Roland Thöni

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Roland Thöni Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 17th January 1951
place of birth Trafoi ,  Italy
date of death April 4, 2021
Place of death Bolzano ,  Italy
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
End of career 1976
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Sapporo 1972 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Sapporo 1972 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 7. ( 1971/72 )
 Downhill World Cup 20. (1971/72)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 16. (1971/72)
 Slalom World Cup 3. (1971/72)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 0 0 1
 slalom 2 0 0
 

Roland Thöni (born January 17, 1951 in Trafoi ; † April 4, 2021 in Bozen ) was an Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean was active in the Ski World Cup from the early 1970s . Together with his cousin Gustav Thöni , he was briefly one of the best slalom riders in the world.

biography

Thöni's star rose in February 1971 when he was able to place himself in the top ten of a World Cup race for the first time with seventh place in the Mürren slalom .

The 1971/72 season turned out to be his best. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo , he won the bronze medal in slalom behind the Spaniard Francisco Fernández Ochoa and his cousin Gustav. One month after the end of the games, he experienced his strongest phase in the World Cup. Within four days, from March 15 to 18, 1972, he was first eighth and third in the downhill and giant slalom of Val Gardena , before he won the special slalom of Madonna di Campiglio ( 3-tre race , he also won in the related combination) and Pra-Loup brought in the only two World Cup victories of his career. Over Easter 1972 (April 1–3) he won the slalom and the combination at the Etna ski races. In 1973 he became the Italian downhill champion.

After that it became quieter around him. In the following seasons he could never quite build on these top results. After the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , where he finished 14th in the downhill, Thöni ended his sporting career. Until his death he ran a ski rental in Sulden and also worked as a shepherd.

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
March 17, 1972 Madonna di Campiglio Italy slalom
March 18, 1972 Pra-Loup France slalom

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-ski racer Roland Thöni has passed away. Rai Südtirol , April 4, 2021, accessed on April 4, 2021 .
  2. ^ No time to protest against R. Thöni . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 18, 1972, p. 15 ( The website of the Arbeiterzeitung is currently being redesigned. The linked pages are therefore not available. - Digitized version).
  3. ↑ Column 1, below: «R. Thöni overall winner » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 5, 1972, p. 14 ( The website of the Arbeiterzeitung is currently being redesigned. The linked pages are therefore not accessible. - Digitized).
  4. ↑ Josef Laner: The shepherd of Trafoi. In: the Vinschger. Retrieved July 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ South Tyrol moves - Alto Adige da vivere: The shepherd of Trafoi. February 18, 2016, accessed February 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Thöni, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Trafoi
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Bolzano