Christian Neureuther (ski racer)

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Christian Neureuther Alpine skiing
Christian Neureuther.jpg
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 28th April 1949 (age 71)
place of birth Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
society SC Partenkirchen
status resigned
End of career February 1981
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1969
 Individual world cup victories 6th
 Overall World Cup 4. ( 1972/73 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 8. ( 1970/71 )
 Slalom World Cup 2. (1972/73, 1973/74 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 6th 6th 8th
 

Christian Neureuther (born April 28, 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a former German ski racer . He specialized in slalom and won six world cup races in this discipline.

biography

Neureuther, the son of a doctor, began studying medicine after graduating from school . However, he gave up this very soon due to the many interruptions from skiing. In 1968, at the age of 18, he made headlines for the first time through sporting success, with fourth place in downhill skiing at the German championships. A year later he won his first of a total of twelve championship titles in the giant slalom . In the slalom he won five times in a row between 1974 and 1978.

In the winter of 1969/70 Neureuther took part in the Ski World Cup for the first time and already achieved his first top ten placement on December 11, 1969 in the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère. As the greatest young hope of the German Ski Association , he was unable to cope with the pressure of having to win in the period that followed. In promising races, he fell more and more often and therefore got his well-known nickname “Sturzreuther”. His first podium result followed on January 30, 1971 at the slalom in Mégève with third place.

After an unsuccessful Olympic season, Neureuther advanced to the top of the world in the winter of 1972/73. In one of the most difficult slaloms in World Cup competition program, the Lauberhorn slalom of Wengen , he went on 14 January 1973 the first World Cup victory. A week later he was on top of the podium again when he won Megève on January 21. At the end of the season he finished fourth in the overall World Cup.
His slalom results in January 1974 were quite good, so the expectations for St. Moritz were accordingly optimistic. But he had been bedridden for a week immediately before the event due to flu, and had injured his forearm (tendon strain) during slalom training three days before the race (February 7); According to the "Süddeutscher Zeitung", "I was in a capsule tear on the right thumb joint, suffered three weeks ago in Morzine (although not in the running) to look for the root of the failure."

Fifth place in the 1976 Olympics was disappointing for him .

The 1979/80 season was quite successful, although he could not win a medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics either. At that time, now 30 years old, he again achieved third place in the slalom World Cup ranking. At the end of this season Neureuther announced his retirement from active sport. However, there was a short comeback when he competed in the slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 10, 1981 and finished 6th. He announced his final decision to end his career on January 19, 1981. He refused to obtain a so-called “B license” - a kind of “professional”, as was subsequently the case with Ingemar Stenmark or Hanni Wenzel .

Christian Neureuther was a member of the jury of the television show Dalli Dalli from 1980 to 1984 , where he took the place of Ekkehard Fritsch's successor Georg Lohmeier . As an alpine skiing expert, he has been co-moderator for ARD since the Nagano Winter Olympics .

He has been married to ski racer Rosi Mittermaier since June 7, 1980 . They have two grown children, Ameli and Felix Neureuther .

Christian Neureuther's great-great-grandfather is the painter Ludwig Neureuther . His great-grandfather is the painter Eugen Napoleon Neureuther after his brother Gottfried von Neureuther in Munich Maxvorstadt Neureutherstraße is named.

Neureuther is concerned about the future of skiing in view of the effects of the climate crisis ; so he said: "The development is really dramatic and scary". Where his great-grandfather used to measure the Alps, there is often no more snow to be found today.

Awards

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

  • Season 1970/71 : 8. Appreciation, 6th slalom standings, 8. Giant Slalom Score
  • Season 1972/73 : 4th overall, 2nd slalom rating
  • Season 1973/74 : 9th overall, 2nd slalom rating
  • Season 1974/75 : 7. Slalom Score
  • Season 1975/76 : 6. Slalom Score
  • Season 1976/77 : 9. Slalom Score
  • Season 1978/79 : 3. Slalom Score
  • 1979/80 season : 3rd slalom classification

World Cup victories

Neureuther achieved a total of 20 podium places, including 6 wins

date place country discipline
January 14, 1973 Wengen Switzerland slalom
January 21, 1973 Megève France slalom
5th January 1974 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany slalom
20th January 1974 Wengen Switzerland slalom
January 9, 1979 Crans-Montana Switzerland slalom
January 21, 1979 Kitzbühel Austria slalom

He also came in 33 other placements in the top ten (27 of them in slalom).

Others

  • 12 German championship titles :
    • Giant slalom: 1969, 1970, 1973, 1975
    • Slalom: 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
    • Combination: 1970

Books

  • with Rosi Mittermaier: Our ski book. Musik-Verlag 1983, ISBN 978-3-570-00735-8
  • with Rosi Mittermaier and Andreas Wilhelm: Nordic walking practical book: easy entry in 7 steps with the Nordic ALFA technique; suitable for everyone - all around healthy. 2006, ISBN 978-3-426-64341-9
  • with Rosi Mittermaier and Bernd Wohlfahrt: The healing power of sport: more health with fun and joy. Nymphenburger 2008, ISBN 978-3-485-01130-3
  • with Rosi Mittermaier: Safe through the ski winter. Nymphenburger, 2009, ISBN 978-3-485-01189-1
  • with Rosi Mittermaier: The most beautiful snowshoe tours: Bavaria, Tyrol, Salzburger Land. Belser Reich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7243-1043-3
  • with Rosi Mittermaier: With Rosi and Christian in South Tyrol: culinary encounters. Edition Raetia 2016, ISBN 978-88-7283-555-5

documentation

Web links

Commons : Christian Neureuther  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ «Unlucky Neureuther»; “Süddeutsche Zeitung” No. 34 of February 9/10, 1974, page 30; Column 3, middle
  2. ↑ "German Skiartisten after debacle perplexed"; "Süddeutsche Zeitung" No. 35 of February 11, 1974
  3. ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung : “Neureuther listens to”, January 20, 1981, page 11, box center left.
  4. ↑ Dalli-Dalli , wunschliste.de
  5. ↑ Dalli Dalli , fernsehlexikon.de
  6. ↑ The Neureuthers present the Ganslernhang (January 26, 2020)
  7. ^ Neureutherstrasse , quoted from: Karl Graf von Rambaldi - The Munich street names and their explanation (1894), on stadt-muenchen.net
  8. ↑ Winter sports and climate change: "Dramatic and scary". Augsburger Allgemeine, November 14, 2018, accessed on February 10, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/garmisch-partenkirchen/garmisch-partenkirchen-ort28711/neue-ehrenbuerger-von-garmisch-rosi-mittermaier-und-christian-neureuther-12610923.html
  10. ↑ Lifelines - Germany's most popular pair of athletes: Rosi Mittermaier & Christian Neureuther - Gold in the combination , November 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Neureuther, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany