Christian Orlainsky

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Christian Orlainsky Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 17th February 1962 (age 58)
place of birth Tschagguns , Austria
size 175 cm
Weight 75 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
combination
society WSV Tschagguns
status resigned
End of career 1988
Medal table
Junior European Championship 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
gold Achenkirch 1979 slalom
gold Achenkirch 1979 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1978/79
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 10. ( 1980/81 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 6. (1980/81)
 Slalom World Cup 6. ( 1979/80 )
 Combination World Cup 11. ( 1982/83 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 1 1 0
 slalom 0 1 4th
 combination 0 1 0
 

Christian Orlainsky (born February 17, 1962 in Tschagguns , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian ski racer . The specialist in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom won a race in the World Cup and was on the podium seven more times. At the Olympic Games and World Championships , the two-time Austrian giant slalom champion was twice in the top 15.

biography

After initial successes in the youth field - he became Austrian student champion in slalom and giant slalom in 1974 and 1975 and won the giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino in 1975 - the then 16-year-old competed in his first World Cup races in the 1978/79 season . In his second race, the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora on December 23, 1978, he came in 6th place with a high start number 57. This was followed on February 5, 1979 (with another high start number 49) in 4th place in the Jasná slalom , where he was in first run was still in 8th place. With these and other good results, he also caught up with the world's best. In the same winter he became Junior European Champion in Slalom and Giant Slalom in Achenkirch and Austrian Champion in Giant Slalom in Bad Gastein .

In the 1979/80 season Orlainsky was third in the slaloms of Chamonix and Cortina d'Ampezzo twice on the podium. With three more top 10 results, he reached sixth place in the Slalom World Cup, and in the giant slalom he was twice in the top ten. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , Orlainsky was initially 13th in the giant slalom, but fell out of the slalom four days later after the second best intermediate time in the first round. In the next winter Orlainsky was more successful in the giant slalom and celebrated his only World Cup victory on January 4, 1981 in Ebnat-Kappel , with start number 23 and after the first run in 9th place, snatching the victory that was believed to be certain from his teammate Hans Enn. He was then 18 years and eleven months old, which makes him the youngest Austrian Alpine World Cup winner to this day. In the same season Orlainsky finished second and finally sixth in the Giant Slalom World Cup in Adelboden. He was also on the podium once in the slalom, as third in the Hahnenkamm Slalom in Kitzbühel , with which he reached tenth place in the overall World Cup.

The 1981/82 season was a little less successful. In the World Cup, a fifth place each in the slalom of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the giant slalom of Kranjska Gora were his best results and at the 1982 World Cup in Schladming he only finished 15th in the giant slalom. In the 1982/83 season the Vorarlberger was able to improve again. He started the season with a tenth place in the first Super-G in World Cup history in Val-d'Isère . On December 22, 1982 he reached a podium again with second place in the combination of the 3-Tre races of Madonna di Campiglio . In combination, these were his only World Cup points at all, because Orlainsky hardly took part in downhill runs. In January and February he reached another two podium places in the slaloms of Kitzbühel and Le Markstein , which made him tenth in the slalom world cup and 15th in the overall world cup.

In the next few years, Orlainsky was barely able to continue his previous achievements due to several injuries. In the 1983/84 season he had to take a break of almost three months, which is why he also missed the Olympic Games in Sarajevo, and at the beginning of next winter his career was interrupted again by an injury, whereupon he predominantly in the European Cup and for some time only sporadically in the World Cup was used. In the winter of 1986/87 Orlainsky took part in all World Cup slaloms again, but did not achieve the consistency of earlier years and so a seventh place in Kranjska Gora was his only top 10 result. In the 1987/88 season he won the slalom ranking in the European Cup and was Austrian champion in giant slalom, but he was unable to improve significantly in the World Cup and with two top 10 placements he did not qualify for the Olympic Games within the Austrian team in Calgary. After the winter he announced his resignation.

From 1990 to 1993 Orlainsky took part again in competitions, but this time in professional races in the United States , and celebrated some successes there. In 1990 he won two slaloms in Vail and the Snow Summit ski area in California, and by 1992 he was on the podium six more times.

Orlainsky is married with two sons and works as a foreign exchange trader.

successes

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

World championships

Junior European Championships

World cup

date place country discipline
4th January 1981 Ebnat-Kappel Switzerland Giant slalom

European Cup

  • Winning the slalom classification in the 1987/88 season
  • 10 podium places, including 5 wins:
season place country discipline
1981/82 Borovets Bulgaria slalom
1981/82 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria slalom
1984/85 Berchtesgaden Germany slalom
1984/85 Corno alle scale Italy Parallel races
1987/88 Golte Yugoslavia slalom

Austrian championships

  • Austrian champion in giant slalom 1979 (February 14, 1979 in Bad Gastein) and 1988 (February 5, 1988 at Hochkar near Göstling an der Ybbs).

US Pro Tour

  • 2 wins (Slaloms in Vail and Snow Summit 1990) and another six podium places

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Debacle confirmed. Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 23, 1978, accessed on March 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Mahre victory! Arbeiter-Zeitung, February 6, 1979, accessed on March 18, 2015 .
  3. ^ Orlainsky in the style of Stenmark. Arbeiter-Zeitung, February 5, 1981, accessed on March 18, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Skiing remains my dream. Vorarlberg Online, February 27, 2012, accessed on March 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Orlainsky, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschagguns , Austria