Gerhard Nenning

Gerhard Nenning
nation	Austria
birthday	September 29, 1940
place of birth	Lech,  German Empire
size	174 cm
Weight	79 kg
date of death	June 22, 1995
Place of death	Bregenz, Austria
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	Arlberg Ski Club
End of career	1970
Medal table
World championships 0 × 2 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships silver Chamonix 1962 combination bronze Chamonix 1962 slalom silver Innsbruck 1964 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Individual world cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 4th ( 1968 )  Downhill World Cup 1. (1968)  Giant Slalom World Cup 17th (1968)  Slalom World Cup 13th (1968)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 3 0 0

Gerhard Nenning (born September 29, 1940 in Lech ; † June 22, 1995 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian ski racer . He was one of the best ski racers in the 1960s and celebrated victories in all disciplines. In the World Cup introduced in 1967 he was particularly successful in the downhill , in 1968 he won the Downhill World Cup with three victories. At the Olympic Games , the two-time Austrian champion was without a medal, at world championships he won two silver and one bronze.

Career

Gerhard Nenning, who joined the Arlberg Ski Club as a child , developed into one of Austria's strongest young skiers in the second half of the 1950s. In 1956 he was Austrian junior champion in combination - in downhill and slalom he finished second - and in 1957 he won three titles in slalom, giant slalom and combination. 1958 followed another title in giant slalom. Nenning was often affected by injuries in his career, in 1959 he suffered a broken leg. At the beginning of the 1960s, Lech caught up with the international top. As early as 1960 he was in the Austrian squad for the Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley , but was only used as a substitute as a forerunner in the second slalom run.

In 1961, Nenning celebrated his first major victory when he won the slalom of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel . With fourth place in the downhill he was also second in the combination. He also finished second in the downhill of the Lauberhorn race in Wengen , and also celebrated further victories in Zell am Ziller , where he won slalom, downhill and combined, as well as in two giant slaloms in Maurienne and on Lake Zurich . In the winter of 1962, Nenning won the Hahnenkamm combination in Kitzbühel with third place in the downhill. He also won two giant slaloms in Lenggries and at Puerto de Navacerrada . At the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix , he won the bronze medal in slalom and, with fifth place in the downhill and eighth in giant slalom, the silver medal in the combination of all three competitions.

In February 1963 Nenning became Austrian champion for the first time . With second places in downhill, giant slalom and slalom, he superiorly secured the title in the combination. In the same winter, in addition to the giant slalom of the 3-tre races in Madonna di Campiglio - his first significant victory in this discipline - and in Saalfelden, he also won the slalom and the combination on the Axamer Lizum at the dress rehearsal for the Olympic Winter Games next year . At the Games, Nenning remained sixth in the giant slalom and seventh in the downhill and slalom, but without an Olympic medal, but in the combination, which counts only as a world championship competition, he reached second place, just behind the German Ludwig Leitner . Nenning achieved the most important victory this winter in the Lauberhorn combination in Wengen. In the giant slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he took third place. Last year he was unable to take part in these races because his ankle injured during training. In 1965, Nenning was at the top of the podium for the first time at the Arlberg-Kandahar races when he won the slalom and the combination in St. Anton and came second in the downhill race. For the first time he was also on the podium at the North America races with second place in the giant slalom of Vail and also second place in the downhill run from Sun Valley .

In the winter of 1966, Nenning won the slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar races for the second time. In the combination, which consisted of two slaloms due to the cancellation of the descent, he came second. He also achieved victories in the slalom and the combination in the Norwegian Hemsedal and in the slalom of Banff in Canada, where he also came second in the giant slalom. He also took second place in the downhill from Kitzbühel, while he came third in the Hahnenkamm combination. Exceptionally, the climax of this winter did not take place until August because the 1966 World Cup was held in Portillo , Chile . The long journey was hardly worth it for Nenning, however, in the descent he was seventh and in the slalom 13th, in the giant slalom he was eliminated in the second round.

The World Cup was held for the first time in the winter of 1967 , and Nenning was one of the contenders for overall victory due to his strong performance in all disciplines. In the unofficial world rankings, he had always been in the top seven for the past six years. His first internationally successful season in 1961 even earned him second place in this ranking. However, Nenning had little to say in the fight for the first overall World Cup victory, because he never made it onto the podium in any World Cup race. In three downhills he missed a podium place in fourth but only by a very thin margin, which finally made him fourth in the Downhill World Cup, while he was only 13th in the overall classification. Aside from the World Cup, he won a downhill run in Bad Gastein and was second in slalom and combination at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Sestriere . In Schruns he won the Austrian downhill championship .

The second World Cup winter in 1968 brought the now 27-year-old from Vorarlberg to victory. On January 13th he immediately won the first downhill in Wengen, where he also won the non-World Cup combination with fourth place in the slalom, and a week later he celebrated his second victory in the downhill from Kitzbühel. The 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble - the alpine competitions were held in Chamrousse and were also part of the World Cup - did not go according to plan. Nenning only finished ninth in the downhill - in which he was considered a big favorite after his two World Cup victories - and came eighth in the giant slalom. Nenning ended the winter with a great success, because he also won the Downhill World Cup with his third victory in Aspen and was also fourth in the overall classification.

In the next two years, however, his streak of success came to an end. In the World Cup he only reached the points in two races each time, i.e. placing in the top ten, and there were no good results outside of the World Cup either. After he also failed to qualify for the World Cup in Val Gardena within the team , he ended his career in 1970. Gerhard Nenning died on June 22, 1995 at the age of only 54.

statistics

Success in skiing

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

• Innsbruck 1964 : 6th giant slalom, 7th downhill, 7th slalom, 2nd combination *
• Grenoble 1968 : 8th giant slalom, 9th descent

* The combination only counted as a World Championship event

World championships

• Chamonix 1962 : 2nd combination, 3rd slalom, 5th descent, 8th giant slalom
• Portillo 1966 : 7th descent, 13th slalom

World Cup ratings

Gerhard Nenning won the discipline ranking in the downhill once.

season	total		Departure		Giant slalom		slalom
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1967	13.	44	4th	33	18th	3	16.	8th
1968	4th	102	1.	75	17th	10	13.	17th
1968/69	32.	9	25th	1	19th	8th	-	-
1969/70	45.	6th	18th	6th	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
January 13, 1968	Wengen	Switzerland	Departure
January 20, 1968	Kitzbühel	Austria	Departure
March 15, 1968	Aspen	United States	Departure

FIS races

Victories in important FIS races before the introduction of the World Cup:

• 1961: Slalom in Kitzbühel ( Hahnenkamm race )
• 1962: Combination in Kitzbühel (Hahnenkamm race)
• 1963: Giant slalom in Madonna di Campiglio ( 3-tre race )
• 1964: Combination in Wengen ( Lauberhorn race )
• 1965: Slalom and combination in St. Anton ( Arlberg-Kandahar race )
• 1966: Slalom in Mürren (Arlberg-Kandahar race)

Austrian championships

• Austrian champion in 1963 combined and 1967 downhill

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1963	OASC	Triumph TR4	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
														DNF

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 288-289.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Nenning  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gerhard Nenning in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Gerhard Nenning in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Gerhard Nenning in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Gerhard Nenning at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Jeschko : Pisten-Artisten - A short story of alpine skiing , E. Hunna Verlag, Vienna 1963, p. 88
2. ↑ Heavy falls during Kandahar training . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 8, 1963, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).