The 1973/74 season of the Alpine Ski World Cup organized by the FIS began on December 3, 1973 (men) and December 9 (women) in Val-d'Isère and ended on March 10, 1974 in Vysoké Tatry . In the men's race, 21 races were held (7 downhill runs , giant slalom and slalom each ). There were 17 races for women (5 downhill runs, 6 giant slaloms, 6 slaloms).
For the first time, there were no overseas races at all (i.e. all competitions took place in Europe). The highlight of the season was the 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz .
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Men:
Downhill (7):
Rank 1: SUI 4, AUT 2, ITA 1
Rank 2 (plus an ex aequo): AUT 4, ITA 2, SUI 2
Rank 3 (minus an ex aequo from Rank 2; plus. Triple-ex-aequo brings a plus of 2 places): AUT 3, ITA 2, SUI 2, AUS 1
giant slalom (7):
Rank 1: ITA 5, AUT 2
Rank 2: AUT 3, ITA 3, SWE 1
Rank 3 : AUT 3, ITA 3, SWE 1
Slalom (7):
Rank 1: ITA 3, GER 2, AUT 1, SPA 1
Rank 2: ITA 3, AUT 2, SWE 2
Rank 3: AUT 3, GER 2, ITA 1 , SPA 1
Total (21):
Rank 1: ITA 9, AUT 5, SUI 4, GER 2, SPA 1
Rank 2 (plus one ex aequo): AUT 9, ITA 8, SWE 3, SUI 2
Rank 3 (minus one ex aequo of rank 2; plus net 2 ex aequo): AUT 9, ITA 6, GER 2, SUI 2, AUS 1, SPA 1, SWE 1
Overview:
ITA 9 | 8 | 6
AUT 5 | 9 | 9
SUI 4 | 2 | 2
GER 2 | - | 2
SPA 1 | - | 1
SWE - | 3 | 1
OFF - | - | 1
Women:
Downhill (5):
Rank 1: AUT 4, USA 1
Rank 2: AUT 4, SUI 1
Rank 3: AUT 2, SUI 2, CAN 1
Giant Slalom (6):
Rank 1: AUT 2, CAN 1, FRA 1 , ITA 1, LIE 1
Rank 2: SUI 3, AUT 1, LIE 1, USA 1
Rank 3: GER 3, FRA 1, LIE 1, SUI 1
Slalom (6):
Rank 1: GER 6
Rank 2: FRA 3, AUT 1, LIE 1, USA 1
Rank 3: AUT 2, FRA 1, GER 1, LIE 1, USA 1
Overall (17):
Rank 1: AUT 6, GER 6, CAN 1, FRA 1, ITA 1, LIE 1, USA 1
Rank 2: AUT 6, SUI 4, FRA 3, LIE 2, USA 2
Rank 3: AUT 4 , GER 4, SUI 3, FRA 2, LIE 2, CAN 1, USA 1
Overview:
AUT 6 | 6 | 4
GER 6 | - | 4
FRA 1 | 3 | 2
LIE 1 | 2 | 2
USA 1 | 2 | 1
CAN 1 | - | 1
ITA 1 | - | -
SUI - | 4 | 3
Season course
World Cup planning
- The planning before the season was that 13 out of 21 races would be counted for men and 12 out of 18 races for women.
If two races were held at one location and someone was classified twice, the points scored counted twice (this only applied to the overall classification, but not to the discipline classification). This was decided at the 19th FIS Congress (June 7/8, 1973 in Nicosia ). The maximum number of points for men was 575 (taking into account this “doubling of points”) and 500 for women.
- With regard to the overall World Cup ranking, the season was divided into periods: all races up to the New Year counted towards the first period, of which the four best results for men and the three best results for women were used for the overall standings. Thereupon the best six out of ten races for both men (up to and including Hahnenkamm ) and women (up to Bad Gastein ). Of the remaining five men’s and four women’s races, it was the best three.
- The women's downhill run planned for March 4th in Cortina d'Ampezzo was canceled, so that the third section consisted of only three races, all of which were used. (see footnote on postponement / relocation).
- The five best results counted for the discipline world cup.
- As before, most of the men's races were held on the weekends, while those of the women were held during the week (with a trend towards Thursday / Friday).
Postponement / relocation of races
There was a change in the program for the races in Val-d'Isère : the men's giant slalom scheduled for December 7th was split into two parts. between the second run only on December 8th. On the other hand, the women's slalom planned for December 8th was brought forward by one day. On the FIS website (probably as his World Cup premiere) Ingemar Stenmark was entered in 46th place (slightly more than 13 seconds behind the winner Hansi Hinterseer ).
