Hansjörg Schlager
Hansjörg Schlager 
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| birthday | August 20, 1948 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Langenau , Germany | ||||||||
| date of death | March 10, 2004 | ||||||||
| Place of death | Titisee-Neustadt | ||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , slalom | ||||||||
| End of career | 1975 | ||||||||
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Hansjörg Schlager (born August 20, 1948 in Langenau ; † March 10, 2004 in Titisee-Neustadt ) was a German ski racer . He was a member of the German national ski team from the end of the 1960s to the mid-1970s and, together with Christian Neureuther, was one of the strongest slalom riders on the team. In 1970 and 1973 he was German slalom champion .
biography
Schlager was born the son of a hotelier and grew up in the Black Forest at the foot of the Feldberg . At the age of 15 he began to work on a career as an alpine ski racer and made it into the German national ski team in the late 1960s. Initially he was successful as a downhill skier. In February 1968 he got his first World Cup points with a seventh place in the downhill skiing of Chamonix . Two years later he took part in a ski world championship in Val Gardena for the only time in his career and finished sixth in the combination.
From then on he concentrated on the slalom. In 1970 he was also the first German champion in this discipline. The success confirmed this step. After intermittent failures, he only achieved 18th place at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo , and between 1973 and 1975 he was able to place a total of nine times in the top ten. In January 1974 he achieved the best result of his career with 3rd place at the home slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . When in the first races of the 1975/76 season there were no further successes, which meant he was not nominated by the DSV for the upcoming Olympic Games, he announced his retirement from competitive sport on January 26, 1976.
Schlager remained connected to alpine skiing in the Black Forest. In 1995, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Black Forest Ski Association, he was awarded the Golden Ski for his services . In 2002 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis . Two years later, at the age of 55, he succumbed to his illness.
Web links
- Hansjörg Schlager in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Hansjörg Schlager in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Hansjörg Schlager in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two step back: Schlager and Treichl . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 27, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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| SURNAME | Schlager, Hansjörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 2004 |
| Place of death | Feldberg |