Hans Enn

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Hans Enn Alpine skiing
Hans Enn
Hans Enn (2009)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 10th May 1958 (age 62)
place of birth Hinterglemm , Austria
size 168 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom , super-G ,
downhill , combination
society SC Saalbach-Hinterglemm
status resigned
End of career 1991
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1975/1976
 Individual world cup victories 6th
 Overall World Cup 7. ( 1979/80 )
 Downhill World Cup 22. ( 1976/77 )
 Super G World Cup 8. ( 1985/86 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 2. (1979/80)
 Slalom World Cup 13. (1979/80)
 Combination World Cup 4. ( 1980/81 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 1 2 2
 Giant slalom 5 6th 5
 combination 0 1 0
 

Hans Enn (born May 10, 1958 in Hinterglemm ) is a former Austrian ski racer . His strongest disciplines were giant slalom and super-G , with good results also in downhill , slalom and combination . Enn won six World Cup races and made it onto the podium 16 more times, was twice among the top three in the Giant Slalom World Cup and achieved top 10 places in the overall, Super-G and combined World Cups. He won the bronze medal in the giant slalom at the 1980 Winter Olympics , which also counted as the world championship, and was Austrian national champion five times .

biography

Enn was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association in the mid-1970s . In 1974 he became Austrian youth champion in downhill and slalom (age group youth I) and in 1976 in giant slalom and combined (youth II). His first top place in the European Cup he achieved in January 1975 with second place in the downhill from Avoriaz . It was used in the World Cup from next winter and won World Cup points for the first time on January 17, 1976 with ninth place in the downhill from Morzine . But not the downhill but the giant slalom and later the Super-G - which has been part of the World Cup since 1982 - became Enn's strongest disciplines; in addition, the slalom, with which he achieved good combination results. In January 1977, as fourth in the Lauberhorn combination in Wengen , he narrowly missed his first podium in the World Cup.

Enn's first major international event was the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . There he took sixth place in the giant slalom; although he had lost a ski pole in the first run shortly after the start, he still had the fourth fastest time. Two weeks later he became three-time Austrian national champion ; Overall, he brought it to five national championship titles in his career . In the summer of 1978 Enn had to take a training break of several weeks after a shoulder injury suffered while riding motocross . Despite the lack of training, he was able to improve further in the course of the 1978/79 season and reached the first podium places in the World Cup towards the end of winter when he finished second in the giant slalom of Lake Placid and third in the giant slalom of Heavenly Valley . Enn also achieved a podium at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. In the first round of the giant slalom he was still in second place behind Andreas Wenzel , with the eighth fastest time in the second round he fell back to third place behind Ingemar Stenmark and Wenzel. Since the 1980 Winter Olympics were the last to count as the Alpine World Ski Championships, Enn won not only the Olympic bronze medal, but also a World Championship medal. In fourth, he missed a second medal in slalom by just six hundredths of a second. In this discipline, too, he was still in second place after the first run.

A few days after the Olympic races, on February 26, 1980, Enn celebrated his first World Cup victory in the giant slalom in Waterville Valley . For the first time in almost two years, the winner in this discipline was not Ingemar Stenmark, who was set back by a serious mistake in the first round. With three more podium places, Enn finished the 1979/80 season in second place in the Giant Slalom World Cup (behind Stenmark) and in seventh position in the overall World Cup. Both remained his best career results in a discipline or overall World Cup. The following season 1980/81 Enn had to end after three podium places in mid-February when he broke tibia and fibula while entering for the giant slalom in Voss . He did not return to the World Cup until January 1982 and achieved sixth place in his specialty discipline at the 1982 World Cup in Schladming in early February. In the further course of the 1981/82 season he drove in five World Cup giant slaloms under the top five, including two second place, which he was fourth in the discipline World Cup.

A lower leg injury sustained in a car accident forced Enn to stop training again in the summer of 1982. When the Super-G was also ridden in the World Cup from the winter of 1982/83 , Enn was one of the world's best in this discipline from the start. He achieved a second place in the 3-Tre races in Madonna di Campiglio and a third place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In addition, he celebrated his second World Cup victory in the giant slalom of the Vitranc Cup in Kranjska Gora . The first World Cup victory in Super-G followed at the beginning of the 1983/84 season in Val-d'Isère , which meant the first ever victory of the ÖSV (women and men) in this discipline. At the end of the same winter he won two giant slaloms in Åre and Oslo , with which he came third in the giant slalom world cup behind the same point winners Ingemar Stenmark and Pirmin Zurbriggen (at that time the Super G results were still part of the giant slalom world cup, but there was only one from 1985/86 Super G rating). At the season highlight, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , Enn disappointed, as did almost all of his teammates. He did not finish at his two starts in giant slalom and slalom.

Enn celebrated his sixth and last World Cup victory on January 15, 1985 in the giant slalom at Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden . At the subsequent World Cup in 1985 in Bormio , however, with fifth place in the giant slalom, he remained behind the medal ranks. In the winter of 1985/86 , Enn was among the top five in two Super-Gs, but remained without a podium for the first time in eight years. The following 1986/87 season came to an early end for him when he suffered a knee injury at the second giant slalom in Adelboden in January. After his recent injury lay drove Enn in the 1987-88 season six times into the top ten (three times in the giant slalom and super-G), with his best result a fourth place in the Super-G of the World Cup final in his home town of Saalbach-Hinterglemm was . For a participation in the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 , the results achieved before were not enough.

In the 1988/89 season Enn achieved two more World Cup podiums with third place in the giant slalom in Val Thorens and second in the Super-G in Laax , before he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in his left knee shortly before the 1989 World Cup in Vail . He was still able to take part in the world championship and finished 13th in the Super-G. In the giant slalom held the next day, his injured knee couldn't withstand the strain in the first run, he was forced to give up; the renewed acute injury forced him to end the season. Due to complications, five operations on his left knee followed in the next nine months, but Enn tried to return to ski racing, especially with a view to the upcoming "home world championship" in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in 1991 . However, he did not succeed and so he announced his resignation shortly before the World Cup.

After the end of his career, Hans Enn opened a hotel in Hinterglemm and worked in the development department of the ski manufacturer Blizzard . In 1996 he was awarded the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

date place country discipline
February 26, 1980 Waterville Valley United States Giant slalom
January 29, 1983 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia Giant slalom
December 10, 1983 Val d'Isère France Super G
March 17, 1984 Are Sweden Giant slalom
March 23, 1984 Oslo Norway Giant slalom
January 15, 1985 Adelboden Switzerland Giant slalom

Austrian championships

  • Five-time Austrian national champion :
    • Giant slalom 1978 and 1983
    • Slalom 1978
    • Combination 1977 and 1978
  • Four times Austrian youth champion:
    • Youth I: Downhill and Slalom 1974
    • Youth II: Giant Slalom and Combination 1976

Awards (excerpt)

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Enn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Enn won medals at Austrian youth championships. ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 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. ÖSV winner board, accessed on July 12, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oesv.at
  2. ↑ Deutscher Skiverband (Ed.): Ski 78. The official documentary about the Ski World Championships 1978. proSport Verlag, Munich 1978, p. 81.
  3. ↑ Much cheers at the reception . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1980, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Enn without fear of Stenmark: “Could have hit him” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 28, 1980, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ Black series in Voss . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1981, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ^ Pirmins double strike before World Cup . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 21, 1987, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ Column 5, below: «Failure of the Enns. Stitch in the knee » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 10, 1989, p. 23 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Enn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinterglemm , Austria