Alpine Ski World Cup 1975/76

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Alpine Ski World Cup 1975/76

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Men's Ladies
winner
total SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier
Departure AustriaAustria Franz Klammer AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig
Giant slalom SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod
slalom SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier
combination SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier
Nations Cup AustriaAustria Austria
Nations Cup ItalyItaly Italy AustriaAustria Austria
Competitions
Venues 13 12
Individual competitions 26th 26th
1974/75
1976/77

The 1975/76 season of the Alpine Ski World Cup organized by the FIS began on December 3, 1975 in Val-d'Isère and ended on March 19, 1976 in Mont Sainte-Anne . For the men, 22 races were held (8  downhill runs , 7  giant slaloms , 7  slaloms ). For women there were 23 races (7 downhill runs, 8 giant slaloms, 8 slaloms). In addition there were 3 combination evaluations.

The highlight of the season was the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck .

World Cup ratings

total

Men's
rank athlete Points
1 SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark 249
2 ItalyItaly Piero Gros 205
3 ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni 190
4th AustriaAustria Franz Klammer 181
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch 98
AustriaAustria Hans Hinterseer
7th ItalyItaly Herbert Plank 77
8th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernhard Russi 72
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Philippe Roux 71
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelhard Pargätzi 67
11 ItalyItaly Franco Bieler 63
12 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seriously Good 59
13 CanadaCanada Jim Hunter 58
14th United StatesUnited States Phil Mahre 57
15th ItalyItaly Fausto Radici 55
16 AustriaAustria Anton Steiner 50
17th CanadaCanada Dave Irwin 47
18th United StatesUnited States Greg Jones 44
19th AustriaAustria Klaus Eberhard 41
AustriaAustria Thomas Hauser
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Heini Hemmi
Ladies
rank Athlete Points
1 Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier 281
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod 214
3 AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer 171
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen 170
5 FranceFrance Danièle Debernard 165
6th AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig 155
7th FranceFrance Fabienne Serrat 125
8th United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson 122
9 Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Hanni Wenzel 83
10 Germany BRBR Germany Irene Epple 73
11 ItalyItaly Claudia Giordani 67
12 AustriaAustria Irmgard Lukasser 62
AustriaAustria Nicola Spit
14th FranceFrance Patricia Emonet 58
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marie-Theres Nadig
16 Germany BRBR Germany Pamela Behr 51
17th Germany BRBR Germany Christa Zechmeister 50
18th AustriaAustria Elfi Deufl 46
Germany BRBR Germany Evi Mittermaier
20th United StatesUnited States Lindy Cochran 31
AustriaAustria Wiltrud Drexel

Departure

Men's
rank athlete Points
1 AustriaAustria Franz Klammer 125
2 ItalyItaly Herbert Plank 77
3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernhard Russi 66
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Philippe Roux 63
5 CanadaCanada Dave Irwin 47
6th AustriaAustria Klaus Eberhard 41
7th AustriaAustria Werner Grissmann 39
8th NorwayNorway Erik Håker 35
9 CanadaCanada Ken Read 28
10 CanadaCanada Jim Hunter 27
Ladies
rank Athlete Points
1 AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig 106
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen 89
3 AustriaAustria Nicola Spit 52
4th AustriaAustria Irmgard Lukasser 45
5 AustriaAustria Elfi Deufl 44
6th Germany BRBR Germany Irene Epple 42
7th United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson 37
8th Germany BRBR Germany Evi Mittermaier 32
9 Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier 30th
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marie-Theres Nadig 27

Giant slalom

Men's
rank athlete Points
1 SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark 88
2 ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni 82
3 ItalyItaly Piero Gros 78
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelhard Pargätzi 67
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seriously Good 56
6th United StatesUnited States Greg Jones 44
7th ItalyItaly Franco Bieler 43
8th AustriaAustria Hans Hinterseer 40
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Heini Hemmi 39
10 United StatesUnited States Phil Mahre 29
Ladies
rank Athlete Points
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod 120
2 AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer 95
3 Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier 91
4th FranceFrance Danièle Debernard 82
5 FranceFrance Fabienne Serrat 51
6th United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson 35
7th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen 30th
8th CanadaCanada Kathy Kreiner 28
9 AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig 23
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marie-Theres Nadig 19th

slalom

Men's
rank athlete Points
1 SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark 125
2 ItalyItaly Piero Gros 85
3 AustriaAustria Hans Hinterseer 58
ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni
5 ItalyItaly Fausto Radici 52
6th Germany BRBR Germany Christian Neureuther 30th
7th United StatesUnited States Phil Mahre 26th
8th ItalyItaly Franco Bieler 20th
United StatesUnited States Steve Mahre
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch 17th
Ladies
rank Athlete Points
1 Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier 110
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod 90
3 FranceFrance Fabienne Serrat 61
4th FranceFrance Danièle Debernard 59
5 ItalyItaly Claudia Giordani 52
6th Germany BRBR Germany Pamela Behr 51
7th Germany BRBR Germany Christa Zechmeister 47
8th FranceFrance Patricia Emonet 46
9 Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Hanni Wenzel 34
10 AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer 25th

combination

Men's
rank athlete Points
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch 65
2 ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni 50
3 CanadaCanada Jim Hunter 29
4th AustriaAustria Franz Klammer 25th
5 AustriaAustria Anton Steiner 22nd
6th ItalyItaly Piero Gros 20th
7th ItalyItaly Erwin Stricker 12
8th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Peter Lüscher 11
9 Germany BRBR Germany Sepp Ferstl 9
10 United StatesUnited States Pete Patterson 8th
Ladies
rank Athlete Points
1 Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier 45
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen 43
3 United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson 31
4th AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig 26th
5 AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer 24
6th Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Hanni Wenzel 19th
7th AustriaAustria Irmgard Lukasser 17th
8th CanadaCanada Betsy Clifford 15th
9 Germany BRBR Germany Irene Epple 11
AustriaAustria Lea Sölkner

Podium placements men

Departure

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
December 07, 1975 Val d'Isère ( FRA ) CanadaCanada Ken Read ItalyItaly Herbert Plank SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernhard Russi
12/12/1975 Madonna di Campiglio ( ITA ) AustriaAustria Franz Klammer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Philippe Roux NorwayNorway Erik Håker
December 20, 1975 Schladming ( AUT ) CanadaCanada Dave Irwin AustriaAustria Klaus Eberhard ItalyItaly Herbert Plank
01/09/1976 Wengen ( SUI ) ItalyItaly Herbert Plank AustriaAustria Franz Klammer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernhard Russi
01/10/1976 Wengen ( SUI ) AustriaAustria Franz Klammer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Philippe Roux CanadaCanada Jim Hunter
January 17, 1976 Morzine ( FRA ) AustriaAustria Franz Klammer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernhard Russi AustriaAustria Anton Steiner
01/25/1976 Kitzbühel ( AUT ) AustriaAustria Franz Klammer NorwayNorway Erik Håker AustriaAustria Josef Walcher
03/12/1976 Aspen ( USA ) AustriaAustria Franz Klammer SwitzerlandSwitzerland René Berthod AustriaAustria Ernst Winkler

Giant slalom

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
December 05, 1975 Val d'Isère ( FRA ) ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark ItalyItaly Piero Gros
December 14, 1975 Madonna di Campiglio ( ITA ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelhard Pargätzi SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seriously Good ItalyItaly Piero Gros
01/13/1976 Adelboden ( SUI ) ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelhard Pargätzi
January 18, 1976 Morzine ( FRA ) ItalyItaly Franco Bieler ItalyItaly Piero Gros SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark
01/27/1976 Zwiesel ( FRG ) SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni AustriaAustria Hans Hinterseer
05.03.1976 Copper Mountain ( USA ) United StatesUnited States Greg Jones United StatesUnited States Phil Mahre SwitzerlandSwitzerland Engelhard Pargätzi
03/18/1976 Mont Sainte-Anne ( CAN ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Heini Hemmi ItalyItaly Piero Gros SwitzerlandSwitzerland Seriously Good

slalom

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
December 15, 1975 Sterzing ( ITA ) SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark AustriaAustria Hans Hinterseer ItalyItaly Piero Gros
December 21, 1975 Schladming ( AUT ) AustriaAustria Hans Hinterseer SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark ItalyItaly Piero Gros
05/01/1976 Garmisch-Partenkirchen ( FRG ) ItalyItaly Fausto Radici ItalyItaly Piero Gros SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark
01/11/1976 Wengen ( SUI ) SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark ItalyItaly Piero Gros Germany BRBR Germany Christian Neureuther
01/24/1976 Kitzbühel ( AUT ) SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni ItalyItaly Piero Gros
07.03.1976 Copper Mountain ( USA ) SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark United StatesUnited States Steve Mahre ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni
03/14/1976 Aspen ( USA ) SwedenSweden Ingemar Stenmark United StatesUnited States Phil Mahre ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni

combination

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
06/09/01/1976 Garmisch-Partenkirchen /
Wengen ( FRG / SUI )
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch ItalyItaly Piero Gros ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni
January 10/11, 1976 Wengen ( SUI ) AustriaAustria Franz Klammer ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch
January 24/25, 1976 Kitzbühel ( AUT ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Tresch United StatesUnited States Jim Hunter ItalyItaly Gustav Thöni

Podium placements women

Departure

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
December 3rd, 1975 Val d'Isère ( FRA ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen Germany BRBR Germany Irene Epple SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marie-Theres Nadig
December 10, 1975 Aprica ( ITA ) AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig AustriaAustria Elfi Deufl United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson
December 16, 1975 Cortina d'Ampezzo ( ITA ) Germany BRBR Germany Evi Mittermaier AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen
07/01/1976 Hasliberg ( SUI ) AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig AustriaAustria Nicola Spit AustriaAustria Irmgard Lukasser
01/08/1976 Hasliberg ( SUI ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen AustriaAustria Irmgard Lukasser AustriaAustria Nicola Spit
01/21/1976 Bad Gastein ( AUT ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Doris De Agostini SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marlies Oberholzer AustriaAustria Elfi Deufl
03/11/1976 Aspen ( USA ) AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig FranceFrance Danièle Debernard Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier

Giant slalom

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
December 04, 1975 Val d'Isère ( FRA ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer
01/09/1976 Hasliberg ( SUI ) AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer FranceFrance Danièle Debernard SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marie-Theres Nadig
January 15, 1976 Les Gets ( FRA ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer
January 18, 1976 Berchtesgaden ( FRG ) FranceFrance Danièle Debernard SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer
01/25/1976 Kranjska Gora ( YUG ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen
05.03.1976 Copper Mountain ( USA ) Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen
03/13/1976 Aspen ( USA ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod FranceFrance Danièle Debernard AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer
March 19, 1976 Mont Sainte-Anne ( CAN ) AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer FranceFrance Fabienne Serrat CanadaCanada Kathy Kreiner

slalom

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
December 11, 1975 Aprica ( ITA ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier ItalyItaly Claudia Giordani
December 17, 1975 Cortina d'Ampezzo ( ITA ) FranceFrance Fabienne Serrat Germany BRBR Germany Pamela Behr Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier
01/12/1976 Les Diablerets ( SUI ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier FranceFrance Patricia Emonet
01/14/1976 Les Gets ( FRA ) FranceFrance Danièle Debernard Germany BRBR Germany Monika Berwein FranceFrance Patricia Emonet
January 17, 1976 Berchtesgaden ( FRG ) Germany BRBR Germany Christa Zechmeister FranceFrance Danièle Debernard Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Hanni Wenzel
01/22/1976 Bad Gastein ( AUT ) Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier ItalyItaly Claudia Giordani United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson
01/26/1976 Kranjska Gora ( YUG ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier AustriaAustria Regina Sackl
03/06/1976 Copper Mountain ( USA ) Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lise-Marie Morerod

combination

date place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
16./17.12.1975 Cortina d'Ampezzo ( ITA ) Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier AustriaAustria Brigitte Totschnig SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen
January 08/09, 1976 Hasliberg ( SUI ) United StatesUnited States Cindy Nelson Germany BRBR Germany Rosi Mittermaier Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Hanni Wenzel
January 21/22, 1976 Bad Gastein ( AUT ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bernadette Zurbriggen AustriaAustria Monika Kaserer CanadaCanada Betsy Clifford

