Ewald Walch

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Ewald Walch (born August 18, 1940 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian luge and boxer . With his partner Manfred Schmid he formed one of the most successful toboggan doubles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Career

Ewald Walch competed for Union Imst . He was able to achieve his first international success in 1957 at the Luge World Championships in Davos alongside Erich Raffl , where both won the bronze medal. He won the title with Reinhold Frosch in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1960 . In 1963, now at the side of Anton Venier , he won the bronze medal for the second time in Imst . Since 1967 he achieved his success at the side of Manfred Schmid. In Hammarstrand they became vice world champions behind Klaus-Michael Bonsack and Thomas Köhler . In 1969 and 1970 the doubles won the world title in Königssee . 1971 came in Olang once a runner-up title behind the Italian double Paul Hildgartner and Walter Plaikner added.

From 1957, Walch also practiced boxing, which he always saw as the ideal training for the abdominal and neck muscles, parallel to sledding. He was also immediately successful in boxing, in the same year he became Austrian youth champion, later 6 times Tyrolean champion and 2 times Austrian national champion. He trained daily and also did numerous other sports such as cycling, mountain running and football at ESV Hatting.

Walch also achieved great success at the European level. In 1962 he won the title with Venier, in 1970 he was third with Schmid, and in 1971 he was vice European champion behind Hildgartner and Plaikner. Nationally, the Walch / Schmid doubles won the doubles title in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973. The greatest success in Walch's career was winning the silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble . In 1972 , the doubles went to seventh place in Sapporo .

In 1996 he received the Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria .

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (Red.): The stars of sport from A – Z. Habel, Berlin and Darmstadt 1970, p. 256

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian national champions from 1930 to 2010
  2. ^ Hattinger Dorfblatt, edition 19 / May 2015 . Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Walch, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian luge rider
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria