 1978: Normal hill, Wörgl - 3rd place
  • 1978: Large hill, Murau - 2nd place

Ranking list placement

Hill records

place country Expanse set up on Record up
innsbruck AustriaAustria Austria 99.0 m
( HS : 130 m)		 4th January 1975 4th January 1975

literature

  • Dieter Seefranz: The White Rush: From skiing in Austria . Forum-Verlag, Vienna 1976.
  • Heinz Polednik: Happiness in the snow: 100 years of skiing in Austria . Amalthea, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85002-303-6 .
  • Toni Innauer: The critical point. My way to success. Recorded by Christian Seiler. Bad Sauerbrunn 1992, ISBN 3-900977-32-1
  • Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
  • From Grossglockner to Klammer stitch . 100 years of skiing in Carinthia. Carinthia Verlag 2007, Ed. Landesschiverband u. Kleine Zeitung, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2
  • ÖSV: Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger-Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 .

Movies

  • Olympic champion and high-flyer Karl Schnabl and the ski jumping wonder team . A film by Best Media GmbH, Ferdinand Macek and Sigi Bergmann. First broadcast in November 2014 on ORF SPORT +

Web links

Awards (excerpt)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Schnabl, Innauer Spitze" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 2, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ "That makes no sense ..." In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1977, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ «Danneberg: Unbeatable»; Column 4, penultimate paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 2, 1978, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ «Per Bergerud jumped away from all»; Column 5, results bar . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 5, 1978, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Column 1: "Results" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna 7th January 1978, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ "Torn ligament!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1978, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ «Schnabl, Innauer after Holmenkollen double victory:“ Preiml must stay! ”» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 15, 1976, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Schnabl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Achomitz , Carinthia