Reinhold Bachler

Reinhold Bachler
Reinhold Bachler in Planica 1968
nation	Austria
birthday	December 26, 1944
place of birth	Eisenerz ,  German Empire
Career
society	WSV Eisenerz
National squad	since 1964
Pers. Best	172.0 m (Planica 1977)
status	resigned
End of career	1978
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1968 Grenoble Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1968 Grenoble Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	03. ( 1975/76 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 17th 20th 16  Ski flying 4th 2 1

Reinhold Bachler (born December 26, 1944 in Eisenerz , Styria ) is a former Austrian ski jumper and ski jumping trainer. Before his sports career, Bachler worked as a miner on the Erzberg .

The early years

He celebrated his first successes in 1967 with six victories in FIS jumping. The highlight was on March 12, 1967, when he set a new world record in ski flying at 154 meters on the hill in Vikersund . In 1968 Bachler won the silver medal on the normal hill at the Olympic Games in Grenoble . After Grenoble, Reinhold Bachler was for many years one of the few Austrian ski jumpers who could keep up with the world's best. His biggest handicap was his problem with the jump, which he performed in parallel - as a so-called Kacherl  - which meant that he repeatedly dropped valuable points.

Austrian ski jumping wonder team

In 1974/75 the ÖSV team and thus Austria became the number one ski jumping nation overnight. Baldur Preiml , a former teammate of Reinhold Bachler, had become the team's head coach. Preiml's training and the material innovation he initiated had turned everything that had previously applied in ski jumping on its head.

Baldur Preiml built a team of young athletes around the older jumpers Reinhold Bachler, Rudi Wanner and Walter Schwabl : Toni Innauer , Karl Schnabl , Alois Lipburger , Willi Pürstl , Hans Wallner , Hans Millonig , Edi Federer , Rupert Gürtler and Alfred Pungg overtook in the competition from all over the world.

In the wake of this development, Bachler's career took another decisive turn: at the flight week in Vikersund in 1975 he achieved 1st and 2nd place and had great expectations for the ski flying world championship in 1975 on the Kulm in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf . However, he fell badly in the first round and suffered a concussion, a bruised kidney and broken ribs, but he fought his way back one more time. In 1975/76 he was third in the Four Hills Tournament and finished 5th and 6th at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck . He won three more competitions in Sapporo , Murau and Planica , and in Planica he also improved his personal best in ski flying with 172 meters. In total, he was able to achieve 60 podium placements at FIS ski jumping events during his 14-year career as a world class jumper. Just before the Ski Jumping World Cup was introduced, Reinhold Bachler ended his career.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Grenoble 1968 : 2nd place normal hill, 6th place large hill
• Innsbruck 1976 : 6th place normal hill, 5th place large hill

World championships

• Oslo 1966 : 12th place large hill, 19th place normal hill
• Grenoble 1968 : 2nd place normal hill, 6th place large hill
• Strbske Pleso 1970 : 37th place normal hill, 9th place large hill
• Sapporo 1972 : 30th place normal hill, 24th place large hill
• Planica 1972 : 41st place ski jump
• Oberstdorf 1973 : 11th place ski jump
• Falun 1974 : 59th place large hill, 24th place normal hill
• Kulm 1975 : 40th place ski jump
• Innsbruck 1976 : 6th place normal hill, 5th place large hill
• Vikersund 1977 : 20th place ski jump

Four Hills Tournament

• 1968: 18th place (58th Oberstdorf, 3rd Garmisch, 30th Innsbruck, 8th Bischofshofen)
• 1969: 11th place (9th Oberstdorf, 22nd Garmisch, 13th Innsbruck, 15th Bischofshofen)
• 1970: 20th place (30th Oberstdorf, 36th Garmisch, 7th Innsbruck, 25th Bischofshofen)
• 1971: 23rd place (17th Oberstdorf, 18th Garmisch, 35th Innsbruck, 30th Bischofshofen)
• 1972: 13th place (24th Innsbruck, 33rd Garmisch, 34th Oberstdorf, 5th Bischofshofen)
• 1973: 12th place (8th Oberstdorf, 32nd Garmisch, 14th Innsbruck, 10th Bischofshofen)
• 1974: 26th place (44th Oberstdorf, 57th Garmisch, 7th Innsbruck, 22nd Bischofshofen)
• 1975: 15th place (12th Oberstdorf, 7th Garmisch, 9th Innsbruck, 31st Bischofshofen)
• 1976: 3rd place (3rd Oberstdorf, 4th Garmisch, 3rd Innsbruck, 5th Bischofshofen)
• 1977: 8th place (9th Oberstdorf, 14th Garmisch, 5th Innsbruck, 25th Bischofshofen)
• 1978: 68th place (52nd Oberstdorf, 63rd Garmisch, 58th Innsbruck)

