In his career as a World Cup downhill skier, top positions in World Cup races were largely denied to him, his best position was a third place. Completely surprisingly, however, he won the downhill race at the World Championships in Vail in 1989 . The reason was that he was the only driver who managed to drive through the bob track-like double S-curve, which was built in as a chicane, and which was also known as "rattle snake alley". Although Tauscher was doing quite well before this section of the track, he was not on course for medals. In contrast to most of the other drivers, however, he did not underestimate this point, but inspected it in detail and later selected a particularly flat line in the competition that gave him time and a head start. Alongside the successes of Markus Wasmeier, this gold-bringing trip from Tauschers is considered to be one of the great moments of German men's skiing at that time.
Today Tauscher, who was also German champion in 1991 in the Super-G and in 1992 in the Downhill , also won the bronze medal in the 1992 competition on the Super-G track and took seventh place at the 1992 Olympic Games , as police chief in his home town Oberstdorf and is the father of two children.
In 1989 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements.
↑ a b "Sport-Bild & Audi present the Ski World Cup '93 - Everything about the exciting races from February 3rd to 14th in Morioka (Japan)", Sport-Bild from February 3rd, 1993, p. 31ff, 37
↑ On February 10, 2011, he spoke about the spelling of his first name in an interview with Thomas Lelgemann on the portal of the WAZ Group. ( Tauscher - a forgotten world champion on derwesten.de, seen April 5, 2011)
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