Hermann Gamon

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hermann Gamon (born May 26, 1929 in Nenzing , Vorarlberg , † July 10, 2015 ) was an Austrian ski racer and trainer. He celebrated several victories in international races in the 1950s and was head coach for women from 1959 and head coach for men in the Austrian Ski Association from 1968 .

biography

Gamon worked as a train driver for the Austrian Federal Railways , was a multiple “railroad master” in skiing and in 1954 was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association . In that year he achieved the first podium places in FIS races with second places in slalom and combination for the “White Ribbon” in St. Moritz . He celebrated his first victory in the winter of 1954/1955 in a slalom in L'Alpe d'Huez , but had to pause the entire following season 1955/1956 due to injury. The winter of 1956/1957 became Gamon's most successful season. He won two downhill runs in Sestriere , a downhill in Villard-de-Lans , downhill and combined on Mount Etna and a giant slalom on Puerto de Navacerrada . He then took part in ski races for another two years, made it onto the podium several times and celebrated one last victory in the giant slalom on Etna in 1959.

During his active career, Gamon began to work as a women's trainer in the Vorarlberg Ski Association before he took over the women's team for the Austrian Ski Association in 1958. In addition to some successful runners, he introduced a number of young female riders to the top of the world. The third place of the then 16-year-old Traudl Hecher in the 1960 Olympic Downhill was followed by a great triumph at the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix , when the Austrian “ski girls” Marianne Jahn , Christl Haas and Erika Netzer under head coach Hermann Gamon 3 of 4 competitions and a total of 7 won out of 12 medals. At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , another 5 medals were added, including a triple victory in the downhill run by Christl Haas, Edith Zimmermann and Traudl Hecher. In 1968 Gamon switched from women to men within the ÖSV, whom he was in charge of until 1972. He also celebrated some successes with them, including 21 victories in world cup races as well as the 1970 world champion title in giant slalom and the overall world cup victories in 1969 and 1970 by Karl Schranz .

Awards

literature

  • Ditfurth, Christina: The world is my home. Off piste. Norderstedt, Books on Demand, 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2013-8 . Pp. 54, 86 f, 168, 219.
  • Hummer, Bruno, u. a .: Nenzing ski history. Nenzing, series of publications, volume 1. Nenzing, Frei, 2005. ISBN 3-900143-00-5 . P. 82 ff.
  • Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 89.
  • Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the Austrian Ski Association. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2005, p. 89.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-ÖSV coach Gamon has passed away
  2. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 247.
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Gamon, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Nenzing , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2015