Anton Steiner

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Anton Steiner Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 20th September 1958 (age 61)
place of birth Lienz , Austria
size 169 cm
Weight 73 kg
job Entrepreneur
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Union stamps
status resigned
End of career 1988
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Sarajevo 1984 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Schladming 1982 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1975
 Individual world cup victories 5
 Overall World Cup 5. ( 1979/80 , 1983/84 )
 Downhill World Cup 7. (1983/84)
 Super G World Cup 24. ( 1985/86 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 14. ( 1975/76 , 1978/79 )
 Slalom World Cup 9. (1979/80)
 Combination World Cup 3. (1979/80, 1983/84)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 3 3
 slalom 0 0 1
 combination 3 2 2
 Parallel races 0 0 1
 

Anton "Jimmy" Steiner (born September 20, 1958 in Lienz , East Tyrol ) is a former Austrian ski racer and today's entrepreneur . Steiner started his career as a ski racer, which began in 1975 with his first appearances in the World Cup and lasted until 1988, in all disciplines and, with the exception of the Super-G, achieved placements among the top four in World Cup races in every discipline. In the combination (three times) and the downhill (twice) he celebrated a total of five World Cup victories, in addition, he reached fifth place in the overall World Cup twice. The three-time Austrian champion won the bronze medal in the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the bronze medal in the combination at the 1982 World Cup . His career was interrupted twice by serious falls. Since 1988 he has owned a company for guardrail assembly in Waidhofen an der Ybbs .

biography

Rapid rise in the World Cup (until 1980)

Steiner, who grew up in Prägraten am Großvenediger , attended the main ski school in Neustift in Tyrol and then the ski trade school in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria . His father owned a SPAR store in Prägraten , which Anton Steiner would later take over, so he attended a commercial school instead of the nearby ski school in Stams, Tyrol . After initial successes in the youth field, including two podium places at the Austrian junior championships, the all-rounder made his first appearances in the World Cup in 1975 . The then 17-year-old managed to join the world's elite as early as January 1976, when he initially achieved two top 10 places on the Lauberhorn in Wengen and a week later was on the podium for the first time with third place in the Morzine descent . Finally, he also managed the team's internal qualification for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , where, however, after the fourth-best intermediate time, he crashed shortly before the finish line and failed. In the slalom, he finished 22nd. With a total of nine top 10 placements in downhill, giant slalom and combined, Steiner finished his first full World Cup season in 1975/76 in 16th position in the overall World Cup. He could not repeat this result in the next two years, because due to his sometimes risky driving style, he achieved only a few results within the World Cup points. While he achieved the best results in the downhill and combination in the winter of 1976/77 , he could only score points in the slalom in the 1977/78 season . At the 1978 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he was therefore also used in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom. After finishing 14th in the giant slalom there, he reached fourth place in the slalom - 27 hundredths of a second behind bronze medalist Paul Frommelt .

In the 1978/79 season , Steiner again managed to achieve good results in all disciplines. Overall, he came nine times under the top ten, which he reached seventh place in the overall World Cup. He celebrated his greatest success to date with his first World Cup victory in the Hahnenkamm Combination in Kitzbühel on January 21, 1979. In the winter of 1979/80 , Steiner was able to improve a little and drove a total of eleven times in all four disciplines (there was a Super-G not yet) among the top ten. He was again most successful in the combination, in which he celebrated his second World Cup victory in addition to two further podium places. In the overall World Cup this time he reached fifth place in a very close decision, in which he was only one point behind fourth-placed Bojan Križaj and one point behind third overall Phil Mahre . He also finished ninth in the Slalom World Cup, which, apart from the combination, was his best placement in a discipline World Cup to date.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , the last of which were also part of the world championship, Steiner played in slalom and giant slalom. In the strong Austrian downhill team, he had no chance of a starting place, which meant that he was denied a possible medal in the combination. But even in the slalom, in which he was one of the wider favorites, he was seventh without a precious metal; in the giant slalom he was eighteenth. In the season finale in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on March 16, 1980, he won the parallel slalom, which was only part of the Nations Cup, and prevailed against Ingemar Stenmark .

Injuries and comebacks (1980–1984)

On December 12, 1980, Steiner's career suffered its first serious setback. In training for the World Cup descent on the Saslong in Val Gardena , he fell heavily on the notorious camel hump . The consequences were ligament injuries in the knee, a concussion and a shoulder dislocation, which resulted in a one-year break from racing. In his comeback season 1981/82 Steiner was only able to gain a foothold again in slalom, which he showed in the World Cup with a third place in Jasná . At the 1982 World Championships in Schladming he was eliminated in the slalom, but in the combination he won the bronze medal with the best time in the slalom behind the Frenchman Michel Vion and the Swiss Peter Lüscher . In 1982 Steiner was two-time Austrian national champion in slalom and combined. In 1976 he had won the combined title for the first time.

