David Zwilling

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David Zwilling Alpine skiing
David Zwilling.jpg
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 24th August 1949 (age 71)
place of birth Abtenau , Austria
size 174 cm
Weight 68 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society UPS Abtenau
status resigned
End of career 1975
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold St. Moritz 1974 Departure
silver St. Moritz 1974 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 6, 1969
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 1972/73 )
 Downhill World Cup 4. (1972/73)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 5. ( 1970/71 )
 Slalom World Cup 8. (1970/71, 1972/73)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 1 1
 Giant slalom 2 0 2
 slalom 0 0 1
 combination 0 1 0
 

David Zwilling (born August 24, 1949 in Abtenau , Salzburg ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He competed in the Ski World Cup from 1969 to 1975 , won two giant slaloms and took second place in the overall World Cup in 1973 . He celebrated his greatest successes at the 1974 World Cup . He became world champion in downhill and won the silver medal in slalom .

biography

Zwilling started skiing at an early age and came to USV Abtenau as a ten-year-old. After he won an FIS giant slalom in Åre in 1968 , he was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). In his first World Cup race , the giant slalom at Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden on January 6, 1969, he finished ninth (with start number 42). In the 1969/70 season , Zwilling achieved top 10 places in all disciplines, but at the World Championships in Val Gardena he was only used in giant slalom and came in 13th.

Zwilling's breakthrough came in the winter of 1970/71 . On January 5th he was third on the podium in the giant slalom in Berchtesgaden for the first time, and at the season finale he celebrated his first World Cup victory in the giant slalom in Åre. In the slalom, the Abtenauer drove four times to fourth place. As the best Austrian, he finished seventh in the overall World Cup and fifth in the Giant Slalom World Cup. He finished eighth in the slalom classification. In the same winter he was also Austrian champion in giant slalom and combined. At the beginning of the 1971/72 season , Zwilling was not in full shape and only made it into the top ten once. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Japan , he did not reach any top positions and was seventh in the giant slalom and slalom. After the Games, he got his only podium that winter in the Heavenly Valley giant slalom . He was able to successfully defend his Austrian giant slalom title. In mid-April 1972 he seemed to have won a giant slalom on the Tonelepass ( Trento region ) in just one run , but there was still a sequel, because a second run was run the next day. And now Zwilling was second in the final accounts behind compatriot Hans Hinterseer . On August 11, 1972 he was able to win a slalom at Thredbo in front of the Japanese Masami Ichimura , Hans Hinterseer and Alfred Matt .

The 1972/73 season began twin with his only two podium finishes in the downhill, which also came as a surprise: On December 10 in Val d'Isere , he took a high start number the lead, was still by his teammate Reinhard Tritscher with no. 45 intercepted. On December 15th in Val Gardena , he finished third behind Roland Collombin and Karl Cordin with No. 35 . On December 19th, Zwilling celebrated his second World Cup victory in the giant slalom of the 3-Tre race in Madonna di Campiglio . In the further course of the season he was able to classify himself in the top five, especially in the downhill sections, but also in the slalom and giant slalom. He achieved second place in the overall World Cup 15 points behind Gustav Thöni and fourth place in the downhill ranking, tied with Franz Klammer .

In the 1973/74 season, Zwilling was initially able to rank among the top six in all disciplines. On January 20, he achieved his only podium in slalom in Wengen . The 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz began for the then 24-year-old with a disqualification in giant slalom, which also meant that he lost the chance of a combined medal. As a medal candidate in the combination, he had a fixed starting place in all disciplines in the Austrian team, but after his failure in the giant slalom he had to prove himself in an internal ÖSV elimination for a start in the downhill. Zwilling won this qualification and celebrated the greatest success of his career the next day: With over a second ahead of Franz Klammer, he became world champion in the downhill. The next day he won the silver medal in the slalom behind Gustav Thöni. This winter he also won his fourth Austrian championship title, this time in slalom. In December he was voted Austria's athlete of the year 1974.

In the winter of 1974/75 , Zwilling was unable to continue earlier services. In one individual race he only came in the top ten on the downhill from St. Moritz; with the second place in the combined ranking of Wengen he achieved the last top result. After tearing a ligament strain in his ankle in a fall in Val-d'Isère at the beginning of the next winter , he ended his career. Later he was a member of the ÖSV's racing committee for a short time.

Private

Zwilling is married and has two grown children. Since the end of his active sports career, he has been the founder and director of several companies. In 1999 he was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

On June 9, 2010, his three-month-old granddaughter Nora was kidnapped by a 35-year-old woman in a shopping center in Salzburg . After five hours, Nora could be found in a parking lot in the Bavarian town of Unterwössen .

Together with Johannes Aschauer and Otto Klär, David Zwilling went on a 4500 km pilgrimage on foot from Arbing to Jerusalem in 2010 . He co-founded the Jerusalem Way.

Together with the artist Gudrun Kargl von Göss, he initiated the "Star of Love" as a project for world peace in the Marienheilgarten in Großgmain in 2011.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

World Cup ratings:

A total of eight podium finishes, including two wins:

date place country discipline
March 13, 1971 Are Sweden Giant slalom
December 19, 1972 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Giant slalom

Austrian championships

Zwilling became four times Austrian champion :

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : David Zwilling  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schranz stayed ahead in the World Cup . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1969, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ "Twin victorious" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 14, 1972, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ «Hinterseer turned up mightily» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 15, 1972, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ «Now the departures to Chile» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 12, 1972, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Luck is part of it. Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 12, 1972, accessed on March 23, 2015 .
  6. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.krone.at  
  7. ↑ oe24.at
  8. ↑ jerusalemway.org (formerly: www.jerusalemweg.at) On the Jerusalemweg: You are no stranger on foot. Last accessed December 20, 2015. - Multilingual.
personal data
SURNAME Gemini, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Abtenau , Salzburg , Austria