FIS jumping

• 1966: 2nd in Ponte Di Legno (Kongsberg Cup) - normal hill
• 1966: 2nd in St. Moritz - normal hill
• 1967: 2nd in Garmisch / Partenkirchen (tour) - large hill
• 1967: 2nd in Oberwiesenthal - normal hill
• 1967: Winner on Semmering - normal hill
• 1967: 3rd in St. Moritz - normal hill
• 1967: Winner in Gstaad - normal hill
• 1967: 3rd in Garmisch / Partenkirchen (Kongsberg Cup) - large hill
• 1967: 3rd in underwater normal hill
• 1967: Winner in Mysen - normal hill
• 1967: Winner in Johanngeorgenstadt - large hill
• 1968: Winner on the Feldberg - large hill
• 1968: 2nd in Cortina - normal hill
• 1968: 3rd in Garmisch / Partenkirchen - large hill
• 1969: Winner in Berchtesgaden - normal hill
• 1970: Winner in Villach - normal hill
• 1970: Winner in Willingen - large hill
• 1970: 2nd in Marburg - normal hill
• 1970: 2nd in Königsbronn - normal hill
• 1970: 2nd in Feldberg - normal hill
• 1970: 2nd in Dornbirn - normal hill
• 1970: 3rd in Planica - large hill
• 1971: Winner in Riezlern - normal hill
• 1971: 2nd in Marburg - normal hill
• 1971: 2nd in Murau - large hill
• 1971: 2nd on the Feldberg - normal hill
• 1971: 3rd in Le Locle - normal hill
• 1971: Austrian champion - normal hill
• 1972: Winner in Tarvis (Kongsberg Cup) - normal hill
• 1973: Winner in St. Moritz - normal hill
• 1973: Winner in Berchtesgaden - normal hill
• 1973: 2nd in Titisee-Neustadt - normal hill
• 1973: 3rd on Feldberg I - normal hill
• 1973: 2nd on Feldberg II - normal hill
• 1973: 3rd in Lahti - large hill
• 1974: Winner in Ruhpolding - normal hill
• 1974: 2nd on Feldberg - normal hill
• 1974: 3rd in Mühlbach - normal hill
• 1974: 2nd in Strbske Pleso I - large hill
• 1975: 2nd in Murau - large hill
• 1975: 3rd in Lahti II - large hill
• 1975: 3rd in Oberstdorf - large hill
• 1976: 3rd in Innsbruck - large hill
• 1976: 3rd in Wörgl - large hill
• 1976: Winner in Sapporo I - large hill
• 1976: 3rd in Sapporo II - large hill
• 1976: Winner in Kuopio I - large hill
• 1976: Winner in Kuopio II - large hill
• 1977: 3rd in Wörgl I - large hill
• 1977: Winner in Murau I - large hill
• 1977: 2nd in Murau II - large hill
• 1977: 2nd in Königsbrunn - normal hill
• 1978: 2nd in Willingen I - large hill

Ski flying

• 1967: world record (154 m - Vikersund)
• 1967: Winner in Vikersund II - flying hill
• 1967: 3rd in Oberstdorf I - flying hill
• 1967: Winner in Planica - flying hill
• 1968: 2nd in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf am Kulm - flying hill
• 1970: 3rd in Oberstdorf - flying hill
• 1975: Winner in Vikersund III - flying hill
• 1975: 2nd in Vikersund II - flying hill
• 1977: Winner in Planica I - flying hill

Austrian championships

• 1965: Normal hill, Breitenwang - 3rd place (February 21)
• 1966: Normal hill, Villach - 2nd place (February 13th)
• 1968: Normal hill, Semmering - 2nd place
• 1970: Normal hill, Bad Aussee - 3rd place
• 1971: Normal hill, Andelsbuch - 1st place
• 1973: Normal hill, Seefeld - 3rd place
• 1975: Normal hill, Andelsbuch - 2nd place

Ranking list placement

• 1966/67: 3rd world ranking
• 1967/68: 3rd world ranking
• 1975/76: 4th world ranking

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Vikersund	Norway	154.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 12, 1967	February 20, 1977
Planica	Slovenia	172.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 15, 1977	March 16, 1979

Coach in his homeland

From 1982 to 2000 Reinhold Bachler was a trainer at the Nordic training center in Eisenerz. He has been retired since 2000.

Awards

• 1967: 2nd place in the election for Sportsman of the Year
• 1996: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

literature

• Harald Lechenperg: Olympic Games 1968 - Grenoble-Mexico City . Copress-Verlag, Munich 1968.
• 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 .
• Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
• ÖSV: Austrian ski stars from A -Z . Ablinger-Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sepp Lichtenegger wins in the USA - Subtitle: Preiml master again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1965, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Lichtenegger won the duel . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1966, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ "Danzer again athlete of the year" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1967, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

Web links

• Reinhold Bachler in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Reinhold Bachler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )