Ernst Riedlsperger
Ernst Riedlsperger 
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 Austria
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| birthday | January 9, 1963 (age 57) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Zell am See , Austria | ||||||||||||
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Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination |
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| society | SC Maishofen | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 1988 | ||||||||||||
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Ernst Riedlsperger (born January 9, 1963 in Zell am See ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He was the overall winner of the European Cup in 1981 and vice world champion in combination in 1985 . In 1987 and 1988 he won the Austrian championships in combination.
biography
Riedlsperger, who lives in Maishofen , started skiing at the age of three. After success in school and youth competitions, he was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association at the end of the 1970s . In the European Cup , Salzburg competed in the 1979/80 season . This winter he drove on the podium in three giant slaloms and thus achieved third place in the discipline ranking. At the European Junior Championships he came second in the combination. In the 1980/81 European Cup season he won the giant slalom in Jasná as well as two combination ratings and took another four podium places in downhill and giant slalom. He won the overall standings by a clear margin over the Swiss Peter Lüscher and was third in both the downhill and giant slalom.
Riedlsperger had his first start in the World Cup on January 4, 1981 in the giant slalom in Ebnat-Kappel , where he finished 13th at the same time as Wolfram Ortner . In the 1981/82 season , the Salzburg man was twice in the top ten in the giant slaloms in Aprica and Cortina d'Ampezzo , with sixth place in Aprica remaining his best ever World Cup result. At the 1982 World Cup in Schladming , he was only used in combination and took eighth place.
In the next winter, his performance in the World Cup dropped significantly, and he started again increasingly in the European Cup, in which he took third place in the overall and giant slalom rankings in the 1982/83 season with one win and two third places. At the 1983 Military World Championships in Lillehammer , he won the giant slalom with the Hochfilzen troop . In the 1983/84 World Cup season he came back twice in the points, but he could not qualify for the Olympic Games . The 1984/85 season went better . Riedlsperger came in a total of seven times under the fastest 15 in all disciplines, except downhill. His best result was ninth place in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . This enabled him to take part in the 1985 World Cup in Bormio . Although he only finished 22nd in the combined descent, with second place in the slalom he still won the silver medal in the combination. The Salzburg man was also used in the special slalom, but was eliminated in the first round.
Due to a serious injury that he sustained in an FIS race , Riedlsperger did not achieve his previous performance in the next few years. At the national level, however, he achieved two successes when he became Austrian champion in combination in 1987 and 1988 . The attempt to qualify for the World Cup via the European Cup was unsuccessful and so he ended his career in spring 1988.
Riedlsperger completed a sports degree and then became head of the ski school in Saalbach-Hinterglemm .
successes
World championships
- Schladming 1982 : 8th combination
- Bormio 1985 : 2nd combination
World cup
- Three placements among the top ten
European Cup
- 1979/80 season : 3rd giant slalom
- 1980/81 season : 1st overall ranking, 3rd downhill, 3rd giant slalom
- 1982/83 season : 3rd overall ranking, 3rd giant slalom
- 1985/86 season : 9th overall ranking, 5th slalom
- Six wins, twice second, seven times third
Junior European Championships
- Madonna di Campiglio 1980 : 2nd combination, 5th giant slalom, 9th descent
Austrian championships
- Austrian champion in combination in 1987 and 1988
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (publisher): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 349f
Web links
- Ernst Riedlsperger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Ernst Riedlsperger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Almost a state secret: He was already world champion . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 6, 1985, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Riedlsperger, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zell am See , Austria |