The Val Gardena run was used in Zell am See because of the lack of snow there (see footnote to “Other important notes”). With regard to Pfronten , where the Breitenberg was the scene of the races (and the cost of 170,000 DM), there was an exchange of the slalom for a giant slalom with Les Gets . At the Lauberhorn run on January 19, the upper part (Lauberhorn shoulder to Hundsschopf, about 1.5 km) could not be skied due to lack of snow. Both winner Collombin and Klammer spoke of an easy descent. From start no. 18 fog came up. The giant slalom for the Golden Fox planned for Maribor took place in Bad Gastein on January 25th, which is why the podium finishers were given the fox mascots there (see footnotes to “Third overall World Cup victory in a row for Annemarie Moser-Pröll”).
The women's run in Cortina d'Ampezzo planned for March 4th was postponed by one day for the time being, but had to be canceled because there was two meters of snow on the slope. The cancellation took place on the evening of March 4th. Since the women's slalom in Vysoké Tatry was already planned for March 6th (at the same time as that of the men in Zakopane ), whereby the women's program was postponed by one day due to the delay, it was not possible to wait any longer. Cortina was even sealed off from the environment, but finally the entourage reached Zurich , from where it went on to the ČSSR by plane. In Vysoké Tatry, the slalom was held first, followed by the giant slalom.
Incidents and (preliminary) decisions
- In the French team, right at the start in Val-d'Isère, there was a "revolt" against team boss Georges Jaubert and, as a result, six runners were excluded. between Jean-Noël Augert , Patrick Russel , Henri Duvillard , Roger Rossat-Mignod and the Lafforgue sisters.
- There was also the message that Jean-Claude Killy and Léo Lacroix should take over their supervision with regard to the World Championships, so that “the best French should start there”. This did not happen, however, and the pronounced exclusions remained. Thanks to Fabienne Serrat , the French women won double gold at the world championship, and Serrat (with a first World Cup victory) and other women were able to achieve good results afterwards, while the severely decimated men's team barely appeared for many years could. In the season in question it was a seventh place for Claude Perrot in the slalom on the Lauberhorn and again Perrot in Berchtesgaden , once again Laurent Mazzili in Saalbach-Hinterglemm and Alain Navillod in Zakopane with 10th place in the giant slaloms held there and Roland Roche with rank 9 am Ganslernhang , which brought the team, which has mutated into the “Petit Nation”, places in the “Top Ten”. Only Michel Vion achieved a World Cup podium again in the combination in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (February 13/14, 1982) with rank 2 (plus the surprising combination title at the 1982 World Championships in Schladming), and it was he who (again in the combination, this time on January 20/21, 1985 in Wengen ), the series of victoryless ends.
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Christa Zechmeister , the four slalom wins in a row reach and advanced with its Home Win on 7 December for ever youngest World Cup winner (she's there in February 2018 still), was the first runner who one discipline World Cup (slalom) for the DSV win could .
- The German women won all slaloms of the season.
- Third overall World Cup victory in a row for Annemarie Moser-Pröll : Already practically after the slalom on January 24th ( Marie-Theres Nadig would have this with a victory in the giant slalom in Bad Gastein and three wins in the following four races, with not a single point for Moser), but theoretically one day later with 4th place in the aforementioned giant slalom with 228 points and thus 102 points ahead of Zechmeister.
- Moser-Pröll had also continued her winning streak in the downhill sections: There were three more to the eight from the previous year, so that she was able to win eleven across the seasons before the series in Grindelwald was interrupted by Cindy Nelson , who was victorious for the first time . Nelson achieved the first women's podium in a World Cup downhill run for the US association, which up to January 13, 1974 had 15 wins (11 slalom, 4 giant slalom), 22 second places (11 slalom and giant slalom each) and 27th place third places (17 slalom, 10 giant slalom).
- With Hanni Wenzel , Kathy Kreiner , Claudia Giordani and Fabienne Serrat there were four other athletes who achieved a World Cup victory for the first time, whereby Wenzel brought the Principality to 1st place for the first time, also won the giant slalom discipline classification, and Giordani (after the downhill success of Giustina Demetz in March 1967 in Sestriere ) was the second lady of the Italian federation to achieve a World Cup success.
- Much like Pröll, Mr. Roland Collombin dominated the downhill races. Franz Klammer landed his first victory in the Schladming downhill, but Herbert Plank also became the youngest winner of a World Cup downhill with his first win at the season opener in Val-d'Isère (he is also at the beginning of March 2018).
