Ernst Oberaigner

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Ernst Oberaigner Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday November 5, 1932
place of birth Saalfelden
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SK Saalfelden
status resigned
End of career 1960
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Are 1954 Departure
 

Ernst Oberaigner (born November 5, 1932 in Saalfelden ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He celebrated numerous victories in international races in the 1950s and won the bronze medal in the downhill at the 1954 World Championship .

Career

Oberaigner started skiing during the war and came to the Saalfelden ski club as a 16-year-old. At the beginning he was also an active ski jumper and twice won the Austrian youth championship in the three-way combination of downhill, slalom and jumping, but soon concentrated exclusively on alpine ski racing. Oberaigner was accepted into the team of the Austrian Ski Association in 1951 and won all alpine competitions in the junior class at the Austrian championships in Semmering in 1952 . In the same winter he was already a member of the Austrian Olympic team. He was only a substitute at the games in Oslo and did not appear in a race.

In the winter of 1952/53 the Salzburg man achieved his first podium places in international races. At the 3-Tre races in Canazei , he was second in the giant slalom and in the combination and third in the slalom. He also took third place in the giant slalom in Alpbach . The next year he celebrated his first victory in the Val Gardena slalom . With good performances at the Austrian Championships Oberaigner got into the team for the 1954 World Championships in Åre, Sweden . There he came into action after Walter Schuster's loss due to injury in the downhill and won the bronze medal behind his teammates Christian Pravda and Martin Strolz . Shortly afterwards he won the Arlberg-Kandahar descent in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

In the winter of 1955, Oberaigner won, among other things, the runs in Chamonix and Sestriere ; in Cortina d'Ampezzo he finished second and in Wengen third. Despite further good performances, including the victories in slalom and combination of Chamonix in 1956, he could not qualify for a race at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo within the strong Austrian team , only as a forerunner he was allowed to start twice. After the games he was Austrian slalom champion in Lienz . In addition to skiing, Oberaigner was also an avid soccer player at SK Saalfelden, but in the summer of 1956 he broke his right lower leg during a soccer game. When he broke his leg a second time during slalom training in Hintermoos on December 29th (the break point was slightly above the old hernia), he was unable to contest any races in the 1956/57 season. In the next winter he did not get any top results and he therefore missed the 1958 World Cup in Bad Gastein . Towards the end of the season he again achieved several podium places, including in the giant slalom in Cortina and in the giant slalom at the "International Skiland Meeting" in Seefeld (here on March 16, 1958, third place).

In the winter of 1959, the man from Salzburg was once again at the top of the podium several times. After rank 4 in the downhill on January 10th, the next day he won the slalom and the combination of the Lauberhorn races in Wengen, the giant slalom on the occasion of the "Holmenkollen" games in Voss on March 7th, two slaloms in Oberwiesenthal at the "Silver Snow Crystal" and the slalom on Etna .
Although in the season 1959/60 top positions were largely absent, Oberaigner was able to qualify for the combined state championship title for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . There he only started in the slalom, but dropped out in the second run. After the winter he ended his active career.

In the following two years Oberaigner was a trainer in the Salzburg State Ski Association and from 1962 to 1964 he was the head trainer for the Austrian Ski Association . At the end of February he announced his resignation at the end of the season in connection with the affair about the slalom line-up at the Olympic Games. He worked for the ski company Blizzard for many years and ran his own sports shop in Saalfelden. In 1999 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria . Oberaigner is still a functionary at the Saalfelden ski club.

successes

World championships

Austrian championships

Other important placements

  • Four-time winner of the "Grand Prix of Czechoslovakia" in Tatranska Lomnica in slalom, downhill, giant slalom and combined on March 2nd to 5th, 1956
  • 2nd place in slalom and combined at the Kandahar race in Sestriere on March 11, 1956
  • Rank 2 and 3 at "Tre-Tre race" in the Marmolada area, so in Canazei on 23 and 25 March 1956
  • 3rd place in the slalom in Megève on January 24, 1959

Awards (excerpt)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Oberaigner before Molterer and Sailer" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 14, 1954, p. 22 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
  2. ↑ Oberaigner suffered a broken leg . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 30, 1956, p. 20 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
  3. ↑ Pravda struck everyone . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 18, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Karl Schranz distanced the world elite . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 11, 1959, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ "Austrian double victory in downhill race"; «Sport Zürich», No. 4 from January 12, 1959, page 1.
  6. ↑ Austrian Skitriumph the Lauberhorn . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 13, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ "In the slalom, starting number one had a positive effect for Oberaigner"; “Sport Zürich”, No. 4 from January 12, 1959, page 2.
  8. ↑ This time Oberaigner won . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 8, 1959, p. 38 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ Still skiing . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 24, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ^ Controversial Etna giant slalom . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 29, 1959, p. 32 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ↑ Ski supervisor: "We've had enough of it!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ↑ Oberaigner won in Tatranska Lomnica . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 3, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  13. ↑ Oberaigner continues his triumphal march . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 4, 1956, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  14. ↑ Daily Skisiege the Austrians . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 6, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. ↑ Molterer, a great Kandahar winner . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 13, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  16. ↑ Hinterseer before Oberaigner and Rieder . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 24, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  17. ↑ news in brief; Column 4, last message . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 27, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  18. ↑ Molterer and Leitner won the combination . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1959, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Oberaigner, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfelden , Austria