Annemarie Moser-Pröll

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Annemarie Moser-Pröll Alpine skiing
Annemarie Moser-Pröll, 2011
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 27th March 1953 (age 67)
place of birth Kleinarl , Austria
job Innkeeper
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Kleinarl
status resigned
End of career March 12, 1980
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 5 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Sapporo 1972 Giant slalom
silver Sapporo 1972 Departure
gold Lake Placid 1980 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Val Gardena 1970 Departure
gold Sapporo 1972 combination
silver Sapporo 1972 Giant slalom
silver Sapporo 1972 Departure
gold St. Moritz 1974 Departure
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 Departure
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 combination
bronze Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 Giant slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 17, 1968
 Individual world cup victories 62
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1970/71 , 1971/72 , 1972/73 ,
1973/74 , 1974/75 , 1978/79 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. (1970/71, 1971/72, 1972/73,
1973/74, 1974/75, 1977/78 ,
1978/79)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1970/71, 1971/72, 1974/75)
 Slalom World Cup 2. (1978/79)
 Combination World Cup 1. (1974/75, 1978/79)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 36 14th 3
 Giant slalom 16 7th 8th
 slalom 3 7th 7th
 combination 7th 4th 1
 

Annemarie Moser (born March 27, 1953 in Kleinarl , Salzburg as Annemarie Pröll ; usually called Annemarie Moser-Pröll ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She was the outstanding runner of the 1970s, won the overall World Cup six times , was world champion five times and was an Olympic downhill champion in 1980 . In addition, she won 62 races in the Ski World Cup - a record that was only exceeded by Lindsey Vonn on January 19, 2015 after 35 years . The women’s record of winning eleven races in the same discipline in a row (all eight downhill runs of the 1972/73 season and the first three of the following season) has not yet been exceeded - only Ingemar Stenmark has won 14 races in the same discipline in a row after her won (in giant slalom). On November 4th, 1999 she was voted “Austria's Sportswoman of the Century”. At the World Sports Award on November 19, 1999 in the Vienna State Opera, she received the “Award for the best female skier of the century” (for men it was Jean-Claude Killy ).

biography

Annemarie Pröll was born the sixth of eight children of Maria and Josef Pröll; her sister Evi, who is four years younger than her, and her youngest sister Cornelia also became ski racers. Annemarie Pröll spent her childhood on her parents' mountain farm above Kleinarl. She stood on skis for the first time at the age of four. Her talent was discovered by the village pastor, who recommended her to the ÖSV . At the age of twelve she won the district championship and was accepted into the national squad. After eight years of elementary school, she completed the one-year polytechnic school .

Annemarie Pröll competed in her first World Cup race as a 14-year-old in January 1968, finishing the downhill of the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein (after several falls) in last place. On January 25, 1969 - she was not even 16 years old - she drove sensationally in second place behind the French Isabelle Mir in the descent from Saint-Gervais-les-Bains , and this with start number. 67! This result confirmed it a month later (Feb. 28) in the slalom of Squaw Valley with fourth place. In the overall ranking of the World Cup 1968/69 she finished 17th with 31 points. Her first World Cup victory followed on January 17, 1970, when she won the giant slalom in Maribor .

Although she was the youngest member of the Austrian national team, Annemarie Pröll was used in all disciplines at the 1970 World Ski Championships in Val Gardena ; she won the bronze medal in the downhill and reached sixth place in the combination . Her final breakthrough came in the 1970/71 season with seven victories in World Cup races and the first ever overall World Cup win. In 1971 she was awarded the Skieur d'Or by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) .

“La Pröll” (as it was mainly called in France) continued its winning streak in the next winter. Before the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , she was considered a huge favorite, but could not meet the expectations built up by the media. In both the downhill and the giant slalom, Annemarie Pröll was relegated to second place by Swiss Marie-Theres Nadig . Only in the combination, in which only world championship medals were awarded, could she remain victorious. As the winner of the overall World Cup, she was still the best skier in the world at the end of winter.

Downhill dominance, sportswoman of the year, 2nd place world sportswoman of the year

In the 1972/73 season Annemarie Pröll proved to be vastly superior and won the overall World Cup by a large margin; she won eleven races, including all eight downhill runs. Since she also won the first three downhill runs of the following season, she holds the women's record with eleven consecutive races in the same discipline ( Ingemar Stenmark won 14 giant slaloms in a row for men ).
Their successes were also reflected in the awards. On December 19, 1973 she was voted Austrian “Sportswoman of the Year” for the first time (whereby she was ranked 111 times by 138 journalists and 455 points ahead of second-placed Sepp Zeilbauer ). Shortly before, she had been selected by the Associated Press as second among the “World Sportswomen of the Year” (just behind GDR sprinter Renate Stecher and ahead of GDR swimmer Kornelia Ender ).

First world championship gold

In the 1973/74 season she was not quite as dominant with four wins, her winning streak was broken in Grindelwald , but thanks to her consistency and above all her ability to score many points in the other disciplines, she won the overall World Cup (this success was already determined at the end of January). At the 1974 World Ski Championships in St. Moritz , she was downhill world champion. On October 26, 1973 she had already married Herbert Moser, an employee of her ski outfitter Atomic , in Ebern near Radstadt ; the church wedding followed on May 25, 1974 in Kleinarl.

The 1974/75 season was their most successful with a total of ten wins; for the fifth time in a row she was in first place in the overall World Cup. A curiosity that only occurred once for the women in the history of the World Cup was the fact that the giant slalom victory she achieved on January 19, 1975 in Jahorina / Sarajevo (as a so-called discarded result) was not included in the number of points for the overall World Cup ( in the men's race, however, Jean-Claude Killy had already been affected with two downhill runs and a giant slalom in 1967.

Unexpected break from racing 1975/76, detour to motorsport

Shortly before the start of the 1975/76 season, Annemarie Moser-Pröll surprisingly announced her resignation. For several months she cared for her father, who had lung cancer and who died in June 1976. As a result, she missed the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . However, on April 4, 1976 she took part in the Asperner airfield race in the "Renault 5-Elf-Cup", where she finished 9th out of 25 drivers.
Before the start of the 1976/77 season, she announced her comeback . Since she had now appeared in commercial spots and had earned money in the process, a kind of "re-amateurization" had to be carried out, whereby this was not so difficult on the part of the FIS , but it was questionable whether the IOC would also issue the approval ( therefore the FIS had passed the matter on to the IOC). From there it was not until October 24, 1979, through the executive committee meeting in Nagoya , that the approval committee headed by Willi Daume received approval.
On December 9, 1976, she was at the start of the season opener in Val d'Isère for the first time and finished third in the slalom, a week later she won the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Thus she was able to establish herself again at the top of the world, but had to admit defeat twice in a row in the overall World Cup. At the 1978 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she won the gold medal in downhill and combined, and bronze in the giant slalom.

Once Möser-Pröll was also successful in the World Series of Skiing , which is only part of the Nations Cup , when she won the downhill in Altenmarkt on November 26, 1977. On December 8, 1977 she was  disqualified after the giant slalom in Val d'Isère - second behind Lise-Marie Morerod - because of an inadmissible suit (in fact just a conventional sweater). Heinz Krecek, as chairman of the material testing commission, pronounced the disqualification unauthorized, but ultimately the FIS board confirmed it at its conference in St. Gallen . Since Hanni Wenzel was only 7 points better than Moser-Pröll with 154 points at the end of the season , this irregularity had a decisive influence on the final result.

Another World Cup victory

In the winter of 1978/79 she won the overall World Cup for the sixth and last time, but with only three points ahead of Hanni Wenzel from Liechtenstein . She laid the foundation for this success above all in the downhill sections (she won six of the seven races held). In the races held in the USA (early March 1979, Aspen and Heavenly Valley) she suffered from health problems, which made her fall 8 points behind Wenzel in the overall standings. It was not until the final in Furano (March 18/19) that she achieved overall success in the last race (giant slalom) with 2nd place (compared to 5th place for Wenzel). The drama could hardly be beat. Initially, the competitions had to be postponed by one day due to a snow storm. In the slalom, Wenzel took second place, Moser-Pröll third. And even in the giant slalom, Wenzel was fourth with a lead of 26 hundredths after the first run (Moser-Pröll was sixth).

Olympic gold in 1980 and end of career

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , she fulfilled her greatest dream and won the gold medal in the downhill; also on the podium, in third place: her rival from Sapporo 1972, Marie-Theres Nadig . After the World Cup giant slalom in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains on March 11, 1980, in which Annemarie Moser-Pröll finished 6th, she announced her final retirement from top-class sport. She achieved this with a victory, because she decided the parallel slalom (only counting for the Nations Cup) on March 16, 1980 against the Italian Claudia Giordani at the final in Saalbach. Thus she achieved three victories in a row in the final parallel slalom, as she had also won those on March 19, 1978 in Arosa and on March 20, 1979 in Furano.

Moser-Pröll categorically rejected offers to take part in professional races. Since her resignation, she has worked in the restaurant business. During her break from competitions, she founded the “Café Annemarie” restaurant in Kleinarl in 1976, where her extensive collection of cups and trophies can be seen. In September 2008 she retired from work and sold the coffee house, which is still operated by two entrepreneurs from Kleinarl under the name “Café-Restaurant Olympia”. In her free time, Moser-Pröll devotes herself to hunting . Daughter Marion was born on November 29, 1982, and her husband Herbert Moser died on January 8, 2008.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

Up to and including 1980, the Olympic results also counted as a world championship. The Alpine Combination, on the other hand, was held during the Olympic Games from 1952 to 1984, but was only part of the Alpine World Ski Championships, which is why no Olympic medals were awarded for this competition.

World Cup ratings

Annemarie Moser-Pröll has won the overall World Cup six times (1971–1975 and 1979), plus ten more victories in discipline ratings (seven downhill and three giant slalom) and two victories in the combined World Cup, for which no crystal ball was awarded at the time.

season total Departure Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1968/69 16. 31 5. 20th - - 15th 11 - -
1969/70 6th 110 8th. 23 3. 60 14th 27 - -
1970/71 1. 210 1. 70 1. 75 3. 65 - -
1971/72 1. 269 1. 125 1. 115 9. 29 - -
1972/73 1. 297 1. 125 2. 94 18th 6th - -
1973/74 1. 268 1. 120 7th 35 5. 41 - -
1974/75 1. 305 1. 105 1. 125 4th 79 - -
1975/76 no results due to family-related retirement from racing
1976/77 2. 246 2. 110 3. 60 11. 27 - -
1977/78 2. 147 1. 125 5. 60 8th. 19th - -
1978/79 1. 243 1. 125 12. 41 2. 87 - -
1979/80 2. 259 2. 100 7th 44 3. 83 2. 80

World Cup victories

Annemarie Moser-Pröll has won a total of 62 World Cup races (36 runs, 16 giant slaloms, 3 slaloms, 7 combinations). Lindsey Vonn only exceeded this mark 35 years after Moser-Pröll's last victory in a World Cup race . She was also runner-up 32 times and third 19 times.

Departure
date place country
18th February 1971 Sugarloaf United States
19th February 1971 Sugarloaf United States
3rd December 1971 St. Moritz Switzerland
17th December 1971 Sestriere Italy
January 12, 1972 Bad Gastein Austria
January 18, 1972 Grindelwald Switzerland
February 25, 1972 Crystal Mountain United States
7th December 1972 Val d'Isère France
December 19, 1972 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria
January 9, 1973 Pfronten Germany
January 10, 1973 Pfronten Germany
January 16, 1973 Grindelwald Switzerland
January 25, 1973 Chamonix France
1st February 1973 Schruns Austria
February 10, 1973 St. Moritz Switzerland
6th December 1973 Val d'Isère France
19th December 1973 Zell am See Austria
January 5, 1974 Pfronten Germany
January 23, 1974 Bad Gastein Austria
December 12, 1974 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 10, 1975 Grindelwald Switzerland
15th December 1976 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 8, 1977 Pfronten Germany
January 11, 1977 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
January 6, 1978 Pfronten Germany
January 7, 1978 Pfronten Germany
January 13, 1978 Les Diablerets Switzerland
March 11, 1978 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria
March 12, 1978 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria
December 9, 1978 Piancavallo Italy
17th December 1978 Val d'Isère France
January 12, 1979 Les Diablerets Switzerland
17th January 1979 Hasliberg Switzerland
January 26, 1979 Schruns Austria
March 2nd 1979 Lake Placid United States
January 6, 1980 Pfronten Germany
Giant slalom
date place country
17th January 1970 Maribor Yugoslavia
March 10, 1971 Abetone Italy
March 11, 1971 Abetone Italy
March 14, 1971 Are Sweden
January 22, 1972 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains France
19th February 1972 Banff Canada
March 1, 1972 Heavenly Valley United States
December 20, 1972 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria
January 20, 1973 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains France
March 2nd 1973 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada
7th December 1974 Val d'Isère France
January 9, 1975 Grindelwald Switzerland
January 11, 1975 Grindelwald Switzerland
January 19, 1975 Sarajevo Yugoslavia
23rd February 1975 Naeba Ski Resort Japan
March 17, 1978 Arosa Switzerland
slalom
date place country
January 4, 1971 Maribor Yugoslavia
January 29, 1971 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains France
15th December 1979 Piancavallo Italy
combination
date place country
January 10, 1975 Grindelwald Switzerland
15th January 1975 Schruns Austria
January 31, 1975 Chamonix France
December 16, 1976 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 19, 1979 Hasliberg Switzerland
January 26, 1979 Schruns Austria
January 16, 1980 Arosa Switzerland

