Erik Schinegger

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Erik Schinegger Alpine skiing
Erik Schinegger, 2014
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 19th June 1948 (age 72)
place of birth Agsdorf , Austria
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom , slalom
status resigned
End of career 1968
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 6. ( 1967 )
 Downhill World Cup 4th (1967)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 2. (1967)
 Slalom World Cup 21st (1967)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 2 0
 Giant slalom 1 2 0
 

Erik Schinegger (born June 19, 1948 in Agsdorf , Carinthia as Erika Schinegger ) is a former Austrian ski racer . Due to pseudo-hermaphroditism , he was classified as a girl at birth. Erika Schinegger was active as a ski racer and became world champion in downhill skiing in 1966. After a gender check, Schinegger ended his career and had an operation.

biography

Schinegger first became aware of the fact that on January 14, 1966, he was on the descent in Grindelwald with start no. 24 took third place and thus contributed to an ÖSV fourfold success (Christl Haas, Edith Zimmermann; fourth Traudl Hecher); he also won the downhill run from St-Gervais on January 29th with 1.53 seconds ahead of Nancy Greene and on March 25th, 1966 the downhill run in Sun Valley in the "five-country fight" (again ahead of Greene).

One of Schinegger's greatest successes was the world title in downhill skiing for women at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Portillo in 1966 . At the gold key race in Schruns , Schinegger achieved second place on January 18, 1967, and on January 28, 1967, the only victory in a World Cup race , a giant slalom, followed in Saint-Gervais . In February 1967, Schinegger won the Austrian giant slalom championships .

Before the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble , a medical test found that Schinegger was genetically male. Schinegger, whose gender had not been correctly identified for years due to a so-called pseudo - hermaphroditism , due to inwardly growing genitals, decided to have an operation and to change his first name from Erika to Erik. The world championship title of 1966 was not subsequently revoked , but the then second ( Marielle Goitschel ) also received the gold medal retrospectively. Schinegger himself presented his World Cup gold medal to Marielle Goitschel a few years later.

Erik Schinegger married and had a daughter in 1978. He lives as the owner of a children's ski school and two inns in his home town of Agsdorf in Carinthia.

In 1988 Erik Schinegger wrote the book Mein Sieg über mich together with Marco Schenz . The man who became world champion , in which he worked his life. This book was particularly successful in the French translation. The story of Schinegger was portrayed in 2005 by Kurt Mayer in the documentary ERIK (A) - The man of the world champion (music: Olga Neuwirth ). The film was awarded the Silver Gentian at the 53rd Trento Film Festival that same year.

In 2014 he took part in the ORF broadcast Dancing Stars , but retired early due to an injury. In 2015 he was a councilor in his home town of Sankt Urban .

On March 17, 2017, there was a major fire on Schinegger's property in Agsdorf, with the entire farm building completely burned down.

In the 2018 feature film Erik & Erika by Reinhold Bilgeri, his life is thematized again.

Awards

  • In the election for “ Austria's Sportsman of the Year ” on December 19, 1966 , Schinegger came second with 837 points (18 first places) behind Emmerich Danzer and thus practically “Sportsman of the Year”; Heidi Zimmermann came third .
  • Before adapting to a man, Erik (a) Schinegger from the Carinthian Sports Press Club was twice (1966, 1967) best female athlete in the “Carinthian Sportsman of the Year” election.

Works

  • Erik / Erika Schinegger: My victory over me. The man who became world champion. recorded by Marco Schenz, FA Herbig, Munich 1988, ISBN 0-283-92112-9
  • Erik Schinegger: New self-confidence with a Porsche. In: Landesschiverband / Kleine Zeitung (ed.): From Grossglockner to Klammer-Stich. 100 years of skiing in Carinthia. Carinthia Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2 , pp. 29-34.
  • Erik Schinegger: The man who became world champion: My two lives , recorded by Claudio Honsal, Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99050-114-6

literature

  • Matthias Marschik / Georg Spitaler (eds.): Heroes and Idols: Sportstars in Österreich , StudienVerlag, 2006, pp. 355–359, ISBN 3-7065-4253-6
  • Erik Schinegger: an Intersex Epic in Alpine Skiing , in: Patricia Nell Warren : The Lavender Locker Room: 3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation Was Different , Beverly Hills, Wildcat Press 2006, p. 227, ISBN 1-889135-07- 0

See also

documentary

Web links

Commons : Erik Schinegger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Erika Schinegger - the sensation from Grindelwald" in "Volkszeitung Kärnten" No. 10 from January 15, 1966, page 8
  2. ↑ "Erika Schinegger trumps" in "Volkszeitung Kärnten" No. 23 of January 30, 1966, page 7
  3. ^ "Erika Schinegger's great success" in "Volkszeitung Kärnten" No. 71 of March 27, 1966, page 6, bottom
  4. ↑ a b Der Standard, Erik Schinegger - The grandfather of the world champion was [1] , February 23, 2015
  5. ↑ http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-Rvu3bsUL.jpg
  6. ↑ Online video on Spiegel TV
  7. ↑ ORF press release: Silver Gentian for ORF co-financed cinema documentary "Erik (a)" , May 10, 2005
  8. ^ "Dancing Stars": Erik Schinegger leaves the show , the press on April 24, 2014
  9. ↑ The grandfather who was world champion - derStandard.at. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Major fire at Erik Schinegger - kaernten.ORF.at. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  11. ^ "Emmerich Danzer Sportsman of the Year" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1966, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ↑ Mediathek Villach: Favorite for Carinthia's athlete of the year is "Mathias Mayer" , accessed on December 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schinegger, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schinegger, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer who was mistaken for a woman
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Agsdorf , Carinthia