- Hubert Berchtold and Olympic champion Francisco Fernández Ochoa achieved further premier victories .
- On January 5th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen it was the first time that two runners of the DSV stood on the podium in a men's slalom (winner Christian Neureuther , 3rd place Hansjörg Schlager ).
- Franz Klammer's fifth place in the Hahnenkamm run was classified as a defeat by the Austrian media. The Italian runners (Anzi with No. 28 and Besson with No. 2 ex-aequo second) were particularly noticeable about their clean, technical ski management. The mainspring for the good performance was also the internal qualification for the world championships.
- For the first time since 1961 (then Gerhard Nenning ) an Austrian won the Hahnenkamm Slalom with Hansi Hinterseer .
- First overall World Cup victory for Piero Gros : As the races in the third period only included technical disciplines, Gros and Gustav Thöni made the victory among themselves. Even after the giant slalom in Voss , Collombin was still leading with 140 points. Behind them were Hinterseer (132), Gros (131), Klammer (125) and Thöni (120), all of whom theoretically had a chance of overall victory. Because Collombin and Klammer were less strong in this area, it could only be a three-way battle. Klammer was also eliminated in the Voss slalom, and Gros took the lead with 156 points ahead of Collombin (140) and Hinterseer (139) (see footnote on the cancellation of the women's downhill in Cortina). There was a certain drama in Zakopane as Gros only finished tenth after leading at half time due to a serious mistake (he missed a goal and got back). With this he held 157 points ahead of Hinterseer (151), Thöni had drawn level with Collombin (140). Gros' giant slalom victory brought about the decision: He won both the overall and the giant slalom World Cup for the first time. Thöni was disqualified, but with the victory in the final slalom was able to overtake Hinterseer in the overall standings and also get the slalom ball.
- Thanks to the double victory in the Men's World Cup with Gustav Thöni and Piero Gros, Italy managed to (narrowly) win the men's ranking in the Nations Cup for the first time.
Other important notes
- The ÖSV men went back to Chile for a summer training session at the beginning of August; the return to Austria was planned for August 24th. Furthermore, the focus of the ÖSV leadership was on providing an overall World Cup winner with David Zwilling ; Accordingly, an order was issued to subordinate everything for the Salzburg man, which particularly affected the other all-rounders Franz Klammer and Reinhard Tritscher.
- The Swiss and French had new racing suits: even tighter, even less air resistance.
- A general strike on French radio meant that there was no TV broadcast of the starting races in Val-d'Isère (Gerd Prechtl from ORF lost his premiere as a commentator). However, ORF television itself did not show anything directly from the December races in Saalbach and Zell am See (not because of a strike; but because the technical requirements were not yet met at these locations).
- The “points doubling rule” hardly worked: Reinhard Tritscher was the only runner to benefit from it in the first period when he finished sixth in the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère and fourth in the downhill.
- Franz Klammer was almost the second in terms of doubling: The men's downhill race in Zell am See (replacement race for Val Gardena ) was started despite the objections of Franz Vogler, who returned to the World Cup after a year, and other runners because of the fog and had to start by starting number 45 are interrupted. The first numbers were clearly at a disadvantage ( Philippe Roux with number 1 was 77th and penultimate, Roland Thöni with number 6 last. Winner Karl Cordin had number 8, the second Roland Collombin had number 14). In a later episode, Reto Beeli took advantage of the moment with number 72 and placed himself in 7th place. Klammer slipped to 11th place, which means that (after his fourth place in the giant slalom in Saalbach) he did not enjoy the doubling of points (it would have been 24 ) came.
- Franz Vogler, in 1: 56.08 by almost 9 seconds behind the winning time of 1: 47.43 on rank 52, said that the runners had not resisted the start, because “we are the organizer who is comfortable more trouble than anyone else has done before, and owes the audience. But it is unfair if these races are evaluated in the World Cup and if FIS points, which are decisive for the ranking, are awarded ”. But he also admitted that the Austrians, who had the flawlessly fastest ski and absolutely wanted to start, admitted, “We would have done the same thing in the same situation”. Bernhard Russi was also a victim of the circumstances (rank 44 in 1: 54.83).
- Another novelty (and rarity) on this descent was that there were five runners on the podium due to a triple ex-aequo placement in 3rd place. This “phenomenon” did not occur again until December 1st, 2018 at the men's super-G in Beaver Creek with three runners also in third place.
- Surprisingly, in the women's giant slalom in Zell am See, no Austrian runners made it into the points ( Ingrid Gfölner was best in 12th place, 1.77 seconds behind, Annemarie Pröll appears in 14th place).