Nations Cup

Overall rating
rank country Points
1 AustriaAustria Austria 1108
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 956
3 ItalyItaly Italy 740
4th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 627
5 FranceFrance France 375
6th United StatesUnited States United States 359
7th SwedenSweden Sweden 251
8th CanadaCanada Canada 223
9 Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 90
10 NorwayNorway Norway 46
11 Iran 1964Iran Iran 21st
12 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 18th
13 JapanJapan Japan 4th
14th Poland 1944Poland Poland 3
15th Spain 1945Spain Spain 1
Men's
rank country Points
1 ItalyItaly Italy 649
2 AustriaAustria Austria 523
3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 464
4th SwedenSweden Sweden 251
5 CanadaCanada Canada 165
6th United StatesUnited States United States 151
7th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 94
8th NorwayNorway Norway 46
9 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 10
FranceFrance France
11 Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 7th
12 JapanJapan Japan 4th
13 Poland 1944Poland Poland 3
14th Spain 1945Spain Spain 1
Ladies
rank country Points
1 AustriaAustria Austria 585
2 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 533
3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 492
4th FranceFrance France 365
5 United StatesUnited States United States 208
6th ItalyItaly Italy 91
7th Liechtenstein 1937Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 83
8th CanadaCanada Canada 58
9 Iran 1964Iran Iran 21st
10 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 8th

statistics

Men:
Downhill (8):
Rank 1: AUT 5, CAN 2, ITA 1
Rank 2: SUI 4, AUT 2, ITA 1, NOR 1
Rank 3: AUT 3, SUI 2, CAN 1, ITA 1, NOR 1
giant slalom (7):
Rank 1: ITA 3, SUI 2, SWE 1, USA 1
Rank 2: ITA 3, SWE 2, SUI 1, USA 1
Rank 3: SUI 3, ITA 2, AUT 1, SWE 1
Slalom (7) :
Rank 1: SWE 5, AUT 1, ITA 1
Rank 2: ITA 3, USA 2, AUT 1, SWE 1
Rank 3: ITA 5, GER 1, SWE 1
Combination (3):
Rank 1: SUI 2, AUT 1
Rank 2: ITA 2, CAN 1
Rank 3: ITA 2, SUI 1

Overall (25):
Rank 1: AUT 7, SWE 6, ITA 5, SUI 4, CAN 2, USA 1
Rank 2: ITA 9, SUI 5, AUT 3, SWE 3, USA 3, CAN 1, NOR 1
Rank 3 : ITA 10, SUI 6, AUT 4, SWE 2, CAN 1, GER 1, NOR 1

Overview:
AUT 7 | 3 | 4
SWE 6 | 3 | 2
ITA 5 | 9 | 10
SUI 4 | 5 | 6
CAN 2 | 1 | 1
USA 1 | 3 | -
NOR - | 1 | 1
GER - | - | 1

Women:
Downhill (7):
Rank 1: AUT 3, SUI 3, GER 1
Rank 2: AUT 4, FRA 1, GER 1, SUI 1
Rank 3: AUT 3, SUI 2, GER 1, USA 1
giant slalom (8) :
Rank 1: SUI 4, AUT 2, FRA 1, GER 1
Rank 2: FRA 3, GER 3, SUI 1, USA 1
Rank 3: AUT 4, SUI 3, CAN 1
Slalom (8):
Rank 1: GER 3 , SUI 3, FRA 2
Rank 2: GER 5, AUT 1, FRA 1, ITA 1
Rank 3: FRA 2, AUT 1, GER 1, ITA 1, LIE 1, SUI 1, USA 1
combination (3):
Rank 1 : GER 1, SUI 1, USA 1
Rank 2: AUT 2, GER 1
Rank 3: CAN 1, LIE 1, SUI 1

Overall (26):
Rank 1: SUI 11, GER 6, AUT 5, FRA 3, USA 1
Rank 2: GER 10, AUT 7, FRA 5, SUI 2, ITA 1, USA 1
Rank 3: AUT 8, SUI 7 , CAN 2, FRA 2, GER 2, LIE 2, USA 2, ITA 1

Overview:
SUI 11 | 2 | 7
GER 6 | 10 | 2
AUT 5 | 7 | 8
FRA 3 | 5 | 2
USA 1 | 1 | 2
ITA - | 1 | 1
CAN - | - | 2
LIE - | - | 2

Season course

World Cup planning

The racing calendar was drawn up as part of the 30th FIS Congress in May 1975 in San Francisco , with the number of 25 men’s and 26 women’s races being set (which were then also held; the number of women’s races remained the same compared to the previous season, for the men there was one downhill and one less slalom). It was also planned to schedule races in Scandinavia, but this did not succeed.

Overall World Cup: The season was divided into two evaluation periods; the first comprised 14 races (or combinations) for both men and women [for men up to and including Adelboden on January 12 and 13, for women up to and including Les Gets on January 15], whereby the best eight scores counted; the second was eleven for the men and twelve for the women, for each of which the best six were used (all without point reduction). Discipline World Cup: All three competitions counted in the combinations, five each in the other disciplines.

Relocation of event locations or program changes

  • A change in the weather with rain in both Pfronten and Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where a women's downhill run should have taken place on January 3rd and a men's downhill run on January 4th, led to changes in the program: for the women there was a January 7th in Hasliberg and for the men on January 9th in Wengen, these supplements, whereby the supplement on the Lauberhorn was driven on a shortened route and also combined with the GA-PA slalom
  • The program in Kitzbühel (January 24th / 25th) had to be changed due to the weather conditions and the slalom had to be brought forward to Saturday. This brought financial damage to the organizer, and with Thomas Hauser ranked 25th as the best, there was a debacle for the Austrian runners ( Hans Hinterseer was eliminated after rank 6 in the first run). This caused financial damage to the organizer (the number of visitors with around 4,000 on Saturday and 12,000 on Sunday remained far behind)
  • The on 25./26. January in Maribor planned women's races were due to lack of snow at Kranjska Gora issued
  • The lack of snow in Heavenly Valley meant that Hank Tauber, responsible for the US races, chose Copper Mountain as a replacement location. It then snowed heavily and in good time in Heavenly, they would have been ready for the implementation, but now Copper insisted on keeping the allocation

Other occurrences

  • The “expedition” of the ÖSV men's team, which had been in the Hochstubaital, for downhill training in Chile was canceled shortly before departure by sports warden Klaus Leistner; he had learned that the snow conditions were bad and that a stone avalanche had hit the training slope; one could only have completed runs under a minute. The budget of 500,000 Schilling was too good for that. A replacement location was found in Hintertux from August 10th (also with 13 drivers, after Chile only eight would have been planned).
  • The news came as a surprise that Werner Grissmann was allowed to change his ski brand during the season. His previous manufacturer Toni Arnsteiner declared in the finish area in Schladming after the slalom that the necessary trust was missing.
  • The Upper Austrian ski manufacturer Josef Fischer was confronted with a ransom note on January 7th demanding 5 million schillings (the equivalent of around 7.15 million DM or 6.25 million CHF), otherwise his family would be exterminated. After midnight on January 10th, the perpetrator (a 23-year-old unemployed waiter from Aspang , who was in debt and who had already written a letter to Reininghaus, a beer brewer from Graz), was arrested.
  • The giant slalom in Adelboden should have been held in full on January 12, 1976, but thick fog broke in around noon (after the first run was over; here Gustav Thöni led in front of Heini Hemmi, Ingemar Stenmark and Hans Hinterseer), so that (after several postponements) the organizer was forced to postpone the 2nd run to January 13th.
  • The men's downhill run on January 17th in Morzine appeared to be endangered due to safety deficiencies. At the request of Toni Sailer , nominated as FIS referee, 8,000 kg of straw bales and - in addition to safety nets and additional fences - were posted along the route by helicopter.
  • After the women's downhill in Bad Gastein, the team captains of France, Canada, Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA brought a letter of protest to the technical delegate of the FIS, Matthias Wanger (Federal Republic). They demanded that this result not be taken into account for the FIS rankings. Rosi Mittermaier had no chance in this race on the Graukogelpist and was last - and the next day in the slalom first, whereby she also took the overall lead in the World Cup with 184 points ahead of Zurbriggen (138) and Lise-Marie Morerod (120). The aforementioned departure was available in Austria as a radio broadcast ( Ö3 from 12.55 p.m.), but television was only able to broadcast a summary from 8 p.m.
  • The flight of the ÖSV team to the World Cup in the USA did not go smoothly, because the arrival in Denver on March 1st was considerably delayed and the onward flight to Copper Mountain had to be postponed to March 2nd.
  • Rosi Mittermaier's victory in the giant slalom in Copper Mountain was the first ever women's giant slalom victory in the World Cup for the DSV .
  • With 23 World Cup victories, Gustav Thöni took over the sole leadership of men's victories .
  • ÖSV -Giant slalom weakness for men (only a third place) and slalom weakness for women (only a second and third place; Marlies Mathis only conquered the first point of the current season on January 14th with rank 10 in Les Gets.)
  • While the French men, although they have not been on the podium for three years, still led relatively well ahead of Austria (54) with 63 wins, the ÖSV women’s team (despite the absence of Moser-Pröll) won the French women with 71 wins compared to 69 overtake. The SSV women , who have won the most (eleven times) in the current season, have now moved up to third place with 24 wins.

First victories

Men's:

  • Ken Read (with start no. 1) and Dave Irwin (this one already with two best training times!) With no. 7 celebrated not only theirs in the descents (December 7th in Val-d'Isère and December 20th in Schladming ) first personal victories, these were also the first victories (and including the other downhill podiums) even the first podium for the Canadian men's team in the World Cup ( Jim Hunter had a fourth place with three times, including at the giant slalom in Val -d'Isère on December 8, 1972 and December 10, 1973 and in the Schladming downhill on December 22, 1973, the best results achieved so far) - in comparison, Canada's women, thanks mainly to Nancy Greene , already came up to this season to 18 wins, 5 second and ten third places. These victories were also the prelude to the term “ Crazy Canucks ”. The Austrian sports glasses also had to perceive the fact that the Canadians rode on Austrian skis (the same brand as Franz Klammer ), which meant that the material advantage was lost.
  • Fausto Radici (slalom January 5th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ).
  • Greg Jones (Giant Slalom March 5th at Copper Mountain).
  • Heini Hemmi (giant slalom March 18 in Mont Sainte-Anne ; this also with a lead of 2.87 seconds; at the time a record; the race management was surprised, was initially looking for an error in the timekeeping or the Swiss driver's drive) .

Women:

World Cup decisions

Ingemar Stenmark was one race before the end, after his victory in the slalom in Aspen on March 14, 1976, with 241 points for the first time as the winner. On March 6, 1976, Rosi Mittermaier secured the Cup with her victory in the slalom in Copper Mountain , with which the German Ski Association had an overall World Cup victory for the first time.

In Mont Sainte-Anne on March 20 and 21 there were only parallel slaloms that were part of the Nations Cup: For the time being, Bernadette Zurbriggen won the final against Irene Epple, the race for third place went to Monika Kaserer against Hanni Wenzel , which for the Austrian victory in Nations Cup was decisive. The next day Franco Bieler won ahead of Ingemar Stenmark and Jim Hunter (also Radici, Tresch, G. Thöni, Neureuther, Lüscher, Pargätzi, Good). Even though, as in the previous year, the ÖSV men were unable to win a point, the overall ranking in the Nations Cup was again won and thus five overall victories were equal to France (these parallel slaloms, however, were not taken into account by the World Ski Association, so the Numbers published there do not match the actual numbers, but in principle do not change the top positions).

Injuries

  • Roland Collombin was hit by another serious injury, who made his comeback on December 6th on the Oreiller-Killy slope ( Val-d'Isère ) - a year after his fatal fall on the World Cup descent on the same spot (December 8th 1974) - this French ski resort in the Isère Valley had an even worse fate. After he had succeeded in the first training run, he had a serious fall in the second training run at the same point, a tight right-hand bend in front of the second wall that turns into a long, flat passage, and was taken by helicopter to the Bourg-St. Maurice, where the fracture of two vertebrae was found. After that, he was paralyzed for two days, unable to walk for a long time and was forced to retire from his career. The crash site was named Bosse à Collombin .
  • The premature end of his career came for Karl Cordin : During the training sessions for the downhill runs on the Lauberhorn, his meniscus injury became acute again. In addition, Dave Irwin built a capital collapse on the Minschkante when he tried a completely different line (according to experts, this was against all physical laws). He lost consciousness and had a broken rib and was taken to the Interlaken hospital. He was ready to start again for the Olympics.
  • Erik Håker, who had had a serious fall on the Lauberhorn two weeks earlier, was back in Kitzbühel and finished sensationally second. His plastic shoe broke in the last training run two hours before the start of the race - he then drove with a new case that he had tied together with Leukoplast.
  • The fall on February 4th during training on Patscherkofel for the next day's Olympic downhill run meant the end of the season for Werner Grissmann , who had pulled the collateral ligament in his right knee.
  • Irmgard Lukasser suffered a meniscus injury on February 23rd while training in Zauchensee for the Austrian championships there.

End of career

Deaths

  • After Michel Dujon at 3 a.m. on December 6th in the hospital in Bourg-St. Maurice had succumbed to the serious head injuries he had suffered during test drives in Tignes , the team management decided not to participate in the downhill run at the start of the season in Val-d'Isère .
  • There was a sad report about the ex-racer Gertrud Gabl : The overall World Cup winner 1968/69 died on January 18th in an avalanche accident near her home town St. Anton am Arlberg .
  • The murder of Vladimir Sabich (known as "Spyder Sabich"), now a professional ski professional, fell at the end of the season (he was found dead on March 21 at his home in Aspen, Colorado).

Race outside the World Cup

  • Immediately before the start of the season, there was a so-called FIS giant slalom and slalom in Livigno. Hans Hinterseer won the giant slalom on November 29, 1975, which was almost a World Cup line-up, ahead of Franco Bieler and Piero Gros; both Gustav Thöni and Ingemar Stenmark were eliminated in the second round; Stenmark won the slalom ahead of Hinterseer and Gros.
  • In Les Mosses an FIS parallel slalom for women was held on January 11th, which was won by Debernard ahead of Zurbriggen (who had already missed a goal in the first run), Morerod and Behr, Giordani and Wenzel. Kaserer failed in the quarterfinals to Zurbriggen.
  • After the Olympic Winter Games - as was usually the case for the last two weeks in February - there were various competitions as part of the national championships. Many ÖSV runners (including some Olympic participants such as Regina Sackl and Anton Steiner ) took part in the Austrian youth championships from February 19 to 22 in Bad Kleinkirchheim . From February 26th, the Austrians held the national championships in Altenmarkt - Zauchensee and Radstadt , while the Italians did the same in Limone Piemonte.
  • Combination ratings were also carried out in Copper Mountain: Steve Mahre was victorious in the men's race ahead of Stenmark and Gros, and Rosi Mittermaier in the women's race ahead of Morerod and Kaserer.
  • After the official end of the season, u. between Hunter Mountain, a separate racing series for women and men under the title “World Series”, in which only the first eight points were awarded - according to the formula “8 for victory, 1 for 8th place”. At the start, Mittermaier won the giant slalom ahead of Wenzel and Fabienne Serrat and Heini Hemmi ahead of Willi Frommelt and Stenmark. In the slalom, the winners were Gros in front of Radici and Thöni and Morerod in front of Patricia Emonet and Kaserer; there were also parallel slaloms, which Morerod won ahead of Mittermaier and Kaserer and Stenmark ahead of Gros and Thöni. Overall victory in this "Series" went to Italy, ahead of Switzerland and Germany.

