Fritz Strobl

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Fritz Strobl Alpine skiing
Fritz Strobl in January 2000
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 24th August 1972 (age 48)
place of birth Lienz , Austria
size 187 cm
Weight 95 kg
job Police officer
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society SC Steinfeld
status resigned
End of career March 15, 2007
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Salt Lake City 2002 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Are 2007 team
silver Are 2007 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 5, 1991
 Individual world cup victories 9
 Overall World Cup 5. ( 2001/02 )
 Downhill World Cup 2. (2001/02, 2005/06 )
 Super G World Cup 3. ( 1999/2000 , 2001/02)
 Combination World Cup 5th (1999/2000)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 7th 9 9
 Super G 2 2 2
 

Fritz Strobl (born August 24, 1972 in Lienz ) is a former Austrian ski racer . At the turn of the millennium he was one of the world's best athletes in the downhill and super-G disciplines . He won nine races in the Ski World Cup , was Olympic downhill champion in 2002 and world champion in team competition in 2007 and vice world champion in Super-G. Due to the characterizing him "creeping" driving style commentator called him Robert Seeger Fritz the Cat (Fritz the Cat) , but his real nickname in the Austrian ski team was Friedl .

Career

Fritz Strobl (2013)

Strobl grew up in Gerlamoos in the Steinfeld community , where his parents ran a farm. He started skiing when he was seven. His talent was soon discovered, whereupon he joined the local ski club SG Steinfeld . In the Carinthian national team, Strobl was initially noticed as a slalom specialist, but after finishing second at the Austrian youth championships, he concentrated on the fast disciplines. After graduating from the ski trade school in Schladming , he began training as a gendarme in Großgmain , which gave him enough time for training.

1990 Strobl rose to the national team. It had its premiere in the World Cup on January 5, 1991; he finished the downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 33rd place. Three months later he had a serious fall in a race in the Nor-Am Cup and tore the cruciate ligament and the inner ligament in his left knee . After his recovery, he mainly competed in FIS races and European Cup races. In sporadic World Cup races he was hardly noticed. As the winner of the Super-G ranking of the European Cup in the 1995/96 season, however, he was able to secure a permanent place in the World Cup team.

On December 15, 1996, Strobl achieved a completely surprising victory in Val-d'Isère at the first World Cup descent of the season. He confirmed this success with victories on the Streif in Kitzbühel and in Vail . He finished the 1997 world championship downhill in Sestriere in fourth place, after having led in the last split. He was missing a hundredth of a second to win a medal. The 1997/98 season did not go according to plan. After several failures, he was just able to qualify for participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics. In the Olympic Downhill from Hakuba near Nagano , he finished eleventh. In the nine-fold victory of the Austrians on the Patscherkofel, he finished third.

In the following season Strobl had to record several failures, which he missed the qualification for the 1999 World Cup in Vail. The 1999/2000 season was again extremely successful: Strobl won the Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm run for the second time and won a Super-G for the first time in St. Anton am Arlberg . In the following winter he secured a starting place for the 2001 World Championships early on with a downhill win on the Kandahar course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In St. Anton, however, he could not live up to his role as a favorite and finished sixth.

After a downhill win in Bormio and a Super G win in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Strobl was once again one of the favorites before the 2002 Winter Olympics . On February 10, 2002, he won the gold medal in the Olympic Downhill and thus celebrated the greatest success of his career. Six days later he was fourth in the Super-G. He finished the World Cup season fifth in the overall standings and second in the downhill standings. Although Strobl was able to achieve some results in the top ten in the 2002/03 World Cup season, he did not get beyond tenth place in the downhill at the 2003 World Cup . Also in the 2003/04 season he showed consistently good performances, but did not win.

In the 2004/05 season it was enough Strobl to a third place four times, at the World Championships 2005 in Bormio he drove as fourth of the descent just past a medal. At the start of the 2005/06 season, he won the Lake Louise Downhill ; it would be his last victory. With four more podium places, he finished second in the discipline ranking. At the highlight of the season, the 2006 Winter Olympics , he finished eighth in the downhill. The last highlight of Strobl's career was the 2007 World Cup in Åre : In the Super-G he won the silver medal and in the team competition he was world champion.

