Egon Zimmermann (ski racer, 1933)

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Egon Zimmermann Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday February 19, 1933
place of birth Innsbruck, Austria
size 182 cm
Weight 75 kg
date of death February 27, 2016
Place of death Kirchbichl, Austria
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
society TS Innsbruck
End of career 1961
 

Egon Zimmermann (born February 19, 1933 in Innsbruck ; † February 27, 2016 in Kirchbichl , Tyrol ), often referred to as Egon Zimmermann I to distinguish it from another ski racer of the same name , was an Austrian ski racer .

Career

Carpenter grew up in Kirchbichl in Tyrol and began as a child with the skiing . At the end of the 1940s he celebrated his first successes in junior races, but for the time being did not concentrate on a skiing career, instead completing his training as a machine fitter at TIWAG and working there as an electrician. In the winter of 1954/55 he was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association and achieved first podium places in international races; he celebrated his first victory in 1956 in the giant slalom in Badgastein

In the 1956/57 season he achieved several giant slalom victories in Madonna di Campiglio ( 3-tre races ), Arosa , Obergurgl , on the Stilfserjoch and in Cervinia , where he also won the combination. In the following winter he did not win, but achieved several second places, including in the downhill and combined races of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel and thus qualified for the 1958 World Championship in Badgastein. There he was only used in the giant slalom and took ninth place.

In the winter of 1958/59 he won the downhill from Voss and came in second in slalom, giant slalom and combined. He also came second in the slalom and the combination of Kitzbühel. In the 1959/60 season he won no race, but again took two second places on the Hahnenkamm in downhill and combined. At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , he started only in the downhill and finished tenth.

The 1960/61 season was Zimmermann's last, because he could no longer achieve top positions and ended his active career. In the same year he married the American ski racer Penny Pitou , whom he had met during the 1958 World Cup, and lived with her in New Hampshire , where he ran a ski school in Gunstock-Mountain near Gliford and worked as a ski instructor and trainer. The couple had two children. At the end of August 1964, Zimmermann received US citizenship.
In 1968 the marriage was divorced and Zimmermann returned to Kirchbichl, where he built a pension with his second wife .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egon Zimmermann I. Accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Zimmermann I now American" in "Neue Zeit Klagenfurt" No. 205 of September 6, 1964, p. 10, top left - second article
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Egon I
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2016
Place of death Kirchbichl , Tyrol , Austria