Austrian championships

Annemarie Moser-Pröll won 18 Austrian championship titles , more than any other skier:

More Achievements

  • Combination victory in the Silberkrugrennen Badgastein 12./13. January 1972
  • 3 victories in the final parallel slalom on March 19, 1978 in Arosa, March 20, 1979 in Furano, March 16, 1980 in Saalbach

Awards

  • Skieur d'Or : 1971 - presented on December 11, 1971 in Val-d'Isère
  • Austria's Sportswoman of the Year : 1973 (the award was given at the sports press festival on June 8, 1974 in the Vienna stadium during the friendly match between Austria and Italy 0-0), 1974, 1975 (the award was given on April 28, 1976 at the 20th sports press festival, which took place as part of of the international soccer match between Austria and Sweden in the Prater Stadium), 1977, 1979, 1980
  • 2nd place in Associated Press Sportswoman of the Year : 1973
  • 2nd place in an international survey for the sporting year 1979 by AFP
  • “Arlberg Kandahar Badge in Diamond”, presented on January 26, 1980 in Chamonix
  • Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria : 1979
  • Austria's sportswoman of the century
  • World Winter Athlete of the 20th Century (November 11, 1999)

literature

Web links

Commons : Annemarie Moser-Pröll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Thomas Plauser: Moser: " I miss the joy of sharing". Kleine Zeitung , March 24, 2013, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Annemarie in all streets . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1983, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ Photo at the bottom left in "Volkszeitung Kärnten" No. 117 from May 22, 1974, page 16
  4. ^ Successful Pröll debut . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 5, 1976, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ "Moser's Olympic start will only be decided by the IOC" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1978, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). Top right.
  6. ↑ "IOC officially states: Annemarie is ready to start" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 25, 1979, p. 31 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ "Annemarie, who else?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 27, 1977, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ Summary from "Kronenzeitung" and "Sport Zürich".
  9. ↑ Source: Sport Zurich.
  10. ^ Slalom show to Moser, Mahre. Arbeiter-Zeitung , March 20, 1978, p. 8 , accessed March 16, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Triumph in the last run. Arbeiter-Zeitung, March 20, 1979, p. 10 , accessed March 16, 2015 .
  12. ↑ combination . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 14, 1972, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). Result box on the right.
  13. ↑ Rouvier beat Pröll . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 12, 1971, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). Second last paragraph.
  14. ↑ «Ice cold hand shaken» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 9, 1974, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. ↑ Together with David Zwilling : "Moser and Zwilling equal" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1974, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  16. ^ "Annemarie Moser and Franz Klammer Austria's athletes 1975" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1975, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  17. ↑ Annemarie like Sailer and Schranz . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 27, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  18. ↑ "Honor the athletes and the 1500 m record" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 21, 1978, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  19. ^ "Athletes 79: Moser, Kogler, Team" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1979, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  20. ^ "These are the athletes of 1980: Annemarie Moser, Toni Innauer" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1980, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  21. ↑ Honorary rank for Annemarie Pröll. 2nd place in the Associated Press annual athlete poll. Arbeiter-Zeitung, December 19, 1973, p. 11 , accessed January 22, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Column 5, below: "International survey: Annemarie in second place" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1979, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  23. ↑ Column 5, above: "AK diamond for Annemarie Moser" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 28, 1980, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Moser-Pröll, Annemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pröll, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinarl , Salzburg , Austria