Andreas Wenzel

This article is about the ski racer Andreas Wenzel. For the Austrian Benedictine abbot see Andreas Wenzel (Abbot) .

Andreas Wenzel
nation	Liechtenstein
birthday	18th March 1958 (age 62)
place of birth	Straubing , Germany
Career
discipline	Combination , slalom , giant slalom , super-G
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 1 × 3 × 0 × Junior European Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom bronze Sarajevo 1984 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 combination silver Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 Giant slalom silver Lake Placid 1980 combination silver Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom  Alpine Junior European Ski Championships gold Mayrhofen 1975 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 14th  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1979/80 )  Downhill World Cup 13. (1979/80)  Super G World Cup 13. ( 1986/87 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 2. ( 1977/78 )  Slalom World Cup 3. ( 1982/83 )  Combination World Cup 1. (1983/84, 1984/85 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Super G 1 1 0  Giant slalom 3 3 3  slalom 4th 4th 4th  combination 6th 13 5

Andreas "Andy" Wenzel (born March 18, 1958 in Straubing , Bavaria ) is a former Liechtenstein ski racer .

biography

Together with his sister Hanni , he was active in the Ski World Cup in the late 1970s and 1980s . He won the gold medal in giant slalom at the European Junior Championships in Mayrhofen in 1975 . At the World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1978 , the all-rounder won the combination and the silver medal in the giant slalom . In the combination at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid , he finished second. This competition was only held as a world championship, so there was no Olympic medal here. However, he won silver in the giant slalom, where he led in front of Hans Enn and Ingemar Stenmark in the two-day competition after the first run . At the Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984 , he was able to win the bronze medal in the giant slalom. This time he also lost a rank, because he was only 0.10 s behind Max Julen after the first run , but was still overtaken by Jure Franko .

In the Ski World Cup he won a total of 14 times, 6 of them in the combination. He won the overall World Cup in 1980 with 204 points ahead of Ingemar Stenmark (200) and Phil Mahre (132). Since sister Hanni also won the overall World Cup (again after 1977/78), it was the first time that a pair of siblings took possession of this trophy in the same season.

After retiring, he became racing director of the Atomic ski company in early October 1988 . In 2006, Wenzel received the Golden Laurel Leaf , Liechtenstein's highest sporting award. His sister had received this award in 2004. Since 2007 he has been President of the Liechtenstein Ski Association (LSV).

His niece Tina Weirather is also a successful ski racer.

successes

Olympic games

• Innsbruck 1976 : 10th slalom, 20th giant slalom, 28th descent (also counted as World Cup)
• Lake Placid 1980 : 2nd giant slalom, 12th slalom, 20th descent (also counted as World Cup)
• Sarajevo 1984 : 3rd giant slalom
• Calgary 1988 : 6th giant slalom, 12th Super-G

World championships

• Innsbruck 1976 : 5th combination
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 1st combination, 2nd giant slalom, 13th descent
• Lake Placid 1980 : 2nd combination
• Bormio 1985 : 4th combination

World Cup ratings

Andreas Wenzel won the overall World Cup in the 1979/80 season. There are also two wins in the combined ranking.

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1976/77	21st	42	-	-	-	-	11.	27	16.	9	-	-
1977/78	3.	100	-	-	-	-	2.	100	7th	30th	-	-
1978/79	6th	148	-	-	-	-	7th	74	15th	41	-	-
1979/80	1.	204	13.	23	-	-	4th	71	8th.	51	2.	65
1980/81	7th	130	33.	9	-	-	16.	38	17th	28	2.	55
1981/82	5.	129	-	-	-	-	11.	36	13.	32	2.	60
1982/83	3.	177	30th	7th	-	-	12.	38	3.	92	5.	40
1983/84	4th	191	37.	3	-	-	8th.	58	6th	60	1.	90
1984/85	3.	172	35.	1	-	-	14th	31	4th	75	1.	76
1985/86	14th	119	40.	6th	22nd	8th	22nd	12	12.	43	5.	50
1986/87	19th	63	-	-	13.	18th	19th	15th	28.	10	2.	20th
1987/88	55.	18th	-	-	19th	9	21st	9	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

Wenzel made it into the top ten 117 times (source: FIS web-site), achieved a total of 47 podium places, of which 14 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
17th January 1978	Adelboden	Switzerland	Giant slalom
March 6, 1978	Waterville Valley	United States	Giant slalom
January 12, 1980	Lenggries	Germany	combination
January 13, 1980	Kitzbühel	Austria	slalom
March 8, 1980	Oberstaufen	Germany	Giant slalom
4th January 1981	Ebnat-Kappel	Switzerland	combination
February 23, 1983	Tärnaby	Sweden	slalom
2nd December 1983	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	slalom
December 20, 1983	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	combination
17th January 1984	Parpan	Switzerland	combination
January 29, 1984	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Super G
17th December 1984	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	combination
January 6, 1985	La Mongie	France	slalom
January 13, 1985	Kitzbühel	Austria	combination

Awards

• Sportsman of the year in Liechtenstein : 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984 and 1985

Web links

• Andreas Wenzel in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas Wenzel in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Andreas Wenzel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• HLFL editor: Wenzel, Andi (Andreas). In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Arbeiter-Zeitung , Vienna, February 19, 1980, page 13.
2. ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung , Vienna, March 17, 1980, page 8, top right.
3. ↑ bottom right: "Günther Vettori now assistant to papa"; last sentence . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 6, 1988, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).