Alois Morgenstern
Alois Morgenstern 
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| birthday | 13th June 1954 (age 66) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Spittal an der Drau , Austria | ||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||||
| society | SV Spittal an der Drau | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1979 | ||||||||
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Alois Morgenstern (born June 13, 1954 in Spittal an der Drau ) is a former Austrian ski racer . His specialty was slalom . He became the European Junior Champion in 1972 and achieved a podium in the Ski World Cup . At the 1976 Winter Olympics , Morgenstern finished seventh in the slalom.
Career
As a ski racer
Morgenstern was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association in the early 1970s . He celebrated his first major success by winning the slalom at the first ever European Junior Championship in 1972 in Madonna di Campiglio . After he had achieved his first top 10 place in the European Cup in the 1972/73 season , he rose to the World Cup team the following winter . His best result of the season, at the same time also the first in the points, so among the top ten, was the sixth place in the slalom of Voss on March 3, 1974. Due to an injury, he could not contest almost the entire next winter.
In the 1975/76 season , Morgenstern was among the top ten in three slaloms, with his best result being sixth in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . This enabled him to take part in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and, as the best Austrian, came seventh in the slalom. He was also at the start in the giant slalom, but dropped out in the second run.
Morgenstern achieved his best ever World Cup result on January 10, 1977: He finished third in the Berchtesgaden slalom behind Ingemar Stenmark from Sweden and Klaus Heidegger from Austria . With another three top 10 results he came in eleventh place in the Slalom World Cup in the 1976/77 season . The year before, he had taken twelfth place.
In the next winter , the Carinthian only reached the points once more (fifth place in Chamonix ), which is why he lost his place in the World Cup team. In the 1978/79 season he tried to return to the World Cup via the European Cup. However, he did not succeed and at the end of winter he announced his resignation.
As a soccer coach
After the end of his career as a ski racer, Morgenstern switched to football and became the coach of FC Lendorf , where he also acts as the sports director . With Lendorf he rose to the regional league in 2018 .
Personal
Alois Morgenstern is an uncle of the ski jumper Thomas Morgenstern . His son Martin Morgenstern (* 1982) was a soccer player in the Bundesliga for FC Kärnten , his older son Christoph (* 1979) played for Bad Bleiberg and Lustenau in the second division .
Sporting successes
winter Olympics
- Innsbruck 1976 : 7th slalom
World championships
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Innsbruck 1976
: 7th slalom
World cup
- One podium, another eight placements among the top ten
European Cup
- A victory (slalom in Bad Kleinkirchheim 1977), a second place
Junior European Championships
- Madonna di Campiglio 1972 : 1st slalom
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 280-281.
Web links
- Alois Morgenstern in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Alois Morgenstern in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Alois Morgenstern in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ FC Lendorf is prepared for Regionalliga Mitte mein district.at, on June 13, 2016, accessed on August 1, 2018
- ↑ “The Last Station” meinviertel.at, on March 29, 2011, accessed on August 1, 2018
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| SURNAME | Morgenstern, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spittal an der Drau , Austria |