Heini Ihle

Heini Ihle
Full name	Heinz Ihle
nation	BR Germany
birthday	April 24, 1941
place of birth	Tiefenbach
size	174 cm
Weight	70 kg
job	Master painter
Career
society	SC Tiefenbach SC Oberstdorf
status	resigned
End of career	1973
Medal table
National medals 1 × 5 × 1 ×
German championships silver 1963 Ruhpolding Large hill silver 1964 Baiersbronn Large hill gold 1965 Hinterzarten Large hill silver 1966 Reit im Winkl Normal hill silver 1967 Nesselwang Large hill silver 1969 Large hill bronze 1972 Reit im Winkl Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 0

Heini Ihle (born April 24, 1941 in Tiefenbach ) is a former German ski jumper.

Career

The master painter was a ski jumper of international standing who initially belonged to SC Tiefenbach , then to SC Oberstdorf .

In 1960 Heini Ihle became German youth champion, in 1963 and 1974 Bavarian champion, then in 1965 with the start number 31 German champion on the 70-meter hill with a total of 156.4 points and widths of 82.0 and 84.5 meters Max Bolkart continued the Oberstdorf ski jumping tradition. Between 1960 and 1974 he took second place six times at German championships and was ten times participant in the Four Hills Tournament . With his best placement in a jumping at the Four Hills Tournament, he still holds a record today: At the second jumping of the 1964/65 tour on January 1, 1965 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he was first celebrated as the winner by the on-site audience and on TV. Due to an erroneous result that was later corrected, he was stripped of his victory an hour after the competition. He was now in second place behind the new Finnish winner Erkki Pukka, with the closest possible deficit of 0.1 points. This record was later set by other jumpers. Ihle took part in ski flying events in Planica , Vikersund , Tauplitz , Bad Mitterndorf (Kulm) and Oberstdorf a total of thirteen times.

In January 1963 Ihle set a hill record of 70.5 meters at the large Kreuzbergschanze ( Rhön ). This record was not broken until the hill was abandoned in the 1970s.

Through strong performances in the run-up to the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , Ihle won the right to participate and finished the competitions on the normal hill Le Claret in Autrans in 22nd place, although he was sixth on the Dauphine large hill in Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte at the pre-Olympic Games in 1967 had become, he only reached 64th place there in 1968 due to a fall.

Together with Wolfgang Happle, Georg Thoma and the national trainer Ewald Roscher , Ihle developed a new type of ski that, with 250 grams of lead glued invisibly at the end of the boards, had 20 centimeters more front skis , which enabled the jumper to “lie on his skis” much better.

In 1968 in Schönwald in the Black Forest the tradition of internationally advertised ski jumping began with the idea of ​​a Black Forest jumping tour. In addition to the Schönwalder Schanze, the Hundseck, the Ruhestein in the northern Black Forest and the Adlerschanze in Hinterzarten were also jumped. So far only three German jumpers have won the tour. In 1975 this was Heini Ihle from Oberstdorf.

After his active career as a ski jumper, Ihle was appointed as a junior trainer in the German Ski Association (DSV) for some time . Today Ihle dedicates himself to playing golf in his home town of Oberstdorf.

Web links

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