Baldur Preiml

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Baldur Preiml Ski jumping
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday July 8, 1939
place of birth BruggenGerman Empire
Career
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1968 Grenoble Normal hill
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1968 Grenoble Normal hill
 

Baldur Preiml (born July 8, 1939 in Bruggen / Carinthia ) is a former Austrian ski jumper , trainer and sports official.

Successes and career

In the secondary school in Gmünd his classmates persuaded him to jump on the youth hill. A little later he came on the podium at the Gmündner club championships. In 1954, at a training course run by the Carinthian Ski Association, the youngster beat the entire Carinthian ski jumping elite. In 1958 Baldur won the Austrian youth championship. In 1959 he became Austrian junior champion. In winter 1959/1960 he became a member of the national team as the absolutely youngest jumper at the time. In 1963 he celebrated his first big victory. On January 29th, he won the second competition in St. Moritz as part of the Swiss Jumper Tour. As part of the Four Hills Tournament , he won the jumping in Bischofshofen on January 6, 1964 with a distance of 14.2 points, which was described as a record advantage for this tour . At the following Olympic Games in Innsbruck he was not at the start because of an illness.

In 1968 Baldur Preiml won the bronze medal on the normal hill at the Olympic Games in Grenoble . In the first round he had set a hill record, but was just behind the eventual winner Jiří Raška in 2nd place. In the second round he took the wrong, slower inrun and just won the bronze medal (0.6 points ahead of the fourth placed Wirkola). He soon resigned from his active career. After his career, he successfully completed his sports and history studies.

Teaching and coaching activities

From 1970 to 1976 he worked as a teacher at the ski school in Stams . He taught history at the ski school and trained the jumping group. Karl Schnabl , Rupert Gürtler and Alfred Pungg were the first ski jumpers to be accepted into the Stams ski school. Toni Innauer and Alois Lipburger followed in the next few years . As a teacher, Preiml cultivated the joy of sport and made it clear through his own example that intellectual debates that lead to high school diploma and studies can also enrich a top athlete.

Preiml dealt intensively with the training theory of the GDR , which was leading in skiing at the time. He studied their methodology, their kinetics and bio-mechanics.

From 1974 to 1980 he led the Austrian national ski jumping team to the top of the world with the most modern training methods, paying special attention to mental and nutritional aspects. The athletes Toni Innauer , Karl Schnabl , Alois Lipburger , Willi Pürstl , Hubert Neuper and Armin Kogler trained by Preiml were part of the Austrian ski jumping miracle of the 1970s and early 1980s. The transition from Preiml to his successor Max Golser was seamless.

Austria's ski jumping “dream team” around 1975

In 1975 Austria became the number one ski jumping nation overnight. Baldur Preiml became head coach on May 17, 1974. His innovative training methods and the material revolution he initiated had turned everything that had applied up to then on its head. The jump skis were equipped with new running surfaces from Austrian ski workshops. Calf supports increased the feeling of jumping and safety. Together with Sepp Reinalter, Baldur Preiml developed the most modern, air-impermeable jump suits. Soon the entire world elite was overtaken.

Willi Pürstl was the tour winner ahead of Edi Federer . The jump world was upside down. Karl Schnabl won three of four competitions in the Four Hills Tournament . With Toni Innauer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Wallner , Hans Millonig , and Alfred Pungg and the older jumpers Reinhold Bachler , Rudi Wanner and Walter Schwabl , a dozen Austrians suddenly jumped right into the top of the world.

After all the successes, most recently at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck , the then ÖSV President Dr. Kurt Schlick proposed to appoint him as head of sport with full powers for all branches, but this was rejected by the racing commission at its meeting on April 6, 1976, which advocated maintaining the division of tasks with one person primarily responsible for the alpine and Nordic area.

Curiosity

It was even in December 1975 that the then in a low-lying football club Rapid Vienna was interested in hiring him as a coach, but Preiml refused because he wanted to remain head of the jumpers.

philosophy

The psychologist Oscar Schellbach forms the basis for Preiml's attitude to life. “Doing something right brings success, doing something wrong brings failure”, is the simple formula from Schellbach's book “My Success System”. Another formula for Preiml's path in life: “Strive for greatness of personality through one's own smallness”.

Preiml explained the application of these two formulas using the example of the ski jumpers he supervised. At that time, the time was ripe for a new development. The most important thing was the enthusiasm for the work that was transferred to the team. He, Preiml, wanted to become Olympic champion himself, but could not achieve this goal. Preiml believes that their own inadequacy was the mainspring that drove the youngsters to perform at their best. In his active time, Preiml had no self-confidence, but gained the knowledge that one could acquire it.

An essential aspect for the success story of the ski jumper, as well as for his later activity, was the aspect of correct nutrition. Preiml has tried out what is good for his body in terms of nutrition and recommends this route to everyone else.

Supreme Austrian sports officer

From 1987 to 1991 Preiml headed the sports department in the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Sport . Today he is involved in the promotion of health through exercise and nutrition on a freelance basis and is an internationally welcomed guest at symposia and conferences.

More Achievements

  • 3rd place in the Austrian ski jumping championships on February 17th, 1963 in Murau
  • Austrian champion in jumping on February 23, 1964 in Feldkirchen in Carinthia
  • Victory at the Universiade in Spindleruv Mlyn on February 16, 1964
  • Austrian champion in jumping on February 21, 1965 in Breitenwang

Awards

Baldur Preiml was voted "Carinthian Sportsman of the Year" by the Carinthian Sports Press Club in 1968. 40 years later (2008) he was honored by the same club for his life's work.

In 1996 he was awarded the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria .

literature

  • Ruediger Dahlke, Baldur Preiml, Franz Mühlbauer: The pillars of health. Body intelligence through exercise, nutrition and relaxation. Goldmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-442-14205-9 .
  • Oscar Schellbach : My system of success. Positive lifestyle in theory and practice. 32nd edition. Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-7626-0469-X .
  • Toni Innauer : My way to success. The critical point. Recorded by Christian Seiler. Edition Tau, Bad Sauerbrunn 1992, ISBN 3-900977-32-1 .
  • Landesschiverband and Kleine Zeitung (ed.): From Grossglockner to Klammer-Stich. 100 years of skiing in Carinthia , pages 26–29, essay on Baldur Preiml. Carinthia Verlag, Vienna - Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preiml sensation winner in St. Moritz . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 30, 1963, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. Bischofshofen: Victory Preimls with superlatives . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1964, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. "Triumph duet Neuper-Kogler"; Column 2, last paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna 7th January 1981, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ In «People's newspaper Carinthia» of May 18, 1974, last page Sport, at the bottom
  5. «Not an ÖSV super boss» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 7, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. Rapidler wanted Preiml . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1976, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. Egger before Haigenhauser . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 19, 1963, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. Stiegler until 1966 trainer - subtitle “Preiml Meister” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1964, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ^ Preiml student world champion . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1964, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. Sepp Lichtenegger wins in the USA - Subtitle: Preiml master again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1965, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. Favorite for Carinthia's athlete of the year is “Mathias Mayer” - Villach. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .