Olga Pall

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Olga Pall Alpine skiing
Olga Pall 1968 Ras al-Khaimah stamp crop.jpg
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 3rd December 1947 (age 72)
place of birth Göstling an der Ybbs , Austria
size 170 cm
Weight 69 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career 1970
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Grenoble 1968 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Grenoble 1968 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1967
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 8. ( 1968 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. (1968)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 11th (1968)
 Slalom World Cup 21st ( 1967 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 1 0
 Giant slalom 0 1 0
 

Olga Pall (born December 3, 1947 in Göstling an der Ybbs , Lower Austria ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She became Olympic champion in 1968 and also world champion in downhill . In the same year she also won the Downhill World Cup with the French Isabelle Mir, tied on points. In addition, she was Austrian champion in this discipline in 1968 and 1969 .

biography

Olga Pall was born in Lower Austria, moved with her family at the age of three to Bischofshofen and a little later to Solbad Hall in Tirol . Her youngest sister Elisabeth was also a ski racer.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Pall achieved first successes in school and youth races. In 1965 she celebrated her first significant victory in the downhill from Madonna di Campiglio , a year later she came second in the combined combination of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . In 1966 she was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association . In the first World Cup season in 1967 she achieved sixth place as the best result in the descent of the gold key race in Schruns . She had greater success in races outside of the World Cup, where she won the giant slalom in Zürs and came second in the giant slalom in Innsbruck .

In the winter of 1968 , Pall also became a top runner in the World Cup and celebrated her first World Cup victory in the downhill run of the Silberkrugrennen in Bad Gastein on January 17th (this was also the first downhill victory for the ÖSV women in the World Cup). The high point of her career was the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble . Pall was counted among the favorites in the downhill run, but the international specialist press tipped off Isabelle Mir from France . She was in the lead after her run, but 20-year-old Pall was able to beat her by almost half a second, becoming Olympic champion and world champion at the same time. In the giant slalom she then reached fifth place and ninth in slalom, placing her fifth in the combined ranking, which is only counted as a world championship competition. With two World Cup victories (the Olympic competitions were also part of the World Cup) and a second place, Pall won the Downhill World Cup in 1968 with the same number of points as Isabelle Mir, and in the overall ranking she was eighth. In addition, she was Austrian downhill champion. Because of her success, she was voted Austria's Sportswoman of the Year in 1968 .

Together with her sister Liesl, she was the victim of a traffic accident on April 4, 1968 in the Heavenly Mountain Resort ; Both were hit by a minibus walking on the sidewalk. Liesl suffered broken legs while Olga suffered a collateral ligament tear and a wound on the head.

At the beginning of January 1969, Pall came on the podium for the only time in a World Cup giant slalom, celebrated her next World Cup victory on January 31 in the downhill of the Arlberg-Kandahar race and came third in the Downhill World Cup in the 1968/69 season . She was able to successfully defend her Austrian championship title. In the 1969/70 season, however , their performances fell significantly, the fifth place in the downhill from Bad Gastein was their only top ten result. At the 1970 World Cup in Val Gardena , she only came in 13th downhill rank. At the end of winter, Pall announced her retirement from active ski racing.

Olga Pall then completed training as a physiotherapist and remained closely connected to skiing. At the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and Sarajevo in 1984, she worked as a supervisor for the Austrian team. From 1990 to 2002 she was Vice President of the Austrian Ski Association and later she was made Honorary President. Her husband Ernst Scartezzini was also active as an active athlete and sports official for many years. From 1986 to 2004 he was President of the Tyrolean Ski Association, in 2005 he was also appointed one of the Honorary Presidents of the ÖSV.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

Olga Pall once won the downhill discipline.

season total Departure Giant slalom slalom
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1967 19th 15th 12. 6th 15th 4th 21st 5
1968 8th. 89 1. 70 11. 16 29 3
1968/69 12. 61 3. 36 12. 23 23. 2
1969/70 29 8th 11. 8th - - - -

World Cup victories

Pall achieved a total of 5 podiums, including 3 wins:

date place country discipline
January 17, 1968 Bad Gastein Austria Departure
February 10, 1968 Olympic games Grenoble France Departure
January 31, 1969 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria Departure

Austrian championships

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Olga Pall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung Wien from April 6, 1968, page 12
  2. ↑ «The weaker sex has triumphed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 24, 1968, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Columns 1 to 3. Middle: "Cheers for athletes of the year 1968" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 19, 1969, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Pall, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Göstling an der Ybbs , Austria