Hans Wallner (ski jumper)

Hans Wallner
nation	Austria
birthday	April 29, 1953
place of birth	Feistritz an der Gail ,  Austria
size	174 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
society	SV Achomitz
National squad	since 1971
status	resigned
End of career	1984
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1982 Oslo team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
World Cup victories (individual)	1 ( details )
Overall World Cup	7. ( 1980/81 )
Four Hills Tournament	6. ( 1980/81 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 0  Ski flying 0 1 0

Hans Wallner (born April 29, 1953 in Feistritz an der Gail in Carinthia ) is a former Austrian ski jumper .

Career

The jumping talent of the bilingual sports club Achomitz / Športno drustvo Zahomec was discovered by the club coach Franz Wiegele and the ÖSV coaches Bubi Bradl and Baldur Preiml . In 1969, Bubi Bradl brought the then 16-year-old Hans Wallner to the Austrian national team. It was Baldur Preiml who led Wallner & Co. to the top of the world and created a “red-white-red jumper wonder”. Wallner was one of the “Achomitz Eagles” with Karl Schnabl , Hans Millonig and Sepp Gratzer, who achieved excellent results in the 1970s. Wallner, Schnabl and Millonig defeated all other jumpers in the 23rd Four Hills Tournament (1974). At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , Wallner took 6th place on the large hill.

At the celebratory reception in his home community, there was a scandal from German national circles who wanted to disrupt the German- Slovenian-speaking celebration by whistling, heckling and switching off the microphone.

Austrian ski jumping wonder team

In 1975 Baldur Preiml became the head coach of the ÖSV team. With him came success. The competition was overtaken at a rapid pace and Austria had more than ten ski jumpers, Toni Innauer , Karl Schnabl , Alois Lipburger , Willi Pürstl , Reinhold Bachler , Hans Millonig , Edi Federer , Alfred Pungg , Rudi Wanner , Walter Schwabl and Hans Wallner, all of a sudden acted in the midst of the world's best. Overnight Austria had mutated into the number one ski jumping nation. Hans Wallner was part of this “miracle team” for 15 years. Above all, he was characterized by consistency. Because after all, Wallner was always among the top ten in the world in all these years. Feistritzer describes his greatest success as the team runner-up title, which he won with his teammates Armin Kogler , Hubert Neuper and Andreas Felder at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 .

End of career and new beginning

In 1984 Wallner ended his sporting career. Wallner still holds the record of having jumped in the A-team for more than 20 years. Then Wallner trained the Italian national ski jumping team.

Before he finished his active ski jumping career, he had discovered a new passion with model flying. As early as 1983 he began to build the first model aircraft himself. He has already made an international name for himself in this sport.

Hans Wallner is now an employee of the Villach State Hospital.

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	10.	087
1980/81	07th	127
1981/82	22nd	049
1982/83	14th	085
1983/84	37.	021st

Placements

• Olympic Winter Games 1976 : 6th place on the large hill
• World Championship 1982 : 2nd place in the team competition
• Ski Flying World Championship 1975: 5th place
• Four Hills Tournament : 6th place in 1980/81
• Sapporo February 15, 1981: 1st World Cup victory
• European Cup 1982: overall winner
• Ski flight Oberstdorf 1976: 3rd place

Awards

In 1981, Hans Wallner was named "Carinthian Sportsman of the Year" by the Carinthian Sports Press Club.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The favorite for Carinthia's athlete of the year is “Mathias Mayer” . Bezirks TV St.Veit Produktions- und Vertriebsges.mbH Accessed on April 26, 2019.