Brian Stemmle
Brian Stemmle 
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| birthday | 12th October 1966 (age 53) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Toronto , Canada | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , super-G | ||||||||||||
| society | Georgian Peaks Ski Club | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | March 23, 1999 | ||||||||||||
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Brian Stemmle (born October 12, 1966 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ski racer . He specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines.
biography
Karen Stemmle's two years younger brother was accepted into the Canadian national team in the winter of 1984/85 and won the downhill classification of the Nor-Am Cup that season . He scored World Cup points for the first time on March 3, 1985, when he surprisingly finished third in the Super-G in Furano . Stemmle was able to establish itself near the top of the world, another third place was added on December 12, 1987 on the Saslong in Val Gardena .
On January 13, 1989, he suffered a serious accident at the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel . On the steep slope exit of the Streif , a ski got caught in the safety nets. Stemmle fell and suffered a fractured pelvis and an intestinal tear. He was in hospital for three months and then had to undergo 18 months of rehabilitation. The functionality of the safety nets had been criticized by the coaches before the race and Stemmle successfully sued the organizing committee for damages.
The comeback at the end of 1990 was successful. Stemmle won at the Pan American Games in Las Leñas and also found the connection to the world elite. The years 1993 to 1995 were characterized by rather moderate performances in the World Cup, but in the 1992/93 season he won the downhill classification of the Nor-Am Cup for the second time. At the 1996 World Cup in the Sierra Nevada , he was fifth in the downhill. He achieved his best World Cup result on February 2, 1996, when he came second on the Kandahar downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
Stemmle resigned at the end of the 1998/99 season. He took part in the Winter Olympics four times, the best result being twelfth place in the Super G in 1998.
successes
Olympic games
- Albertville 1992 : 23rd departure
- Lillehammer 1994 : 26th Super-G
- Nagano 1998 : 12th Super-G
World championships
- Sierra Nevada 1996 : 5th Downhill, 31st Super-G
- Sestriere 1997 : 19th descent
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 16th departure
World cup
- Season 1995/96 : 10. Departure rating
- 3 podium places, another 9 places among the top ten
More Achievements
- Winning the downhill classification of the Nor-Am Cup in the 1984/85 and 1992/93 seasons
- 1990 Pan American Winter Games in Las Leñas : 1st departure
- 3 Canadian championship titles (Downhill 1987, Super-G 1995 and 1999)
Web links
- Brian Stemmle in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Brian Stemmle in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Brian Stemmle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Biography of Brian Stemmle , Canadian Ski Hall of Fame (PDF file; 75 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ From Stemmle to Lanzinger , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 22, 2009
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stemmle, Brian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |