Heini Hemmi

Heini Hemmi
nation	Switzerland
birthday	17th January 1949 (age 71)
place of birth	Churwalden , Switzerland
size	163 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Giant slalom , slalom
status	resigned
End of career	March 1979
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Innsbruck 1976 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Innsbruck 1976 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1969  Individual world cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 7. ( 1976/77 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1976/77)  Slalom World Cup 21. (1976/77)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 4th 7th 2

Heini Hemmi (born January 17, 1949 in Churwalden ) is a former Swiss ski racer . He won four giant slalom races in the Ski World Cup and also the small crystal ball for winning the World Cup in the 1976/77 season. The greatest success was winning the gold medal in giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . His younger brother Christian Hemmi was also a ski racer.

biography

Hemmi was a member of the Swiss national team from 1969. He won his first points in a World Cup race on January 11, 1970 when he finished fifth in the Lauberhorn Slalom in Wengen . Nine days later he improved to fourth place in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora . In the 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons there was only one countable result. For this reason, he also missed qualifying for the 1972 Winter Olympics . In 1973 and 1974 he could never classify himself in the points. Often Hemmi, who was forced to drive more risky due to his small stature, fell far behind in the second run or was eliminated, which is why he was nicknamed "Sturzenegger". However, in 1974 he won the first of a total of five Swiss championship titles.

A clear upward trend was noticeable from the 1974/75 season . Hemmi achieved five results among the top ten and stood on March 2, 1975 as second in the giant slalom on Mount Garibaldi for the first time on the podium. Although he again had three top 10 results at the beginning of the 1975/76 season , Hemmi was not one of the favorites before the 1976 Winter Olympics . At the Axamer Lizum near Innsbruck , however, he surprisingly won the gold medal in the giant slalom, ahead of Ernst Good and Ingemar Stenmark ; after the first run he was still in third place. The Olympic victory was also considered a world championship title. Hemmi was able to confirm this success on March 18, 1976 at Mont Sainte-Anne with his first World Cup victory . In addition, he was voted Sportsman of the Year in Switzerland.

In the 1976/77 season , Hemmi drove at a consistently high level. He won three more World Cup giant slaloms: in Val-d'Isère , in Ebnat-Kappel and at Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden . There were also two second places and a third place. He decided the giant slalom discipline ranking for himself; like Stenmark, he had achieved 115 points, but the higher number of strike results was decisive for him to win this "little crystal ball" alone. In the overall standings, he took seventh place. Hemmi was less successful in the winter of 1977/78 ; at the end of the season there were three second and fourth places. He also achieved fourth place in the giant slalom at the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The 1978/79 season was similar , in which Hemmi again failed to celebrate a victory, but came in second and third and fourth three times. At the end of the season he announced his retirement from top-class sport.

The trained bricklayer Hemmi founded the trading company Heval in 1984 (the company name is made up of the surname and his place of residence Valbella ). The company sells barriers, safety nets, gate poles and other accessories for holding ski races. In 2007 he sold it to Michael Bont, who until then had been the head coach of the Finnish women's national team. Today, Hemmi presides over the World Cup Lenzerheide association , which is responsible for organizing the World Cup races in Lenzerheide .

successes

Olympic games

• Innsbruck 1976 : 1st giant slalom

World championships

• Val Gardena 1970 : 11th slalom
• Innsbruck 1976 : 1st giant slalom
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 4th giant slalom

World Cup ratings

Heini Hemmi won the giant slalom discipline once.

season	total		Giant slalom		slalom
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1969/70	27.	21st	16.	11	22nd	10
1970/71	45.	3	-	-	25th	3
1971/72	45.	2	-	-	23.	2
1974/75	17th	45	6th	45	-	-
1975/76	19th	41	9.	39	23.	2
1976/77	7th	133	1.	115	21st	3
1977/78	8th.	60	4th	82	-	-
1978/79	23.	60	4th	86	-	-

World Cup victories

Hemmi won 4 World Cup victories; there are also 7 second places and 2 third places.

date	place	country	discipline
March 18, 1976	Mont Sainte-Anne	Canada	Giant slalom
December 12, 1976	Val d'Isère	France	Giant slalom
2nd January 1977	Ebnat-Kappel	Switzerland	Giant slalom
January 24, 1977	Adelboden	Switzerland	Giant slalom

Others

• 5 Swiss championship titles : giant slalom 1974, 1975 and 1978; Slalom 1973 and 1976
• Swiss athlete of the year 1976

literature

• Heini Hemmi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Karl Erb : Heini Hemmi. Habegger, Derendingen 1977, ISBN 3-85723-110-6 .

Web links

• Heini Hemmi in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Heini Hemmi in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Heini Hemmi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heini Hemmi. (PDF, 34 KB) Lenzerheide World Cup Club, 2007, accessed on December 20, 2010 . 
2. ^ Result of the giant slalom Olympic Winter Games 1976. (No longer available online.) Www.olympicalpineski.com, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 21, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Heval, Heini Hemmi. moneyhouse.ch, accessed on December 22, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Heval. Retrieved December 22, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Organizational chart World Cup finals 2013. (No longer available online.) Lenzerheide.com, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 22, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.