Hanni Wenzel
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nation | Liechtenstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 14th December 1956 (age 63) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Straubing , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Johanna "Hanni" Wenzel , married Johanna Weirather (born December 14, 1956 in Straubing ), is a former Liechtenstein ski racer . She is the only Olympic champion in her country so far .
biography
Hanni Wenzel was born in Bavaria and moved with her parents to the Principality of Liechtenstein at the age of one. After she had already achieved third place in the giant slalom discipline ranking in 1972/73 (behind Monika Kaserer and the then unmarried Annemarie Pröll ), her first World Cup success came in this very discipline (December 20, 1973 in Zell am See , she wore starting number 4 ) not very surprising. Not quite seven weeks later, still 17 years young (exactly 17 years, 1 month, 25 days), on February 8th in St. Moritz she became world champion for the first time, albeit in the slalom (she also won the silver medal in the combination) - she is thus the youngest slalom world champion to date (January 2018) and replaced Esmé MacKinnon , who became the first ever alpine world champion in history in 1931 and was then 17 years, 2 months and 18 days old (in slalom one day less), in the youngest Slalom world champion .
This was followed by successes at the Olympic Games (1976 slalom bronze; 1980 two golds, one silver and, moreover, the combination gold medal, which only counts for the world championship) and others in the ski world cup, including two overall world cup victories and five "small balls". She only lost the overall victory in 1978/79 over Moser-Pröll in the last race, the giant slalom in Furano . In a fall on December 18, 1981 in the descent from Saalbach-Hinterglemm , she sustained an injury, because of which she missed the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1982 . Although she was among the best in the world in both downhill and giant slalom, she did not succeed in the Super-G introduced in 1982/83. A second place on January 9, 1983 in Verbier , where the first ever women's Super-G in the World Cup was held, was her only podium finish; there was also a fifth and twice seventh place.
She was not allowed to participate in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo because she had a professional license . The FIS recommended not to participate. In the same year Hanni Wenzel ended her sporting career. On May 24, 1986, she married the Austrian ski racer Harti Weirather in Wängle near Reutte .
Together they run the sports marketing agency WWP (Weirather, Wenzel & Partner), founded in 1987 in Ruggell . Her daughter Tina Weirather was also a ski racer and started for Liechtenstein . Her brother Andreas Wenzel was also successful as a ski racer.
Wenzel was voted Liechtenstein Sportswoman of the Year nine times between 1971 and 1984 . In 1980 she received the Skieur d'Or award from the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) . From 1994 to 1998 she presided over the Liechtenstein Ski Association . In 2004 she was awarded the Golden Laurel Leaf of the Princely Government for her athletic achievements .
successes
Olympic games
- Innsbruck 1976 : Slalom 3rd (bronze), downhill 11.
- Lake Placid 1980 : giant slalom 1st (gold), slalom 1st (gold), downhill 2nd (silver)
World championships
- St. Moritz 1974 : 1st slalom, 2nd combination, 7th giant slalom, 13th descent
- Innsbruck 1976 : 3rd combination
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 2nd combination, 5th giant slalom, 6th slalom
- Lake Placid 1980 : 1st combination
World Cup ratings
Hanni Wenzel won the overall World Cup in the 1977/78 and 1979/80 seasons. In addition, there are five victories in discipline ratings (twice each giant slalom and combination, once slalom).
season | total | Departure | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | |||||
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space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
1971/72 | 40. | 1 | - | - | 27. | 1 | - | - | - | - |
1972/73 | 5. | 112 | 18th | 6th | 3. | 53 | 6th | 49 | - | - |
1973/74 | 3. | 144 | 16. | 2 | 1. | 71 | 4th | 49 | - | - |
1974/75 | 2. | 199 | 12. | 17th | 5. | 42 | 2. | 91 | - | - |
1975/76 | 9. | 83 | 16. | 16 | 13. | 15th | 9. | 34 | 6th | 19th |
1976/77 | 5. | 150 | 11. | 18th | 8th. | 31 | 5. | 57 | - | - |
1977/78 | 1. | 154 | 15th | 4th | 2. | 106 | 1. | 110 | - | - |
1978/79 | 2. | 240 | 10. | 41 | 2. | 112 | 5. | 81 | - | - |
1979/80 | 1. | 311 | 3. | 66 | 1. | 125 | 2. | 100 | 1. | 90 |
1980/81 | 3. | 241 | 9. | 42 | 3. | 78 | 6th | 59 | 2. | 62 |
1981/82 | 19th | 72 | - | - | 14th | 27 | 9. | 45 | - | - |
1982/83 | 2. | 193 | - | - | 5. | 77 | 4th | 82 | 1. | 52 |
1983/84 | 2. | 238 | 3. | 77 | 5. | 69 | 7th | 65 | 4th | 69 |
World Cup victories
In total, Hanni Wenzel has won 33 world cup races (2 downhill runs, 12 giant slaloms, 11 slaloms, 8 combinations). In addition, she came second 25 times and third 31 times. With 189 top 10 placements in the World Cup, she is third in this category for women behind Lindsey Vonn (214) and Renate Götschl (198).
slalom
combination
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Giant slalom
Departure
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Awards
- Sportswoman of the year in Liechtenstein : 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983 and 1984
- Golden laurel leaf of the government for special services to sport in Liechtenstein : 2004
- Skieur d'Or : 1980
- Great Tyrolean Eagle Order : 2016
- Princely Liechtenstein Order of Merit (Commander's Cross): 2017
Web links
- Hanni Wenzel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Hanni Wenzel in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Hanni Wenzel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait and Photos (IOC)
- Literature by and about Hanni Wenzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- HLFL editor: Weirather-Wenzel, Hanni (Johanna). In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quickly pack your suitcase and go home . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 21, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ "Already at the debut on the podium", column 2 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 19, 1981, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Box in column 3, middle: “Sarajevo Olympia without Hanni Wenzel” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 7, 1983, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ below: "Hanni and Harti are married" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1986, p. 22 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
- ↑ Gert Risch, Hanni Weirather-Wenzel and Christoph Zeller receive medals , September 6, 2017, Liechtensteiner Volksblatt
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wenzel, Hanni |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weirather, Hanni; Weirather, Johanna; Wenzel, Johanna (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Liechtenstein ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Straubing , Germany |