At the beginning of 2007 Strobl tried his hand at singing. What was initially only intended as a short gag for an advertising spot by ÖSV sponsor Iglo developed into a cult hit. A single was then produced, the proceeds of which went to the disabled athletes in the ÖSV. With the title Genie auf der Skis , “Fritz & The Downhill Gang” (with Werner Franz , Klaus Kröll , Hans Grugger , Andreas Buder and Christoph Kornberger as background singers) rose to number 2 in the Austrian charts in February. On March 15, 2007, Strobl started his last World Cup race on Lenzerheide in Mozart costume. He was inspired by his song Genie auf der Skis, the first line of which is “I am the Mozart of the Mousetrap…”. During the race he made several stops on the slopes, said goodbye to the coaches and was carried on the shoulders by his teammates at the finish. He then officially announced his resignation.

In the civil profession, Strobl is an executive officer of the federal police . Interior Minister Liese Prokop introduced him on August 17, 2006 as the new President of the Children's Police . Strobl has been married since 1999 and has two sons.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1993/94 116. 18th 48. 18th - - - -
1996/97 12. 641 3. 571 31. 30th 11. 40
1997/98 28. 314 13. 253 - - 7th 50
1998/99 14th 445 10. 231 8th. 178 13. 36
1999/00 7th 889 6th 453 3. 354 5. 82
2000/01 13. 457 3. 402 19th 55 - -
2001/02 5. 846 2. 520 3. 326 - -
2002/03 19th 458 7th 334 16. 124 - -
2003/04 14th 625 4th 512 18th 113 - -
2004/05 8th. 537 6th 379 10. 158 - -
2005/06 12. 599 2. 491 19th 108 - -
2006/07 28. 314 15th 220 15th 94 - -

World Cup victories

Strobl achieved 31 podium places, of which 9 wins:

date place country discipline
December 15, 1996 Val d'Isère France Departure
January 25, 1997 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
March 12, 1997 Vail United States Departure
January 22, 2000 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
February 13, 2000 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria Super G
January 27, 2001 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
December 29, 2001 Bormio Italy Departure
January 26, 2002 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Super G
November 26, 2005 Lake Louise Canada Departure

European Cup

  • Season 1995/96 : 5th overall, 1st Super G standings, 4th exit Score
  • 8 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
January 16, 1996 Les Orres France Departure
December 21, 2001 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria Super G

Austrian championships

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Genius on the skis
  AT 2 
platinum
platinum
02/16/2007 (17 weeks)

Singles

  • Genius on the skis

Awards

The Carinthian Sports Press Club voted him "Carinthian Sportsman of the Year" in 1997, 2002, 2003 and 2007 (source: Favorite for Carinthia's Sportsman of the Year is "Mathias Mayer". In: Villach mediathek).

literature

  • Fritz Strobl: Distance to business and hero worship . In: Landesschiverband and Kleine Zeitung (ed.): From Grossglockner to Klammer-Stich - 100 years of skiing in Carinthia . Carinthia Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2 , pp. 66-69.
  • International sports archive , issue 46/2004 ( Munzinger archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicknames in the Austrian ski team (PDF; 215 kB)
  2. ↑ Ceremonial reception in Steinfeld ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 10, 2002 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steinfeld-aktiv.at
  3. ^ Fritz Strobl, the speed "dinosaur" ( memento of February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung , February 6, 2007
  4. ↑ Der Mozart der Mausefalle ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Salzburger Nachrichten , March 7, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.salzburg.com
  5. ↑ a b entry on austriancharts.at
  6. ↑ Lyrics "Genie auf die Skis"
  7. ↑ Genius on skis says goodbye . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . March 16, 2007, Domestic Policy ( Article Archive ).
  8. ^ The children's police has its president - Olympic champion Fritz Strobl , Federal Ministry of the Interior, August 17, 2006
  9. ↑ Awards for music sales: AT
personal data
SURNAME Strobl, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz , Austria