- The men's downhill run in Schladming was the World Cup premiere for the city in the Ennstal and attracted 15,000 visitors. Even then, four television sets were set up at the start. Josef Loidl held the course record so far with 2: 10.89, while Klammer now drove 1: 41.77.
- The Lauberhorn Slalom was very unsuccessful: 81 out of 105 participants did not make it into the ranking.
- In the Hahnenkamm descent, the course record of 2: 11.92 previously held by Jean-Claude Killy in 1967 was beaten by 45 of the 54 placed runners, with the winner Collombin in 2: 03.29 being 8.33 seconds faster.
- After the World Championships, there was an (additional) two-week World Cup break. In the first week, various participants were ceremoniously welcomed in their hometowns, in the second the associations held their national championships, the Austrians in the Bregenz Forest, with even the French participating. And finally there was confusion about the combination master ...
Resignations
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Stefano Anzi , Andrzej Bachleda , Edmund Bruggmann , Bob Cochran , Josef Loidl , Andreas Sprecher , Marcello Varallo and Franz Vogler or Barbara Ann Cochran , Marilyn Cochran (these two in July 1974), Danièle Debernard .
- There was a different kind of resignation on May 11th by France's men's head coach Georges Joubert ; as he stated, given the prevailing sporting crisis, the reason was rather the 30% budget cut.
Race outside the World Cup
Ernst Good won the two-day giant slalom in Mayrhofen (April 5th / 6th) , who caught Willi Frommelt , who was in front of him after the first day .
Web links
World Cup men
World Cup women
Individual evidence
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↑ "Double points for all-rounders" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 10, 1973, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ Valuation scrub . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 30, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «Pack your suitcase quickly and go home» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 21, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Messner's girls are in good shape" - Subtitle: "... program was changed" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 5, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «Hinterseer: Drive all around today» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 8, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ The women hunt for World Cup points , In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 4; 5th / 6th January 1974.
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^ "Süddeutsche Zeitung" No. 17 of January 21, 1974, page 24; Title: "Hattrick and World Cup for Collombin"
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↑ «Cortina suffocates in the snow» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 5, 1974, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Via Zurich into the Tatra Mountains" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 6, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Moser and Kaserer outside" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 8, 1974, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «Now France's ski pool is threatened» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 11, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Tricolor team shared?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 12, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ Moser and Zechmeister great . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1974, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ 5th giant slalom at Serrat . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 26th 1974, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Can't the Austrians leave anymore?" In "Salzburger Nachrichten" No. 23 of January 28, 1974, page 7, third large heading
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↑ "Collombin is the super champion" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 27, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Gros: Victory within reach" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 7, 1974, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Piero Gros World Cup Winner" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 10, 1974, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Morgenstern also goes to Chile". In: “Kärntner Tageszeitung” No. 176 of August 4, 1973, page 16; POS .: Column 3, below
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^ "Drive slower, Franz Klammer". In: “Kärntner Tageszeitung” No. 186 of August 18, 1973, page 14; POS .: box bottom right
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^ "Swiss wonder weapon: The rough skin" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1973, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ “Klammer was among the fastest” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «world cup ranking» column 4 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 11, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «Insider tip struck» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 11, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Zell: Hoping for the descent" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ “Charles the Second has struck”, column 1, from the second paragraph and the following as well as the gloss “taken on the grain” with the title “Black gamble” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 19, 1973, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Süddeutsche Zeitung" No. 293 of December 19, 1973, page 35, title "Second World Cup Downhill a game of chance" by Wolfgang Weingärtner - with a gloss in column 5 below: "Franz Vogler: Injustice"
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↑ "Grissmann trumps non-stop" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Klammers triumph Eisparkett" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "The lonely struggle of David Zwilling", last paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 22nd 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Süddeutsche Zeitung" No. 23 of January 28, 1974, page 22; Title «Phantom Collombin unbelievable»
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↑ "Zwilling cheered - Klammer honored - Moser received" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 13, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ "Drexel before Moser" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1974, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «Again world champion defeated» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1974, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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^ «Hauser found the way best» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1974, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ "Confusion in the title fights" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ «sport in brief»; fourth post . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 14, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ almost below, center: "Georges Joubert resigned" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 12, 1974, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ middle; Columns 3 and 4: «Frommelt proved his class. The persecutors are close behind » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 6, 1974, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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↑ Column 4, middle: "Good before Frommelt" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 7, 1974, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
Winter sports world cup 1973/74