Eberhard Riedel (ski racer)

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Eberhard "Ebs" Riedel (born February 14, 1938 in Lauter / Sa. ) Is a former German ski racer and member of the GDR Volkskammer .

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Riedel began winter sports in his home town of Lauter in the Ore Mountains. In 1947 he won a ski jumping event on the local Grieseschanze. He switched to SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal , where he was trained by Joachim Loos , and from then on devoted himself to alpine skiing. Between 1952 and 1956 he was several times Sachsenmeister in the children and youth sector. In 1957 he was appointed to the GDR's alpine national team.

Eberhard Riedel took part in three Olympic Winter Games. In 1960 in Squaw Valley he was 16th in the downhill , in 1964 in Innsbruck in the giant slalom 15th and in the slalom 18th 1968 in Grenoble he achieved his best Olympic placement. He was 13th in slalom and 41st in giant slalom . Riedel was also at the Alpine World Championships, 1958 in Bad Gastein and 1966 in Portillo ( Chile ).

Riedel learned the profession of forest worker, in which he worked from 1962. From 1955 to 1962 he was a member of the National People's Army . On October 20, 1963, Riedel was elected to the People's Chamber of the GDR as a representative of the FDJ , of which he had been a member since 1952, and belonged to it for a legislative period until 1967. In 1964 he began a distance learning course in sports science at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig and after graduating, he worked as a football, ski and ski jumping coach. He also briefly looked after Jens Weißflog . Before that, he had ended his active skiing career in 1969 after the GDR cut funding for alpine skiing.

He lives in Oberwiesenthal with his wife Hannelore , who also skied successfully . They have two grown sons.

successes

Riedel is a ten-time GDR champion in alpine skiing . Between 1957 and 1968 he won the giant slalom four times, and twice each slalom, downhill and combined. At international races he won the giant slalom and the combination at the “XIV. Czech-Marusarzówna-Memorial ”1959 in Zakopane , the giant slalom at the“ Zillertaler Granaten ”in Mayrhofen and the giant slalom in Maribor in 1965. In 1967 there were victories in the giant slalom and the combination in Saalbach-Hinterglemm / Zell am See as well as first place in the giant slalom and the combination at the Vitranc Cup in Kranjska Gora . After the Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968, alpine skiing in the GDR came to an end because the chances of medals were slim and the professional sport no longer fit into the socialist image. With this decision, alpine skiing was no longer promoted. There were no more international starts, not even for Riedel. The GDR Alpines had to hand in their passports.

For his victory in the giant slalom of the 7th International Adelboden Ski Days in 1961 , he was accepted into the “Place of Fame” in Adelboden in 2004 . This success is remarkable because it came about in the early days of today's World Cup classic, and because it wasn't until January 11, 2014 that Felix Neureuther, another German ski racer, succeeded in entering Adelboden's list of giant slalom winners. Eberhard Riedel was 1.3 seconds faster than Willy Forrer (SUI) with 2: 31.01 minutes.

His sixth place in the Lauberhorn downhill run on January 9, 1960, when he had set up the best run time to date (starting the race with start number 24) was also a great success.

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 716.
  • Günter Weigel: A small chronicle of great athletes - Erzgebirge we are proud of. Auer Employment Initiative (Ed.). Rockstroh, Aue 2004, OCLC 315899314 .
  • Eberhard and Peter Riedel: Traces of Success. egoth Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902480-79-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Once upon a time - the sports museum . In: Superillu . 11/2014, March 6, 2014, ISSN  1433-9900 , p. 25.
  2. ↑ Das Wunder vom Fichtelberg, Berliner Zeitung from 9./10. February 2019, p. 24
  3. ^ Adelboden World Cup - Place of Fame
  4. ↑ Neureuther triumphs in the World Cup giant slalom in Adelboden. on: Spiegel online. January 11, 2014.
  5. ^ "Fog and snow falsified the downhill race", "Sport Zürich", No. 4 of January 11, 1960, pages 1 and 2.
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riedel, Ebs (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer and MdV (FDJ)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Louder / Sa.