The next setback for Steiner followed in the winter of 1982/83 . After missing points in the first World Cup races of the season, he suffered a tear in his knee and cruciate ligament in a fall on the Streif in Kitzbühel in January , which meant that he was again injured for several months and thus ended the season prematurely. The second comeback in the 1983/84 season was surprisingly successful for the now 25-year-old. This time he not only achieved top results in the slalom, but above all in the downhill and the combination. On January 15, 1984, he finished second and third in the downhill classics in Wengen (with the high start number 59) and on January 21 in Kitzbühel (start number 55), making him on the podium in this discipline for the first time in six years . He also won the Hahnenkamm Combination for the second time (after 1979) in Kitzbühel. Steiner also confirmed his good downhill form at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo with what he himself says was the greatest success of his career when he won the bronze medal behind the US-American Bill Johnson and the Swiss Peter Müller - and thus the only precious metal for Austria at these games - won. In the giant slalom and slalom, however, he was eliminated. In March a second place followed in the World Cup downhill from Aspen , with which he reached seventh place in the Downhill World Cup. He finished the overall World Cup with a victory, another four podium places and another five placements among the top ten, as he did four years earlier, in fifth place - this time as the best Austrian.

Downhill victories and recent years (1984–1988)

The downhill remained Steiner's strongest discipline in the next few years, while he barely achieved any top positions in the other disciplines. In the 1984/85 season , however, he drove only once on the podium as third of the Kandahar downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and failed in the team's internal qualification runs for the World Championship in Bormio . Things picked up again in the winter of 1985/86 , which began for skiers with two downhill runs in Argentina during the European summer . After several top 10 placements in December and January, including third place in the floodlit parallel slalom on the Hohe-Wand-Wiese in Vienna , Steiner won the downhill from Morzine on February 7, 1986 and the downhill from March 15 Whistler , with which he has now won individual World Cup races for the first time, after having previously won three combinations. He finished eighth in the Downhill and Combination World Cups and 18th in the overall World Cup.

In the 1986/87 season Steiner was unable to match the previous year's performance in any way and only achieved his only top 10 placement towards the end of the season with sixth place in the downhill from Aspen. At the 1987 World Championships in Crans-Montana , he only started in the combination in which he finished 14th. In January 1988 Steiner again achieved second place in the downhill run from Val-d'Isère and after a seventh place on the Planai in Schladming, he also qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary - his fourth Olympic Games. As the third best Austrian, Steiner finished seventh in his last major event in the Olympic downhill run in Nakiska . After the end of winter, Steiner announced his retirement from top-class sport at the age of 29.

job

Steiner lives with his wife, whom he married in 1983, in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , where he attended the ski trade school. There he took over the guardrail department from his company in 1988 from the industrialist Franz Forster, founder of the ski trade school and sponsor of Steiners . With his company Anton Steiner GmbH & Co KG , which he runs together with his wife, Steiner became successful in guardrail assembly in Austria.

successes

winter Olympics

Note: The 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics also counted as World Championships.

World championships

World cup

date place country discipline
January 21, 1979 Kitzbühel Austria combination
March 4th 1980 Chamonix France combination
January 22, 1984 Kitzbühel Austria combination
February 7, 1986 Morzine France Departure
March 15, 1986 Whistler Canada Departure

European Cup

  • 4 podium places, including 1 victory (Slalom in Sarajevo 1981/82)

Austrian championships

Other successes

  • Combination winner of the World Cup downhill and giant slalom in Morzine (January 17/18, 1976)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d When a bronze rose steadily in value . derStandard.at , January 17, 2010, accessed on November 26, 2010.
  2. ↑ Toni Sailer radioed to the goal: "The race is lost!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 6, 1976, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Toni Steiner fell badly . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 13, 1980, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ The Triumph of the Forgotten . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1984, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ "Toni knows bookkeeping like his skis" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 13, 1976, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ^ A b Anton Steiner: From the Olympic race track to guardrail assembly . Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , September 2, 2004, accessed on November 26, 2010
  7. ↑ Kitzbühel decides on the Olympic team - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 20, 1976, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steiner, Jimmy; Steiner, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz , Austria