Web links

World Cup men

World Cup women

Individual evidence

  1. «Parallel slalom is the final» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 28, 1975, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ Box below: "World Cup races of the 1975/76 season" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 10, 1975, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. «Kahr protested» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 4th 1976, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. «Where was Thöni?»; Column 2: «The further program» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 6, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. «27 meters from the second» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ^ «Franz Klammer was not convincing» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 9, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. "Contrails on the Kitzbüheler Streif ...". In “Tiroler Tageszeitung” No. 20 of January 26, 1976, page 9
  8. "Ganslhaut am Ganslern" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1976, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. last column, below: “Women on TV too” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1976, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. below: “Tug of war for World Cup races” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 4th 1976, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ^ "Downhill training in Chile was canceled" in "Kärntner Tageszeitung" No. 173 from August 1, 1975, page 20
  12. "Downhill drivers instead of Chile for training in the Zillertal" in "People's newspaper Kärnten" No. 182 of August 1, 1975, page 13; POS .: middle box
  13. ^ "Grissmann transfer still open", column 5 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1975, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  14. «Ski fisherman is blackmailed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 9, 1976, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. «Smart Latin in ransom notes» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 11, 1976, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  16. «Now on attack!» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 13, 1976, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  17. Column 2, middle: «Morzine wobbles» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 15, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  18. «Kaserer and Totschnig brave. The men's run is secured » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  19. ^ "Swiss double victory in downhill roulette ..." with the second title "Protests". In “Tiroler Tageszeitung” No. 17 of January 22, 1976, page 9; POS .: below
  20. "Last departure. First in the slalom ”. In “Tiroler Tageszeitung” No. 18 of January 23, 1976, page 10
  21. "Troubled flight to USA" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 3, 1976, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  22. ^ "Mathis gets little points" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 15, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  23. «Start Numbers», column 5 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1975, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  24. "Irwin shocks Austria's team" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1975, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  25. «start numbers», column 1 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1975, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  26. «Everything was right with Sieger Irwin» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 21, 1975, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  27. «The material advantage over there» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 21, 1975, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  28. «All outclassed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 20, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  29. Photo with caption, beginning as follows: “A picture with a rarity value - an Austrian ski racer on the top step of the victory podium” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 22, 1976, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  30. «With weaknesses» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 23, 1976, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  31. ^ "Everything off for Collombin" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1975, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  32. right: “Brackets in front of Russi. Cordin fails » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  33. “Klammer - Lauberhorn winner after downhill triumph - Irwin fell in the 'Gate to Hell'”. In “Tiroler Tageszeitung” No. 8 of January 12, 1976, page 15
  34. "Dave Irwin: Can Win". In “Tiroler Tageszeitung” No. 26 of February 2, 1976, page 11; POS .: bottom left
  35. ^ «Bracket:" I'm afraid of Russi, Roux and Plank! "» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 5, 1976, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  36. below right: «The first failure: Lukasser» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1976, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  37. ^ "Rosi cancels the amateur contract" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 1, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  38. "ski spectacle: Rosi-Anne Marie" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 1, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  39. «Two stand back. Schlager and Treichl » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 27, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  40. Column 5, middle: "Ernst Hinterseer leaves the DSV" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 7, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  41. ^ "Berchtold wins" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 17, 1976, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  42. ^ "Everything off for Collombin" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1975, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  43. «Powder snow lured them to their deaths» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 20, 1976, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  44. Column 4, middle: “Skier Sabich was murdered” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 23, 1976, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  45. ^ "All rivals swept away" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 30, 1975, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  46. "Hope for Klammer and Hinterseer" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 2, 1975, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  47. "Parallel Slalom to Debernard". In “Tiroler Tageszeitung” No. 8 of January 12, 1976, page 14; POS: Column 5, penultimate title
  48. «Drexel suggested“ silver ”» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  49. ^ "Winkler and Kaserer in front" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  50. ^ "Stricker before Plank" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  51. «Slalom victory again: Stenmark moves away» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  52. «In the“ World Series ”without points” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 25, 1976, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  53. «Kaserer, nothing else» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 26, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  54. ^ "Italy just ahead of Switzerland" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 27, 1976, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).