Gregor Höll

Gregor Höll
nation	Austria
birthday	June 16, 1911
place of birth	Lungötz ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	November 24, 1999
Place of death	Sankt Veit im Pongau ,  Austria
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	SC Bischofshofen

Gregor Höll (born June 16, 1911 in Lungötz ; † November 24, 1999 in Sankt Veit im Pongau ) was an Austrian winter sports enthusiast who was active in ski jumping , cross-country skiing and Nordic combined .

Career

Höll, who found himself ski jumping during his apprenticeship, won the title of Austrian youth champion in ski jumping at the age of 15 in Bad Mitterndorf . After he became Austrian junior champion in 1929, his first successes in the general class followed in the early 1930s, including victories in Kitzbühel in 1931 and 1932 and on the Liechtensteinschanze (which was expanded in 1932) in Semmering in 1933. In 1931, Höll took part in qualifying for the Winter Games part and reached first place in jumping and seventh place in downhill . At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , Höll only competed in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined after a fall in training for ski jumping, in which he improved the hill record. His participation before the games was questionable because the ÖSV could not raise the funds for the trip to the United States . Thanks to donations from Austrians abroad, the team was still able to travel and Höll reached 41st place in the individual cross-country skiing competition. In the Nordic Combined, after a 28th place in the run and a 33rd place in the jumping, in which he fell in both jumps, he came in 33rd place.

At the World Championships in Innsbruck in 1933 , Höll came second in combined jumping and set a new hill record with 72.5 meters. He finished the Nordic combined in 24th place. However , he could not take part in the 1934 FIS jumping competition because he was injured in training. In March 1934 Höll set a new hill record with 83 meters in training on the newly built Bloudkova Velikanka in Planica , which was improved to 92 meters in the following competition by Sigmund Ruud . Höll came third in the competition with widths of 74 and 81 meters (new Austrian record). In an additional jump he scored 89.5 meters out of competition, which again increased the Austrian record. In the next few years, numerous other podium places followed, including his victory in Ponte di Legno in 1936, where he was the second Austrian after Sepp Bradl to break the 100-meter mark with a training jump of 104 meters and a competition distance of 101 meters . At the 1935 World Championships , Höll finished 45th in jumping. Since he had passed the state ski instructor examination in 1933 and was therefore considered a professional, he was not allowed to compete in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen due to the amateur regulations . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1937 , Höll reached tenth place. Before that he worked as a ski instructor first in Mallnitz , then in Chamonix and then in Megève and Kitzbühel .

In the first years of the Second World War , Höll was again able to achieve success on a national and international level. In addition to the Ostmark championship title in 1940 and the Yugoslavian championship title on the large hill in the same year, he became Hungarian champion in Nordic combined in 1941. In 1940 he also won the winter sports week in Sestriere . After competitions were held until shortly before the end of the war, the sporting business was paused until 1947. In the qualifying competitions for the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , Höll came third behind Sepp Bradl and Anton Wieser . Before that, he had already won the Austrian runner-up title. In St. Moritz this time he did not compete in cross-country skiing and in the combination, but exclusively in ski jumping, where he finished 24th after two jumps on 60 and 62.5 meters, making him second best Austrian after Hubert Hammerschmidt . After the Olympic Games he reached sixth place at the ÖSV championships in 1950 and third place on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck . He fell while ski flying in Oberstdorf and suffered a concussion. Despite this injury, Höll started again in 1951. He probably did his last jumping in February in Radenthein , where he was tenth in age group II.

With 26 active career years, Höll is one of the longest active Austrian skiers. After his active career, Höll devoted himself to building up his own sporting goods business. In his spare time he played tennis .

Private

Höll was the third oldest of seven siblings. His family moved to Bischofshofen in 1914, where he trained as a carpenter in his father's company after finishing school. After obtaining his journeyman's certificate , he later made his master craftsman's certificate . He married his girlfriend Gertrude, but with whom he had no children. After his wife died in 1983, he lived with Inge Lang until his death in 1999.

Web links

• Gregor Höll in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Photo by Gregor Höll by Lothar Rübelt (1901–1990)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the snow: 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association 1911–2011 . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 3-205-78560-6 , p. 148-150 .
2. ↑ The design of the Semmering. Improved jumping hill, cable car, whirlpool, garage, casino. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 24520/1932, December 17, 1932, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Otto Schwald: Austrian ski stars of A-Z . 1st edition. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 3-9502285-7-8 , p. 160 .
4. ↑ Erich Bazalka: Ski history of Lower Austria. Written on behalf of the Lower Austria State Ski Association, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1977, OBV , p. 57.
5. ↑ Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the Snow: 100 Years of the Salzburg State Ski Association 1911–2011 . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 3-205-78560-6 , p. 321 .
6. ↑ Gregor Höll jumps 83 meters. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , March 24, 1934, p. 7. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Sensational performance in ski jumping. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , March 26, 1934, p. 7. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Records in Planica and the Slovenian Record ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 59 kB) at OSC Planica, accessed on February 11, 2013. 
7. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . Sports-Reference.org. Retrieved February 7, 2013.