Hans Millonig

Hans Millonig
Full name	Johann Millonig
nation	Austria
birthday	May 11, 1952
place of birth	Villach ,  Austria
Career
society	SV Achomitz
National squad	since 1971
status	resigned
End of career	1981
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 27, 1979
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	06. ( 1979/80 )
Four Hills Tournament	13. ( 1974/75 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 12 4th

Johann "Hans" Millonig (born May 11, 1952 in Villach ) is a former Austrian ski jumper .

Career

Millonig, who started out as an alpine ski racer , started skiing in the 1960s at SV Achomitz , the ski club in the village of the same name in the municipality of Hohenthurn in the team newly built up by Franz Wiegele . In 1969 he was already Austrian youth champion in the youth class II. After training with the later Olympic champion Karl Schnabl , he was part of the Austrian squad for the first time at the 1970 Kongsberg Cup in St. Moritz . Together with his teammates, he celebrated his first victory on an international level. At the Four Hills Tournament 1970/71 he belonged to the national group in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen , but remained without any notable successes. In 1972 he won his first national championship title on the normal hill at the age of 19. In the 1972/73 season he was third on the three-country tour. A year later he was 49th in the Four Hills Tournament 1973/74 .

From autumn 1974 Millonig trained together with his teammates for the first time according to Baldur Preiml's new training methods . In the following Four Hills Tournament in 1974/75 he achieved his best individual result on the tour with third place in the New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the end it was enough for 13th place in the tour's overall ranking. For the 1976 Winter Olympics , Millonig narrowly missed the qualification due to the high performance density. Although he won the international jumping of Štrbské Pleso a year later , he was also missing in the squad for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1978 in Lahti . In the 1978/79 season the Carinthian was able to increase his performance again significantly and reached 25th place overall in the 1978/79 Four Hills Tournament and fourth in the three-country tour. He also secured silver at the Austrian Championships on the normal hill.

At the end of 1979 Millonig was accepted into the senior national squad for the World Cup and jumped the first competition on December 27, 1979 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy . He surprisingly finished the jumping on 6th place. He last achieved such a high ranking in 1975. At the Four Hills Tournament 1979/80 he could not convince and usually only ended up in the middle of the field on the lower ranks. At the first World Cup after the tour in Sapporo , Japan , he was able to jump back into the top 10 with seventh place. He was able to repeat this result in Thunder Bay , Canada . At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , Millonig jumped to 25th place on the large hill.

On March 21, 1980 he won his first competition in Planica and was also on the podium the next day on the large hill as third. Three days after this success he finished second in Štrbské Pleso and was on the podium for the last time in his career. After the Four Hills Tournament in 1980/81 went just as badly as the year before, he ended his active jumping career a little later at the age of 29.

Millonig celebrated three international victories in total, finished second 12 times and was third four times. Overall, he jumped 45 times among the top ten.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 21, 1980	Planica	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	06th	108

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1973/74	49.	750.2
1974/75	13.	810.8
1975/76	45.	701.7
1976/77	26th	772.4
1977/78	35.	598.5
1978/79	25th	676.2
1979/80	22nd	826.6
1980/81	22nd	791.6

Other victories

Victory in the mat jumping in Bad Aussee on August 25, 1974

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	101.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	4th January 1975	January 3, 1976

Private

Millonig married his long-time partner Heidelinde while he was still active. Millonig has a total of four children with his wife. After having previously worked at the customs guard, he took over his parents' farm in Achomitz and converted it into a recognized organic farm.

literature

• Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 276-277 .

Web links

• Hans Millonig in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Hans Millonig in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Askö Carinthia: ASKÖ Carinthia - Funding. In: askoe-kaernten.at. September 17, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} ÖSV: Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , p. 276
3. ↑ The greatest successes of the Achomitzer . www.achomitz-zahomc.at. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} ÖSV: Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , p. 277
5. ↑ «times-width-results»; Column 2, fourth heading from the bottom . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 27, 1974, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ^ «Preiml is counting on Bachler» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 28, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).