Sigrid Wolf

Sigrid Wolf
nation	Austria
birthday	14th February 1964 (age 56)
place of birth	Breitenwang , Austria
size	172 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination
society	SV Elbigenalp
status	resigned
End of career	1991/92
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Calgary 1988 Super G  Alpine World Ski Championships silver Vail 1989 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 18th December 1981  Individual world cup victories 5  Overall World Cup 9. ( 1986/87 , 1989/90 )  Downhill World Cup 5. (1986/87)  Super G World Cup 2. ( 1988/89 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 14. (1986/87, 1987/88 )  Combination World Cup 22. ( 1985/86 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 2 1 1  Super G 3 4th 2

Sigrid Wolf (born February 14, 1964 in Breitenwang ) is a former Austrian ski racer . At the end of the 1980s she was one of the most successful athletes in the downhill and super-G disciplines . She was once Olympic champion and vice world champion, and she also won five world cup races.

biography

Wolf contested her first World Cup race on December 18, 1981, where she, still a member of the youth squad, immediately achieved third place on the descent in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (and this with start number 60). In the following years there were no further podiums, but she proved to be a constant athlete and regularly placed in the top ten. At the 1985 World Championships in Santa Caterina , she reached fourth place in the downhill, losing just one hundredth of a second to Ariane Ehrat and Katharina Gutensohn , who shared second place at the same time.

In the 1986/87 World Cup season, the women's team of the ÖSV remained without a win for almost four months, until Sigrid Wolf won the two downhill runs in Vail on March 13 and 14 . At the start of the 1987/88 World Cup season , she was also successful in the Super-G of Sestriere and almost five years after the introduction of this discipline, she was the first lady of the Austrian Ski Federation to win the 19th Super-G in World Cup history. Due to the "pin affair" in the Super-G in Lech on January 9, 1988, another victory was subsequently revoked and the Swiss Zoë Haas was declared the winner. Several Austrian women had their quite large and drag-generating start numbers attached to their ski suits with a pin. Because this fact was the same for all runners, the pins could not be tolerated.

A few weeks later, Wolf won the gold medal in the Super-G at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary ahead of Michela Figini and Karen Percy . This made her the first female Olympic champion in this new discipline. As in the previous year, she was named Austria's Sportswoman of the Year . At the 1989 World Cup in Vail, she won the silver medal in the Super-G behind Ulrike Maier in an extremely close decision. At the end of February she won the Super-G at Steamboat Springs and finished second in the discipline world cup behind Carole Merle .

Wolf achieved one last World Cup victory in Super-G in January 1990 in Santa Caterina . After a ligament rupture in January 1991 and repeated injuries in November 1991, she ended her career, using the season finale 1991/92 to officially say goodbye.

After her sports career, she opened a fitness studio and became a sports teacher at the technical college for arts and crafts and design in Elbigenalp.

successes

Olympic games

• Calgary 1988 : 1st Super-G

World championships

• Bormio 1985 : 4th descent, 19th combination
• Crans-Montana 1987 : 7th Super-G, 15th Downhill
• Vail 1989 : 2nd Super-G, 28th Downhill

Junior European and World Championships

• Škofja Loka 1981 : 10th descent
• Auron 1982 : 5th combination, 6th descent, 10th giant slalom, 21st slalom

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1981/82	39.	26th	14th	24	-	-	38.	2	-	-
1982/83	49.	16	23.	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	68.	8th	30th	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	47.	22nd	19th	24	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	16.	93	15th	35	10.	24	17th	24	22nd	10
1986/87	9.	119	5.	61	8th.	35	14th	23	-	-
1987/88	10.	110	6th	55	5.	36	14th	19th	-	-
1988/89	10.	119	13.	28	2.	71	16.	20th	-	-
1989/90	9.	133	12.	33	3.	73	15th	27	-	-
1990/91	34.	45	34.	5	6th	30th	20th	10	-	-

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
March 13, 1987	Vail	United States	Departure
March 14, 1987	Vail	United States	Departure
November 28, 1987	Sestriere	Italy	Super G
February 25, 1989	Steamboat Springs	United States	Super G
January 27, 1990	Santa Caterina	Italy	Super G

Austrian championships

• Two Austrian national championship titles (Super-G and giant slalom 1987 )

Awards

• Austria's sportswoman of the year : 1987 and 1988
• Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria : 1996

Web links

• Sigrid Wolf in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Sigrid Wolf in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Sigrid Wolf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• That became Sigrid Wolf Der Standard, February 1, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Already at the debut on the podium. Arbeiter-Zeitung, December 19, 1981, accessed on March 18, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung Wien of November 30, 1987, page 20: Super-G-Bann was broken - "Sigal triumphs before Svet" (accessed on October 8, 2017)