Harti Weirather

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Harti Weirather Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday January 24, 1958 (age 62)
place of birth Reutte , Austria
size 178 cm
Weight 77 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society SV Wängle
status resigned
End of career January 1987
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Schladming 1982 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1978
 Individual world cup victories 6th
 Overall World Cup 8. ( 1980/81 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. (1980/81)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 24. ( 1982/83 )
 Combination World Cup 15. (1982/83)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 6th 7th 4th
 

Hartmann "Harti" Weirather (born January 24, 1958 in Reutte ) is a former Austrian ski racer . The downhill specialist won six World Cup races in the early 1980s and the Downhill World Cup in 1981. In 1982 he became world champion in the downhill in Schladming. After the end of his career he founded a sports marketing agency together with his wife Hanni Wenzel .

Career

Weirather started skiing at the age of three, and when he was ten he drove his first student races. He attended the ski school in Stams and won the European Cup run in Morzine in 1977 . In the World Cup he started in the 1978/79 season . The best result in the first World Cup winter was eleventh place on the downhill from Lake Placid . In 1979 he won his first of three Austrian championship titles .

In the 1979/80 season Weirather was able to place itself among the top five five times and achieved second place in the runs from Kitzbühel and Lake Louise . He finished fourth in the Downhill World Cup. At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he finished ninth. Weirather celebrated the first victory of his career on December 15, 1980 in the second descent from Val Gardena , and again in January in St. Anton he was at the top of the podium. With the third victory in the last race of the season in Aspen , he secured the win of the Downhill World Cup ahead of the Canadian Steve Podborski , who also had three victories of the season.

In January 1982 Weirather won the runs in Kitzbühel and Wengen . He celebrated his greatest success shortly afterwards at the World Championships in Schladming . Weirather won the descent on the Planai with almost half a second ahead of the Swiss Conradin Cathomen and became the only Austrian world champion at this World Cup. In the Downhill World Cup he came third in the 1981/82 season .

At the start of the 1982/83 season , Weirather won the downhill run from Pontresina , but afterwards only made it into the top three. Nevertheless, he was able to defend his third place in the Downhill World Cup very narrowly. The 1983/84 season began Weirather with two podiums in Schladming and Val d'Isere , but then did not reach top results more and not qualified for the Olympic Games in Sarajevo .

In the first two months of the 1984/85 season , Weirather only made it into the top ten once, but as defending champion he competed at the 1985 World Cup in Bormio . On the Pista Stelvio , however, he only finished 17th. In March he achieved his best result of the season with fifth place in Panorama . In the 1985/86 season Weirather only placed three times in the points, his best result was eleventh place in Schladming. Towards the end of the season he suffered a torn cruciate ligament and a meniscus damage in his knee in a fall during downhill training in Aspen . The next winter Weirather suffered from constant back problems and finally he announced his resignation in January 1987.

Harti Weirather has been married to the former ski racer Hanni Wenzel since 1986 , with whom he runs the sports marketing agency WWP (Weirather, Wenzel & Partner) founded in Ruggell ( Liechtenstein ) in 1987 . Weirather also acts as an investor and supervisory board member at various companies. On October 9, 2009, Ernst & Young voted him “Entrepreneur of the Year 2009” in Liechtenstein. The daughter of Weirather and Wenzel, Tina Weirather , was also a ski racer and started for Liechtenstein.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

Harti Weirather once won the downhill discipline.

season total Departure Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1978/79 53. 21st 20th 21st - - - -
1979/80 15th 64 4th 75 - - - -
1980/81 8th. 115 1. 115 - - - -
1981/82 10. 97 3. 97 - - - -
1982/83 13. 102 3. 74 24. 16 15th 12
1983/84 27. 58 11. 58 - - - -
1984/85 54. 21st 17th 21st - - - -
1985/86 83. 10 33. 10 - - - -

World Cup victories

Weirather won six downhill runs, was second seven times, third four times and was among the top ten a further 24 times.

date place country discipline
December 15, 1980 Val Gardena Italy Departure
January 31, 1981 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria Departure
March 6, 1981 Aspen United States Departure
January 15, 1982 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
January 23, 1982 Wengen Switzerland Departure
5th December 1982 Pontresina Switzerland Departure

European Cup

  • 1976/77 season : 5th downhill classification
  • 1978/79 season : 5th downhill classification
  • A victory (downhill in Morzine 1977), a third place

Austrian championships

Awards (excerpt)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF Seitenblicke. In: ORF . January 25, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ «Harti Weirather is now trying again» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1987, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Harti Weirather is the first "Entrepreneur Of The Year" in Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein Press and Information Office, October 9, 2009, accessed on December 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Weirather, Harti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weirather, Hartmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutte