Hanni Wenzel

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Hanni Wenzel Alpine skiing
nation LiechtensteinLiechtenstein Liechtenstein
birthday 14th December 1956 (age 63)
place of birth Straubing , Germany
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career 1984
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 4 × gold 3 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Innsbruck 1976 slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 slalom
silver Lake Placid 1980 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold St. Moritz 1974 slalom
silver St. Moritz 1974 combination
bronze Innsbruck 1976 slalom
bronze Innsbruck 1976 combination
silver Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 combination
gold Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 combination
silver Lake Placid 1980 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 33
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1977/78 , 1979/80 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. (1979/80, 1983/84 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1973/74 , 1979/80)
 Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1977/78 )
 Combination World Cup 1. (1979/80, 1982/83 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 0 3
 Super G 0 1 0
 Giant slalom 12 9 9
 slalom 11 11 10
 combination 8th 4th 9
 

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

World championships

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
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

date place country
February 21, 1975 Naeba Ski Resort Japan
March 14, 1975 Sun Valley United States
January 22, 1978 Maribor Yugoslavia
January 24, 1978 Berchtesgaden Germany
January 25, 1978 Berchtesgaden Germany
3rd February 1979 Pfronten Germany
February 8, 1979 Maribor Yugoslavia
January 21, 1980 Bad Gastein Austria
January 23, 1980 Maribor Yugoslavia
December 12, 1981 Piancavallo Italy
March 20, 1984 Zwiesel Germany

combination

date place country
19th January 1977 Schruns Austria
4th February 1979 Pfronten Germany
December 14, 1979 Lime Piemonte Italy
January 21, 1980 Bad Gastein Austria
January 27, 1981 Les Gets France
February 8, 1981 Zwiesel Germany
January 30, 1983 Les Diablerets Switzerland
January 14, 1984 Bad Gastein Austria

Giant slalom

date place country
20th December 1973 Zell am See Austria
15th December 1977 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 10, 1978 Les Mosses Switzerland
March 2, 1978 Stratton Mountain United States
December 12, 1978 Piancavallo Italy
December 8, 1979 Lime Piemonte Italy
January 10, 1980 Berchtesgaden Germany
January 16, 1980 Arosa Switzerland
January 26, 1980 Saint-Gervais France
February 28, 1980 Waterville Valley United States
March 18, 1983 Furano Japan
December 22, 1983 House in the Ennstal Austria

Departure

date place country
December 21, 1983 House in the Ennstal Austria
January 13, 1984 Bad Gastein Austria

Awards

Web links

Commons : Hanni Wenzel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quickly pack your suitcase and go home . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 21, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ "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).
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ below: "Hanni and Harti are married" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1986, p. 22 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
  5. ↑ Gert Risch, Hanni Weirather-Wenzel and Christoph Zeller receive medals , September 6, 2017, Liechtensteiner Volksblatt
personal data
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